Klaasen's heroics help Proteas to emphatic win over England Lions
A fine century by Heinrich Klaasen helped the Proteas to a 107-run win in the second warm-up clash of their England tour in Worcester on Thursday.
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Sam Hain and Adam Hose power Bears to record total as T20 batters have a Blast
Birmingham Bears set a new record total in English domestic T20 cricket, amassing 261 for two in their 55-run Vitality Blast win against Nottinghamshire Outlaws.
Lancashire stay top while Surrey extend winning run in Vitality Blast
Steven Croft and Dane Vilas hit half-centuries as Lancashire beat Notts Outlaws by four wickets to stay top of the Vitality Blast North Group.
England’s display of batting power in keeping with cricket’s summer of runs
What is the best innings you’ve seen this summer? It’s must be Jonny Bairstow’s 136 on that arm-pinching afternoon at Trent Bridge – right? Though Jos Buttler’s glorious unpicking of the Netherlands’ bowling attack on Friday was a humdinger of a highlights reel. And remember Joe Root’s two centuries in the first two Tests against New Zealand? That Trent Bridge knock, all tissue-paper delicacy and outrageous placement, was his fastest Test hundred.
T20 Blast round-up: Birmingham Bears set new record total
A round-up of Friday's Vitality Blast action as Birmingham Bears made the highest total ever in the competition, while there was also runs aplenty elsewhere with Essex and Hampshire piling up the runs.
Jamie Overton claims three wickets as Surrey take charge against Somerset
Jamie Overton made no concession to brotherly love on an explosive return to Taunton as Division One leaders Surrey bowled out Somerset for 180 on the opening day of their LV= Insurance County Championship match.
The rise of tactical batting retirements: intriguing innovation or just not cricket?
For a game rooted in centuries of tradition, cricket has often found itself curiously susceptible to fashion. Did you spot the moment, about five or six years ago, when it quietly became mandatory for any good fielder to be described as a “gun”? Bowling attacks were “the bowling unit” for most of the 2000s before imperceptibly morphing into “the bowling group”. Left-arm wrist-spin is having its long-awaited moment in the sun, itself a reaction to the 2010s trend for spinners who didn’t really spin the ball at all, but just did funny flicky things with their fingers while going “oooh” and stroking their chins a lot.
Sam Hain shows his class again but the Bears come up short at Worcester
After a perfect three-from-three beginning to their 2022 T20 Blast campaign, the Birmingham Bears have now posted successive defeats in the space of 36 hours after surrendering the Norman Gifford Trophy back to rivals Worcester Rapids at New Road in front of a sell-out crowd on Friday afternoon.