Aptly supported by seamer and List A debutant Beyers Swanepoel (3-15), Singh and Worcestershire looked to have the job wrapped up at the halfway stage, but a far from straightforward run-chase followed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dan Lategan set the side off to an ideal start with a punchy 29, but the loss of regular wickets threatened to make life hard for the home side.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gareth Roderick stood firm and batted his way through from number three to finish 39*, with a late Swanepoel salvo of 18* from 13 balls helping the Rapids to a three-wicket win.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Up and running in the tournament for 2026,\u00a0the Rapids now turn their attentions to the imminent arrival of the\u00a0Hampshire Hawks to New Road on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the tournament schedule keeping the squad busy over the coming weeks, Singh says the fast-paced nature of the competition will\u00a0play in Worcestershire\u2019s favour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe game\u2019s come thick and fast.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, so now we play again on Sunday, then Wednesday, then Friday and Sunday again. I think\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0got 8 games in about 19 days, so\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0really\u00a0quick.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u00a0definitely ebbs\u00a0and flows and the main benefit we saw last year that if something\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0go our way,\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0got 2 days to then turn it around. \u2029\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0a good thing.\u00a0There\u2019s\u00a0not a lot of time to be down about a loss or anything like that,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0just onto the next game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aptly supported by seamer and List A debutant Beyers Swanepoel (3-15), Singh and Worcestershire looked to have the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710119","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\/710119","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=710119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}