Captain Cheteshwar Pujara led from the entrance with one more hundred in England this cricket summer season and Tom Alsop scored his finest firstclass rating (189) to information Sussex to a win in opposition to Middlesex and guarantee a house semifinal within the Royal London One Day Cup.
Good group efficiency from the boys right this moment and we get an essential win! 🙌
Onto the semis @SussexCCC 💪 pic.twitter.com/NX24rFMNR2
— cheteshwar pujara (@cheteshwar1) August 23, 2022
The pair added 240 runs for the third wicket as Sussex topped Group A with six wins in eight matches and capped it off with a 157 run win. The Sussex whole, 400/4, was their highest rating in one-day cricket, beating their 399 in a 40-over recreation in Horsham.
The 132 off 90 deliveries was a 3rd century of Pujara within the ODI match, which has offered a singular attacking model of the batter.
Hong Kong one step nearer to Asia Cup
Hong Kong made it two wins out of two video games as they beat Kuwait by eight wickets within the Asia Cup qualifier match. They’re now on high of the factors desk (4) with all of the 4 group having performed two video games every.
Hong Kong beat Kuwait to finish two wins in two video games on the Asia Cup Qualifier 👏
Scorecard: https://t.co/sJU6IuGdwk pic.twitter.com/anWKzn0eal
— ICC (@ICC) August 23, 2022
Having received the toss, Hong Kong captain Nizakat Khan elected to bowl first. After a hard begin, Edson Silva (56 off 30 deliveries) guided Kuwait to 151. A complete Hong Kong would find yourself chasing with 14 balls to spare, because of half centuries from the skipper and Babar Hayat.
Beforehand, Hong Kong had overwhelmed Singapore within the match opener on Saturday, August 27. They’ll now face UAE within the remaining qualifying match on Wednesday, August 27. Despite the fact that the hosts have a greater Web Run Fee, they should beat Hong Kong to qualify for the Asia Cup.
Dimitrov compelled to retire in opposition to Thiem in Winston-Salem
The Winston-Salem Open’s high seed, Grigor Dimitrov was compelled to retire from his match in opposition to Dominic Thiem, sending the Austrian into the Spherical of 16. With lower than per week to go till the U.S. Open begins, Dimitrov received the primary set of the match comprehensively, as he took Thiem down by 6-0.
Unhappy to see 😔@domithiem is thru to R3 after Grigor Dimitrov is compelled to retire…
A lot respect between these two ☺️#WSOpen pic.twitter.com/iOcWQVLHHG
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) August 24, 2022
Issues would change for Dimitrov within the second set. It wasn’t too later after a go to from medical employees that the Bulgarian determined he was feeling too unwell to proceed and shook arms on the internet.
The win provides one other lifeline to 2020 U.S. Open champion Thiem, who needed to save two match factors in his rain-delayed win in opposition to American J.J. Wolf within the opener simply the day earlier than.
