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Visitors five down and still 85 from victory after Pennington, Paterson rock top order

County Championship Division One

Jordan cox, matt critchley put essex on course for come-from-behind triumph.

Fifth-wicket partnership turns tables on Warwickshire to put 330-run chase on course

County Championship Division Two

Labuschagne, ingram hundreds keep glamorgan above water.

Middlesex on top but made to work after securing 160-run lead on first-innings

Rajasthan Royals consigned to Eliminator after washout in Guwahati leaves them third

KKR now play SRH on May 21 in Ahmedabad, while RR face RCB in the Eliminator on May 22

Davina Perrin

Davinia perrin 79* steers central sparks in comfortable chase.

Sunrisers struggle to post testing target despite Alice Macleod fifty

Crawley leads Kent fightback with a superb double century

England opener had mustered only 67 runs in seven previous Championship innings this season

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Maruti suzuki arena safe hands of the day - sanvir singh.

Sanvir Singh' catch to dismiss Ashutosh Sharma from Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings features for his notable efforts in the field

Jennings' second hundred trumps Stokes five as Lancashire home in on victory

Durham are 341 runs off what would be a county record chase of 475, with seven wickets to go

Tripathi the link at No. 3 SRH had been missing

In successfully chasing 214 against Punjab Kings, SRH have ticked the one last box ahead of the IPL 2024 playoffs

Emilio Gay, Ben Sanderson put Northants back the ascendancy

Visitors lead by 255 runs going into the final day after spirited counterattack

SRH ride on another Abhishek blitz to finish second in league-stage standings

Punjab Kings posted 214 on the back of a solid fifty from Prabhsimran, but SRH hunted it down with five balls to spare

Patel, Currie form Leicestershire roadblock with Gloucestershire eyeing victory

Home side made to follow on despite hundred from opener, career-best from nightwatcher

Pakistan Women in England 2024

Danni wyatt 87 sets up england for 3-0 series sweep against pakistan.

Next-highest score 26 from Amy Jones but visitors unable to keep pace in chase

Wyatt rides the ups and downs to provide England template

Opener uses vast experience to demonstrate attacking "balance" sought by Jon Lewis

Charlotte Edwards Cup

Thunder dismantle northern diamonds in 'roses' clash.

Emma Lamb's unbeaten 44 toppled a meek target of 110 with 31 balls to spare

Tash Farrant

Tash farrant holds nerve as stars seal low-scoring thriller.

Western Storm fall short in dramatic finish to their chase at Bristol

Dan Worrall's ten-for drives Surrey to fourth win in a row

Worcestershire lower-order resist but hosts prove too strong once again

Ollie Robinson's late strikes inspire Sussex to thrilling 21-run win over Yorkshire

Adam Lyth's dismissal triggers dramatic collapse to leave Yorkshire winless in Division Two

Heinrich Klaasen: 'I hit one or two today that put a smile on my face'

Klaasen thankful for the break Sunrisers got - they last played on May 8 - saying they will go into the playoffs mentally fresh

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Yash dayal's year - stung by rinku to stinging csk.

Last year, he failed to defend 28 in the last over. This time, he denied Dhoni a fairytale finish

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Zak Crawley , ENG, Right-hand bat

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Ravichandran Ashwin , IND, Right-arm offbreak

Average 24.8

Tom Hartley , ENG, Slow left-arm orthodox

Average 36.13

Kuldeep Yadav , IND, Left-arm wrist-spin

Average 20.15

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England cricket 2023 fixtures and schedule: Ashes and World Cups make up huge year for men's and women's sides

England's 2023 cricket fixtures will see the men and women take on World Cups and the Ashes; the men will also face South Africa, New Zealand, Bangladesh and Ireland; the women face Sri Lanka in September; Stay up to date with cricket on Sky Sports throughout the year.

Friday 20 January 2023 08:51, UK

It is set to be a huge year of English cricket for the men's and women's game in 2023, featuring World Cups and the Ashes. See the dates and fixtures for the year ahead. 

After a year that included the rise of 'Bazball', a men's T20 World Cup victory, a women's World Cup final and a 3-0 men's Test whitewash in Pakistan, English cricket in 2023 has a lot to live up to.

England will play South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Sri Lanka, Ireland and more in Test, T20 and One Day International matches during 2023.

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England men fixtures (All times UK and Ireland):

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Friday January 27 - First ODI, Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein (11am) Sunday January 29 - Second ODI, Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein (8am)

Wednesday February 1 - Third ODI, The Oval, Kimberley, (11am)

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Test series vs New Zealand

Thursday February 16 - Monday February 20 - Bay Oval, Tauranga (1am) Thursday February 23 - Monday February 27 - Cello Basin Reserve, Wellington (10pm)

ODI series vs Bangladesh

Wednesday March 1 - Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur (6am)

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Friday March 3 - Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur (6am)

Monday March 6 - Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong (6am)

T20I series vs Bangladesh

Thursday March 9 - Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong (12pm)

Sunday March 12 - Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur (12pm)

Tuesday March 14 - Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur (12pm)

Test Match vs Ireland

Thursday June 1 - Monday June 5 - Lord's, London

The Ashes 2023

Friday June 16 - Tuesday June 20 - Edgbaston, Birmingham

Wednesday June 28 - Sunday July 2 - Lord's, London

Thursday July 6 - Monday July 10 - Headingley, Leeds

Wednesday July 19 - Sunday July 23 - Old Trafford, Manchester

Thursday July 27 - Monday July 31 - The Oval, London

Twenty20 International Series vs New Zealand

Wednesday August 30 - Riverside, Chester-le-Street (6pm)

Friday September 1 - Old Trafford, Manchester (6pm)

Sunday September 3 - Edgbaston, Birmingham (2:30pm)

Thursday September 5 - Trent Bridge, Nottingham (6pm)

ODI Series vs New Zealand

Friday September 8 - Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (12:30pm)

Sunday September 10 - The Ageas Bowl, Southampton (11am)

Wednesday September 13 - The Oval, London (12:30pm)

Friday September 15 - Lord's, London (12:30pm)

ODI Series vs Ireland

Wednesday September 20 - Headingley, Leeds (12:30pm)

Saturday September 23 - Trent Bridge, Nottingham (11am)

Tuesday September 26 - Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol (12:30pm)

Cricket World Cup

The Cricket World Cup in India will take place in October and November - dates yet to be announced.

England women fixtures (All times UK and Ireland):

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England vs West Indies: Saturday February 11 - Eurolux Boland Park, Paarl (1pm)

England vs Ireland: Monday February 13 - Eurolux Boland Park, Paarl (1pm)

England vs India: Saturday February 18 - St George's Park, Gqeberha (1pm)

England vs Pakistan: Thursday February 21 - Six Gun Grill Newlands, Cape Town (1pm)

Possible semi-final: Thursday February 23 - Six Gun Grill Newlands, Cape Town (1pm)

Possible semi-final: Friday February 24 - Six Gun Grill Newlands, Cape Town (1pm)

Possible final: Sunday February 26 - Six Gun Grill Newlands, Cape Town (1pm)

Women's Ashes Test Series vs Australia

Thursday June 22 - Monday June 26 - Test match, Trent Bridge, Nottingham (11am)

Saturday July 1 - First T20I match, Edgbaston, Birmingham (6.35pm)

Saturday July 5 - Second T20I match, The Oval, London (6.35pm)

Saturday July 8 - Third T20I match, Lord's, London (6.35pm)

Wednesday July 12 - First ODI match, Unique Stadium, Bristol (1pm)

Sunday July 16 - Second ODI, The Ageas Bowl, Southampton (11am)

Tuesday July 18 - Third ODI, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton (1pm)

Twenty20 International Series vs Sri Lanka

Saturday September 2 - County Ground, Chelmsford (2:30pm)

Wednesday September 6 - County Ground, Derby (6pm)

Saturday September 9 - Seat Unique Riverside, Chester-le-Street (3:30pm)

ODI Series vs Sri Lanka

Thursday September 14 - First ODI Match, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester (12:30pm)

Sunday September 17 - County Ground, Hove (11:00am)

Tuesday September 19 - The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, Canterbury (12:30pm)

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Indian cricket in 2023: Full list of schedule, fixtures, matches, series and tournaments

The indian team will kickstart 2023 with a three-match t20i series against sri lanka. check out the full schedule of the men's team here..

Team India had a rather indifferent year in 2022; it began with India's Test series defeat against South Africa following which Virat Kohli stepped down as captain in the longest format, and while India's performances in the bilateral series remained strong as ever, they failed to translate that form in global events. At the 2022 T20 World Cup, the Rohit Sharma -led Indian team faced a 10-wicket loss in the semi-final of the marquee tournament to eventual champions England.

The year saw a number of debuts and multiple captains in the side across formats, owing to injuries and rest to senior players; and as the year ended, Hardik Pandya was given the leadership in T20Is for the series against Sri Lanka with all of the side's top-3 – KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, and Virat Kohli – missing from the squad for the shortest format.

India did end 2022 on a strong note at the World Test Championship as they solidified their second spot in the table with a 2-0 clean sweep series win against Bangladesh. But the new year brings new tests and the side will be aiming to keep its form intact for the upcoming challenges.

As the Indian team prepares to enter the new year that includes the WTC Final as well as the home World Cup, let's take a look at the side's cricketing calendar in detail:

January 2023: India vs Sri Lanka (Home)

• 1st T20I (Jan 3) - Mumbai
• 2nd T20I (Jan 5) - Pune
• 3rd T20I (Jan 7) – Rajkot
• 1st ODI (Jan 10) – Guwahati
• 2nd ODI (Jan 12) - Kolkata
• 3rd ODI (Jan 15) – Thiruvananthapuram

January/February 2023: India v New Zealand (Home)

• 1st ODI (Hyderabad) - Jan 18
• 2nd ODI (Raipur) - Jan 21
• 3rd ODI (Indore) - Jan 24
• 1st T20I (Ranchi) - Jan 27
• 2nd T20I (Lucknow) - Jan 29
• 3rd T20I (Ahmedabad) - Feb 1

February/March 2023: India v Australia (Home)

• 1st Test (Nagpur) - Feb 9-13
• 2nd Test (Delhi) - Feb 17-21
• 3rd Test (Dharmshala) - Mar 1-5
• 4th Test (Ahmedabad) - March 9-13
• 1st ODI (Mumbai) - March 17
• 2nd ODI (Vishakhapatnam) – March 19
• 3rd ODI (Chennai) – March 22

March-May 2023: Indian Premier League

The detailed schedule of the 2023 edition of the T20 league is yet to be announced.

June 2023: World Test Championship Final

By the time of writing this story, India are second in the World Test Championship and are primed to qualify for the final, where their most likely opponents would be Australia who are 1st in the table.

July/August 2023: West Indies vs India (Away)

The series will feature two Tests, three ODIs and three T20Is. The schedule is yet to be announced.

September 2023: Asia Cup 2023 (Away)

Pakistan are scheduled to host the continental tournament but disagreements between the BCCI and PCB may lead to a change of hosts.

October 2023: India vs Australia (Home)

Australia will take part in a three-match ODI series to prepare for the World Cup in India.

October/November 2023: ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup

For the first time, India will be the sole host of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup in 2023. India will be aiming to add a third title, having already won the 1983 and 2011 editions of the tournament.

November/ December 2023: Australia v India (Away)

Australia will travel to India for the third time in the year to play five T20Is.

December 2023: India v South Africa (Away)

Team India will end the year with a full-fledged tour to South Africa.

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India cricket schedule for 2023: Full list of Test, ODI and T20I fixtures in 2023

India are scheduled to play eight Tests, 18 ODIs, and 17 T20Is, apart from the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup on home soil and the Asia Cup – find the schedule of the men’s team with a full list of Test, ODI and T20I fixtures in 2023.

India cricket in 2023: Full international schedule for the men’s team

India v sri lanka (home), january 2023.

Starting cricketing action in the new year, India host Sri Lanka for a limited-overs tour consisting of three ODIs and three T20Is.

India v New Zealand (home)

January – february 2023.

New Zealand will tour India for another limited-overs series beginning at the end of January, they are due to play three ODIs and three T20Is. The series means the two sides will play 12 limited-overs matches against each other in four months, with India set for an identical tour of New Zealand in November 2022.

It will consist of three T20Is and as many ODIs.

India v Australia (home)

February – march 2023.

The landmark series will start in February 2023 as India’s final fixtures in the ICC men’s Test World Championship 2021-2023 , the hosts currently sit in fourth place with Australia in the top spot. The final of the competition is set to be played in England at The Oval in June 2023. Australia will play four Test matches in India and three ODIs.

March 31 to May 28

The T20 extravaganza will run for nearly two months.

ICC World Test Championship final

June 7 to 11.

India go head to head with Australia to decide the winner of the 2021-23 WTC.

West Indies v India (away)

July – august 2023.

After the scheduled break for the 2023 IPL and the WTC, India will play a multi-format series in the West Indies consisting of two Tests, three ODIs and three T20Is. The team will play two additional T20Is in Florida.

Here’s the complete WI vs IND schedule.

Ireland v India (away)

August 2023.

The Indian team is scheduled to travel to Ireland to play three T20Is.

Asia Cup 2023 (away)

September 2023.

Pakistan are due to host the Asia Cup for the first time since 2008 in 2023. However, tensions between the BCCI and the PCB have cast doubts over whether India will travel to Pakistan , with BCCI secretary and Asia Cricket Council President Jay Shah suggesting that the tournament should be held at a neutral venue.

Australia will return to India for a three-match ODI series in preparation for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup the following month.

India v Afghanistan (home)

A tentative ODI series between India and Afghanistan was scheduled to be held after the IPL, but has been rescheduled indefinitely. However, it likely to be held before the World Cu.

ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 (home)

October – november 2023.

India will host the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup as the sole venue for the first time ever in 2023. They will be looking to win the tournament for the first time since 2011.

November – December 2023

In their third tour of India of the year, Australia will play a five-match T20I series following the conclusion of the World Cup.

India v South Africa (away)

December 2023 – january 2024.

In their final fixtures of the year, India will head to South Africa to play a multi-format series that will spread into the new year. The series will consist of two Test matches, three ODIs and three T20Is. India lost their Test series in South Africa earlier this year, but came out on top in their recent limited-over series against the Proteas in India.

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India and England Home Series to kick-off West Indies’ new ICC Future Tours Programme 2023-2027

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies will commence the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Men’s Future Tours Programme (FTP) for the period 2023-27 with a full home series against India in July and August 2023 followed by a white ball tour by England in December 2023. These form part of over 150 international matches that West Indies will play home and away within the new FTP.

Fans can now start to look forward to planning for home fixtures and away tours over the next five years, starting with India’s all-format tour in 2023 which will feature two Test matches as West Indies’ first home fixture in the new 2025 World Test Championship (WTC). India will also play three One-Day Internationals (ODIS) and five T20 Internationals (T20Is).

England will return to the West Indies in late 2023 for an eight-match white-ball series with three ODIs and five T20Is with a second white-ball tour of the Caribbean in 2024.

The new FTP features an ICC World tournament every year including the ICC T20 World Cup for the West Indies and USA in 2024 and two World Test Championships. West Indies will be playing India, South Africa and Bangladesh at home, and Australia, England and Pakistan away as part of the 2023-2025 World Test Championship. The full West Indies FTP can be found here https://bit.ly/3QSaIXi

The ICC FTP is a result of a collective effort of Full Members with ICC’s coordination and support. The FTP ensures a level of certainty of bilateral cricket fixtures across the three cricket formats. The exact dates and venues for each Series will be announced in due course by Cricket West Indies (CWI) following consultation with each ICC Member nation.

The West Indies have home fixtures against India, England (twice), South Africa, Bangladesh, Australia, Pakistan before the end of 2025 with an enticing schedule away fixtures around the world including defending the Richards-Botham Trophy in England in the summer of 2024.

Cricket West Indies (CWI) President, Ricky Skerritt, and CEO Johnny Grave welcomed the announcement of the new FTP.

Skerritt said:

“Cricket West Indies (CWI) is pleased that the new Men’s (2023-2027) and Women’s (2023-2025) FTP have been finally agreed. They provide some operational and financial certainty of our medium-term bilateral tours and matches across all formats, against all other Full Member nations. I want to thank our CEO Johnny Grave, and those several other Executives and Chairmen representing the various other Boards, who put many valuable hours into these negotiations.”

Grave said:

“The major highlight during the period will be our joint hosting of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in June 2024, where we will partner with the USA to deliver an event of the highest quality on and off the field. The hosting of the Men’s T20 World Cup should help to inspire the next generation of young West Indians and re-ignite the cricketing passion of our fans in the Caribbean and around the world. Hopefully it will also provide a legacy and catalyst for growth of the sport within the USA. We are also pleased that we have once again been able to secure full windows for the Indian Premier League and Caribbean Premier League for our players as we try to find a balance between our international commitments and the significant earning opportunities for our players from Domestic Leagues.”

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Introducing iHawk, the cutting edge technology aiding England selection

N ews of James Anderson's impending retirement was, in many ways, a starter pistol for England's bid to reclaim the Ashes. Behind the scenes, however, that race had already begun.

The ECB's performance team are currently in the process of building a "What It Takes To Win" model for the 2025-26 tour to Australia. Its construction will be informed by the knowledge of coaches and players past and present, along with data accrued from previous visits. Once deemed robust enough, it will refine decisions around talent ID and provide selectors all the information required to select a squad capable of a first win Down Under since 2010-11. The aim, ultimately, is to "bring data to life".

Thanks to the ECB's new iHawk technology, collecting that data has never been easier or more qualitative. Through cameras worn by umpires, each delivery is tracked to provide information such as seam movement, release height, pace and swing. An overlay highlighting the path of the ball is then produced, complete with the above information at the top left of the screen.

A soft launch in 2023 saw 200 matches and over 50,000 balls logged from more than 250 bowlers. Every domestic men's and women's match will be covered for the first time this season.

There is already a healthy bank of information on the next crop of quicks with the Ashes in mind, outside the contracted Matthew Potts , Gus Atkinson , Brydon Carse , and Josh Tongue , which will be pored over in the coming weeks. A longer-term project is currently in the works to determine the precise difference in behaviour between the Dukes and Kookaburra balls from gleanings during its use in the first two rounds of the County Championship, supplemented by findings when it returns in July and August.

With the start of England men's Test summer two months away, all this will be fed to the selection committee made up of captain Ben Stokes, head coach Brendon McCullum, managing director Rob Key and national selector Luke Wright. Whether for the series against West Indies or Sri Lanka, a scientific punt could be in the offing.

"It's a massive project just started now on what it will take to win the Ashes," explains Stafford Murray, performance lead at the ECB with a background in analytics in squash and Olympic sports. "Data based, knowledge of coaches, players, current and ex. We'll synthesise all that into a 'What It Takes To Win" model and then we'll work back from that - what do we need, what type of player do we need, and then we can start delving into selection.

"If we're brave, which I know we will be, we'll be selecting in series before the Ashes with the Ashes in mind. It's a blend and it's an ongoing, iterative process, working towards a long-term goal.

"Selection this summer, while some of it might look a little bit weird, is actually with the Ashes in mind. It's a 'performance backwards' approach, looking at the long-term goal."

Primarily a business model, "performance backwards" is as it sounds; identifying a future goal and working out the route to that point in reverse. England employed it for the recent tour of India, which led to the selection Shoaib Bashir . The Somerset offspinner took 17 wickets across three Tests, having arrived with a first-class average of 67.00 from just six matches.

"Shoaib is a really good example [of this]," explains Hannah Jowitt, the lead on the iHawk project as well as analyst and project specialist for the ECB's pathway and disability programmes. "People had eyes on him last season. We then had iHawk data from a couple of County Championship games.

"One step before that, we analysed what was needed in India. Release height in India was really important. We got data from county cricket. That combined with scouts insights led to his selection for the UAE [Lions] camp. Coaches and selectors had physical eyes on him there. We got more iHawk data on him, more video [which was fed directly by Murray to a WhatsApp group featuring Key, McCullum, Stokes and Wright], which led to his selection for playing in India."

Essentially, iHawk is HawkEye "lite". The full bells and whistles, which require between four and six cameras, are exclusive to international cricket due to, among other factors, cost.

Such are the advances in the space of 12 months that the kit has been streamlined from a camera phone on a "necklace" and a 2kg waistband filled with the necessary hardware to a more secure harness with a GoPro and a mobile phone as a "mini-computer" in an umpire's back pocket.

Though not a real-time system, at its best, information is fed through into each analyst's coding system and is also available in a central hub in the cloud within three or four balls, depending on Wi-Fi connections. With the help of Artificial Intelligence, that should soon be instantaneous.

All counties have access to this hub, which offers a dashboard with a range of filters, including whether they are English-qualified. Pace bowlers can be arranged to see who, for instance, bowls the greater percentage of deliveries above a certain threshold. Josh Tongue, who made his Test debut against Ireland, and Josh Turner were two quicks identified through iHawk last summer.

This season, one bowler, whom the ECB has kept anonymous due to binds on performance data and thus may or may not be English qualified, has delivered 12% above 88mph, with 3% in excess of 90mph. The catch is that they have had only 34 deliveries tracked at the time of writing.

For batters, filters can be applied accordingly to show how they fair against "Test-quality deliveries". The ECB has also devised an "impact metric" by using 2023's data to devise a specific model to determine a batter's quality beyond traditional statistics. Essentially, the impact their innings had on the outcome of the match, tied in with factors such as a ground's scoring history, fielding data and even the weather to give as much context as possible. Zak Crawley's presence in the Test team long before his purple patch was ultimately along these lines.

"By looking at the quality of the ball through iHawk, we can measure whether their shot or their ball had a positive or negative impact on the probability of that match," Stafford says. "They might have only got 23, but actually, if you look at his impact, it was greater than someone who scored 40.

"A lot of players, particularly in the Champo, both ends, ones that have really good traditional figures, might not have a massive impact. Ones that have bad traditional figures might have a huge impact. It's a different way of looking at the data with better context."

Umpires, too, are benefiting from iHawk. Its accuracy and perspective from the umpire's perspective are such that it is being used as a developmental aid.

"It's been a really good learning tool for us," Surendiran Shanmugam , a member of the ECB's professional umpires' team, says. "To go back and look at your decisions, even though we are not being assessed with that, it helps us match what we see on the field and are my decisions still right based on these videos."

The technology's limitations mean it is not being considered as a watered-down alternative for DRS. Nevertheless, umpires are picking up on emerging trends and even starting to use it to familiarise themselves with the idiosyncrasies of different cricketers. The latter is particularly important given the churn of overseas players in an English summer.

"I hope we use it to go really proactive, especially with overseas players coming in and out a lot," says Hamish Grant, professional umpires' manager at the ECB. He cites the decision error rate in the Hundred last year, which was similar across the men's and women's competitions but for very different reasons.

"In the men's it was left-armers bowling really full and going across off stump, which we just never see. Normally it's missing leg stump, but that type of bowling, there are a lot of bowlers doing that.

"In the women's game there was a lot of legspinners. We don't have as many domestically, [but] we had a lot from the southern hemisphere coming over and that provided a really different challenge."

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Day 3 - Glamorgan lead by 134 runs.

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