Category: Cricket

James Anderson has announced he will be retiring from international cricket after England’s first Test against the West Indies in July. Anderson, known as Jimmy, is England’s highest Test wicket-taker of all-time, having taken exactly 700, one of only three players to reach the mark, and the only seam bowler to do so. “It’s been...

Anderson has played more Tests than any other England cricketer and is second on the all-time list of Test appearances behind only India legend Sachin Tendulkar. Having struggled in last year’s Ashes against Australia, he played in four of England’s Tests in India last winter and took his 700th wicket in the fifth Test in...

Sophia Dunkley responded to being dropped by England in the best possible way with a stunning hundred for South East Stars in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, albeit her 130 against Northern Diamonds came in an agonising three-run defeat. Dunkley was left out of both England’s ODI and T20 squads selected to face Pakistan later...

The Men’s T20 World Cup takes place in West Indies and the USA in June, with England returning as defending champions for an event expanded to 20 teams. Every match will be live on Sky Sports, starting with the tournament opener between USA and Canada in Grand Prairie, Texas on Sunday June 2 and concluding...

The fiasco around the announcement of the 50-over squad, whether it was provisional or final, and the eventual axing of Jason Roy in favour of Brook, destabilised England before they boarded the plane to India. This time England have to be crystal clear in their messaging to both players and public. It is expected that...

Yorkshire said they are “surprised and disappointed” not to be among eight counties that will host professional women’s cricket teams from 2025. Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Somerset, Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire and Surrey were awarded Tier 1 status by the England and Wales Cricket Board. Yorkshire and Glamorgan will join them in 2027 as part of an...

Buttler, who scored 100 not out against Royal Challengers Bangalore 10 days ago, edged and mistimed his way to 42 from his first 33 balls – and the Royals needed 96 from the last 36 balls as wickets fell around him. Rovman Powell struck an important 26 from 13 balls but he was trapped lbw...

Former England and Kent spinner Derek Underwood has died at the age of 78, the county have announced. Underwood was capped 86 times by England in Test matches during a playing career which began in 1963 and ended in 1987, and his 297 wickets are the sixth-most by a player in the national team’s history....

Derek Underwood, one of England and Kent’s greatest ever bowlers, has died at the age of 78. Slow left-armer Underwood took 297 wickets in 86 Tests between 1966 and 1982, the most by any England spinner. He claimed 2,465 wickets in 676 first-class matches overall, representing only Kent, the county of his birth, in a...

Sam Northeast made history in Vitality County Championship Division Two after hitting the highest first-class innings recorded at Lord’s. Against Middlesex the Glamorgan captain hit 335 not out to overtake Graham Gooch’s 333 for England against India in 1990 and put on an unbeaten fourth-wicket partnership of 299 with Colin Ingram (132 not out) before...

Northeast now has the two highest individual scores for Glamorgan after hitting 410 in 2022, with David Lloyd and Steve James also having treble centuries to their credit. Glamorgan accumulated relentlessly in the Saturday morning session as Northeast passed the county’s previous best individual score against Middlesex, 226 by newly appointed chief executive Dan Cherry....