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Ajinkya Rahane has announced his retirement, and Indian cricket says goodbye to a batter whose finest work often arrived when the noise around a match was at its loudest. There was the 103 at Lord’s in 2014, on his first Test there. India were 83 for 3 before Rahane’s hundred helped take the first innings to 295. It earned him a place on the Lord’s honours board, but it also showed the quality…

Welsh Fire made 122 for 7. Trent Rockets reached 126 for 1 in 72 balls. A nine-wicket result with 28 balls unused leaves little room for ambiguity. Ben Duckett made an unbeaten 52 from 45 balls, Finn Allen 33 from 19 and Tom Banton an unbeaten 31 from 15. The Rockets’ three batters supplied 116 of the 126 runs, and only Allen was dismissed. Welsh Fire’s innings had three scores above 30: Matthew…

MI London made 164 for 5 from 100 balls. London Spirit reached 165 for 3 in 89. The 11 unused balls tell the story of a chase that was controlled by the batting card. Lhuan-dre Pretorius made 64 from 28 balls, the largest score in either innings. Dewald Brevis added an unbeaten 37 from 18, Jonny Bairstow made 23 from 12 and James Rew 19 from 13. Those four scores supplied 143 of the 165 runs. MI…

Manchester Super Giants made 181 for 3 from 100 balls. Sunrisers Leeds reached 186 for 2 in 88. The scorecard records an eight-wicket win, but the 12 unused balls explain the scale of it. Mitchell Marsh led the chase with 63 from 26 balls. Zak Crawley made 56 from 34 and Harry Brook finished unbeaten on 42 from 17. Those three supplied 161 of the 186 runs. Ryan Rickelton’s 13 from 11 was the…

Pakistan needed 211 in the fourth innings. They were bowled out for 120. Jayden Seales took 5 for 20 from 14.2 overs, and the final margin was 90 runs. The match had already produced large first-innings scores. West Indies made 311, built around Shai Hope’s 92 from 182 balls and Kavem Hodge’s 84 from 183. Pakistan replied with 282, led by Shan Masood’s 109 from 184 and Imam-ul-Haq’s 63 from 102.…

MI London’s scorecard contains two ducks near the top. It also contains Will Jacks’ 54 from 41 balls. That was enough to take them from a target of 130 to a three-wicket win. Jacks struck five fours and two sixes. Sam Curran added 30 from 29, Sherfane Rutherford 21 from 12 and Tom Curran 7 from six as MI London reached 130 for 7 from 100 balls. James Vince and Nicholas Pooran made nought, but…

Trent Rockets needed 160. They reached 160 for 6 with two balls left. Ben Duckett’s 75 from 47 balls was the innings that kept the chase intact. Duckett hit eight fours and two sixes. Tom Banton made 22 from 14, Sam Billings 22 from 10 and Craig Overton 20 from six. Those short, fast contributions mattered, but Duckett’s 75 gave them a score around which to build the chase. London Spirit made 159…

Manchester Super Giants made 187 for 5. Birmingham Phoenix were bowled out for 100. The 87-run margin began with Jos Buttler’s 90 from 50 balls. Buttler supplied almost half the Super Giants total, with eight fours and five sixes. Tom Moores added 39 from 17, Heinrich Klaasen 20 from 11 and Leus du Plooy 13 from eight. The innings had one central score and enough rapid support to push it to…

India made 192 for 5. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi made 81 from 49 balls. In a 35-run win, that was the innings which gave the scorecard its shape. Sooryavanshi struck eight fours and four sixes. Ishan Kishan added 29 from 26, Shreyas Iyer 27 from 18 and Rinku Singh 25 from 14, but no other India batter reached 30. The total relied most heavily on the opening 81, and it ended at 192 because that innings…

India’s 219 for 5 had two innings at its centre: Ishan Kishan’s 81 from 44 balls and Tilak Varma’s 60 from 29. Together they supplied 141 runs, turning the first T20I total into something Zimbabwe could not approach. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi began with 20 from nine balls, while Shreyas Iyer made 25 from 20. But the scorecard’s real weight sits with Kishan and Tilak. Kishan struck seven fours and five…

Sunrisers Leeds won by five runs, which makes every major contribution in a 187 for 5 total feel larger. Mitchell Marsh made 69 from 34 balls, Dan Lawrence 51 from 25 and Ryan Rickelton 37 from 27. Those three scores supplied 157 of the innings. Tom Alsop’s 21 from 10 completed a card in which Sunrisers did not need a late rescue; their leading batters had already created the total. Southern…

Welsh Fire made 167 for 5. Rachin Ravindra made 98 from 44 balls. The scorecard does not need many more words to identify the innings that set the match apart. Ravindra hit 10 fours and five sixes, supplying almost three-fifths of the Welsh Fire total. Joe Root’s 29 from 26 and Jordan Cox’s 17 from nine were the next highest scores. Welsh Fire had only 14 runs from their first two batters, which…

Pip: Lord's, a 388-run target, and a match that looked like India's for about forty overs — JustCricket has been watching closely.Mara: This episode is one match, one collapse, and what actually decided it — the final overs of England's innings and the 23 balls that ended India's chase.Pip: Let's start with how a very good total became an almost unreachable one.India did not lose the chase at…

Ten runs separated the sides, but the scorecard is full of much larger individual innings. Birmingham Phoenix made 214 for 4 from 100 balls. Joe Clarke led with 68 from 33 balls, Will Smeed made 51 from 28 and Rehan Ahmed 48 from 25. Donovan Ferreira then added 22 from nine balls. The first four entries in the Phoenix card supplied 189 runs between them, leaving Trent Rockets with a chase that…

The margin was seven runs. Tim Seifert’s score was 67. Manchester Super Giants made 138 for 9 from their 100 balls, and Seifert’s 67 from 45 balls accounted for almost half of it. Jos Buttler made 16 from 11 and Heinrich Klaasen 17 from 11, but no other Super Giants batter reached double figures. In a total made from one dominant innings and a series of smaller contributions, Seifert’s run count…

India’s chase of 126 was decided by one score that changed the size of the target: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s 50 from 19 balls. India finished on 126 for 3 in 13.2 overs, winning by seven wickets. Sooryavanshi’s innings contained four fours and four sixes. Ishan Kishan added 35 from 24, Shreyas Iyer finished unbeaten on 28 from 24, and Tilak Varma was unbeaten on 6 from 5. The chase did not need a…

Welsh Fire lost four wickets in a chase of 136. Philip Salt was still there at the end. That was the difference. Salt’s unbeaten 47 from 37 balls was not the quickest innings in the scorecard, but it held the reply together. Matthew Short made 20 from 15, Rachin Ravindra 24 from 16 and Asa Tribe finished unbeaten on 11 from 12 as Welsh Fire reached 138 for 4 from 98 balls. Southern Brave’s 135…