{"id":705849,"date":"2026-07-22T20:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705849\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:35:09","slug":"one-day-cup-ben-cox-half-century-helps-leicestershire-to-win-over-gloucestershire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705849\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Day Cup: Ben Cox half-century helps Leicestershire to win over Gloucestershire"},"content":{"rendered":"

One-Day Cup Group A, Kibworth<\/p>\n

Gloucestershire 235 (49 overs): Bancroft 40; A Green 3-53<\/p>\n

Leicestershire Foxes 239-8 (48.2 overs): Cox 51; Van Buuren 2-42<\/p>\n

Leicestershire Foxes beat Gloucestershire by two wickets<\/p>\n

Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n

Ben Cox’s half-century helped Leicestershire Foxes begin their One-Day Cup campaign with a two-wicket victory over Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n

Cox came in at seven to score 51 from 59 balls in a chase of 236 which had briefly threatened to unravel when Ruan de Swardt (42) and Ben Green (1) fell to leave the Foxes 194-7 with nine overs remaining.<\/p>\n

But Ajaz Patel helped relieve the pressure with a useful 22 not out and hit the winning runs to see Leicestershire over the line.<\/p>\n

Rishi Patel (39) and Hamza Shaikh (33) had earlier made decent contributions for 2023 champions Leicestershire.<\/p>\n

In their first game since a T20 Blast quarter-final defeat to Northamptonshire Steelbacks, several batters made starts in the first innings for Gloucestershire but could not kick on.<\/p>\n

After finding themselves 0-1 in the first over with James Bracey caught behind off Ian Holland, Cameron Bancroft hit 40, while Ollie Price and Jack Taylor both made 36 before they were dismissed.<\/p>\n

Alex Green (3-53), Ajaz Patel (2-32), Holland (2-36) and Ben Green (2-54) all chipped in with regular wickets to reduce Gloucestershire to 192-9 in the 40th over.<\/p>\n

A 43-run partnership between Daz Ahmed (30) and Will Williams (14*) helped Gloucestershire make a recovery of sorts to push them up to 235 all out.<\/p>\n

But despite a few nervy moments and 2-43 for Gloucestershire’s Graeme van Buuren, it was Leicestershire who edged over the line with nine balls to spare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One-Day Cup Group A, Kibworth Gloucestershire 235 (49 overs): Bancroft 40; A Green 3-53 Leicestershire Foxes 239-8 (48.2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}