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Yorkshire vs Durham, Group B, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Yorkshire 167-3 v Durham 166 all out Metro Bank One-Day Cup, Group B. Yorkshire won by seven wickets.
Yorkshire 4 points, Durham 0 points.
By Graham Hardcastle
The potent combination of excellent Yorkshire bowling and poor batting from Durham meant the home side won an anti-climatic Metro Bank One-Day Cup clash between two high-flyers by seven wickets at York.
The White Rose bowled Durham out for 165 inside 49 overs before chasing with comfort – despite falling to five for two – to ensure a fourth win in five Group B games. They are closing in on the knockout stages as a result.
Durham are still well placed with three wins from four. But this wasn’t their best day as seam-bowling Bens, Cliff and Coad, were outstanding for Yorkshire with four for 38 and one for 19.
Will Rhodes top-scored with 31 for Durham before unbeaten fourth-wicket partners James Wharton and Sam Whiteman shared 97 and contributed 68 and 52 respectively. Yorkshire won with nine overs to spare.
This was a good toss to lose for Yorkshire, who took advantage of some early assistance to reduce their visitors to 15 for three and later 42 for four when Ben Stokes fell caught on the reverse sweep for 12 against the Indian overseas left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav.
Kuldeep finished with two wickets alongside fellow spinner Dom Bess on a used Clifton Park pitch which nibbled.
Earlier, Alex Lees feathered George Hill behind driving, Emilio Gay lost his middle stump to Coad following an ugly swipe and Graham Clark miscued Cliff to mid-on as Durham lost three early wickets.
Coad bowled five maidens in a fabulous seven-over new-ball spell, which was then followed by Yadav and home captain Bess striking as the score became 121 for seven in the 37th over.
In many ways, despite Cliff taking four wickets in 9.1 overs, Coad was the best bowler on show in his nine in front of a 4,859 crowd.
Bess had Will Rhodes caught and bowled for 31 before Kuldeep trapped Colin Ackermann lbw for 26.
The dismissal of England Test opener Gay – in at number three – was chief amongst a number of ill-judged Durham shots in front of watching men’s national selector Marcus North, their former director of cricket.
While Rhodes and Ollie Robinson (19) shared 33 for the fifth wicket from 42 for four, last pair Luke Robinson with 17 not out and Shafiqullah Ghafari shared the next best partnership of 29.
Stokes took the new ball and removed Will Luxton caught behind in the second over of Yorkshire’s chase following successive centuries.
Robinson then trapped Adam Lyth lbw in the next to raise Durham hopes before, with sunshine having now replaced the morning cloud, Wharton and Will Bennison advanced Yorkshire’s cause by sharing 65.
England Under 19 Bennison was dropped early but played nicely for 36 before playing on against Ghafari’s leg-spin – 70 for three.
Stokes was driven and worked for boundaries by Wharton, who found another partner in the more experienced and fluent West Australian Whiteman.
Wharton reached his fifty off 97 balls, Whiteman his off 52, by which stage Yorkshire were all but home and hosed.
Worcestershire vs Middlesex, Group B, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Metro Bank One-Day Cup: Worcestershire Rapids (294/6) beat Middlesex (293/7) by four wickets.
By Brian Halford, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Worcestershire ended Middlesex’s 100 per cent Metro Bank One-Day Cup record with a four-wicket victory from a terrific game at Worcester.
Josh De Caires’ maiden List A century, an excellent 130 from 147 balls, supported by Aaryan Sawant (his List A-best 44, 44) and Sam Robson (42, 53), lifted Middlesex to an imposing 293 for seven.
But the Rapids reached 294 for six with ten balls to spare thanks to Jake Libby’s classy unbeaten 109 (114), Henry Cullen’s 73 (68) and Brett D’Oliveira’s 50 (64) despite Noah Cornwell’s three for 68. The result leaves both sides strongly-placed in the competition with three wins from four games.
On a gorgeous day at New Road, two Joshes were centre-stage. While De Caires starred on the field, high in everybody’s thought off it was Josh Baker. On ‘Blue for Bakes’ day, most of an excellent crowd wore blue for the JB33 Foundation, created in honour of the immensely popular Worcestershire spinner who sadly passed away in 2024.
The Rapids chose to bowl but took only one early wicket, Nathan Fernandes who lifted Tom Taylor to fine leg. De Caires and Robson added 97 in 20 overs before Robson lifted a sweep at Fateh Singh to deep mid-wicket.
Ben Geddes nicked Beyers Swanepoel behind but De Caires advanced to his ton, his first for Middlesex’s first team in his 91st game, reached with his 12th four, from 130 balls. It was an accomplished innings which received a generous ovation from the home fans after he hoisted Taylor to deep mid-wicket.
Singh soon flighted one into Joe Cracknell’s stumps but Sawant’s measured innings, supported by violent cameos by Zafar Gohar (20, 12) and Toby Roland-Jones (18 not out, nine) saw Middlesex to a challenging total.
The Rapids suffered a big blow in the third over when Dan Lategan tweaked a muscle and retired hurt. Gareth Roderick perished first ball, caught by wicketkeeper Cracknell down the leg-side off Naavya Sharma, but D’Oliveira and Libby rebuilt with a stand of 87 in 17 overs. Libby lifted Cornwell for ten in two balls but the bowler hit back with wickets in his next two overs. Cracknell collected both times as D’Oliveira’s edged a fine lifter and Kashif Ali nicked a footwork-free waft.
While Libby proceeded to a canny 63-ball half-century, Cullen, fluent from ball one, injected impetus. The fourth-wicket pair added 117 in 18 overs and when Cullen chipped a lap at Cornwell to short third, the Rapids needed an apparently manageable 70 from 57 balls.
Lategan (26, 24) returned with a runner, and delivered some crisp blows before shanking Henry Brookes to extra cover. Libby completed his fourth List A century (from 107 balls) and three successive fours by Taylor off Brookes took the pressure off, leaving the Rapids requiring just 14 from the last three overs.
Northamptonshire vs Leicestershire, Group A, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Metro Bank One Day Cup: Northamptonshire Steelbacks 246 all out (45.3 overs) v Leicestershire Foxes 248 for two (38.5 overs). Leicestershire Foxes win by eight wickets.
By Jeremy Blackmore, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Rishi Patel struck a belligerent 115 off just 61 balls to help Leicestershire Foxes chase down 247 and beat Northamptonshire Steelbacks comprehensively by eight wickets in this Metro Bank One Day Cup match at Wantage Road.
Patel, who was dropped before scoring, smashed 13 fours and five sixes, breaking the record for the fastest List A century in Leicestershire’s history, which was previously jointly held by Darren Maddy and Lewis Hill. It was also the third fastest List A century at Wantage Road.
Ben Mike hit an unbeaten 71, his second List A century to take the Foxes to victory with 11.1 overs to spare.
In the Steelbacks innings, Ian Holland’s triple strike removed the top order, while Alex Green also claimed three wickets.
George Bartlett struck 66, his fourth successive List A half-century and shared a 77-run stand with Stuart van der Merwe (47) but Northamptonshire failed to post a sizeable total for the third game running, bowled out with 27 balls to spare.
Earlier Holland jagged one back to bowl Gus Miller, moved one away to square up and bowl Aadi Sharma and then drew the edge of skipper Nathan McSweeney’s bat.
Ricardo Vasconcelos (46) though hit two boundaries off Holland and sent an offside Ben Green delivery over square-leg for six as he rebuilt with Bartlett, the pair adding 57. Bartlett had a nervy start, slashing just wide of backward point and almost chopping on. Unafraid to take the bowlers on, he uppercut Alex Green for consecutive sixes and struck Ajaz Patel straight down the ground.
Vasconcelos pulled effectively but the shot proved his undoing when he picked out the fine-leg fielder off Alex Green.
van der Merwe played positively against Ben Mike, pulling and working off his hip, before reverse sweeping Patel. He departed when he skied an attempted pull off Alex Green.
Bartlett swept Patel to reach 50, but failed to kick on, edging Alex Green behind, quickly followed by Luke Procter, brilliantly run out by a direct throw from sub-fielder Sheridan Gumbs.
Lewis McManus picked up the pace, smashing Patel over long-on, but skied an attempted pull, Patel running to take the return catch as he took the last three wickets for three runs.
Rishi Patel was dropped low at second slip by Bartlett off the second delivery he faced from Procter. He quickly made the most of his reprieve, hitting consecutive boundaries off Procter, swinging Tian Louw over deep midwicket and striking Procter straight for six.
Patel smote Miller for a six and three fours off one over, but Indian international leg-spinner Yuzi Chahal and Dom Leech managed to stem the flow momentarily before he accelerated once more. He struck Chahal for a huge straight six and brought up his century off 53 balls, breaking Maddy and Hill’s record by one ball. Barlett finally caught him in the deep off Procter at backward square-leg.
Scoring slowed dramatically, Northamptonshire breaking through again when Stephen Eskinazi was stumped off Chahal.
But Leicestershire were well set with the required rate just over three an over and could afford to play no-risk cricket and see off Chahal.
Mike took on the more inexperienced seamers, swinging Miller over midwicket for six and pulling Louw for another maximum, alongside eight fours.
Kent vs Somerset, Group A, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Kent v Somerset Metro Bank Report
Somerset 313-9 Kent
Match Report by Fred Atkins of the ECB Reporters Network, supported by Rothesay
Joe Denly’s final game as a professional cricketer ended in thrilling style as Kent beat Somerset by two wickets, with eight balls to spare, after a wonderful Metro Bank game at Canterbury.
Somerset played a full part, by putting on 313 for nine: Lewis Goldsworthy top-scoring with 87, while Savin Perera hit 75 and Joshua Thomas 60. Matt Milnes claimed three for 53, while Denly took two for 42 from six overs, before scoring 20 in the chase.
The hosts were in deep trouble on 230 for six when he fell: Daniel Bell-Drummond gave them a platform with exactly 100, but with 84 still needed, Ekansh Singh scored an electrifying 40 from 20 and Grant Stewart finished the job with an unbeaten 35.
A crowd of over 3,000 were at the St. Lawrence, with the club reporting a sharp spike in ticket sales after it was announced this would be Denly’s final game as a professional on Thursday afternoon.
Kent chose to bowl and got Archie Vaughan for five when Keith Dudgeon had him caught behind for five, but Somerset responded with three substantial partnerships.
Tom Lammonby looked well set on 42, only to pull Grant Stewart to Ekansh on the square leg boundary, while Perera eased past 50 before he was caught and bowled off a rank full toss from Denly.
Thomas played and missed thrice before getting his eye in, joining Goldsworthy for a stand of 94 that ended when the latter was caught by Milnes at long off, off Keith Dudgeon
Thereafter Kent took wickets regularly to at least restrict the visitors to a manageable target.
Jonny Connell went for five, hitting Matt Parkinson to Ben Dawkins and Milnes got Thomas for 60, caught by Harry Finch long off, before, in his final ever over, Denly claimed his second wicket when Church hit him to Finch for a golden duck, although James Theedom hit the last ball of the innings for four.
Kent were 64 without loss when Ben Dawkins, who’d just hit Goldsworthy for six, offered him a sharp return catch and was out for 30.
Bell-Drummond and Sam Northeast put on 71 for the second wicket, but that latter was controversially out for 18 by the square leg umpire, officially stumped, although replays showed he never left his crease.
Kent wobbled after Bell-Drummond squeezed a single off Vaughan to reach three figures, only to sky Josh Shaw to Vaughan without adding to his score.
When Finch hit Vaughan to Theedom long off it brought Denly to the crease. He was given a guard of honour by the Somerset players and the stage was could hardly have been set any better, with Kent still needing 129 to win.
Chris Benjamin went for 29, caught behind off Theedom, however and Denly followed when he lofted Theedom to Goldsworthy, before leaving the field to a standing ovation.
Ekansh Singh reignited Kent’s hopes with a brilliant 40 off 20, only to hit Shaw to Goldsworthy, leaving Kent needing 35 from 32. Somerset were favourites again when Goldsworthy bowled Dudgeon for a duck, but with 10 needed off the last two, Stewart hit Shaw for successive fours before driving two to secure a memorable win.
Essex vs Hampshire, Group B, Metro Bank One Day Cup
ESSEX v HAMPSHIRE – ONE-DAY CUP – REPORT
By Martin Smith at Chelmsford, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Hampshire (321-7) beat Essex (317) by three wickets
James Fuller refused to give up a lost cause as he hammered 58 from 31 balls to squeeze Hampshire home by three wickets in a thrilling climax to their Metro Bank Cup match at Chelmsford.
Hampshire were tottering at 224-6, chasing 318 to win, when the big-hitting all-rounder came to the crease. Eighteen runs off an over by Luc Benkenstein, including two of Fuller’s four sixes, turned a game that looked to slipping away from the visitors when they slumped from 193-3 to 237-7 inside eight overs. Andrew Neal, with 33 from 24 balls, was almost as equally destructive in an unbroken partnership of 92 in 50 balls.
Essex had been pegged back to 317 all out by a fine spell by Hampshire’s Indian all-rounder Ashutosh Sharm, who returned career-best List A figures of 5-52. Fuller’s late heroics overshadowed Noah Thain’s second century in 48 hours. The unflustered 21-year-old all-rounder took his output to 325 runs in four 50-over innings with a 96-ball 109.
Thain had shown his intent by giving himself room and launching Oliver Williams over extra cover for six in only the second over.
Opting for first use of a fresh pitch, the opening pair rattled along at nearly eight an over until James Fuller had Luc Benkenstein mistiming one that got up to mid-on.
The rate dipped slightly while Thain and Tom Westley put on 63 in 11 overs before Sharma struck twice in four balls with Westley holing out at backward point and Charlie Allison getting one that kept low.
Thain was unperturbed and reached three figures by thrashing Williams back past the bowler for his 16th four from 84 balls. But a dozen balls later he became the first of two quick scalps for Andrew Neal, lbw attempting to sweep. Matt Critchley followed to one that turned.
An entertaining sixth-wicket stand of 54 in seven overs between Simon Harmer and Grant Roelofsen ended when Harmer pulled Abbott to short fine leg. But after Roelofsen departed for 52 from 35 balls, including two huge sixes, Sharma polished off the Essex tail with three wickets in 11 balls.
Essex made an initial breakthrough when Ali Orr went to the fourth ball of the innings, pushing loosely outside off-stump to Shane Snater. But they had to wait another 16 overs for the next one by which time Gubbins and Middleton had made significant inroads into the chase.
The pair ran well between the wickets to pile pressure on the field before Middleton followed a maximum over long-on off Critchley by being bowled next ball. And after fifty at better than a run-a-ball, Gubbins soon joined him in the pavilion, caught behind off Harmer.
Tom Prest and Jake Lehmann steadied things with a stand of 71, but Charlie Bennett dismissed both players in the space of five balls. Prest was caught behind off a thick edge and Lehmann drove uppishly into the covers. Sharma was lbw to the first ball of a Mackenzie Jones spell and Ben Brown was bowled from the last ball of the over. Then Neal joined Fuller to carry Hampshire over the line with 14 balls to spare.
Derbyshire vs Glamorgan, Group B, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Metro Bank One-Day Cup Group B Derbyshire Falcons 315 for 5 beat Glamorgan 271 by 44 runs
Nigel Gardner, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay.
Brook Guest’s maiden List A hundred set Derbyshire Falcons up for a 44 run victory over Glamorgan in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup match at Repton School.
The wicketkeeper scored an unbeaten 108 off 82 balls and Caleb Jewell made 84 to take the Falcons to 315 for 5 with Dan Douthwaite taking 3 for 66.
Alex Horton with 81 off 57 balls gave Glamorgan hope after Zain Ul-Hassan made 61 but they came up short on 271 with Nick Potts taking 4 for 39, his best List A figures.
It was Derbyshire’s first victory in Group B but Glamorgan have now lost their last four one-day games.
Douthwaite struck twice in his opening spell after Glamorgan put the Falcons in on a ground that staged a high scoring List A match last season.
Martin Andersson was beaten by late movement before skipper Harry Came missed a drive to reduce the hosts to 58 for 2 in the 10th over.
The Falcons batting was strengthened by the inclusion of Jewell, playing his first Metro Bank game of the summer, and he placed the ball well on a fast outfield.
Wayne Madsen played positively until he miscued a pull at 17-year-old Tom Edwards but Guest joined Jewell to put Glamorgan under pressure.
Guest pulled Andy Gorvin for the first six of the innings in the 32nd over and added two more off Edwards on his way to a 43 ball 50.
Jewell looked on course for a repeat of his century at Repton last year until he chipped Zain Ul-Hassan to cover which ended a stand of 115 in 18 overs.
But Guest moved to his milestone hundred off 79 balls and signed off in style by pulling the last ball of the innings for his fifth six.
Glamorgan’s chase started well with Ul-Hassan pulling Rory Haydon for six but it stalled when Ben Aitchison took two wickets in his fourth over.
Eddie Byrom was caught at point and Callum Nicholls was pinned lbw by the next ball to leave Glamorgan 36 for 2.
Ul Hassan completed a run a ball 50 to get his team back on track but Will Smale tried to scoop Anuj Dal and was bowled, 95 for 3.
Glamorgan needed Ul Hassan to bat deep but in the 23rd over, he swept Jack Morley into the hands of Madsen at square leg.
Aitchison took an excellent diving catch running in from long on to remove Henry Hurle but Jack Hope-Bell and Horton kept Glamorgan interested with a stand of 65.
It ended when Hope-Bell top edged a pull to mid on but Horton refused to go quietly, driving three more sixes before he edged Potts behind to signal the end of Glamorgan’s hopes.
Gloucestershire vs Surrey, Group A, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Surrey 311-5 (Sibley 101, Burns 89) beat Gloucestershire 292 (van Buuren 85) by 19 runs.
Dom Sibley registered his sixth List-A hundred as Surrey inflicted a 19-run Metro Bank One Day Cup defeat upon Gloucestershire in a day-night contest at the Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol.
The 30-year-old opener scored 101 from 126 balls and staged a match-winning stand of 143 with Rory Burns, who mustered 89 as the Londoners ran up 311-5 after losing the toss.
Gloucestershire slipped to 159-6 in reply, only for Graeme van Buuren to belatedly make a game of it with a swashbuckling innings of 85 from 79 balls. James Taylor and Ralphie Albert took two wickets apiece as the home side were dismissed for 292 in 49 overs.
Surrey’s top-order realised the importance of steady accumulation on a sluggish pitch of variable bounce, and there were no heroics as Sibley and Adam Thomas expertly rotated the strike in a businesslike second-wicket stand of 88 in 17.5 overs.
Looking to cut Daz Ahmed, Thomas edged behind to James Bracey and departed for 41 with the score 106-2. Sibley then offered a chance on 46, Ahmed fumbling off his own bowling. It proved a turning point.
Demonstrating deft footwork, the unflappable Sibley went to 50 via 71 deliveries, while Burns scored at better than a run-a-ball from the outset as the third wicket pair raised 50 from 55 balls. Strong off his legs, Burns reached his half century from 48 deliveries and the 100 partnership occupied 93 balls as Surrey’s two experienced campaigners gradually applied pressure during the middle overs.
Sibley went to his hundred from 124 balls with 9 fours before offering a catch behind off the bowling of Jack Taylor. Burns was 11 short of a maiden List-A ton and had harvested 12 fours and a six when he succumbed to Ollie Price in the next over with the score 255-4 in the 45th.
Striking the ball cleanly, Josh Blake bludgeoned 36 off 17 deliveries and dominated a stand of 43 for the fifth wicket with Ollie Sykes (21) as the innings concluded with a flourish.
Gloucestershire’s reply achieved lift-off in a boundary-laden alliance of 70 in nine overs between openers James Bracey and Cameron Bancroft. Attacking the powerplay, Bracey rushed to 39 off 29 deliveries, while Bancroft scored at a run a ball to put the bowling under pressure.
Having rushed to 39 and struck eight fours, Bracey attempted to hook new Surrey signing Hishaam Khan and top-edged to deep fine leg, sparking a slide which saw the home side lose five wickets for 63 runs in 14 overs. Taylor had Bancroft held at third man in the act of cutting for 33, off spinner Tom Ealham struck in his first over to remove Ollie Price and Miles Hammond and Jack Taylor were bowled by Benji Floros and Thomas respectively as Surrey assumed control.
Van Buuren and Kamran Dharival attempted a recovery, only for the latter to play down the wrong line to slow left armer Ralphie Albert with a further 152 needed. Despite van Buuren’s half century and seventh-wicket alliance of 52 with Ahmed, it proved too big an ask, Taylor accounting for Ahmed and Floros running out Aman Rao.
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