India won by runs. Rangpur chose to bat. NL Women need 67 runs in 96 balls. Match starts in 4 hrs 9 mins. Match yet to begin. Hong Kong A won by 7 wickets with balls remaining.
Dadeldhura won by 77 runs. Attariya chose to bat. Tas Women won by 8 wickets with balls remaining. Qld Women won by 40 runs.
MI Cape Town won by 95 runs. DC won by 26 runs. Central D won by 6 wickets with 16 balls remaining. Alphabetically sorted top ten of players who have played the most matches across formats in the last 12 months. The great Irish sports writer Con Houlihan used to say that every team should have a redhead. And it's true that Ben Stokes' combative nature, allied to his powerful frame and outrageous talent, lifted England to another level.
Never was that more true than when he secured his place in English cricket history with an indefatigable batting display in the World Cup final. In making an unbeaten 84 he exhausted every ounce of strength, talent and willpower and then when he imagined it might be all over he came out to bat once more to help win a Super Over by the narrowest of margins. For Stokes, this was a wonderful moment of redemption because it had been his misfortune until then to be remembered for two episodes he would rather forget.
The first came in the Twenty20 World Cup final in Kolkata. Asked to defend 19 in the last over against West Indies, his attempted yorkers missed the mark by inches resulting in Carlos Brathwaite heaving him for four successive sixes into a sweltering night sky. The second, and altogether more serious, incident occurred in September Celebrating an ODI victory in Bristol, Stokes became embroiled in a fight outside a club in the early hours of the morning that resulted in his arrest. A trial at Bristol Crown Court subsequently saw him cleared of the charge of affray but by then the reputational damage had been done.
