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Match Preview – RCB vs SRH 30th Match, IPL
14Apr By adminNo Comments
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Match Preview – RCB vs SRH 30th Match, IPL

Match detailsRoyal Challengers Bengaluru (10th; P6 W1 L5) vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (5th; P5 W3 L2)Bengaluru, 7.30pm IST (2pm GMT)Big picture - Can RCB withstand SRH's power at the Chinnaswamy?After making the playoffs for two seasons in a row and then narrowly missing out last year, RCB are having a horror campaign, having slumped to five defeats in their first six games. Their bowling has been a major area of concern, with captain Faf du Plessis admitting they "don't have as many weapons" with the ball. In RCB's last game, they saw Mumbai Indians chase 199 inside 16 overs. And on Monday, they will be up against another batting juggernaut in Sunrisers Hyderabad.With Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma at the top, Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klaasen in the middle and the power of Abdul Samad and...
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Match Report – SURR vs SOM 9th Match, April 12 – 15, 2024
14Apr By adminNo Comments
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Match Report – SURR vs SOM 9th Match, April 12 – 15, 2024

Surrey 358 for 6 (Sibley 100, Burns 75, Foakes 57, Smith 51) lead Somerset 285 by 73 runsThe first sunny Saturday at the Kia Oval rarely disappoints. This place may turn into the biggest beer garden in London when the Blast and Hundred are in town, but it's the County Championship that gets first use of this joint for a more relaxing ease into the summer. And as close to 2000 whittled the hours away in the stands, Surrey's push for a three-peat truly began.They lead Somerset by 73 runs, thanks largely to Dom Sibley's first hundred at home since returning in 2023, with valuable contributions from skipper Rory Burns, Jamie Smith, and Ben Foakes. Was it perfect? Certainly not. They could and perhaps should have been more than 358 to the good in their first innings, with more than the four wi...
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Match Preview – MI vs CSK 29th Match, IPL
13Apr By adminNo Comments
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Match Preview – MI vs CSK 29th Match, IPL

Match detailsMumbai Indians (P5 W2 L3 7th) vs Chennai Super Kings (P5 W3 L2 3rd)Mumbai, 7.30pm IST (2pm GMT)Big pictureIt's the IPL's biggest rivalry. At the Wankhede Stadium. On a double-header Sunday. But has the rivalry mellowed down this time? Possibly because it's the first time in over a decade the CSK-Mumbai game will not witness Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni as captains, as Hardik Pandya and Ruturaj Gaikwad have taken over at the helm. So, what's in store in this new era?Two away games and two losses. It's a small sample size, but CSK are yet to post a win away from home in this IPL. After winning three out of five games, they now go on the road - the first stop is Mumbai and then Lucknow - before going back to Chepauk after 15 days. Can they be at home, away from home, when they meet...
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Match Report – HANTS vs LANCS 7th Match, April 12 – 15, 2024
13Apr By adminNo Comments
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Match Report – HANTS vs LANCS 7th Match, April 12 – 15, 2024

Hampshire 305 for 6 (Prest 85, Dawson 61*, Vince 56, Gubbins 50) vs LancashireTom Prest suggested 2024 will be his breakthrough season by scoring an impeccable 85 as Hampshire edged day one of their Vitality County Championship clash with Lancashire.Former England under-19 captain Prest hinted at his first-class talents with his maiden ton towards the end of last season and opened his account this year with a high-quality knock.He was one of four half-century makers for the hosts - with Nick Gubbins, James Vince and Liam Dawson also reaching the milestone as Hampshire totted up 305 for six in front of their highest first-day-of-the-season crowd from over a decade.Nathan Lyon picked up his first two wickets for Lancashire during a mammoth 32-over day which yielded two for 97.Skipper Vince ...
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Match Report – ESSEX vs KENT 6th Match, April 12 – 15, 2024
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Match Report – ESSEX vs KENT 6th Match, April 12 – 15, 2024

Essex 421 for 6 (Elgar 120, Critchley 103*, Cox 67) vs KentNothing changes with any great speed at Chelmsford. Plans are currently afoot for a grand renovation of the pavilion and its surrounding concourse - the only corner of this postage-stamp ground with any wriggle-room for expansion - though rather like this week's announcement that the ground's Hayes Close and River Ends have been renamed in honour of its most storied Test performers, Graham Gooch and Sir Alastair Cook, there's been no pretence of an upgrade in signage in the interim. Indeed, the interactive "Graham Napier Sixes Trail", with its 16 plaques to commemorate each of Napier's swings for the bleachers in his famous T20 onslaught against Sussex in 2008, remains Chelmsford's most visible tribute to any former player, Graham...
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Match Report – SURR vs SOM 9th Match, April 12 – 15, 2024
12Apr By adminNo Comments
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Match Report – SURR vs SOM 9th Match, April 12 – 15, 2024

Surrey 42 for 0 trail Somerset 285 (Lammonby 100, Renshaw 87, Gregory 50, Steel 4-50, Atkinson 3-57) by 243 runsThe only trouble with exponential growth is the knowledge that it cannot last forever. After his rapid rise in 2023, Gus Atkinson spent the first three months of this year doing very little of note: flying around India with England's Test squad, bowling in the nets, kicking footballs and occasionally acting as an overqualified drinks waiter.Towards the end of that tour, he was pulled out of the IPL, where he stood to earn roughly £100,000 but was likely to spend two months on the Kolkata Knight Riders bench. That meant it took until April 12 for Atkinson to play his first match of 2024, after he was - surprisingly - told to rest by the ECB in Surrey's season opener against Lanca...
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Match Preview – LSG vs DC 26th Match, IPL
12Apr By adminNo Comments
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Match Preview – LSG vs DC 26th Match, IPL

Big picture - Spin to win again?Lucknow Super Giants started the season with a defeat, but have won three on the bounce since. Their most recent victory came against Gujarat Titans on a spin-friendly pitch at home. LSG's spinners were central to that result - Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi and M Siddharth combined for figures of 10-0-48-4 to help defend 163 - and they could consider laying out a similar surface on Friday, especially against the visiting Delhi Capitals.Batting has been a struggle for the Capitals this season. Their collective average of 23.35 is the lowest among all teams, and they have had to deal with the absence of key players like Kuldeep Yadav and Mitchell Marsh due to injuries. So that doubles Capitals' worries: a misfiring batting line-up on a potentially spin-friendly...
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Match Report – MI vs RCB 25th Match, April 11, 2024
12Apr By adminNo Comments
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Match Report – MI vs RCB 25th Match, April 11, 2024

Mumbai Indians 199 for 3 (Kishan 69, Suryakumar 52, Rohit 38, Jacks 1-24) beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru 196 for 8 (Du Plessis 61, Karthik 53*, Patidar 50, Bumrah 5-21) by seven wicketsThe bash-through-the-line Wankhede pitch and dewy conditions contributed to five 50-plus scores, including a 17-ball half-century from Suryakumar Yadav, but it was Jasprit Bumrah who produced the most decisive performance on the night to set up Mumbai Indians' second successive victory at home.Bumrah's 5 for 21 - he was on a hat-trick twice - kept Royal Challengers Bengaluru to 196 for 8, despite Dinesh Karthik's inventive 53 not out off 23 balls. Karthik hit four sixes and a four off the last seven legal balls he faced to give RCB a biggish total.But it looked smaller than it was when Ishan Kishan cracke...
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Match Report – NOTTS vs ESSEX 4th Match, April 05 – 08, 2024
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Match Report – NOTTS vs ESSEX 4th Match, April 05 – 08, 2024

Essex 253 (Cox 84, Elgar 80, Paterson 5-49) and 374 for 9 dec (Walter 79, Critchley 68) beat Nottinghamshire 293 (Clarke 104, Haynes 77) and 80 (Cook 6-14) by 254 runsSam Cook spearheaded Essex's 254-run win over Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, taking 6 for 14 on the final day to go with his first-innings hat-trick. Cook finished with match figures of 10 for 73, dispelling concerns about his effectiveness with the Kookaburra ball which is being used in four rounds of the 2024 County Championship season."I am pretty chuffed with the way the ball has come out this week, particularly with it being a Kookaburra," Cook said. "There have been some questions about what I could do with a Kookaburra ball… I'm desperate to play for England and hopefully that performance is something towards that."...
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