“Peaky Blinders” may have given closely clipped back and sides haircuts a new lease of life, but it’s now helped a region of the U.K. land official backing as a center for high-end productions. The British Film Commission has announced that the West Midlands, home to the city of Birmingham and where “Peaky Blinders” is
The Hundred Women Pageant, Sophia Gardens Welsh Fire 129-3 (100 balls): Divine 38 (25); Philip 2-17 Trent Rockets 132-2 (83 balls): Mooney 57 (35); Arlott 1-15 Trent Rockets won by eight wickets Scorekeeper. Table Trent Rockets recorded their second victory in The Hundred women’s competition as they recorded an eight-wicket victory against Welsh Fire in
The Hundred Women’s Competition, Headingley Sunrisers Leeds 142-4 (100 balls): Sutherland 35 (24); Villiers 1-6 Manchester Super Giants 147-6 (96 balls): Mandhana 88* (50); baker 1-9 Manchester Super Giants won by four wickets Scorekeeper. Table Smriti Mandhana scored a masterful unbeaten 88 off 50 balls as she guided Manchester Super Giants to a four-wicket victory
The Hundred Women Competition, Utilita Bowl South Braves 126-7 (100 balls): Wolvaardt 35 (30); Matthew 4-22 MI London 125-3 (100 balls): Wyatt-Hodge 52* (42); Wang 1-20 Southern Brave won by one run Scorekeeper. Table Lauren Bell held her nerve as Southern Brave won a last-gasp thriller against MI London to maintain their 100% start to
The Hundred Women’s Competition, Headingley Sunrisers Leeds 116 with everything (100 balls): Smith 48 (34); Wang 3-15 South Braves 117-5 (96 balls): Rodrigues 42* (34); McCarthy 2-14 Southern Brave won by five wickets Scorekeeper. Table Jemimah Rodrigues scored an unbeaten 42 to guide Southern Brave to a five-wicket win against Sunrisers Leeds and maintain their
One Day Cup Group A, Kibworth Gloucestershire 235 (49 overs): Bancroft 40; A green 3-53 Leicestershire Foxes 239-8 (48.2 overs): Cox 51; Van Buuren 2-42 Leicestershire Foxes beat Gloucestershire by two wickets Scorekeeper Ben Cox’s half-century helped the Leicestershire Foxes begin their One-Day Cup campaign with a two-wicket victory over Gloucestershire. Cox came in with