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The Adelaide Strikers were again involved in another game that went down to the wire, but game out the other side over the Brisbane Heat who slump to a 0-6 ledger Adelaide Strikers v Brisbane Heat | WBBL|11 South African powerhouse Laura Wolvaardt has smacked a half-century in Adelaide’s tense six-wicket WBBL win over battling Brisbane. After the Heat posted 5-169, the Strikers nudged two leg byes from the final ball in a thriller at Adelaide’s Karen Rolton Oval.Wolvaardt set an ominous early tone with 51 from 33 balls in a decisive Tuesday night knock, while Bridget Patterson (32no from…
Lancashire Cricket has confirmed that Lancashire Lightning and Lancashire Thunder will begin their 2026 T20 campaigns with an exciting doubleheader at The Kia Oval on Friday 22 May. Both sides will face Surrey as the new Vitality Blast season gets underway. The fixture marks the first time Lightning will meet Surrey in the group stage, following structural changes introduced to the Vitality Blast ahead of the 2026 season. The group stage of the 2026 Men’s Vitality Blast consists of three groups with Lancashire Lightning in Group 1 alongside Nottinghamshire Outlaws, Derbyshire Falcons, Lancashire Lightning, Durham, Yorkshire and Leicestershire Foxes -…
WA rising star led the resistance in a drawn Sheffield Shield game against South Australia South Australia v Western Australia | Sheffield Shield | Day 4 Emerging allrounder Cooper Connolly has top-scored with a fighting half-century to help Western Australia thwart South Australia in a Sheffield Shield draw. Connolly’s polished 70 and fifties from Hilton Cartwright and Jayden Goodwin led WA’s final-day resistance in the rain-marred day-nighter at Adelaide Oval. After day one was washed out, WA were bowled out for 188 and SA replied with 333, with Nathan McSweeney top-scoring with 68. The visitors posted 6-324 in their second…
The revamped Vitality Blast will launch with 16 double-headers over the Bank Holiday Weekend, marking the start of both the men’s and women’s competitions next season. Somerset open their defence of the Vitality Blast Men’s title at home in a repeat of last year’s final, taking on Hampshire Hawks under the Friday night lights. In the women’s competition, reigning champions Surrey host Lancashire Thunder, while elsewhere in London, Women’s League 2 winners Middlesex welcome Kent to Lord’s — all part of the opening day’s slate of double-headers. Vitality Blast Women’s Competition champions Surrey are at home to Lancashire Thunder while…
Check out the fixtures for the Vitality Blast men’s competition in 2026, which starts on Friday May 22 and concludes with Finals Day at Edgbaston on July 18. The new-look format will start with 16 double headers across the opening Bank Holiday Weekend of the men’s and women’s competitions, with Surrey beginning their title defence at home to last year’s finalists Hampshire Hawks on the Friday night. The teams have been split into three groups of six and each county will play 12 matches, six at home and six away. Counties will play the other five counties in their group…
Cricket is a game obsessed with numbers and Zak Crawley’s make for fascinating reading. They are not what you would expect from a Test opener to have played 60 games.An average below 31 – Crawley’s dipping to 30.96 after his loose drive-induced Perth pair – and 44 single-figure dismissals in 109 knocks. In 41 per cent of his innings, he has scored nine or less. But England don’t pick Crawley because of his numbers. They pick him for moments, for his aggression, for what he can do to world-class bowlers at his best. We believe he is a quality player,…
Check out the fixtures for the Vitality Blast women’s competition in 2026, which starts on Friday May 22 and concludes with Finals Day at the Kia Oval on July 17. Champions Surrey begin their defence at home to Lancashire Thunder and Vitality Blast Women’s League 2 champions Middlesex host Kent at Lord’s, with 16 double headers across the opening weekend of the men’s and women’s competitions. Yorkshire will play in the Vitality Blast Women’s Competition for the first time, paving the way for a first-ever Roses double header at Emirates Old Trafford on Friday 10 July, while the 18 counties…
A lack of game time heading into WBBL|11 has not stopped Heather Graham from making a serious impact for the Hurricanes After sitting on the sidelines throughout Australia’s ODI World Cup campaign, Heather Graham is making up for lost time in WBBL|11. The allrounder is sitting on top of the wickets table at the midway point of the regular season, having taken 14 wickets at 11.64 in six games to help lead the Hobart Hurricanes’ charge to the top of the table.Her rich run of form with the ball continued against Sydney Sixers on Saturday, where she captured a career-best…
A former NSW coach and star has taken the Blues to task for an unexpected day-four collapse to hand Tasmania a thumping Sheffield Shield win New South Wales v Tasmania | Sheffield Shield | Day 4 Former Australia batters Sam Konstas and Kurtis Patterson have been dismissed cheaply in NSW’s crushing innings and 58-run Sheffield Shield defeat to Tasmania. In a match in which neither team was able to take all 10 wickets in the first innings, the Blues collapsed on day four to be all out for 174 in 92 overs at Cricket Central in Sydney.After falling to 9-143,…
Australia captain Pat Cummins has bowled with a pink ball in Sydney as he tries to prove his fitness for the second Ashes Test Josh Hazlewood has joined Australia captain Pat Cummins bowling in the nets as the pace stars attempt to return from injury for the Ashes. Cummins trained at Cricket NSW headquarters in Sydney during the Blues’ Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania on Tuesday, steaming in as he did during two net sessions in Perth last week. Cummins bowls with a pink ball during his net session // Getty The 32-year-old is in the frame to return for…