All up, Porterfield scored 4343 runs at 30.58 and 1079 at 20.35 in ODI and T20I cricket respectively. “It’s been an honour to represent my country for 16 years – it’s something I had always wanted to do since I was a child,” Porterfield was quoted as saying by Cricket Ireland. “I have to say,
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South Africa fast bowler Anrich Nortje is still some way away from being at the level he was before his back and hip injuries, which kept him out of action for almost five months. Nortje was cleared of any serious injury just before IPL 2022 and allowed to continue his rehabilitation with Delhi Capitals. He
Luke Wood is set to make his England ODI debut in the Netherlands but has not played a 50-over game for three years. As such, his call-up to Matthew Mott’s first white-ball squad for the three-match series which starts on Friday, squeezed in between the second and third New Zealand Tests, is a revealing moment.
Brendon McCullum urged England to “attack the danger” during their run chase in Nottingham, with the result being what Stuart Broad called “the most outrageous hour I’ve seen in Test cricket”. Broad was padded up and watching on from the dressing room at Trent Bridge as Jonny Bairstow blew the doors off England’s chase of
Michael Bracewell, the New Zealand allrounder, has tested positive for Covid, and is undergoing five days of isolation ahead of next week’s third LV= Insurance Test against England at Headingley. Bracewell undertook a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) after waking up with symptoms in Nottingham, on the morning after England’s thrilling five-wicket victory in the second
Sometimes seeing is believing. England have not so much talked about positive cricket over the last fortnight, as preached it. And sure, they played some enterprising stuff in victory last week at Lord’s, followed up by scoring 500-plus at a run rate of more than four per over in Nottingham. But to witness Jonny Bairstow
It may take some time for the shock to wear off, but when it does it may strike New Zealand how close they were to winning this Test – which, given the final make-up of their XI – might have counted among one of their most remarkable wins. A post-tea mishit to a fielder, a
Lunch England 539 and 36 for 1 (Lees 30*, Pope 6*) need 263 runs to beat New Zealand 553 and 284 (Mitchell 62*, Young 56, Conway 52, Broad 3-70) Trent Boult made an early dent in England’s attempts to chase down a final-day target of 299, dismissing Zak Crawley for a duck to send them
The BCCI has announced a hike in monthly pensions of former cricketers – both men and women – and also former umpires, with effect from June 1, 2022. First-class players who earlier got INR 15,000 will get INR 30,000 while former Test players, who get INR 37,500, will now receive INR 60,000 under the new
A clatter of New Zealand wickets through the second half of the day may have left England looking the likely victors at Trent Bridge, but Michael Bracewell believes the tourists are well-placed to level the series. At the time, as New Zealand fell from 104 for 1 to 131 for 4 and then to 213
Innings break England 539 (Root 176, Foakes 56, Boult 5-106) trail New Zealand 553 by 14 runs Trent Boult‘s five-wicket haul kept New Zealand’s noses narrowly in front after Joe Root and Ben Foakes picked up from where they had left off on the third evening to help England close the gap considerably at the
India are prioritising firming up their plans for the 2022 T20 World Cup, to be held in Australia in October-November, over the results of bilateral T20Is. That’s what Shreyas Iyer said after India lost the second T20I against South Africa in Cuttack to fall 2-0 behind in the five-match series. “Our main aim is obviously
An IPL game is now worth a record INR 105 crore (USD 13.44 million) making it – in terms of value per match – the second-most lucrative sporting product in the entire world, behind only the NFL (USD 35.07 million*). This figure may actually rise considering the e-auction for the T20 tournament’s media rights, which
Toss Pakistan chose to bat vs West Indies Pakistan have won the toss and will bat first in the final ODI. With the series already secure, the hosts make a couple of changes, including resting Shaheen Afridi and handing Shahnawaz Dahani an ODI debut. Hasan Ali returns to the side after sitting out the previous
With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same, then your name is Daryl Mitchell. That is the only reasonable conclusion to come to about Mitchell’s reaction to a day on which he made his highest first-class score and dropped two catches at
Southern Vipers 110 for 4 (Bouchier 32, McCaughan 30*) beat Central Sparks 109 for 8 (A Jones 27, Dean 2-19) by six wickets England off-spinner Charlie Dean took two wickets and took part in a match-winning partnership with Ella McCaughan as Southern Vipers won a maiden Charlotte Edwards Trophy title at Northampton. A solid bowling
The third edition of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) will take place from July 31 to August 21, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has confirmed. The registration of international players for the player draft “will commence shortly,” added an SLC media release. Despite speculation that this year’s tournament might see the addition of a sixth team,
Kent 202 for 7 (Cox 94, Overton 3-31) beat Somerset 170 for 9 (Abell 43) by 32 runs Sick of the sight of him. That’s what Somerset will be when it comes to Jordan Cox. One suspects they won’t be the last county either. Cox broke Somerset hearts in the 2021 Blast Final with an