A team has been forced to concede a match in Northern Ireland because of a broken printer. Ballyspallen were hosting Eglinton in the North West Cricket Union Premier League on Saturday. Eglinton were all out for 159 in 48.1 overs and the hosts were on 19, just two overs into their response, when rain hit
Rothesay County Championship, New Road, Worcester (day four) Lancashire 180: Jennings 55; Swanepoel 4-37 & 2-0 Worcestershire 263-7 dec: Swanepoel 63*; Balderson 4-78 Worcestershire (12 pts) drew with Lancashire (10 pts) Match scorecard Weather overruled any chance of a result at New Road as a promising final day of County Championship action between Worcestershire and
Joe Root is “not too concerned” about his modest returns with the bat, saying he has “14,000 runs for a reason”. Captain Root, England’s all-time leading Test run-scorer, has passed 50 only twice this summer. An average of 29.44 is his second-lowest in a home season in a 14-year international career. The 35-year-old has been
Ben Duckett – 4 – Another quiet Test for Duckett whose total of 18 runs across the match was only three more than at Headingley last week. Could do little about his first-innings dismissal but the way he hit a drive straight to mid-off in the second was really poor. Emilio Gay – 5 –
Second Rothesay Test, Lord’s (day four of five) England 290 (Smith 61, Cox 55; Abbas 4-73) & 208 (Lawrence 54; Abbas 5-57) Pakistan 110 (Awais 46; Robinson 4-11) & 194 (Shakeel 97, Robinson 4-24) England won by 194 runs, lead three-match series 2-0 Scorecard England once again steamrollered Pakistan to power to a series win
Rothesay County Championship, Edgbaston (day four) Nottinghamshire 325-8dec: Clarke 150, Martindale 55, Sheat 45*; Bamber 3-74 Warwickshire 185: Booth 46; Stone 5-49 Warwickshire (10 pts) draw with Notts (13 pts) Match scorecard Fast bowler Olly Stone took a superb five-wicket haul as Nottinghamshire’s County Championship match with Warwickshire ended in a rain-affected draw at Edgbaston.
