Glamorgan’s seamers picked up Leicestershire’s last eight second innings wickets for just 85 runs to put the visitors in a strong position to go on and win their Division Two Specsavers County Championship match against Leicestershire at the Fischer County Ground. Needing 181 to win, Glamorgan did lose an early wicket, pacy left-arm seamer Dieter Klein trapping Nick Selman leg before wicket for just two before bad light saw play ended 15 overs early. Glamorgan seamer Timm Van der Gugten, who now has nine wickets in the match, said: “It was a pretty hard day out there, the wicket has got a bit easier as the game has gone on, and once the ball gets soft it’s quite a nice...
Kent beneficiary Darren Stevens hit an unbeaten century in what could transpire to be his final game for the county as the hosts posted 389 for seven on the second day of their Specsavers County Championship clash with Essex. After a first day wash-out and an uncontested toss, the 40-year-old all-rounder - whose contract expires at the end of the match - hit a typically belligerent unbeaten 107 to give his side the edge in this contest between the top two sides in the second tier. Sam Northeast and Joe Denly also posted half centuries as the hosts racked up four batting bonus points, leaving them to secure one more point from this final round game in order to clinch...
Chris Nash and Luke Wells batted Sussex into a position of strength on the second day of their Specsavers' County Championship game against Gloucestershire at the Brightside Ground, Bristol. The pair put on 114 for the second wicket to leave the visiting county on course for a significant first innings lead. By the close, Sussex were 208 for 4, just 21 runs behind Gloucestershire. Having resumed on their overnight total of 201 for 7, the host county lost their last three first innings wickets for just 27. Chris Dent, who not only had a century in his sights, but the accolade of being the first Gloucestershire batsman in 11 years to carry his bat in a four-day game, was first...
Tim Bresnan led a gutsy Yorkshire fightback with an unbeaten 72 as the champions fought hard to hang on to their title on an absorbing second day against Division One leaders Middlesex at Lord’s. Team-mate Jack Brooks had earlier taken a career-best 6 for 65 as Middlesex were dismissed for 270. Toby Roland-Jones spearheaded the riposte by removing three of Yorkshire’s top four for ducks before Bresnan, from No.5 in the order, led the fightback. He shared a stand of 116 in 35 overs with Andy Hodd (64) before two wickets in the last hour tilted the balance back Middlesex’s way as Yorkshire trailing by 35 on 235 for 6, with Bresnan 72 not out from 178 balls with seven...
England’s newest recruits have been shortlisted by their fellow peers for the headline honours at the NatWest PCA Awards. Northamptonshire’s Ben Duckett has been nominated for the NatWest Players’ Player of the Year and joins Lancashire’s 19-year-old batsman Haseeb Hameed in the category for the NatWest Young Player of the Year. The NatWest Player of the Year and winner of the Reg Hayter Cup leads the most prestigious awards ceremony in English cricket and Duckett will be joined by Durham batsman Keaton Jennings, Essex fast bowler and soon-to-be retiree Graham Napier and Warwickshire’s Royal London One-Day Cup winning spinner Jeetan Patel on the shortlist. Get to know Haseeb Hameed... The flagship award, which is voted for by current county cricketers,...
