Live over-by-over updates from 11am UK timeLord’s pitch is one of cricket’s great mysteriesYou can email Tim with your thoughts25th over: New Zealand 77-6 (Conway 26, Phillips 9) Conway, facing Tongue, decides that he may as well come to the party. First he steers a four to gully’s right, then he tries to leave a lifter, reacts too late, pats it to Harry Brook at second slip – and is dropped as Brook can only tip it over the bar.24th over: New Zealand 71-6 (Conway 20, Phillips 9) Robinson continues, moving the ball both ways. Phillips finds the boundary in no time – but only off the inside edge. And again, with his first shot of some authority, punched past cover. “You need to be playing Twenty20 here,” says Stuart Broad, and Phillips, unlike the rest of the Kiwis, seems to agree. He’s been there five minutes and has already made more runs than Latham, O’Rourke, Ravindra and Mitchell put together. Continue reading...
[Cricket | The Guardian : Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:14:38 GMT]
Live county cricket updates from 11am UK timeYou can email Tanya | England v NZ 1st Test liveWill Jacks is batting at No. 3 for Surrey in his first Championship outing this summer after a period with Mumbai Indians in the IPL. In England’s winter Ashes stumble down the stairs, Jacks collected 363 runs and took six wickets in his four games.Burns prods obediently forward and the ball skits through the gate and sends the off stump tumbling Continue reading...
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Chasing down a mammoth score unshackles the batsmen.
If the stroke makers keep their nerve to the end, it is a spectacular occasion that is enjoyed by the cricket crowd as boundaries are intermingled with the "will they/wont they" nervous tension of a record run chase.
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Chris Gayle hit the fastest century in World Twenty20 history as West Indies crushed England by six wickets in Mumbai in 2016. Where does Gayle sit on the list of all time fastest centuries?
In Test cricket, Brendon McCullum broke the joint record of Viv Richards and Misbah with a 54 ball century against Australia in the 2nd Test in 2016.
AB de Villiers took 31 balls to smash the fastest century in one-day internationals.
In T20s, Namibia’s Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton set a new world record with the fastest ever century, taking just 33 balls to reach triple figures and fire his nation to victory over Nepal in 2024.
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Ricky Ponting and James Sutherland, take note. This story is representative of a growing phenomenon in Australian cricket. It was penned by a typical Australian fan who hits out hard at its current team’s lack of sportsmanship and the resulting drop in interest to follow cricket.
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