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The fastest One-Day Cup century belonged to Luke Ronchi for 16 years before Jake Fraser-McGurk’s 29 balls of madness in 2023 As the previous holder of the fastest century in Australian domestic one-day cricket, Luke Ronchi is perhaps better placed than anyone to help unlock the best of Jake Fraser-McGurk’s untapped potential. The new Melbourne Renegades coach was just a year older than Fraser-McGurk is now when he blasted a 56-ball century while playing for Western Australia in a One-Day Cup match against NSW in 2007. His benchmark for the competition’s quickest hundred stood for more than 16 years until…
Ben Duckett and Rohit Sharma hit centuries as England won a high-scoring third ODI at Lord’s England held their nerve after Ben Duckett’s masterful 141 inspired a first ODI series win over India since 2018 with a thrilling 27-run victory in a dramatic Lord’s finale. Joe Root’s unbeaten 99 in Cardiff on Thursday set up a winner-takes-all contest and England were halfway there when Duckett’s magnificent century was the bedrock of a record-breaking total of 3-387. The best ever List A score at Lord’s was helped by 91 from new ODI opener Jacob Bethell before Root’s latest fifty was backed…
Ben Duckett’s century and Sam Curran’s late burst of wickets inspired England to a series-clinching 27-run win over India in the third ODI at Lord’s.Duckett struck a magnificent 141 from 135 balls, the highest individual ODI score at Lord’s and his fourth century in the format, before a swashbuckling 41 from just 13 balls by Jos Buttler helped England post a daunting 387, setting India 388 to win. Rohit Sharma led the chase with a superb 138 off 110 deliveries, registering his 34th ODI hundred and sharing century partnerships with Shubman Gill (77) and Virat Kohli (74) to keep India…
Cricket lost one of its most legendary figures on Friday with West Indies great Sir Garfield Sobers passing away at the age of 89.Sobers appeared in 93 Tests between 1954 and 1974, scoring 8,032 runs – with his 26 hundreds including a best of 365 not out against Pakistan in Jamaica in 1958 – and taking 235 wickets. The Barbados-born superstar also became the first player to hit six sixes in an over in first-class cricket during a game for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan in August 1968. As Sobers was remembered during the final ODI between England and Lord’s on Sunday,…
An Australian-heavy Washington Freedom outfit were beaten in a thriller at the former home of the baseball team that inspired Moneyball Sunil Narine’s genius, and perhaps the Bay Area’s notorious winds, conspired to dent Steve Smith’s pioneering push to lead his American team to a second Major League Cricket title on Sunday (Saturday evening local time). Playing at Oakland Coliseum, the former baseball stadium that birthed Moneyball, a Washington Freedom side stacked with Australians were confounded by Narine’s finger spin that delivered the Los Angeles Knight Riders their first MLC crown after a thrilling one-run win. Smith and coach Ricky…
Darren Lehmann’s Northamptonshire ‘played big’ to win the domestic T20 title as Australian coaches come into focus for England’s vacant Test job Darren Lehmann revealed he has not been contacted about becoming England’s next Test head coach as the Australian led Northamptonshire to the UK’s domestic T20 title at Edgbaston on Sunday (AEST). After endorsing his successor as Australia coach, Justin Langer, for the vacant England position, Lehmann celebrated Northamptonshire, the small midlands county he has led since last year, winning their first silverware in a decade. Australians Chris Lynn and Nathan McSweeney were integral to the Steelbacks’ triumph. Lynn…
Northamptonshire Steelbacks claimed their third Vitality Blast title by beating Hampshire Hawks by 14 runs in Saturday’s Finals Day final at Edgbaston. Match Analysis Ricardo Vasconcelos hit 88 (59 balls) as the Steelbacks, who last lifted the trophy in 2016, were put in by Hampshire and set the 2022 victors 170 for glory, having been bowled out thanks in no small part to Sonny Baker (5 for 21). The Hawks, though, came up short in the chase, in a final in which all 20 wickets fell. That was despite the efforts of Joe Weatherley (75 from 53 balls), who averaged…
Northamptonshire claimed their first Vitality Blast title in a decade and third overall with a thrilling 14-run win over Hampshire in Saturday’s see-saw Edgbaston final.Steelbacks seamer Luke Procter took two wickets in the penultimate over before fellow veteran Ben Sanderson struck from successive balls in the last, including having Hampshire top-scorer Joe Weatherley (75 off 53) caught in the deep by captain David Willey as the Hawks were dismissed for 155 chasing 170. Northants had crumbled from 138-2 in the 16th over to 169 all out in 19.5 after a remarkable collapse of 8-31, during which they lost five wickets…
Pre- Play Match Predictions and Live Updates Cricket Match Predictions – Pre Play Who will win the toss? — Hampshire Hawks Who will win the match? — Hampshire Hawks Top Batter (Runs Scored) — James Vince (Hampshire Hawks) Top Bowler (Wickets Taken) — Scott Currie (Hampshire Hawks) Most Sixes — Chris Lynn (Northamptonshire Steelbacks) Player of the Match — James Vince (Hampshire Hawks) Team Scores Batting First — 155 – 165 Top batters from each team Northamptonshire Steelbacks: Chris Lynn, Ricardo Vasconcelos, and David Willey. Hampshire Hawks: James Vince, Joe Weatherley, and Toby Albert. Top bowlers from…
Darren Lehmann revealed he has not been contacted about becoming England’s next Test head coach, before endorsing fellow Australian Justin Langer for the vacant position.Langer now appears to be the frontrunner after Brendon McCullum’s sacking last week, with Andy Flower ruling out a return to a post he held from 2009 to 2014 because of his franchise commitments with Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Indian Premier League and London Spirit in The Hundred. Northamptonshire coach Lehmann presided over Australia’s 5-0 Ashes whitewash win in 2013-14 before ending a five-year role in 2018 over the ball tampering scandal in South Africa,…