Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty recently gained notoriety for not prosecuting a Minnesota government employee for committing a series of felonies for keying Teslas. It was a travesty, one made even more blatant by the fact that her office is prosecuting a woman for causing much less damage, vandalizing one car instead of six Teslas....
Dom Goodman’s maiden first-class five-wicket haul inspired a Gloucestershire fightback on a fluctuating day two of the County Championship match with Leicestershire in Bristol. Shortly after lunch, early season pace-setters Leicestershire looked well placed to post a sizeable first-innings lead. Having reached 200-5 in response to the hosts first innings total of 252, the visitors...
Sussex will need a supreme effort to avoid a three-day defeat as Division One leaders Nottinghamshire look to complete a second win in four matches in a strong start to the County Championship season. Last season’s Division Two champions came into this match level on points with the Trent Bridge side but at 195-7 in...
Rory Burns was one of three Surrey half-centurions as the defending champions took a first-innings lead against visitors Somerset on day two at the Kia Oval. The Brown Caps skipper struck 10 boundaries in a fluent 76, sharing a first-wicket stand of 129 with fellow former England opener Dominic Sibley (53), who passed 50 for...
Martin Andersson gave his former team-mates a reminder of his qualities with a career-best century to put Derbyshire firmly in control of the County Championship Division Two match against Middlesex at Derby. The ex-Middlesex all-rounder scored 107 and shared a county record sixth-wicket stand of 148 with Luis Reece, who made 60, to lift Derbyshire...
Durham beat Worcestershire by six wickets inside two days in a bowler-dominated County Championship match at New Road. After 16 wickets fell on the first day, 14 fell in the first two sessions of the second on a pitch which the seamers would like to carry round in their kit bag. Durham trailed by 26...
Surrey finally broke through in the third over after lunch. Atkinson produced a fine delivery which nipped away at decent pace and Vaughan (36) was held at second slip. Worrall got a deserved success with a ball which shaped away that Tom Abell edged low to second slip for a duck, but Lammonby and Tom...
Ben Green notched his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket as Leicestershire bowled out Gloucestershire for 252 on the opening day of their County Championship match at the Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol. The 27-year-old all-rounder, on loan from Somerset, exploited overcast conditions to claim 5-63 from 17 overs with his medium-paced seamers. Ian Holland...
In the first 10 overs of the afternoon session, there were only seven scoring shots and three of those were edges to the vacant third man boundary. The pair faced 73 dot balls in the first hour until Lloyd relieved some of the tension by cutting and pulling Ryan Higgins for two fours. Former Glamorgan...
England’s Josh Tongue picked up a second consecutive five-wicket haul at Trent Bridge as Nottinghamshire dismissed Sussex for 169 on the opening day of their County Championship clash. The two counties began the day sharing the early Division One lead but the home side have the upper hand so far after Tongue, in only his...
Somerset loanee Jake Ball took five wickets on his Durham debut to help his new team take the early honours in their County Championship match at New Road. But Worcestershire struck back before the close on a day when 14 wickets fell in the Division One clash. Ball took 5-47 as the Pears were dismissed...
Gloucestershire were left to rue an over-cautious declaration when their County Championship match with Kent at Canterbury ended in a draw. Tom Price almost single-handedly injected life into what was becoming a tedious final day by reducing Kent to 49-4 with 22 overs remaining, but despite some middle order tremors, the hosts dug in to...
Dominant Nottinghamshire ran out of time and had to settle for a draw against Warwickshire after rain took out much of the final day of their County Championship Division One match at Edgbaston. Warwickshire, trailing by 274 on first innings, entered the final day on 163-6 second time around, with the visitors four wickets away...
Glamorgan resumed on 186-5, still 85 runs short of making Middlesex bat again, with the home side in a hurry to wrap the game up given the poor weather forecast for the afternoon. But Middlesex managed just two wickets in the first session despite Roland-Jones striking early on an overcast morning, as Kiran Carlson looked...
Leicestershire head coach, Alfonso Thomas, said: “We’ve done some really good things in this game. There’s always room for improvement, but I’m just so proud of the guys for how they’ve gone about things. “To a man, everybody in this team does his job and that to me is the sign of a really strong...