Three days after being crowned T20 Blast champions, Northamptonshire made a winning start to their One-Day Cup campaign in a thrilling high-scoring match against Warwickshire at Wantage Road. Bears captain Sam Hain’s 80 and 20-year-old Theo Wylie’s (65) first half-century set the platform for the visitors, who lost to Raphy Weatherall (4-56). Luke Procter, one
The Hundred Men Competition, The Oval Sunrisers Leeds 143 (99 balls): Swamp 41 (27); Gleeson 4-25, Curran 2-27 MI London 144-3 (84 balls): Curran 60* (39), Pooran 58* (22); Carse 2-18 MI London won by seven wickets Scorekeeper. Table Sam Curran’s all-round brilliance led MI London to a convincing seven-wicket victory over Sunrisers Leeds in
Ben Stokes defied severe cramps to hit the headlines once again with a typically brave century on his return to competitive action for the first time since retiring from Test cricket three weeks ago. Helped Durham beat Derbyshire in the One-Day Cup. The all-rounder was playing his first List A match for his county in
Indian all-rounder Ashutosh Sharma has joined last year’s losing finalists Hampshire for this season’s One-Day Cup. Sharma, 27, scored 564 runs in three seasons in the IPL for Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals, at an average of 29.68 and a strike rate of 169. He holds the record for the fastest T20 half-century by an
The Hundred Women Contest, El Óvalo MI London 107-8 (100 balls): Matthew 33 (22); baker 2-16 Sunrisers Leeds 109-3 (69 balls): Litchfield 43 (26); Stone House 1-12 Sunrisers Leeds won by seven wickets Scorekeeper. Table Sunrisers Leeds opened the new era of The Hundred with a dominant seven-wicket victory over MI London at The Oval.
The inaugural auction of Hundred players has already taken place and the squads of all eight teams are already in good shape. For the first five editions of the competition, players were assigned to teams through a draft system with a set of salary levels. But following significant private investment in The Hundred, players not
