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Haines, Mousley and Holden make India A toil in Canterbury
Mukesh Kumar took three of the five wickets to fall on the third day in Canterbury
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01-Jun-2025
England Lions 527 for 7 (Haines 171, Mousley 113, Holden 101, Mukesh 3-75) trail India A 557 by 30 runs
Centuries from Tom Haines, Dan Mousley and Max Holden helped England Lions reduce the deficit against India A to 30 runs on the third day of the first unofficial Test in Canterbury. Lions ended on 527 for 7 in reply to India A's 557 as the match headed towards a draw.
Mousley, who scored his maiden first-class hundred, fell off the last ball of the day - lbw to part-time offspinner Karun Nair. Batting at No. 7, Mousley came to the middle when Lions had lost two wickets in nine balls. Mukesh Kumar trapped James Rew lbw before having Rehan Ahmed caught at wide slip. Mousley put on a 93-run partnership with Haines. He looked at ease against pace and spin, using the sweep as well as the depth of the crease to play left-arm spinner Harsh Dubey.
Full postSanderson, Willey run amok as Steelbacks do for Foxes
Veteran seamers reduced Leicestershire to 39 for 7 before fellow oldie Ravi Bopara saw Northants home
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01-Jun-2025
Northamptonshire 123 for 5 (Bopara 46*, Walker 2-20) beat Leicestershire 122 (van Beek 42, Sanderson 4-15) by five wickets
Northants Steelbacks maintained their 100 per cent start to the Vitality Blast after comfortably beating Leicestershire Foxes by five wickets at Northampton.
The Foxes mustered only 122 after their top order was blown away by Ben Sanderson (4 for 15) and David Willey (3 for 20). It was a meagre total, albeit a decent recovery from 39 for 7 thanks to a Foxes record T20 eighth-wicket stand of 55 between Logan van Beek (42 from 42 balls) and Tom Scriven (23).
Full postGrace Potts puts Durham to the sword as Lancashire win by 18 runs
Threlkeld stars with bat to ensure visitors emerge with the spoils at Chester-le-Street
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01-Jun-2025
Lancashire 140 for 7 (Threlkeld 48, Lister 42*) beat Durham 122 (Bates 49, Potts 4-33) by 18 runs
Lancashire Thunder produced a gutsy performance in the field to defend 140 to beat Durham by 18 runs at the Bank Homes Riverside and secure their first victory in the 2025 Vitality Blast.
The odds were against Ellie Threlkeld's side when Durham were 61 without loss after eight overs but Grace Potts took four for 33 to derail their pursuit. Threlkeld produced a brilliant stumping to remove the New Zealand legend, Suzie Bates, off Potts for 49 before England's Sophie Ecclestone took two wickets in four balls to end the match
Full postHaris stars with 107* as Pakistan complete whitewash
Emon and Tanzid had led Bangladesh to 196 for 6 but Pakistan chased it down with 2.4 overs to spare
Mohammad Isam
01-Jun-2025
Pakistan 197 for 3 (Haris 107*, Ayub 45, Mehidy 2-26) beat Bangladesh 196 for 6 (Emon 66, Tanzid 42, Afridi 2-26) by seven wickets
Mohammad Haris' maiden T20I century gunned down the 197-run target against Bangladesh in the third T20I in Lahore. Pakistan coasted to a seven-wicket win to complete an impressive 3-0 series win, testing themselves in the third game by deciding to chase a total. They won with 2.4 overs to spare, giving their new style of batting a huge confidence boost.
Haris put on a big-hitting show in front of the 29,000-plus crowd at the Gaddafi Stadium, slamming seven sixes and eight fours. Haris was so efficient that he didn't play a dot ball from the ninth over to the end of the innings. He reached the three-figure mark off 45 balls, becoming the first non-opener from Pakistan to score a T20I century. He finished on 107 not out off 46 balls.
Full postEsmae MacGregor takes 4 for 8 as Essex rout Somerset
Winfield-Hill impresses for loan county to give hosts big victory over Somerset
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01-Jun-2025
Essex 149 for 7 (Winfield-Hill 42, Anderson 3-19) beat Somerset 84 (MacGregor 4-8) by 65 runs
Esmae MacGregor claimed career-best T20 figures as Essex's bowlers ripped through the Somerset batting line-up to secure their side's first win of the Women's Vitality Blast at Chelmsford.
The Essex medium-pacer finished with four for eight from 3.2 overs, while leg-spinner Abtaha Maqsood took two for 16 as the visitors were rolled for just 84, with Fran Wilson their only batter to reach double figures.
Full postJoe Root's magnificent 166* drives England to 309-run chase, and series win
Carty century and Joseph fiery four-for lead fight for gutsy Windies, as England's sloppy display is rescued
Vithushan Ehantharajah
01-Jun-2025
England 312 for 7 (Root 166*, Jacks 49, Brook 47, Joseph 4-31) beat West Indies 308 (Carty 103, Hope 78, Rashid 4-63, Mahmood 3-37) by three wickets
England did not quite turn their back on Joe Root as a limited-overs batter, but certainly the schedule threatened to axe him from white-ball cricket.
A couple of crises and a change of management later, here Root was in Cardiff, unfurling perhaps the best of his 18 ODI hundreds, a career-best 166 not out. His first 42 runs put him top of the pile of English run-scorers in the format, usurping Eoin Morgan's tally of 6957, before the rest iced a chase of 309 to secure a series win over West Indies with a game to spare.
Full postHaines ton leads strong Lions reply after Nair's 204 gives India A 557
Max Holden and Emilio Gay also did their bit as Lions ended day two 320 behind but only two wickets down
Nagraj Gollapudi
31-May-2025
England Lions 237 for 2 (Haines 103*, Holden 64*, Gay 46, Kamboj 1-24) trail India A 557 (Nair 204, Jurel 94, Sarfaraz 92, Hull 3-72, Akhter 3-73, Jack 2-75) by 320 runs
If you put up a total over 550, you think you are in command. Yet, India A were made to work hard for a lot of the second day as Sussex top-order batter Tom Haines led England Lions' fightback with a resolute century in response to the imposing 557 in Canterbury.
It was a contrasting start and end to the day for the visiting side. In the first hour, Karun Nair celebrated his fourth first-class double-century. Nair, who last year played county cricket for Northampton, joined an exclusive club of Indian batters to score multiple double-centuries in England in the process. His seven-plus-hour vigil came to an end as Zaman Akhter forced an inside edge that went into the gloves of James Rew behind the wickets.
Full postDurham take the honours after wrecking Bears top-order
No way back for hosts after slump to 4 for 3, despite Hain's 45
ESPNcricinfo staff
31-May-2025
Durham 147 for 7 (Robinson 45, Clark 40) beat Birmingham Bears 143 (Hain 45, Neesham 3-34) by three wickets
Durham launched their Vitality Blast campaign with an impressive three-wicket victory over The Bears at Edgbaston.
The Bears were 143 all out from exactly 20 overs after only Sam Hain (45 from 28 balls) came close to salvaging the innings from the wretched foundation of four for three. Durham bowled superbly as a unit with Jimmy Neesham taking three wickets and Callum Parkinson, Nathan Sowter and Ben Raine two apiece.
Full postJennings, Wells record stand puts Outlaws in the dock
Lancashire openers add 177 for first wicket to set up second win in a row
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31-May-2025
Lancashire 216 for 3 (Jennings 95, Wells 87) beat Notts Outlaws 169 (Henriques 60, Barnard 3-23) by 47 runs
Lancashire openers Keaton Jennings and Luke Wells shared 177 inside 16 overs - the highest ever partnership for any wicket in the Vitality Blast North Group - as Lightning beat Nottinghamshire Outlaws by 47 runs at Emirates Old Trafford.
Having elected to bat, Jennings crashed 95 off 49 balls and Wells 87 off 50 as Lightning totalled 216 for three to set up a second straight win to start their campaign.
Full postPerrin's class, Harris' brutality blow Durham away
Harris stuns with 16-ball fifty as Bears triumph, despite Suzie Bates' best allround efforts
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31-May-2025
Bears 193 for 6 (Perrin 87, Harris 55, Bates 2-23) beat Durham 151 (Bates 65, Davis 3-27) by 42 runs
Laura Harris introduced herself to Edgbaston with an explosive 16-ball half-century as Warwickshire beat Durham by 42 runs in the women's Vitality Blast at Edgbaston.
Australian new signing Harris smashed 55 from 21 balls to support Davina Perrin's classy 87 from 61 as the home side piled up 193 for 6.
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