Manning’s appointment as head coach in November 2023 was not universally welcomed by fans, following the controversial sacking of Nigel Pearson. At 39, Manning is a young coach who has worked his way up the ranks from West Ham’s academy, to coaching in Belgium, managing League Two MK Dons and was at then League One...
Three-time champion Mark Williams produced a vintage display to defeat world number one Judd Trump 17-14, becoming the oldest ever player to reach a World Championship final. The Welshman, who turned 50 in March, eclipses his compatriot Ray Reardon, who won the title six times and appeared in the 1982 final as a 49-year-old. Williams...
Warwickshire survived a fine 90 from England star Joe Root to set up a target of 185 in order to secure victory in their County Championship game with Yorkshire at Headingley. Yorkshire were bowled out for 232 in their second innings late on day two, with visiting new-ball seamer Ethan Bamber adding four wickets to...
Leicestershire will take a lead of 209 into day three of their County Championship match with neighbours Northamptonshire after 16 wickets fell on a dramatic second day. The Division Two leaders bowled out Northamptonshire for 191 to lead by 113 on first innings, after Logan van Beek had taken 4-47 and Ben Green an excellent...
Like Parker, Leeds boss Daniel Farke has vast experience of getting out of the Championship. He did so as champions with Norwich City in 2019 and 2021 and has now led the West Yorkshire club back to the Premier League after bouncing back from play-off final heartache against Southampton a year ago. Farke told BBC...
Ollie Price and Miles Hammond both made fifties as Gloucestershire produced a determined response to Lancashire’s first-innings 450 on the second day of the County Championship match at Old Trafford. Replying to the home side’s formidable total, in which Marcus Harris made 167 and Ajeet Singh Dale took 3-67, the visitors were 184-2 at the...
Zhao Xintong began this season suspended from snooker after a match-fixing scandal but is tipped to be the sport’s new “megastar” if he becomes the first Chinese player to win the World Championship. The 28-year-old, who lives just a 10-minute walk from the Crucible venue in Sheffield, is one match away from joining Terry Griffiths...
Resuming on 336-6, it was honours even for the first session as Glamorgan added 95 more runs for the loss of their last four wickets. Colin Ingram fell for 81 in the first over, hooking Blair Tickner straight to fine leg, but a stand of 86 between van der Gugten and Gorvin (39) occupied most...
Graham Clark scored a career-best 160 as Durham made 511 on a Utilita Bowl batting paradise in the County Championship. Batter Clark continued Durham’s heavy run-scoring in the sun, with George Drissell scoring 69 and Codi Yusuf 44 not out. Wisden Cricketer of the Year Liam Dawson toiled away for 48 overs and was rewarded...
Jordan Cox scored a chanceless half-century as Essex assumed control at the halfway stage of the County Championship Division One match against Somerset at Taunton. The England batter finished day two unbeaten on 61, shared in partnerships of 57 and 61 for the third and fourth wickets with Tom Westley and Matt Critchley respectively and...
Kent skipper Daniel Bell-Drummond led his side’s fightback by posting his first red-ball hundred in over a year on the second day of their County Championship game against Middlesex at Lord’s. Bell-Drummond, who averaged single figures this season going into Kent’s second innings, finished unbeaten on 103 as his side progressed to 226-4 – a...
Warwickshire were six points better off than their opponents in the early Division One table after three matches, and they edged the morning as Yorkshire reached lunch at 97-4. Having left Fin Bean out, Yorkshire used Dom Bess as a locum opener alongside Adam Lyth, who contributed 26. Bess, for 16, was first to go...
Toby Roland-Jones’s latest five-wicket haul gave Middlesex the edge on a bowler-dominated opening day against Kent at Lord’s. The former England seamer took 5-33, the 33rd time in his career he has achieved a five-wicket haul, as the visitors were skittled for 129. Tawanda Muyeye top-scored with 29, but Zak Crawley’s poor run of first-innings...
Tribe, playing his first match of the season in place of Eddie Byrom, drove classically in a perky half-century off 65 balls including 10 fours, as he gave the impetus to the opening stand of 93. Tickner was the tightest of the Derbyshire seamers, bowling to the grassier end of the pitch, but it was...
Graham Clark celebrated his fifth County Championship century with a pristine innings to put Durham in charge against Hampshire. Batter Clark led Durham’s run surge from a perilous 82-4 with partnerships of 124 with Ollie Robinson (76) and an unbroken 124 with George Drissell – who reached the close on 58 not out. Clark –...