Lunch New Zealand Trail 12 for 2 (Latham 7*, Young 1*). England 435 for 8 Dec (Brook 186, Root 153*, Henry 4-100) by 423 runs England’s aggressive statement paid dividends for the second Test series as James Anderson claimed the wickets of Devon Conway and Kane Williamson in a testy seven-Test spell before lunch. The … Read more
Big picture: England the favourite South Africa in semi-final. Against England. You think you know how this ends, don’t you? Three times in three encounters – in the 2014 T20 World Cup and the 2017 and 2022 World Cups – England have emerged victorious from a final four against South Africa and there is no … Read more
Victoria 169 and 312 (Short 119, Johnson 6-87, Agar 2-76) won South Australia 114 and 190 (Manenti 82, Drew 38, Perry 5-64, O’Neill 2-3, Holland 2-63) for 177 runs Victoria claimed a massive 177-run win over South Australia in three days to move a step closer to a place in next month’s Sheffield Shield final. … Read more
Image: Yuichiro Chino (Getty Images) The multi-awarded Clarkesworld Magazine has helped launch the careers of science fiction writers for nearly 20 years, with regular works by Hugo Award nominees and winners such as Elizabeth Bear, Peter Watts, and Catherynne M. Valente. But right now, in the very ironic situation, he finds himself fighting against that … Read more
New Zealand 162 for 3 (A Kerr 66, Bates 56) won Sri Lanka 60 (A Kerr 2-7, Tahuhu 2-12) by 102 runs New Zealand beat Sri Lanka so soundly in each team’s final group stage match in Paarl that they canceled out Sri Lanka’s blistering start to the tournament and gave themselves a chance to … Read more
Multan Sultans 190 for 4 (Miller 52, Rizwan 50, Pollard 32, Raees 1-25) defeated Islamabad United 138 (Van der Dussen 49, Munro 31, Afridi 4-22, Ilyas 2-12) by 52 runs After two wins against struggling teams, this one from Multan Sultans was not so much a victory as it was a statement of intent. A … Read more
Saurashtra 404 (Vasavada 81, Jani 60, Mukesh 4-111) and 14 for 1 (V Jadeja 10*, Desai 4*, Deep 1-5) Bengal 174 (Shahbaz 69, A Porel 50, Sakariya 3-33) and 241 (Tiwary 68, Majumdar 61, Unadkat 6-85) by nine wickets A run. A key home run. In the goal of the non-striker. At Eden Gardens, much … Read more
Australia 263 and 61 for 1 lead India 262 (Axar 74, Lyon 5-67) with 62 runs India’s formidable lower order, led by Axar Patel, again played a crucial role after Nathan Lyon took five wickets to turn what looked like a sizeable deficit on a tough Delhi pitch into a one-innings shootout of a Test … Read more
Tea England 325 for 9 Dec and 79 for 2 (Pape 14*, Broad 6*) lead New Zealand 306 (Blundell 138, Conway 77, Robinson 4-54) by 98 runs Neil Wagner went into the third day’s tea break with impressive figures of 11-0-104-2 as England’s batsmen went into overdrive, even by their recently uncapped standards. And yet, … Read more
Tea New Zealand 138 for 5 (Conway 72*, Blundell 21*) trail England 325 for 9 Dec (Brook 89, Duckett 84) by 187 runs Devon Conway held on for New Zealand with a battling half-century but England cemented their dominance of the first Test at Mt Maunganui with two more wickets on day two, including the … Read more