Lancashire have signed Pakistan spinner Noman Ali for the final six games of the County Championship season. The 39-year-old has taken 101 wickets in 22 Tests since making his first appearance in 2021. Noman is likely to make his Red Rose debut when they play Northamptonshire on 20 August. “His record speaks for itself with
Surrey duo Ollie Pope and Dan Lawrence have been recalled to the England squad for the first two Tests against Pakistan. The pair have been named in a 16-man squad before the series opener at Headingley on Wednesday 19 August but Jacob Bethell will miss the entire series through injury, with Jordan Cox to be
Welcome to our special cricket edition of our Who am I? game. The rules are simple. Each day of The Hundred there’s a new cricketer taking part in the tournament who we want you to guess in as few attempts as possible. After each wrong guess you unlock a new clue. Guess the answer after
Run-rate is the average number of runs scored per over by a team in their entire innings – so, for example, a score of 140 off 20 overs equals seven runs per over. Net run-rate is calculated by subtracting the opposition’s run-rate from the other team’s run-rate. The winning side will therefore have a positive
Welsh Fire captain Phil Salt would ideally like The Hundred to be a week longer after his side played three matches in five days. His second-placed side won at Birmingham Phoenix on Saturday afternoon and defeated Southern Brave in Cardiff on Monday evening, before losing to Manchester Super Giants on Wednesday afternoon. “It’s been a
Second Test, Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain (day four of five) West Indies 344 (Greaves 73; Sajid 4-85) & 117 (Sajid 4-32, Usman 4-39) Pakistan 387 (Shafique 160*, Babar 88; Warrican 6-112) & 77-2 Pakistan won by eight wickets; series drawn 1-1 Scorecard Pakistan completed their first overseas Test win in three years with an eight-wicket