The Ashes. Yikes. Australia have a 3-0 lead and will spend the next two tests, if they are played, going for the whitewash of a clearly over-matched England. Scott Boland’s amazing 6 wickets/7 runs performance ended any hope of England … Continue reading All Things Cricket: December 31st

I’m on vacation, so just quickly stopping in to note that USA beat Ireland in a T20I! And then lost to Ireland the next day. Still, to get one win is amazing. Also, Perth Scorchers are burning up the BBL11 … Continue reading All Things Cricket: December 24th

The 2nd Ashes Test in Adelaide is looking no better for England than the 1st Test, which Australia won by 9 wickets. If you recall, England went into Day 4 at the Gabba at 220/2 trailing only by 58 runs. … Continue reading All Things Cricket: December 17th

The Ashes has begun! On a green Gabba pitch on a cloudy, relatively cool day, Joe Root won the toss and…chose to bat, because that’s what you do in Test cricket. About 8 hours later, England were all out for … Continue reading All Things Cricket: December 10th

India and New Zealand are into their second Test, this one at Mumbai. The first Test at Kanpur was a draw, with the Kiwis’ Rachin Ravindra and Ajaz Patel gamely hanging on to their last wicket for more than 8 … Continue reading All Things Cricket: December 3rd

Perth Scorchers will host Adelaide Strikers at Perth Stadium tonight for the WBBL07 finals. Perth captain Sophie Devine and her fellow opening batter Beth Mooney have been lighting up the scoreboard all season. Dane van Niekerk for Perth will have … Continue reading All Things Cricket: November 26th

Matthew Wade led Australia to victory in the 2nd semifinal of the T20 World Cup in Dubai yesterday over previously unbeaten Pakistan. Wade’s final three shots were all sixes off 21-year-old phenom Shaheen Shah Afridi to get Australia over the … Continue reading All Things Cricket: November 12th

A 1-hour errand turned into 5 hours, as is often the case, so this one’s on all of you. The T20 World Cup had tons of news and even some cricket. Quinton de Kock refused to kneel, until he stopped … Continue reading All Things Cricket: October 29th

Back to the cricket news of the week. The USA Women, with Shebani Bhaskar (above) have dominated at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Americas Region Qualifier in Mexico City, winning all three of their games handily. Brazil, led by … Continue reading All Things Cricket: October 22nd

I’m starting off with the Minor League Cricket semifinals and finals, being held tomorrow and Sunday at Church Street Park in Morrisville, NC. Empire State Titans will meet New Jersey Stallions in the early game at 10:15 am ET, and … Continue reading All Things Cricket: October 1st

The IPL continues! After a COVID break, the teams are back in the UAE. The most remarkable game of the week was a confounding loss by Punjab Kings to Rajasthan Royals when Kings needed only 8 runs from 12 balls … Continue reading All Things Cricket: September 24th

The CPL Final was held at Basseterre, as was every other game, and it was a thriller. St. Kitts and Nevis, the home team, battled Saint Lucia Kings right down to the last ball and won it on a Dominic … Continue reading All Things Cricket: September 17th

The fourth England v India Test was all India after Day 1. India’s bowlers kept England from running away with the match by holding England to 290 in the 2nd innings. and then Rohit Sharma did what he does so … Continue reading All Things Cricket: September 10th

More Test cricket this week. England easily defeated India at Headingley by having another almost perfect day on Day 4 to bowl out India for 278, 76 runs short of the total they needed to force a second innings by … Continue reading All Things Cricket: September 3rd

So much happening. Let’s start with more Test cricket, of course. England had an almost perfect first day in the third Test at Headingley. Jimmy Anderson was on fire with the new ball, getting KL Rahul in the first over, … Continue reading All Things Cricket: August 27th

Test cricket is BEST CRICKET! The indelible image above showing Jimmy Anderson frozen in position after being clean bowled by Mohammed Siraj and the India players celebrating around him tells a great deal of the story of the 2nd England … Continue reading All Things Cricket: August 20th

England and India moved to Lord’s for their second Test. The first one was an unfortunate draw for India, who only needed 157 more runs to win when rain wiped out all of Day 5 at Trent Bridge. The Men … Continue reading All Things Cricket: August 13th

I went to a real, live professional cricket match! The opponents are shown above. Houston Hurricanes overcame an almost impossible situation at Moosa Stadium in Pearland, needing 10 with 2 balls to go, to beat Austin Athletics in the Minor … Continue reading All Things Cricket: August 6th

A day late and zero dollars short (this is free and I don’t get paid). The Hundred is here! What is The Hundred? It’s cricket. That’s what The Hundred is. Early winners in this format that is tearing families apart … Continue reading All Things Cricket: July 24th