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What a start to the season Daniel Bell-Drummond is having – after a disappointing 2023 (an unbeaten 300 against Northants notwithstanding!) – with two hundreds and two seventies under his belt already, and 67 not out against Worcestershire.
His fellow batter Leaning has just reached his first fifty of the season at Canterbury , Kent 131-2.
Continue reading...India’s cricket board will hunt for a new coach to take charge after the T20 World Cup in June, but left the door open for Rahul Dravid to reapply.
Jimmy Anderson has announced July’s first Test against West Indies at Lord’s will be his final appearance for England.
As exclusively revealed by the Guardian on Friday, the England bowler has confirmed the end of his stellar international career – and his final international fixture. “The first Test of the summer at Lord’s will be my last Test,” Anderson wrote on Instagram.
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Continue reading...England veteran James Anderson, the leading wicket-taker among pace bowlers in Test history, has announced his retirement from Test cricket.
Andrew Balbirnie’s 77 helped guide Ireland to their first victory over Pakistan in 17 years as they won the opening T20I by five wickets in Dublin on Friday.
From his breakthrough World Cup in 2003 to bamboozling Kohli a decade later, here are five of Anderson’s best years
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Record wicket-taker has played a fifth of all England’s Tests, and the absence of his guile and skill will take some getting used to
The day Fred Trueman took his 300th Test wicket, they asked him if he thought anyone would ever beat his record. “Aye,” Trueman said, “but whoever does it will be bloody tired.” Well, three dozen have in the 60 years since, nine of them were spinners, a craft with its own particular pains and difficulties, but it’s the 27 fast bowlers among them who know, deep in their own bones, the kind of tiredness Trueman was talking about. There’s Dennis Lillee on 355, Wasim Akram on 414, Glenn McGrath on 563, Stuart Broad on 604, and then, off beyond the lot of them, Jimmy Anderson, on 700 and counting.
Anderson has one last summer of Test cricket ahead of him; chances are there are not many wickets left to add. There may be a farewell Test, or three, perhaps one at his home ground of Old Trafford, where he already has an end named after him. He will have a shot at beating Shane Warne’s total of 708 Test wickets and taking second place on the all-time list behind Muttiah Muralitharan. After that, England will bank on their younger, faster bowlers and beat on towards the Ashes without him.
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Continue reading...Gareth Roderick paid tribute to Josh Baker after hitting a century on a poignant return to the field for Worcestershire
Agar, paint dabbed on his nose, is looking to do to Worcestershire, what he did to Lancashire last week. Lancashire, meanwhile, are 6-0 against Notts, boosted by the return of Saqib Mahmood – with Nathan Lyon taking a round off this week.
Canterbury looks beautiful on the live stream, lime grass and sunshine. Worcestershire and Kent lined up before play on the boundary edge to remember Josh Baker, the talented and much-loved 20 year old Worcestershire spinner who died just over a week ago. Silence, then a minute’s applause.
Continue reading...New Zealand veteran Colin Munro has announced his retirement from international cricket, ending his 123-match career with the Black Caps.
Virat Kohli slammed 92 to set up a 60-run win for Royal Challengers Bengaluru over Punjab Kings and keep their slim playoff hopes alive in the Indian Premier League on Friday (AEST).
Worcestershire resume their season against Kent at Canterbury on Friday, barely a week since the tragic death of their young spinner Josh Baker. The Pears were already among the most resilient of counties – annual floods at New Road, thin resources, often losing their brightest talents to rivals – but this trait is being tested like never before.
“Guys are still trying to process it,” says Alan Richardson, the head coach now trying to shepherd his flock through the worst of times. “A lot of them have never experienced grief before. There is still shock and a lot of sadness that will keep coming to the surface as we hit different milestones along the way.”
Continue reading...Test spinner Nathan Lyon is adamant Australia would have won last year’s Ashes series if not for the untimely injury that prematurely ended his tour of England.
Openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma smoked half-centuries as Sunrisers Hyderabad crushed Lucknow Super Giants by 10 wickets on Wednesday to boost their play-off hopes in the IPL.
Michael Slater’s name has been removed from monument at the former cricketer’s sporting ground in Wagga Wagga in an act of vandalism.