#County Championship

After a unique and in many ways extremely encouraging 2022, the Dutch men's and women's teams can look forward to a testing 2023. For the men, the year begins with a visit to Zimbabwe and South Africa in late March, where they will complete their Super League programme with three matches against the former and two against the Proteas. Their biggest…

Forty years ago, in a book called "Cricket Wallah", I gazed into a ball made of crystal rather than leather and made the following prophecy: "Not many years hence, although the game grew up thousands of miles away, India is destined to become the capital of cricket." Here I attempt again to predict the future shape of cricket. Twenty winters ago a…

There appears to be a trend among overseas cricketers to move away from certain franchise competitions. This is a packed calendar in the modern era and it's clear that many players need to manage their workload. In the case of the Indian Premier League, Australian skipper Pat Cummins and the English pair of Sam Billings and Alex Hales have…

2pts Hampshire to beat Somerset at 11/10 (General) 1pt Hampshire to win the T20 Blast at 3/1 (General) 1pt Dane Vilas top Lancashire batsman against Yorkshire at 13/2 (bet365) This season's T20 Blast has been a remarkable one in many ways, with the four teams set to battle it out at Edgbaston on Saturday all sharing their fair share of flaws and…

3pts New Zealand to win the second Test at 15/8 (General) 1pt Matt Henry top New Zealand first-innings bowler at 4/1 (General) 1pt Matt Henry to be Man of the Match at 18/1 (bet365) 0.5pts Craig Overton top England batsman at 50/1 (William Hill) A washout on day five scuppered what would have surely been a dramatic conclusion to an absorbing Test…

Any cricket fan in India with an interest in betting would know that the popularity of cricket betting sites has been on the rise in recent years. Online betting bypasses the question of the legality of betting in India and offers a safe way to bet on cricket from India. Find the top betting sites reviewed in this guide where we bring you their…

Duncan Stone's new book Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket has important lessons for Indian cricket and sports. It does not merely challenge the orthodoxy of English cricket, it demonstrates how the values and belief systems at its heart were developed in order to divide, rather than unite, the English at every level of the…

The Indian Premier League is the goose that laid the golden egg for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). It has made millionaires out of young players, generated invaluable publicity for team owners and made BCCI one of the richest governing bodies in global sport. The world's most valuable cricket tournament, now in its 15th iteration…

Gone are the days when the only way to know the latest happenings in your favorite sports like cricket is to watch the live events and wait for the sports report of prime time news. These days, you can get the latest happenings on your favorite teams and cricketers anytime you want. You don't even have to watch the live cricket matches to keep…

The sports betting app industry has exploded in the past decade. It all kicked off in 2011, when Apple granted access to gambling apps to the App Store. In India, the first widely used app was 1XBet, and it still remains the most popular app for Indian players. Today, there are plenty to choose from, making sports betting on the go as easy as it's…

1pt Mickey Arthur to become permanent England Test head coach at 18/1 (Sky Bet) 1pt Mark Robinson to become permanent England Test head coach at 33/1 (Sky Bet) Who'd be an international cricket coach, eh? In spite of winning the T20 World Cup and watching his team canter to a 4-0 Ashes victory, Justin Langer has been effectively pushed out of his…

Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Whither Zimbabwe? Over to Ralf: An absolutely magnificent innings from Luke Wells, potentially we think the second fastest Lancashire hundred of all time (excluding hundreds made against declaration bowling - sorry Chapple). Great hitting from a man not known for it, nine fours and five huge sixes, and…

Show key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature Show key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature A quick round -up of the scores before I face the dentist: Division One Rose Bowl: Hampshire 31-1 v Northants (rain delay - restart due 2.15pm) Canterbury: Kent v Essex 113-1 - Alastair Cook 57 not out.

York-domiciled (for now) print journalist via employers in Whitehaven, Middlesbrough, Skipton, Exeter, Leeds and Howden. Latest posts by Andrew Gallon (see all) The sports ground'collector' is always on the lookout for something different. Playing inside a racecourse circuit - as do Thirsk Cricket Club - counts as unusual. Not unique, though, in my…