• First Lord’s final between the sides since 1992
• James Vince and Heino Kuhn have been prolific run-scorers
The human interest stories for Saturday’s Royal London One-Day Cup final are varied and many. Kent’s 42-year-old Darren Stevens will be negotiating the Lord’s slope in what is his 21st year of first-class cricket. The former Kent captain Sam Northeast, a Hampshire winter signing, will be going up against his restless successor Sam Billings, who, in a quiet season, has a point to prove.
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra – Test Match Special: Tri-Nation T20 Women’s Series
New Zealand v South Africa
20 June 2018
Taunton, Somerset
Sky Sport Cricket: Royal London One-Day Cup 2018
Semi-Final: Hampshire v Yorkshire
18 June 2018
The Rose Bowl, Southampton
Sky Sports Cricket: England v South Africa 3rd One-Day International 2018
Semi-Final: England v South Africa 3rd WODI
15 June 2018
The Spitfire Ground, Canterbury
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra – Test Match Special: 2nd Women’s One-Day International
England v South Africa
12 June 2018
Hove, Sussex
• Australia 277-9; Sussex 220 – Australia win by 57 runs
• Marcus Stoinis’s steady hundred sets up victory
There are some sporting spectacles where crowds are attracted more for the occasion than the sport itself. This one-day tour match between Sussex and Australia, innocuous enough when the fixture was first scheduled, was one such occasion. Sometimes they are drawn to the presence of a great player, or one on the precipice of a major landmark. This match, however, was notable not for who was here but who was not.
• A version of this article was originally published in The Cricket Paper on 25 June 2018. To access the original, and to subscribe to my weekly column, please click here.
• A version of this article was originally published in The Cricket Paper on 11 May 2018. To access the original, and to subscribe to my weekly column, please click here.
Women are at the heart of driving innovation in cricket – they are not being deterred from it because it is too difficult to understand
I was seven years old when I learnt the cub scout motto: be prepared. It seemed simple enough – a concept which any kid, or mum, might easily embrace. It is worrying therefore that the England and Wales Cricket Board’s most recent proposals, to make “cricket as simple as possible” so that even “mums and kids” might understand it, appears to be lacking in this most basic of areas – preparation.
BBC World Service: Stumped – The Toughest Job in World Cricket?
BBC World Service
21 April 2018
Taking on the role of Australia’s men’s head coach is a daunting task. In the week Cricket Australia meet to discuss the process of recruiting a replacement for Darren Lehmann, we debate who are the frontrunners for the job.
South African batsman Aiden Markram reflects on his blistering start in international cricket.
And find out more about the ultimatum issued by the Afghanistan Cricket Board to some of its star players.
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