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Yahoo
17-07-2025
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- Yahoo
Batter Gorantla signs 'multi-year' Surrey contract
Batter Nikhil Gorantla has signed a "multi-year" full-time contract with Surrey after impressing in the second XI. Gorantla scored a double hundred for Essex's second XI against Yorkshire in 2022 and also hit a century for Northumberland against Durham the following year. "I'm looking forward to getting around the group and learning from the wealth of experienced players and coaches at the club," he told the Surrey website. The 22-year-old will begin training with the Three Feathers' first team this week. Surrey's high performance advisor Alec Stewart added: "Not every journey to a professional contract is seamless. "Nik's a shining example of how hard work and patience can be rewarded. The guidance and coaching he has received from SACA [South Asian Cricket Academy], who help with opportunities for young cricketers, has been exceptionally important." Surrey top of Blast group after beating Middlesex 'Huge gap' between Hundred hosts & other counties England's Wyatt-Hodge extends Surrey contract
BBC News
17-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Batter Gorantla signs 'multi-year' Surrey contract
Batter Nikhil Gorantla has signed a "multi-year" full-time contract with Surrey after impressing in the second scored a double hundred for Essex's second XI against Yorkshire in 2022 and also hit a century for Northumberland against Durham the following year."I'm looking forward to getting around the group and learning from the wealth of experienced players and coaches at the club," he told the Surrey website, 22-year-old will begin training with the Three Feathers' first team this high performance advisor Alec Stewart added: "Not every journey to a professional contract is seamless."Nik's a shining example of how hard work and patience can be rewarded. The guidance and coaching he has received from SACA [South Asian Cricket Academy], who help with opportunities for young cricketers, has been exceptionally important."
The Sun
12-07-2025
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- The Sun
Fans can't believe who former England manager Roy Hodgson sat next to at Lord's for England vs India Test match
FANS were left stunned after seeing former England manager Roy Hodgson sat next to cricket legend Alec Stewart. The icons formed an unlikely pair at Lord's as England played India in their latest Test match. 6 6 Ben Stokes' barnstorming performance saw his side remain in the hunt for Third Test glory. But fans were more concerned with who was watching from the crowd. As the camera panned round Lord's, it picked up former England boss Hodgson in the stands. The 77-year-old, most recently in charge of Crystal Palace until February 2024, looked to be in good spirits as he watched the action unfold. Hodgson managed England between 2012 and 2016, winning 33 of his 56 matches. He also spent time at Liverpool, Fulham and Watford in a managerial career starting in 1976. But things got even better for cricket buffs when they realised that Hodgson was sat next to ex-England captain Stewart, 62. The former batsman is his country's fifth-most-capped player in Test matches with 133 outings. He played for England between 1989 and 2003, and was part of the side which reached the 1992 World Cup final. After retiring, he has enjoyed several backroom roles with old side Surrey County. 6 6 And Stewart also looked on proudly as he watched successor Stokes hold India level to 387 runs apiece. Fans were certainly delighted to see the unlikely pair sat together. One said: 'Legends only! What a duo.' Another declared: 'It gives me, I think they call it, 'endorphins'.' One noted: 'Lord's turning into a Hall of Fame hangout.' Another added: 'Two English greats link up.' The match at Lord's on Saturday also saw Zak Crawley at the centre of a furious time-wasting row with India captain Shubman Gill. Crawley exchanged angry words with Gill as tempers flared and fingers were wagged. 6 6 Gill cupped his hand and appeared to tell Crawley: 'Grow some f***** balls!' Openers Crawley and Ben Duckett were determined they would face only one over when they went out to bat in England's second innings with six minutes remaining. They kept re-marking their guards, talking between deliveries and wandering slowly back to their positions. And then Crawley called for the physio when he was struck on the glove by Jasprit Bumrah's fifth ball of the over. That made certain there would not be a second over but the Indians accused Crawley of exaggerating his injury. As soon as Bumrah finished his over, Crawley turned and marched off to the pavilion with a torrent of abuse from Indian fielders ringing in his ears. England scored 2-0 in that single over after India had been dismissed for 387 - exactly the same as England's first innings total. England fast bowling consultant Tim Southee, the former New Zealand bowler, said: 'It was an exciting way to finish, showing a bit of energy at the end of a long day. 'But I'm not sure what they were moaning about given that Shubman Gill was lying down having a massage on the field yesterday.' On Crawley's finger, Southee added with a smile: 'He'll be assessed overnight and will hopefully be good to go in the morning.'
India Today
07-07-2025
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- India Today
Sai Kishore set to play two games for Surrey in County Championship 2025
India and Tamil Nadu spinner R Sai Kishore has been signed by Surrey to play in the County Championship 2025. The left-arm spinner will be available for two First Class matches for the club towards the end of July. Kishore is set to play his first game against Yorkshire from July 22 in Scarborough. He will be up against Ruturaj Gaikwad, who's signed up to play for second fixture will be against Durham, set to be played from July 29 in Chester-le-Street. The left-arm spinner is excited to play for Surrey and is honoured to represent one of the most prestigious clubs in the world.'I'm really excited to be joining Surrey for the next two County Championship matches. Surrey are one of the most prestigious clubs in the world and I have heard great things about the set-up from lots of different people in the game,' said Kishore in a statement. Surrey's high-performance advisor Alec Stewart also welcomed the Indian spinner and stated that his leadership experience will come in handy for the County club.'I'm delighted to bring the highly rated Sai Kishore into our squad for the next two Kookaburra games. All the reports I have received from people I respect in the Indian game have spoken highly of him. His four-day record for Tamil Nadu is very good, and he brings leadership experience to the group,' said Alec Stewart in a has played 46 first-class matches in his career and has scalped 192 wickets at an average of 23.51 with 12 five-wicket hauls and one ten-wicket haul to his name. He's represented India in three T20Is and picked four 28-year-old was seen in top form in the Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025) as he picked up 19 wickets from 15 matches at an average of 20.68 with best figures of 3/30.- Ends
BBC News
04-07-2025
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- BBC News
Why Smith could become England's greatest keeper-batter
Jamie Smith was the 17-year-old tipped for international honours by England legend Alec has packed more into the past 12 months than most have managed in the seven years week's third Test at Lord's will mark the first anniversary of Smith's Test debut on the same then he has been out in the nineties in his third Test, made his maiden hundred in his fourth, missed a tour of New Zealand to become a father for the first time, struggled at his first international tournament and been made an opener – a position he had never held in professional cricket – in England's white-ball day three of the second Test at Edgbaston came the moment to top all of those others, on the field at 24-year-old crashed 184 not out against India, registering the highest score made by an England wicketkeeper in a men's Test to take the record from the man who tipped him for the top, Stewart. Much was made of how harsh it was for England to drop Ben Foakes, the world's best gloveman and an able batter, in favour of Smith at the start of last thought was given to how challenging it must have been for Smith to not only replace the man he sat next to in the Surrey dressing room but also impose himself and be the aggressive number seven England innings at Edgbaston was England's wish in perfect emerged after Joe Root and Ben Stokes had been dismissed by consecutive deliveries. He drove his first delivery for four before he set about flaying India's bowling to all corners of this ground in an epic partnership of 303 with Harry flogged anything short and creamed drives whenever the ball was Prasidh Krishna's bouncer ploy was pumped for 23 runs in one over, Stokes was applauding high above his head in the dressing was out hooking in Leeds last week but, as the Brendon McCullum mantra goes, here he 'walked towards the danger'. While Smith hit four sixes against India and has previously cleared the Hollies and Lord's Father Time with towering blows in his short career, he was not always blessed with such to his Test debut, having been unable to secure a top-order place in Surrey's T20 side, he turned down a trip with England Lions to instead play in the ILT20 in the United Arab he worked on his power hitting, while also bulking up in the the 80 balls Smith took to reach three figures meant Gilbert Jessop, England's fastest centurion, can rest easy as he holds onto his record further into a 123rd year, it did mean Smith tied for second place in terms of fastest Test tons by a of Smith is only Australia's Adam Gilchrist – the greatest keeper-batter of them was not out of his first summer in Test cricket before comparisons were being made between him and the Australian great last year, given his hitting power and ability to bat with the tail. The way the Whitgift School-product pulls pace bowlers from back-of-a-length over mid-wicket is a reminder of some of the greatest Australians – and whets the appetite for England's winter is yet to see the best of Smith – he averages 23.16 against them from six one-day internationals - and any suggestions he is Gilchrist's heir will be met by sniggers down scored 17 Test hundreds as he switched between a destroyer of tiring attacks to a man overqualified for a rebuild from number seven when the great Australian top order did thing Smith has on his side is time, however, given he made his first Test century aged 24. Gilchrist did not make his debut until two weeks before his 28th ending his career with a record to match Gilchrist's remains optimistic, the road to becoming England's best looks within reach given Smith's talent and the ease in which he has taken to international has been in the Test arena less than a year but already only five wicketkeepers – Alan Knott and Jonny Bairstow with five, Stewart six, Matt Prior on seven and pre-War great Les Ames on eight - sit ahead in terms of most centuries for he continue as he has started, injuries or England deciding to relieve him of the gloves look to be the only hazards in Smith's solid enough – he has a catch percentage of 96% from his 11 completed Tests – as a gloveman he does not move quickly enough to reach opportunities others could lay a hand on, while his missed stumping of Rishabh Pant in the first innings in Leeds last week was a regulation chance that Pant did not fully punish.A change looks a long way off, however, with Smith a favourite of the Stokes-McCullum could one day come from recent England call-up James Rew, who has 10 first-class hundreds for Somerset and is still aged 21, or his younger, possibly even more talented, brother, Thomas. The younger Rew is 17 and made the fastest century for England Under-19s earlier this now Smith has the role to himself and he will soon be a favourite of England's vocal loudest noise during the third day was the Hollies chanting of Harry Brook's name to the tune of a Boney M track as he raised his is Smith, though, that 17-year-old spotted by Stewart and now a fully-fledged international wicketkeeper and father, who is England's Daddy Cool.
