Hampshire have signed Australian batter Chris Lynn for their remaining T20 Blast group matches. The Hawks have six more games in the group stage and Lynn’s arrival comes after South African pair Lhuan-dre Pretorius and Dewald Brevis earned international call-ups. South Africa are scheduled to play in a two-Test series against Zimbabwe from 28 June....
Tom Westley and Michael Pepper combined for a 215-run sixth-wicket partnership that frustrated Hampshire and ultimately saved Essex from suffering their third County Championship defeat of the season. The pair came together at 131-5, still 26 runs short of making Hampshire bat again, and were not parted for nearly three-and-a-half hours. Slowly but surely they...
Liam Dawson enjoyed the sort of day all-rounders dream of with a resilient century followed by two key Essex wickets as Hampshire took a firm grip on their County Championship match at Chelmsford. The England white-ball international’s 139 from 235 balls, and a fifth-wicket partnership of 133 with fellow centurion Tilak Varma, underpinned Hampshire’s first-innings...
Tilak Varma demonstrated on Hampshire debut that he is not just a big-hitting white-ball player by constructing a patient, unbeaten 98 in the County Championship at windswept Chelmsford. The 22-year-old Indian left-hander, starting a four-game stint on the south coast, was playing only his 19th first-class game, compared to 119 in T20 competitions, including 25...
Somerset made a fast start after being put in at Taunton and were 70-1 after 38 balls as Will Smeed brought up his half-century from 29 deliveries. When Smeed fell to Eddie Jack for 68 from 37 balls, with nine fours and three sixes, Somerset were 116-3 with more than nine overs to come, but...
On a scorching day at Taunton, Hampshire openers Maia Bouchier and Charli Knott put on 80 before Chloe Skelton took a fine catch over her shoulder at mid-on to send Bouchier on her way for 43 from 26 balls with eight boundaries. In her final game before returning to Australia, Knott holed out to international...
Hampshire have signed India white-ball batter Tilak Varma on a short-term deal for four County Championship matches. Varma has made an outstanding start to his international T20 career, hitting 749 runs in 25 games with an average of 49.93 and a strike rate of 155. The 22-year-old left-hander has two centuries and three half-centuries in...
After being asked to bat first, Sibley and Jacks reached 59-0 at the end of the six-over powerplay, but the stand was broken on 74 in the eighth over when Jacks cut Benny Howell to Liam Dawson for 41 from 24 balls. In-form Jason Roy was run out following some fine work from the sprawling...
Knott and Maia Bouchier struggled to get the ball away amid some smothering Surrey pressure, scoring just 32 in the six-over powerplay. They were 57-0 at the start of the 10th over when Bouchier sliced to Bryony Smith off Alice Capsey to depart for 33 from 25 balls. Phoebe Franklin ran round from long-on to...
Essex won the toss and elected to bowl first but McCaughan was soon put down on four behind the stumps by Lauren Winfield-Hill after a top-edge, but the breakthrough arrived early as Maia Bouchier got a leading edge to Essex skipper Grace Scrivens in the second over, chipping a catch to Maddie Penna to depart...
Yorkshire climbed off the bottom of the North Group table after posting a first victory of their T20 Blast campaign, beating Leicestershire Foxes by a thumping margin of 106 runs. Dawid Malan (88 from 48 balls) and Will Luxton (62 from 34) put on 132 for the second wicket and, despite a mini-collapse which saw...
With the prospect of weather playing a part, Hampshire won the toss and asked Surrey to bat first. Dom Sibley cracked James Fuller over the ropes as Surrey put on 18 from the opening two overs of seam but South African spinner Bjorn Fortuin, making his debut in place of Liam Dawson, tempted Sibley into...
Simpson’s third century of the season, in a 173-run stand with Fynn Hudson-Prentice, was the difference in the match, while Crocombe’s first appearance of the season was a huge success – four explosive wickets in the first innings were followed by a tidy 2-44 in the second. For Hampshire, it was their first home defeat...
John Simpson’s 18th first-class century put Hampshire on the ropes before a batting collapse put Sussex on the brink of a County Championship victory at Utilita Bowl. Skipper Simpson was superb to record back-to-back centuries, and third of the campaign, as he scored an unbeaten 106 – which included a 173-run stand with 78-maker Fynn...
Henry Crocombe and John Turner demonstrated their winter work with Dale Steyn with whirlwind spells as 15 wickets fell on the first day at Utilita Bowl in the County Championship. Fast bowlers Crocombe and Turner were part of the England Lions squad mentored by South Africa legend Steyn, and coached by Andrew Flintoff, over the...