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Saim Ayub's 156 sets up Panthers' win over Stallions
Chasing 345, Tahir scored a fighting 109 for Stallions but it was too steep a mountain to climb
ESPNcricinfo staff
21-Sep-2024
Panthers 344 for 7 (Ayub 156, Usman 75, Zaman 4-90) beat Stallions 324 (Tahir 109, Talat 63, Mubasir 3-77) by 20 runs
The trend of teams batting first winning continued into the ninth game of the Champions Cup as Panthers beat Stallions by 20 runs.
Batting first after winning the toss, Panthers rode on Saim Ayub's 156 off 130 balls, studded with 13 fours and seven sixes, to post a daunting 344 for 7. Ayub found good support from Azan Awais, with whom he added 138 for the first wicket.
Full postCoppack, Griffith star as Sunrisers claim maiden silverware
Perennial wooden-spooners, they cruised to victory in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy's final season
ECB Reporters Network
21-Sep-2024
Sunrisers 121 for 3 (Griffith 57) beat South East Stars 212 (Davidson-Richards 93, Coppack 4-27) by 27 runs (DLS method)
Sunrisers completed their turnaround from perennial wooden spoon winners to become the last-ever regional winners of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.
Sunrisers failed to win a match in the first three editions of the competition - first held in 2020 - but Kate Coppack's 4 for 27 and Cordelia Griffith's half-century set up a 27-run DLS victory over South East Stars.
Full postBhui and Iyer lead India D's charge
India D are 311 ahead with five second-innings wickets left
ESPNcricinfo staff
21-Sep-2024
India D 349 and 244 for 5 (Bhui 90*, Iyer 50, Samson 45, Mukesh 3-80) lead India B 282 (Easwaran 116, Washington 87, Saurabh Kumar 5-73) by 311 runs
Shreyas Iyer hit a quickfire fifty, Sanju Samson a brisk 45 and Ricky Bhui a stodgy unbeaten 90 as India D had the ascendancy over India B in the final Duleep Trophy fixture in Anantapur. Already out of reckoning for the title, India D are 311 ahead with five second-innings wickets left.
Resuming on 210 for 6, India B stretched their total to 282. A majority of those runs came courtesy Washington Sundar, who top scored with 87. Left-arm spinner Saurabh Kumar picked up all four wickets to fall in the day, finishing with figures of 5 for 73, his 25th five-for in first-class cricket.
Full postParag, Rawat fifties strengthen India A's push for win
Avesh helped India A secure a 63-run lead, which the batters stretched to 333
ESPNcricinfo staff
21-Sep-2024
India A 297 and 270 for 6 (Parag 73, Rawat 53, Kamboj 2-52, Suthar 2-75) lead India C 234 (Porel 82, Narang 41, Avesh 3-64, Aaqib 3-43) by 333 runs
Riyan Parag and Shashwat Rawat strengthened India A's position on the third day of the final round of Duleep Trophy fixtures in Anantapur.
Having taken a 63-run lead, swift half-centuries from Parag (73) and Rawat (53) helped stretch their lead to 333 at stumps with four wickets remaining. The pair added 105 for the fourth wicket, with the partnership broken when left-arm spinner Manav Suthar had Rawat.
Full postCarey and Starc star as Australia take 2-0 series lead
Aaron Hardie claimed two wickets in two balls while Josh Hazlewood also impressed on return
Andrew McGlashan
21-Sep-2024
Australia 270 (Carey 74, Marsh 60, Carse 3-75) beat England 202 (Smith 49, Starc 3-50) by 68 runs
Mitchell Starc made a dramatic entrance to the ODI series with a searing inswinging yorker to England captain Harry Brook, after Alex Carey had produced a match-changing innings as Australia, strengthened by the return of key names, went 2-0 up in the series with a convincing 68-run victory at Headingley.
Starc's brilliant set-up of Brook, which he capped off with a wicked delivery that thundered into his pad as he was beaten for pace, added to England's early problems in a chase of 271 after Carey's 74 provided crucial late runs to a curious Australia innings. A short while later the home side were 65 for 5 when Aaron Hardie claimed two wickets in two balls, including a brilliant caught-and-bowled to remove the in-form Ben Duckett, to leave them with a mountain to climb.
Full postGill, Pant and Ashwin boss day three at Chepauk
Bangladesh went to stumps four down and 357 adrift of their mammoth target on a dominant day for the hosts
Sidharth Monga
21-Sep-2024
Bangladesh 149 and 158 for 4 (Shanto 51*, Ashwin 3-63) need 357 runs to beat India 376 and 287 for 4 dec. (Gill 119*, Pant 109)
Rishabh Pant brought up an emotional sixth Test century, Shubman Gill a serene fifth, and the Indian bowlers and fielders responded well to demanding conditions by taking four second-innings wicket on day three in Chennai. Bangladesh were 357 adrift of the 515 target set them by an aggressive declaration with two-and-a-half days left in the Test.
With the pitch not yet breaking up and the average seam movement dying down from 1.3 degrees on day one to 0.4 degrees on day three, these were the best batting conditions of the match. Despite India's attacking approach to set up the declaration, they only played 16 false shots in 41 overs on day three, while scoring 206 runs. The conditions remained flat when Bangladesh batted, but a marathon spell from R Ashwin maintained India's ascendency in the match. The bowlers had the fielders to thank for three low catches of varying difficulty.
Full postIrfan's 100, all-round Khushdil hand Lions maiden win in high-scoring game
Table-toppers Markhors endured their first loss despite fifties from Fakhar and Salman
ESPNcricinfo staff
20-Sep-2024
Lions 367 for 6 (Irfan 100*, Khushdil 73, Shafique 52, Imam 51) beat Markhors 332 for 9 (Fakhar 82, Salman 69, Yamin 2-54, Daniyal 2-66, Khushdil 2-67) by 35 runs
Irfan Khan's 56-ball ton and Khushdil Shah's all-round heroics handed Lions their first win and snapped table-toppers Markhors' unbeaten streak. The result meant that all eight games in the Champions One-Day Cup have been won by the team batting first.
Abdullah Shafique (52) and Imam-ul-Haq (51) laid the platform for Lions with a 110-run opening stand to allow Omair Yousuf (30) and Mohammad Taha (31) to cruise along in the middle overs.
Full postEaswaran, Samson hit contrasting tons on 11-wicket day
Easwaran made a back-to-the-wall ton to reduce India B's deficit
Shashank Kishore
20-Sep-2024
India B 210 for 6 (Easwaran 116, Arshdeep 3-30) trail India D 349 (Samson 106, Saini 5-74) by 139 runs
Like he did in the previous match, Abhimanyu Easwaran waged a lone battle for India B as they stare at a substantial first-innings deficit in the final round of the 2024-25 Duleep Trophy in Anantapur.
Easwaran backed his unbeaten 157 in the previous game with a second-straight century, a 170-ball 116, before being adjudged caught behind. Easwaran, who went for a hook shot, seemed to suggest the ball had deflected off his arm guard.
Full postKishan, Patidar miss out as India A call the shots
Aaqib Khan picked up three wickets before Abishek Porel's 82 kept India C in hunt for the first-innings lead
Shashank Kishore
20-Sep-2024
India C 216 for 7 (Porel 82, Aaqib 3-43) trail India A 297 (Rawat 124, Avesh 51*, Vyshak 4-51) by 81 runs
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sai Sudharsan, Rajat Patidar and Ishan Kishan all missed out on an opportunity to play substantial knocks as India C found themselves in a dogfight for the first-innings honours against India A in Anantapur.
At stumps on day two, India C were 216 for 7, seemingly in a better position courtesy of an unbroken 49-run stand between Pulkit Narang and Vijaykumar Vyshak.
Full postRashid's birthday five-for, Gurbaz's ton give Afghanistan series win
South Africa lost ten wickets for 61 and were bowled out for 134 in chase of 312
Firdose Moonda
20-Sep-2024
Afghanistan 311 for 4 (Gurbaz 105, Omarzai 86*, Rahmat 50) beat South Africa 134 (Bavuma 38, Rashid 5-19, Kharote 4-26) by 177 runs
Afghanistan completed their most high-profile bilateral series win and their first against a team ranked in the ICC's top five with a 177-run victory over South Africa in Sharjah. After dominating South Africa with the ball two days ago, Afghanistan repeated the dose with the bat on Friday and posted their tenth total of 300 or more to ask South Africa to complete their sixth-highest successful chase. A collapse of 10 for 61 meant South Africa did not even get close and recorded their fifth-biggest defeat by runs. Afghanistan lead the series 2-0 with one match remaining.
Birthday-boy Rashid Khan turned 26 and took his fifth career five-for to top off a day of excellence for Afghanistan in all departments. Their celebrations began with Rahmanullah Gurbaz's seventh ODI century, followed by Rahmat Shah's 29th ODI half-century and then Azmatullah Omarzai's fastest fifty in the format. Omarzai reached his half-century off 32 balls, ended unbeaten on 86 off 50 balls and led Afghanistan's charge of 93 runs in the last ten overs to post a challenging total. While Rashid headlined their bowling, he shared his success with left-arm spinner Nangeyalia Kharote, who finished with a career-best 4 for 26.
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