Cricket

After the end of Mumbai Indians’ IPL 2022 campaign, their captain Rohit Sharma has said he is “pretty disappointed” with his batting performance this season, but is confident of turning it around in the coming days. In 14 games, Rohit scored just 248 runs at an average of 19.14 and a strike rate of 120.17.

Lightning 155 for 5 (Beaumont 59) beat Thunder 152 for 5 (Boyce 71, Lamb 56, Cleary 3-34) by five wickets Tammy Beaumont‘s second half-century of the season and Piepa Cleary‘s three-for underpinned Lightning’s first-ever Charlotte Edwards Cup victory. England international Beaumont made 59 for the second time in three innings with a classy knock after

May 22: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings, 70th Match, Wankhede Stadium Safe XI: Jonny Bairstow (capt), Jitesh Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Abhishek Sharma, Priyam Garg, Liam Livingstone, Aiden Markram, Umran Malik, Kagiso Rabada (vice-capt), T Natarajan, Rahul Chahar. Captain: Jonny Bairstow Bairstow, as an IPL opener, has scored 1122 runs in 30 games at an average

Southern Vipers 126 (Wyatt 48, Levick 5-15) beat Northern Diamonds 115 for 7 (Heath 51) by 11 runs Katie Levick‘s five-wicket haul proved to be in vain as Southern Vipers made it three Charlotte Edwards Cup wins from three with a 11-run victory over Northern Diamonds in Durham. Legspinner Levick claimed 5 for 15 as

Durham 350 and 25 for 3 (Roland-Jones 3-7) trail Middlesex 422 (Robson 84, Holden 71, Andersson 62, Stokes 4-72, Rushworth 3-60) by 47 runs Toby Roland-Jones tore through Durham’s top order at Lord’s to strengthen Middlesex’s chances of pressing for victory on the final day. Roland-Jones dismissed the visitors’ first three batters in quick succession

Central Sparks 153 for 5 (A Jones 80) beat Sunrisers 129 for 8 (Dattani 51) by 24 runs England’s Amy Jones left several dents in Edgbaston after her effortless 80 off 49 balls set up Central Sparks’ 24-run victory against Sunrisers in the Charlotte Edwards Cup. Sparks’ performance in the field extinguished any sign of

Northamptonshire 347 for 7 (Procter 76, Vasconcelos 71) trail Kent 519 for 9 declared by 172 runs Northamptonshire are still fighting to save the follow-on despite seventies for skipper Ricardo Vasconcelos and Luke Procter on day three of this LV= Insurance County Championship match at Wantage Road. Kent began the day hopeful of capitalising on

Stuart Broad has “found his rhythm” ahead of England’s upcoming Test series against New Zealand, according to his Nottinghamshire head coach Peter Moores. England confirmed this week that Broad – along with his long-time new-ball partner James Anderson – had been recalled to their squad for the first two Tests against New Zealand after their

Mumbai Indians needed 65 from 33 balls when Tim David nicked his first ball, off Shardul Thakur, into Rishabh Pant’s gloves. Umpire Tapan Sharma failed to spot the edge and Pant, despite going up in an appeal, decided not to take the review. Capitals had both their reviews intact at that stage. Off the ten

Lancashire 103 (S Cook 4-18) and 213 for 9 (Vilas 62, Harmer 5-85) trail Essex 391 by 75 runs In the opening weeks of this season a few people of good judgement appeared to assume Lancashire were going to win the County Championship. This match has offered a powerful corrective to such weirdly confident views.

Warwickshire 244 and 57 for 3 (Thompson 3-19) trail Yorkshire 449 (Lyth 145, Brook 82, Revis 53*, McAndrew 4-111) by 148 runs There have been days in many a Championship summer when the reigning champions get a shiver of realisation that they are not going to successfully defend their title. Perhaps this was the day

Nottinghamshire 358 (Duckett 86, Potts 4-50, Conners 4-93) and 3 for 0 need 162 more runs to beat Derbyshire 260 and 262 (Madsen 52, Hughes 49, Hurt 49, Paterson 3-35, Pattinson 3-59) Derbyshire defied Nottinghamshire’s push for a three-day victory with a final0session fightback in the LV= Insurance County Championship match at Trent Bridge. Trailing

Mumbai Indians 160 for 5 (Kishan 48, David 34, Thakur 2-32) beat Delhi Capitals 159 for 7 (Powell 43, Bumrah 3-25) by five wickets Ten balls. That’s all it took. Ten balls of carnage to end Delhi Capitals’ season and thrust Royal Challengers Bangalore into the playoffs. Tim David would have been out for 0

New Zealand 342 for 3 (Latham 65, Young 55, Bracewell 51, Blundell 51) vs Sussex After the frustrations of a washed-out first day, Hove was back to its tranquil self for the start of New Zealand’s touring commitments proper. Spectators basked, seagulls swooped and runs were picked off in leisurely fashion by the visiting batters.

He was handed two games by Lahore Qalandars in 2019, but that failed to materialise into anything further despite strong showings on the domestic T20 circuit in the seasons preceding it. He was understood to be on the cusp of reselection to the Test side for Pakistan’s tour of the West Indies in 2017, but

Worcestershire 577 for 6 declared (Azhar 235, Haynes 117, D’Oliveira 54, Cox 52*, Mulder 4-125) beat Leicestershire 148 (Barnard 3-45) and 170 (Hill 50, Waite 4-35, Pennington 3-30) by an innings and 259 runs Worcestershire overwhelmed Leicestershire by an innings and 259 runs with more than a day to spare in the LV=Insurance County Championship

Hampshire 280 (Donald 57, Overton 4-57, Siddle 4-80) and 1 for 0 beat Somerset 211 (Abbott 3-60) and 69 (Barker 6-27) by 10 wickets Keith Barker played key roles with bat and ball as Hampshire completed a resounding ten-wicket LV= County Championship win over Somerset inside three days at Taunton. The 35-year-old left-arm seamer began

Zimbabwe 129 for 2 (Madhevere 73*, Chakabva 24*) beat Namibia 128 for 8 (Loftie-Eaton 28, Raza 3-16, Chatara 3-28) by eight wickets Zimbabwe bounced back strongly after an indifferent performance in the second T20I, easing past Namibia by eight wickets. In a game that was nearly a reversal of the previous one, Namibia batted first