| * Joyce & Nash Take Sussex into serious lead with 143 unbeaten opening stand v Worcs Scorecard Lancs follow on after Warwickshire post biggest ever total against the red rose County Scorecard Somerset lead Surrey by 278 with 3 wkts remaining Scorecard Derbyshire beat Glamorgan by 8 wkts Scorecard Sarwan(117 & 98) in superb form for Leics but Essex take 1st innings lead,Match drawn Scorecard Kent trail N'hants on 1st innings by 138 runs with 4 wkts left Scorecard Simon Katich misses on doubleton for Hants v Yorks at Leeds where McGrath hits unbeaten ton in reply Scorecard Neil Whitaker reports
* Robert Woolley takes fifer for Cambridge MCCU against Glos at Fenner Scorecard
* Chris Gayle(WI) hits 128 off 60 balls for Royal Challengers in win over Delhi Daredevils Scorecard
* England insert Windies and take early wickets.Barath plays many handsome cover drives but falls after lunch to Anderson catch and then Chanderpaul runs out Bravo who had looked assured and elegant at the crease. Samuels and Chanderpaul restore innings but then Broad takes wickets to finish on sixfer while Chanderpaul persists.1st ball day 2 Broad makes it seven. Strauss then bats all day for an unbeaten ton and England take lead.Strauss out quickly and Windies bowlers take wickets as Bell resists.Windies lose three early wickets including a run out and Bravo leaves as traight ball!. At Lord's 1st Test West Indies 243,89.5 overs(Chanderpaul 87*,Broad 7-72) & 120-4,50 overs(Chanderpaul 34*) v England 398,113.3 overs(Strauss 122,Trott 58,Bell 61,Gabriel 3-60,Roach 3-108) Scorecard
* Netherlands' Commonwealth of cricketers came unstuck against Middlesex and at home to lose by 8 wickets in Clydesdale Bank 40 Scorecard
* Mark Ramprakash has been dropped by Surrey after recording a'pair' on the same day. He has only scored 62 runs in 8 Championship knocks. Dem old bones need sunshine! More
* Ambati Rayudu & Kieron Pollard put on 122 off 65 balls to transform Mumbai Indians innings and defeat Royal challengers Bangalore who looked to be home and dry with five early wickets Scorecard Points Table
* Johnny Bairstow picked for England for Lord's Test v West Indies as Bopara is sidelined with quadracep injury More.
* No result as Scots played just 41 balls against Welsh County at Glasgow Scorecard Ed Joyce & Machan hit centuries off Unicorns at Hove Scorecard Clydesdale Bank 40
* Ajit Chandila who has played only 2 first class games takes hat-trick as Rajasthan Royals inflict another defeat on Pune Warriers Match 60 Scorecard Points Table
* David Warner hits 109* off 59 balls to give Delhi Daredevils victory over Deccan Chargers in high scoring IPL 20/20 Match 55 Scorecard Chris Gayle after 55 matches leads runs scored and sixes hit More
* Kieswetter & Meschede take Somerset into substantial lead but rain halts progress day 2 at Chester-le-street & no play Friday Match Drawn Scorecard. Worcs make solid start v Surrey at New Road but play delayed day 2.Surrey collapse and follow on,Ramps takes a 'pair',KP hits 69 in 2nd innings!& Hamilton -Brown & Maynard hit tons & set Worcs 260 to win.worcs hang on to draw 8wkts down Scorecard. Michael Lumb hits big ton for Notts v Middx at Trent Bridge ,Ollie Rayner holds Middx innings together with ton then takes two early Notts wickets who set Mx improbable target,Strauss not out at close Scorecard No play at Hove until 4th day so match drawn Sussex v Lancs Scorecard Glos lose early wicket v Yorks as play eventually starts, Williams hits ton , a declaration and a forfeiture and Yorks chase 400 to win which they do thanks to tons from Jacques & Ballance Scorecard Kent in terrible trouble at 17-5 v Essex but play delayed day 2 to mid afternoon, day 3 Stephens(119) & Jones(88) put on 194 out of 225 total but Match Drawn Scorecard No play until day 3 at Southampton then a lot of runs and three tons Hants v Derbyshire Scorecard
* Windies lose toss and bat first.Brooks & Dernbach remove top four including Chanderpaul for 29,Bravo hits fifty but all out for modest score.Edwards removes Root cheaply but Compton & Carbery survive tothe close.James Taylor hits ton and with Bairstow puts on 107 then tail wags to give Lions an impressive total.Kieran Powell hits 2nd 1st class ton and Chanderpaul,Bravo & co scorre some welcome runs before the 1st test.Root hits unbeaten ton & with Carberry takes Lions to 10 wicket win:At Northampton West Indies 147,48.5 overs & 388-9,118 overs(K Powell 108,Chanderpaul 77,Bravo 57) lost to England Lions 340,90 overs(Taylor 118) & 197-0,48.5 overs(Root 115*,Carberry 72*) by 10 wickets Scorecard
* AB de Villiers smacks 23 off Steyne over to help Royal Challengers to win over Deccan Chargers Scorecard. After 52 matches Kolkata Knight Riders lead by 1 point. Table
* Netherlands win both openers in Clydesdale Bank 40 and Scots win at second attempt, Rod Lydall reports. Kent beat Yorks Scorecard Neil Whitaker reports. Josh Cobb hits 137 as Leics fall short of Lancs bit total of 296-3 Scorecard Rain effects many games resulting in much use of D/L Method but at Leics v Essex not a ball was played and N'hants game with Unicorns was abandoned. Competition results
* Mike Griffiths the former Sussex captain and son of Billy is to be next MCC President More
* No play at Hove for West Indians on day 1,some prospect day 2 afternoon. Windies end on 90-3 in between showers. Scorecard Chris Gayle to join Windies for ODI series & Somerset agree More
* Lancs return to Old Trafford and wickets tumble,Andre Adams takes 7-32 & more in 2nd innings as top order folds so Notts win by 185 runs,unwell Anderson takes fifer Scorecard Neil Whitaker reports. Keith Barker takes ten as Durham collapse twice at Edgbaston where timely ton from Bell helps Warwickshire to 9 wkt win Scorecard No play at Lord's day1,Middx make decent start day 2 & Joe Denley hits ton day 3.Middx contrive 132 run win on day 4 Scorecard Alviro Petersen hts 145 for Essex at Cardiff but no play day 2,Glam trail by 72 on 1st innings and end 5 wkts down on 95 chasing 239 so match drawn Scorecard Wayne Madsen(SA) hits ton as Derbyshire post good total but Glos struggle in reply as Tony Palladino takes fifer.Kayne Williamson(NZ) hits ton as Glos follow on and match drawn, Derby use 10 bowlers Scorecard N'hants squander solid start but Hants lose top order cheaply in reply & N'hants build big lead & Willey takes fifer as N'hants win by 117 runs Scorecard Bairstow hits big ton and Yorks force f/o after abject Leics collapse, Boyce hits ton but Yorks win by innings & 22 runs Scorecard
* Steven Croft hits ton but Prince misses out as Lancs enjoys Taunton track.Philander takes 5 but rain curtails play day 2,Somerset lose three day 3.day wash out Match Drawn Scorecard Centuries for Chopra & Trott but duck for Bell as Warwickshire bat at Hove reaching 545,Sussex struggle in reply then rain ,match drawn. Scorecard Notts struggle to modest total at New Road Worcester but home side collapse,Andre Adams takes fifer but match drawn Scorecard No play at the Oval Surrey v Durham, Play starts at Chelmsford late day 2, Essex 54-6 but further rain means Match drawn Scorecard Brendon Nash(WI) century takes Kent passed Yorks 1st innings total in match drawn Scorecard Match drawn Leics v Hants Scorecard Not a ball bowled Glos v Glam nor at Derby where Derbyshire were to play Cardiff MCCU.
* Windies' bowlers dominate day 1 on difficult pitch.Warner hits fifty.Wade dropped on 2 by Sammy scores ton so Oz post decent total,Shillingford takes six.Teenage Brathwaite falls early and Windies collapse but Chanderpaul with Rampaul & Roach adds 98 and follow on saved. Warner falls early but Oz grind out large lead to set Windies 370 to win,Chanderpaul; passes 10,000 runs in Test cricket but falls lbw to Clarke just before close of play.Sammy and Shillingford hit barve last stand but in vain.Clarke takes a 'fifer'.:At Dominica 3rd Test Frank Worrell Trophy Australia 328,114.5 overs(Wade 106,Warner 50,Shillingford 6-119) & 259,85 overs(Ponting 57,Cowan 55,Shillingford 4-100) beat West Indies 218,87.1 overs(Chanderpaul 68,Lyons 4-69) & 294,96.1 overs(Chanderpaul 69,Sammy 61,Bravo 45,Shillingford 31*,Clarke 5-86) by 75 runs Scorecard Australia win series 2-0.
* Chris Waters is the acclaimed winner of The Cricket Society and MCC’s Book of the Year-presented in a packed Long Room at Lord’s - for his book Fred Trueman, the Authorised Biography”. Chris beat off strong opposition from four other books, including one by novelist Anthony Quinn, to take the £3000 award presented by author and publisher and previous winner Stephen Chalke.The Cricket Society and MCC’s agreement to run and host this award currently runs to 2014 for books published in 2013 More
* Pietersen hits century(103* off 64 balls) to give Delhi Daredevils victory over Deccan chargers Match 23 IPL 2012 Scorecard
* Results of ICC's April Conference include changes to President's role. Only ten teams for World Cup 50/50s until 2023-what a miserable vision of development. More
* Rain disrupts day one of third round of County Championship matches.Champion County Lancs dominated Warwickshire at Liverpool until Maddy & Clark put on 224 for 8th wicket to give lead then Lancs wicket tumble again to Barker & JS Patel and so Warwickshire win by 5 wickets Scorecard. Chris Read hits unbeaten ton out of 162 total v Somerset who respond strongly v Somerset who respond strongly with centuries from Suppiah & Hildreth and adouble ton from Compton but match is drawn Scorecard. Amidst the showers Stauss fails twice but Dexter rediscovers some form v Durham who chased 130 to win byr were floundering at 82-6 at Lord's when the weather won so Match Drawn Scorecard. Alan Richardson takes 6-47 as Surrey are shot out for 140 at the Oval ,their tail gives Worcs 246 to win, reach 94-1 at close Match Drawn Scorecard. Division One: Wickets continue to tumble at Cardiff but Hants take 1st innings lead over Glamorgan, a thrilling match finish as Hants win by 2 wickets Scorecard. Jacques hits a ton for Yorks and Bopara saved Essex with an unbeaten ton in rain reduced drawn match Scorecard. Report from Neil Whitaker. Glos in ascendency over Kent thanks to Kiwis Gidman & Marshall but match drawn Scorecard. Sarwan & Cobb hit centuries for Leics but match is drawn at Derby Scorecard Division Two
* Australia win toss and battle hard and long against good Windies bowling.Delayed start day 2, Hussey(missed twice by Baugh) & Pattinson put on 89 but then spinners strike twice and Roach removes tail to finish with fifer.Oz remove top three cheaply, Chanderpaul once again hold Windies innings together but misses out on ton,Lyon takes fifer as Windies lose five wickets for 19 runs, Oz use 8 bowlers! Amidst the showers Roach takes three but Ponting battles on to day 5.Roach takes two more and Clark declares. Sammy gives it a brave go but bad light and rain curtail match.At Trinidad QPO Australia 311,135 overs(Hussey 73,Watson 56,Shillingford 3-87,Roach 5-105) & 160-8dec,61.5 overs(Ponting 46,Roach 5-41) drew with West Indies 257,104.4 overs(Chanderpaul 94,Neoranine 55,Lyon 5-68) & 53-2,11 overs(Sammy 30*,Hilfenhaus 2-22) Scorecard
* Unmukt Chand hits unbeaten ton to give India U-19s victory in Youth Series Final over Australia Scorecard Ben Foakes scores century as England U-19s take third place with win over New Zealand Scorecard Quadrangular series matches results
* Osinde & Soraine take out top four cheaply so Namibia limp to modest total entirely due to van Schoor which Canada passes with 7 balls remainding thanks to unbeaten 35 run 9th wicket stand:At Windhoek ICC World Cricket League 1 day Championship, 2011-2013 - 23rd match Namibia 184,47.1 overs(van schoor 90,Soraine 3-25) lost to Canada 185-8,48.5 overs(Hansra 49) by 2 wickets Scorecard Namibia win 2nd match by 21 runs Scorecard
* Durham MCCU bowled out for 18,Foxy Fowler's final legacy? Scorecard
* Burger & Viljoen ensure Namibia dominance with one day left:At Windhoek ICC Intercontinental 4d Cup, 2011-2013 Canada 274,94.4 overs & 213,75 overs lost to Namibia 374,126.1 overs(Burger 135) & 119-2,25.4 overs(Steenkamp 60) by 8 wickets Scorecard
* Windies win toss and bat,openers make steady start.Edwards & Brathwaite grind out fifties but lose wickets before rain stops play,Chanderpaul hits 25th test century as Windies post large total.Oz lose five wickets in rain interupted day 3. Oz turn test round with last two wickets adding 125 runs and Hilfenhaus takes three early wickets as Windies just fall apart, finally set Oz just 192 off 62 overs which they achieve through Watson fifty losing 7 wickets:At Barbados 1st Test West Indies 449-8dec,153 overs(Chanderpaul 103*,KA Edwards 61,Brathwaite 57) & 148,64.5 over(Hilfenhaus 4-27) lost to Australia 406-9dec,145 overs(Clark 73,Harris 68*) & 192-7,47 overs(Watson 52,Donarine 4-53) by 3 wicketsScorecard
* Martin Coles and Mark Davies put on 163 for 9th wicket as Kent post mammoth total but Bairstow ton takes Yorks to comparative safety:At Headingley Kent 537-9dec,143 overs(Coles 103*) draw with Yorkshire 364,101 overs(Bairstow 107) & 146-4,53 overs(Root 76) Scorecard Neil Whitaker reports Other County Scores Essex beat Glos by an innings & 38 runs Scorecard Leics beat Glamorgan by 52 runs Scorecard
* Club Cricket Confence complete exhausting tour of Oman More
* IPL starts Wednesday with opening match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings Scorecard
* Jayawardene hits another ton off England's bowlers after Anderson takes out top three,Samaraweera assists big stand with fifty,Mathews hits fifty but Swann & Bresnan wrap up tail, Strauss & Cook make steady start and Pietersen makes abig innings to swell the klead.Sri Lanka wickets fall steadily and have mamoth task to save match on last day which they fail to achieve and England draw series but ?Strauss falls for a duck.At Colombo PS Oval Sri Lanka 278,111.1 overs(M Jayawardene 105,Samaraweera 54,Mathews 53,Swann 4-75,Anderson 3-62) & 278,118.5 overs(M Jayawardene 64,Mathews 46,Swann 6-106) lost to England 460,152.3 overs(Pietersen 154,Cook 94,Strauss 61) & 97-2,19.4 overs(Cook 49*,Pietersen 42*) by 8 wickets Scorecard
Series drawn 1-1
* Bowlers dominate first two innings between Dutch and Afghanis then Dutch muster a decent 2nd innings total to set a target which Afghanistan slowly reached thanks to Afsar Zazai who hit an unbeaten 84 and with Samiullah Shenwari added 46 for the 8th wicket:At Sharjah ICC Intercontinental 4d Cup, 2011-2013 Netherlands 133,44.3 overs & 228,61.4 overs(Heggelman 59) lost to Afghanistan 129,42.3 overs & 233-7,76 overs(Afsar Zazai 84*) by 3 wickets Scorecard
* South Africa hit huge score but beat India with D/L Method in much reduced 2nd innings at Johannesburg NWG Scorecard Windies fail to build on good start but beat Oz at Bridgetown Barbados to square series 1-1.Lee & Edwards both take three wickets and bowl each other out for ducks Scorecard
* MCC University matches open earliest ever England 1st class season as temperatures plummeted March 31st although the sunshine returned on April 1st. Essex hit over 500in the day v Cambridge MCCU but match drawn Scorecard Robson hits ton for Middlesex v Durham MCCU in match drawn Scorecard Mark Wallace saves Welsh blushes with ton against Oxford MCCU and Glamorgan win by 253 runs Scorecard South African student Zachary Elkin hits ton for Cardiff MCCU but Compton & Hildreth hit double tons for Somerset in reply and students hang on to draw Scorecard Rory Burns hits ton for Surrey against LeedsBradford MCCU but the County only win by 2 runs Scorecard Edwards & Wessels hit tons for Notts in huge 1st innings then shoot out Loughborough cheaply and bat again but match drawn Scorecard
* Karim Sadiq ton ensures Afghanistan reverse previous result with 22 balls remaining:At Sharjah ICC World Cricket League Championship, 2011-2013 - 22nd match ODI Netherlands 256-9,50 overs lost to Afghanistan 259-5,46.2 overs by 5 wickets Scorecard
* Netherlands thrash Afghanistan in reverse of World Cup t20 Qualifier result:At Sharjah ICC World Cricket League Championship, 2011-2013 - 21st match ODI Afghanistan 153,39.2 overs lost to Netherlands 156-1,26.2 overs(Kervezee 83*) Scorecard
* MCC 2nd innings collapse opens up Champion county match,Blackwell ton and Chapple's undefeated 42 are only substantial innings in bowler dominated match until Horton & Proctor conquer the conditions:At Abu Dhabi MCC 261 & 84 lost to Lancashire CCC (2011 Champion County 199,76.5 overs & 152-4,44.3 overs(PJ Horton 58) by 6 wickets Scorecard
* Australia win 1st t20 over Windies at St Lucia Scorecard
* England take four early wickets,Jayawardene alone resists long and makes big ton,Anderson takes fifer.Row over ticket pricing.England batsmen flounder in reply,Bell hits fifty and tail wags then Swann takes out top three but SL build substantial lead. Trott & Prior give England hope then collapse losing 5 wickets for 14 runs tp persist in their losing ways:At Galle 1st Test Sri Lanka 318,96.3 overs(DM Jayawardene 180, Anderson 5-72) & 214,84.3 overs(H Jayawadene 61*,Swann 6-82) beat England 193,45.4 overs(Bell 52,Herath 6-74) & 264,99 overs(Trott 112,Prior 41,Herath 6-97,Randiv 4-74) by 75 runs Scorecard
* Delayed start to third test, Smith goes early and Amla hits quick fifty.Petersen & Duminy plough on 2nd rain restricted day & complete tons on 3rd,Gillespie takes sixfer.NZ just save follow on Bbut Russ Taylor suffers broken wrist,Philander takes sixfer.Sa set Nz 389 to win and take two early wickets but NZ survive to draw as Williamson hits ton after surviving catch claimed by SA:At Wellington 3rd Test South Africa 474-9dec,148.1 overs(Petersen 156,Duminy 103,Amla 63,Gillespie 6-113) & 189-3dec,29.4 overs(de Villiers 68) v New Zealand 275,96 overs(Guptill 59,Philander 6-81) & 200-5,80.1 overs(Williamson 100*) Scorecard SA win series 1-0.
* Superb Sammy fails to bring off unlikely win after top order fails so series shared:At St Lucia 5th ODI Australia 281-9,50 overs beat West Indies 251,47.2 overs(Sammy 84,Lee 3-42) by 30 runs Scorecard Series shared 2.5-2.5.>
* Ireland 156-5,18.5 overs beat Afghanistan 152-7,20 overs by 5 wickets to take title.They will face Australia & West Indies in Sri Lanka in September Scorecard ICC t20World Cup Qualifier Rod Lyall reports
* Ireland thrash Namibia by 9 wickets in vital return match and so play Afghanistan in Preliminary Final in Dubai Scorecard ICC t20World Cup Qualifier
* Pollard fires at last for Windies plundering ton off 70 balls. Oz make fast start but lose three,despite firworks from Lee Oz lose by 42 runs:At St Lucia 4th ODI West Indies 294-7,50 overs(Pollard 102) beat Australia 252,46.4 overs(Lee 59, D Hussey 57) by 42 runs Scorecard Windies lead 5 match series 2.5 to 1.5
* Ireland comfortably defeat Netherlands in preliminary final so now have chance to reverse previous defeat by Namibia to secure t20World Cup place Scorecard Uganda's disappointing form continues to 13th place play offthough this time it's their bowling that let them down so Bermuda defeat them, a side Uganda have previously well beaten in all forms of the game. Scorecard Italy abandoned by Di Venuto and Berg are no match for Kenya who win 9th place play off Scorecard Andrew Nixon roundup
* Ireland thrash Canada by 10 wickets to advance but Scotland lose to Dutch in Preliminary Finals.HK beat Uganda in 7th place semi final play off and Oman beat Denmark in 15th place play off :ICC t20World Cup Qualifier Scots team included 8 Scots(1 born in England) while Dutch included 3 Dutch born in Netherlands! Afghanistan beat Namibia to secure World Cup place while Namibia face winner of Ireland v Netherlands.USA hit a big total to beat Bermuda in 11th place semifinal,Nepal beat Kenya with 2 balls to go in 7th place semifinal and PNG beat the Italian diaspora in the other 7th place semifinal.
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