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Sixteen counties in the running for eight women's teams
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Thursday, 14 March 2024 10:04
Sixteen of the 18 first-class counties have bid for one of eight professional women's teams in a revamped England and Wales domestic competition starting next season.Worcestershire and Derbyshire are the only two clubs among those invited to tender who have confirmed that they did not bid for a Tier 1 team under the new structure.Essex and Glamorgan made formal announcements…
Mumbai win 42nd Ranji title to end eight-year wait
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Thursday, 14 March 2024 02:37
Mumbai 224 (Shardul Thakur 75, Yash Thakur 3-54, Dubey 3-62) and 418 (Musheer 136, Iyer 95, Dubey 5-144) beat Vidarbha 105 (Rathod 27, Kotian 3-7, Kulkarni 3-15) and 368 (Wadkar 102, Nair 74, Kotian 4-95, Musheer 2-48) by 169 runsMumbai broke Vidarbha's resistance on the fifth afternoon and secured their 42nd Ranji Trophy title and first since 2015-16. Spin-bowling allrounder…
Lahiru Thirimanne hospitalised after car crash in Anuradhapura
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Thursday, 14 March 2024 02:44
Having made his international debut in 2010, Thirimanne played 44 Test matches, 127 ODIs and 26 T20Is. He was part of three T20 World Cup campaigns, including Sri Lanka's win in 2014, and played two ODI World Cups. He also led Sri Lanka in five one-dayers. The last of his international appearances was in March 2022. He retired from international…
Darren Gough steps down as Yorkshire managing director of cricket
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Thursday, 14 March 2024 02:49
Darren Gough has stepped down as Yorkshire's managing director of cricket, the club has announced.Gough, the former Yorkshire and England fast bowler, took on the role in an interim capacity in December 2021, in the wake of the Azeem Rafiq racism crisis that saw a swathe of the club's management depart. He oversaw the appointment of Ottis Gibson, the current…
'Our mentality is that we can win from any situation' - Mumbai players celebrate 42nd Ranji triumph
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Thursday, 14 March 2024 02:51
When Mumbai set Vidarbha a target of 538 on the third evening of the Ranji Trophy final, their 42nd title seemed all but in the bag. But Vidarbha gave Mumbai as good a fight as possible, and stretched the match into the second session on the fifth day. But once their captain Akshay Wadkar fell after a century, it didn't…
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