Beyond the Boundary!

The second upset of the Friends Provident Trophy campaign took place today in Belfast as Ireland beat Warwickshire by 4 wickets. They restricted the Bears to 211/7 from their 50 overs, and skipper William Porterfield scored 69 to help lead them to the target in the 47th over.
As is often the case this year, other […]

Another round of county championship matches started today, and associate players are again involved.
Kyle Coetzer could only manage two for Durham against Yorkshire, and from a painstaking 41 deliveries. Their innings was dominated by 184 from Michael Di Venuto, who’s brother Peter played for Italy six years ago.
Denmark’s Freddie Klokker has taken over the wicket-keeper’s […]

Scotland’s Navdeep Poonia has followed his maiden first-class century by hitting a 48 ball fifty for Warwickshire against Cambridge UCCE today. Fellow Scottish international Calum MacLeod is also playing for Warwickshire in this match, and he picked up his first first-class wicket when he trapped Thomas Hemingway LBW.
Niall O’Brien is also playing in Northamptonshire’s County […]

Scotland’s Navdeep Poonia has become the fourth associate player to score a first-class century in the current English domestic season, scoring 111 for Warwickshire against Cambridge UCCE today. His previous best first-class score was 50.

Scotland have failed to continue their form after beating Lancashire on Monday and lost to Durham in Edinburgh today. Durham batted first and scored 181/9 from their 50 overs. A few batsmen got a start, but none went onto post a decent score.
John Blain bowled well to take 3/31 from his ten overs, whilst Scotland […]

Continuing our now regular series of looking at how associate players are doing in county cricket, today has seen more of them put in decent performances for their county/university teams.
In Durham’s County Championship match against Lancashire at Old Trafford, Scotland’s Kyle Coetzer was looking to improve on his eight first innings runs, but could not […]

After being kept strictly to second XI action until now, Dutch international Alexei Kervezee has made his debut for Worcestershire in their first-class match against Loughborough UCCE. He made 41 from 80 balls before he was caught behind off the bowling of another young European international; Denmark’s Johan Malcolm, which was his maiden first-class wicket. […]

Scotland have beaten Lancashire by two runs in a close match at Old Trafford today, thanks to 3/26 from Dewald Nel. Ireland were also in Friends Provident Trophy action today, and they lost to Northamptonshire by 8 wickets. Paul Stirling scored 70, and Niall O’Brien scored 75, though that was for the opposition.
Other associate players […]

The itinerary for Australia’s tour of England next year has been announced, and included on the tour is a match against Scotland on the 28th of August. The match will be an ODI assuming Scotland finish in the top six of next year’s World Cup qualifier, and assuming the ICC don’t change their mind on […]

Scotland are currently playing their final warm-up match before their Friends Provident Trophy campaign begins. They are playing the MCC at Lord’s, and you can take advantage of the excellent live commentary service from the MCC and listen to the game here.
The match is being played with the experimental pink balls, being used in England […]