Cover for the cover!

England had drafted-in Stuart Meaker as cover for Jimmy Anderson but now have drafted-in Chris Woakes to cover for both Meaker and Jade Dernbach who will be attending Tom Maynard's funeral at Llandaff on 4th July.

Lightning v Falcons 2012

Cummings and goings at the Oval and elsewhere

Elstone sees Academy home at Wollaton

Scott Elstone had a break from 12th man duties scoring 71 in a successful 4 wicket winning run chase against Wollaton for Notts Academy.

v Durham T20

Hales on song for Outlaws

Morgan prime cut

Eoin Morgan top scored for England at Lord's in a rain interrupted innings against the old foe - Australia.


England 272/5
Eoin Morgan 89*
Jon Trott 54
Ian Bell 41
Alastair Cook 40 


Only Morgan got after the bowlers and so the game remained close.


David Warner 56, Michael Clarke 61 got the Aussies whilst shouting distance but ultimately the World # 1 ODI side fell 15 runs short.

Morgan Prime - chump! 17/07/12

In trouble with Middlesex because he was late arriving yesterday for a CB40 match against Lancashire, because he was stuck on a train!

Durham tomorrow

With an improving weather forecast; Notts Outlaws have announced the squad for the challenge of an also improving Durham Dynamos.


Michael Lumb, Alex Hales, Riki Wessels, James Taylor, Adam Voges, Chris Read, Steven Mullaney, Graeme White, Darren Pattinson, Harry Gurney, Andy Carter, Luke Fletcher, Scott Elstone,

Other Outlaws in possible action are Stuart Broad, England's MVP, Graeme Swann and Samit Patel who take on David Hussey and some other Australians.

One-eyed cricketer

Will Jones

Tykes go top

Yorkshire Carnegie last night beat the reigning Champions, Leicestershire Foxes, by 4 four runs to send the Yorkies to the top of the league and condemn Foxes to their 5th from 6 games defeat.

Australians get heavy in Essex

Michael Clarke retiring out on 76 and David Hussey scoring 67 were the mainstays of an Australian innings of 313/9 at Chelmsford. Only Reece Topley did himself any favours for Essex with 4/46.


Alastair Cook certainly didn't do himself any favours when it was his turn to bat, out for just 5.

Essex limped to 32.4 overs before being all out for 134, James Foster 41, Ravi Bopara 39. The Tourists won by 179 runs.

1 wicket behind Yasir Arafat 98 v 99

Azhar Mahmood, trying to reclaim the mantle of leading T20 wicket taker, had plans that went array when his four overs went for 61 runs with just 1 wicket, taking him to 98. Kent's opponents at Canterbury, Middlesex had a good day, 207/2, Joe Denly 90*, Paul Stirling 63, Eoin Morgan 36.
Kent replied with an opening stand of 80 but the innings fell away after that and the Panthers won by 48 runs.






At Wantage Road, Somerset toyed with the hapless Steelbacks, restricting them to 115/6. Somerset then raced to their target losing 3 wickets in the process in 13.4 overs; Craig Kieswetter 51, Con de Lange 3/22.

v Yorkshire T20 at Scarborough

Rain again by the sea