Category: Cricket

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....

England took an unassailable 2-0 lead in their ODI series against New Zealand with a 56-run win in the second match in Hamilton. After being dismissed for a duck in the first match on Monday, opener Tammy Beaumont bounced back as part of a stellar 81-run stand to get England off to a hot start...

England seamer Ollie Robinson believes the Test team are “close to being the best in the world” ahead of the start of the cricketing summer. Ben Stokes’ side were beaten 4-1 in their most recent Test tour of India over the winter but let fantastic opportunities to win the third and fourth Tests slip through...

Alec Stewart says stepping down from his role as Surrey’s director of cricket was the “toughest decision” he has made, but has plans to stay in and around the sport. The 60-year-old, who has overseen three County Championship title wins, will leave at the end of the year. Stewart won six trophies in 23 years...

Glamorgan have submitted a bid to have a tier one professional women’s cricket team by 2025. The England and Wales Cricket Board has announced plans for up to £5m of extra yearly funding in women’s cricket. The plans also involved having three tiers in the sport from the year 2025, and counties are currently being...

One of the eternal fascinations of Test cricket, especially in these Bazballistic times, is that there are almost infinite ways for interpreting what has happened. In losing 4-1 in India, did England just get thrashed, and end the series utterly dominated? Did they give the Ravichandran Ashwin-Ravindra Jadeja-era India one of the toughest challenges they...

James Anderson feels in the best shape of his career but says his England Test place is “not a given” ahead of this summer’s home fixtures against West Indies and Sri Lanka. The England paceman, who turns 42 in July, became the first seamer and third bowler overall, after spinners Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne,...