“You are meaning that that was an upset?” There was frustration, and a hint of anger, in captain Mashrafe Mortaza’s voice as he rebuffed the idea that Bangladesh’s defeat of South Africa should be anything other than expected.
The Telegraph: Kate Cross interview – ‘We are perfectionists because we have had to prove ourselves in a man’s world’
Features, Interviews, Print, Sport, The TelegraphEngland’s women begin their international summer on Thursday in the shadow of a men’s World Cup, in which the hosts are seeking to emulate what their female counterparts did two summers ago.
The Telegraph: Bangladesh put stunned South Africa to sword
Match Reports, Print, Sport, The TelegraphSport means many different things to many different people. In the West, what is meant to be an entertaining pursuit tends to veer between two extremes: a serious, methodical affair, analysed in severe and sombre tones, and a raucous booze-up. Watch a South Asian nation, however, and the celebratory, festival-like atmosphere is a spectacle unlike any other.
The Telegraph: New Zealand begin World Cup campaign with ruthless 10-wicket victory over Sri Lanka
Match Reports, Print, Sport, The TelegraphNew Zealand (137/0) beat Sri Lanka (136) by 10 wickets
There is a moment, before any sporting contest, where hope and opportunity triumph over all else. As Sri Lanka’s Lahiru Thirimanne deftly guided the first New Zealand delivery to the fine-leg boundary, those thoughts blossomed.
The Telegraph: Aussies hit ominous form with Sri Lanka thrashing
Match Reports, Print, Sport, The TelegraphSport means many different things to many different people. In the West, what is meant to be an entertaining pursuit tends to veer between two extremes: a serious, methodical affair, analysed in severe and sombre tones, and a raucous booze-up. Watch a South Asian nation, however, and the celebratory, festival-like atmosphere is a spectacle unlike any other.
The Telegraph: Joe Root interview – our diversity gives England true strength
Features, Interviews, Print, Sport, The Telegraph, The TelegraphJoe Root has experienced first-hand in his kitchen the ability of cricket to excite and inspire even the youngest wannabes. It is a power he hopes will rub off on “every living person in this country” during a World Cup and Ashes summer .
The Telegraph: Eoin Morgan hails Jos Buttler – ‘He seems to have a gear that not many of us have’
Match Reports, Print, Sport, The TelegraphHow do you bowl to Jos Buttler? That was the question put to Mickey Arthur, Pakistan’s head coach, after his team found themselves on the wrong end of a Buttler onslaught. Buttler showed no mercy as he belted 110 runs from 55 balls, and still ended up unbeaten.
The Telegraph: Northeast century continues domination over former parish
Match Reports, Print, Sport, The TelegraphSam Northeast’s match-winning century started and ended to mild, but universal, applause. The least you might expect on reaching three figures but, for the former Kent captain (105 not out from 95 balls), not necessarily a given; in last year’s final at Lord’s Northeast walked out to a sea of boos from the Kent travelling support.
The Telegraph: Cricket calendar changed again as World Cup preparations begin early with Royal London One-Day Cup
Features, Print, SportHampshire lost on Duckworth-Lewis, Glamorgan were washed out and Gareth Batty scrambled some lower order runs to see his team to victory. This is not a premonition of what awaits us on Wednesday, when the Royal London One-Day Cup gets underway, but the last time white-ball cricket featured so early in an English summer. A summer, as it happens, in which early-season domestic cricket was there to “fill the void” as the country awaited an Ashes bout which ended in perhaps the most glorious denouement to befall English cricket. The precedent bodes well.
The Telegraph: Lancashire’s Haseeb Hameed ends wait for first-class century in style against Middlesex
Match Reports, Print, Sport, The TelegraphLancashire (267-4) lead Middlesex (265) by 2 runs
If Keaton Jennings was the question at the start of play, Haseeb Hameed, by its close, was the answer. Once a vulnerable target for the shorter ball, now it was his forte, as the Lancashire opener reached his century with a neatly pulled six off the back foot.
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