{"id":709889,"date":"2026-07-25T03:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709889\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T03:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:05:20","slug":"one-day-cup-round-up-josh-de-caires-stars-as-middlesex-stay-unbeaten-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709889\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Day Cup round-up: Josh de Caires stars as Middlesex stay unbeaten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Middlesex, Durham and Leicestershire joined Nottinghamshire with two wins from two in the One-Day Cup by winning their respective matches on Friday, while champions Worcestershire and Kent made victorious starts to their campaigns.<\/p>\n

Matches do not get much better for all-rounders than the one enjoyed by Josh de Caires as he delivered career-best List A figures with bat and ball to keep Middlesex unbeaten.<\/p>\n

De Caires, son of former England captain Michael Atherton, hit 75 as Middlesex racked up 284-8 against Hampshire and then returned with the ball to take 6-35 as Middlesex won by 160 runs.<\/p>\n

Both were career-bests for De Caires, who also moved past his father’s best bowling figures in the format of 4-42 for Combined Universities against Somerset in 1989.<\/p>\n

Former England Test captain Ben Stokes continues to thrive at Durham, with the all-rounder hitting five sixes in his 73 not out in 51 balls against Sussex, adding to his unbeaten century against Derbyshire on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Opener Alex Lees’ 132 in 115 balls provided the bulk of Durham’s 352-5, the pair sharing a 76-run partnership for the third wicket.<\/p>\n

Sussex, who have been docked points in this competition<\/a> for breaching financial regulations regarding operating losses, remain in the red after two defeats in Group B.<\/p>\n

Worcestershire started their title defence with a breezy win against a Derbyshire side who, aside from a half-century from Martin Andersson, were held to 138 by Fateh Singh, who took a career best 6-32.<\/p>\n

A simple chase wobbled slightly at 113-7, but Gareth Roderick (39 not out) and Beyers Swanepoel (18 not out) steadied nerves for an eighth-wicket partnership that got them home by three wickets with 76 balls to spare.<\/p>\n

Yorkshire got their campaign up and running at the second time of asking against Glamorgan in Neath, with Ben Cliff the pick of their bowlers with 4-29 as the hosts made 186 all out in 47 overs.<\/p>\n

Yorkshire slumped to 96-5 and 107-6 but a 44-run partnership between red ball opener Finlay Bean (43 not out), batting at seven, and skipper Dom Bess (22) steadied nerves.<\/p>\n

Bean and Cliff brought home a two-wicket win with eight balls remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middlesex, Durham and Leicestershire joined Nottinghamshire with two wins from two in the One-Day Cup by winning their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709889","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\/709889","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=709889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}