Ducks for Root and Cook, 22 wickets fall - just part of a bizarre Chelmsford day | Cricket
[ad_1] Joe Root returns to the pavilion after a first-baller © Getty Images Yorkshire 50 (Cook 5-28, Siddle 4-7) and 161 for 2 (Bairstow 50, Brook 57*) lead Essex 142 (Bresnan 3-26, Coad 3-27, Brooks 3-63, Lawrence 48, Harmer 36) by 69 runs Scorecard There's a scene in Where Eagles Dare in which Richard Burton with solid support from Clint Eastwood reveals the identity of the Nazi double agent contained within a notebook. The notebook, perplexingly, is empty. The agent …
Denmark lose four wickets in final over, pipped by one run | Cricket
[ad_1] Uganda 215 for 8 (Kayondo 51, Masaba 47, Javed 2-48) beat Denmark 129 all out (Shah 37, Bharaj 32, Mukasa 2-3) by one run via DLS method Scorecard © Peter Della Penna How the tide turns. Uganda scripted a comeback only dreams are made of. Denmark needed five runs off the final over, with four wickets in hand. Then, they committed hara-kiri as Roger Mukasa , the captain, brought himself on for the first time and created magic at the Kinrara Oval in Kuala Lumpur. Mukas…
Ryan Higgins and David Wiese bag five-fors as wickets tumble
[ad_1] Sussex 145 (Salt 63, Higgins 5-21) and 51 for 2 lead Gloucestershire 183 (Wiese 5-48, Robinson 4-67) by 13 runs Scorecard Sussex and Gloucestershire made up for lost time when their Specsavers County Championship Division Two match resumed at Hove on Saturday. Just 21 overs had been bowled on the opening day, when no wickets fell, but 22 went down on the second day and Sussex, 51 for 2 in their second innings, led by 13. Having begun the day on 86 for 0, Sussex were bowled out for 145, losing all 10 wickets for 59 runs in 26 overs bef…
Eskinazi's ambition survives the clatter of wickets
[ad_1] Glamorgan 38 for 4 (Murtagh 4-12) trail Middlesex 194 (Eskinazi 94, Hogan 5-49, Van der Gugten 4-63) by 156 runs Scorecard Middlesex's Stevie Eskinazi stood tall on a day of otherwise clattering wickets in the Specsavers County Championship match against Glamorgan at Lord's. While all others, with the possible exception of John Simpson, struggled to put bat to ball, the South African-born right-hander plundered 16 boundaries in scoring 94 at more than a run a ball. The fact his efforts were not enough to raise a batting point…
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