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Ollie Pope scored the winning runs with the last ball to take MI London to a dramatic three-wicket victory over Southern Brave at the Utilita Bowl in Southampton.Opener Jamie Smith top-scored with 49 from 26 balls, falling agonisingly short of a half-century as the Test wicketkeeper continued to strengthen his case for a place in England’s white-ball setup. Tristan Stubbs’ 38 from 31 was the only other notable contribution in an otherwise underwhelming Southern Brave innings. Impressive bowling, from Trent Boult (2-15) and Sam Curran (2-22) in particular, limited the Brave to a disappointing score of 129-9 after their 100…
Ollie Pope scored the winning runs with the last ball to take MI London to a dramatic three-wicket victory over Southern Brave at the Utilita Bowl in Southampton.Opener Jamie Smith top-scored with 49 from 26 balls, falling agonisingly short of a half-century as the Test wicketkeeper continued to strengthen his case for a place in England’s white-ball setup. Tristan Stubbs’ 38 from 31 was the only other notable contribution in an otherwise underwhelming Southern Brave innings. Impressive bowling, from Trent Boult (2-15) and Sam Curran (2-22) in particular, limited the Brave to a disappointing score of 129-9 after their 100…
Southern Brave edged MI London by one run in a thrilling encounter that came down to the last ball at the Utilita Bowl in Southampton.Jemimah Rodrigues (32 off 22), opener Maia Bouchier (31 off 22), and top scorer Laura Wolvaardt (35) led the charge for the Brave to a below-par score of 126-7 after their 100 balls, with West Indies star Hayley Matthews (4-22) producing some brilliant off-spin to see off the home side’s middle order. Matthews then echoed her brilliance with the ball with an effective batting performance, notching 32 off 28 before being removed by Izzy Wong (1-20),…
Shorn of three first-choice players due to injury, Bangladesh have turned to a veteran batter, perhaps because of his experience in Australia Bangladesh have named a 15-player squad for their first Test in Australia in 23 years, with almost half of the touring party to get their first taste of top-flight cricket Down Under. Veteran Soumya Sarkar has been recalled after spending five-and-a-half years in the Test wilderness. The left-hander’s experience on these shores – no active Bangladesh batter has played more than his eight international matches in Australia – was likely a factor in his recall.With first-choice quicks Nahid…
Australia’s Ash Gardner and Grace Harris, among others, were central to their team’s fortunes in the latest matches of the UK’s Hundred tournament Ash Gardner and Grace Harris have produced strong performances in The Hundred in the UK, but it was Harris’s London Spirit who earned the win over Gardner’s Trent Rockets. It was Spirit Women’s first win of this year’s Hundred tournament, as they won by five wickets at Trent Bridge. Spirit started well when Marizanne Kapp bowled Beth Mooney six balls in, but Sophia Dunkley and Sophie Luff’s 33-run partnership helped Rockets regain control. Kapp then claimed the…
Craig Overton won his one-on-one battle with twin brother Jamie as Trent Rockets beat London Spirit by four wickets with two balls to spare in The Hundred.Rockets needed 10 runs from the final five deliveries at Trent Bridge on Sunday night with Craig batting for the hosts and Jamie bowling for the visitors. Craig (20no off six) earned bragging rights, and two points for his team, by top-edging Jamie for six over deep fine leg and then picking up successive twos to take Rockets to their target of 160, after Ben Duckett had spanked an excellent 75 off 47 balls…
South African all-rounders Marizanne Kapp and Nadine de Klerk helped London Spirit Women chalk up their first win of The Hundred season as they inflicted a maiden defeat on Trent Rockets with a five-wicket triumph in Nottingham.Kapp recorded bowling figures of 3-12 from 20 balls – she only conceded her first run off the bat from her 11th delivery – during Rockets’ 142-7 at Trent Bridge, in which England off-spinner Charlie Dean bagged 2-18 and home captain Ash Gardner (34) top-scored. Spirit wobbled from 55-0 to 67-4 in the chase once the hard-hitting Grace Harris (37 off 20) departed but…
Fifteen-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi struck his second fifty in three innings as India sealed a 3-0 T20I sweep of Zimbabwe to knock England off top spot in the rankings.Sooryavanshi’s 81 from 49 balls in Harare featured four sixes and eight fours and followed his maiden half-century for his country – a 19-ball 50 – in Thursday’s series opener at the same venue. The left-hander – who lit up the 2026 IPL with 776 runs in 16 matches for Rajasthan Royals at a remarkable strike-rate of 237.30 – first played senior cricket for India during the recent 4-0 T20 thrashing in England,…
Former Aussie captain’s retirement means the Sixers need to find a new full-time wicketkeeper this summer Sydney Sixers will make recruiting a wicketkeeper one of their first orders of business when the Big Bash contracting embargo lifts, as they begin life after retired great Alyssa Healy. Healy’s departure has left the Sixers with one of the competition’s biggest holes to fill ahead of Weber WBBL|12, given the foundation player’s influence as a destructive opener, wicketkeeper and senior figure across more than a decade in magenta. The former Australian captain played 129 WBBL matches for the Sixers, scoring 3,125 runs with…
Leg-spinning allrounder earns player of the match honours in Welsh Fire’s big win over MI London Australian pair Georgia Wareham and Georgia Voll have headlined a powerful display from Welsh Fire to sweep aside MI London by 60 runs in the women’s Hundred. The Fire were beaten by Southern Brave in their season opener but bounced back by posting 4-177 in Cardiff on Saturday – the third highest total in the tournament’s history. Captain Sophie Devine made 52 from 29 balls and Wareham 43 not out from 20 after openers Voll and Ella McCaughan contributed 42 and 27 respectively. Voll…