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The Blaze exact revenge on Thunder with dominant chase
Georgia Elwiss' fifty was followed by Katherine Bryce's 49 to knock off 170 with seven wickets to spare
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31-May-2025
The Blaze 170 for 3 (Elwiss 53, K Bryce 49*) beat Lancashire 169 for 4 (Mack 59, McCarthy 1-13) by seven wickets
The Blaze gained revenge for Monday's County T20 Cup semi-final defeat as they chased 170 to beat Lancashire Thunder in their second game of the Vitality Blast women's competition at Emirates Old Trafford.
Following a home tie against Bears yesterday, opener Georgia Elwiss set up the chase with 53 off 43 balls. She shared 101 inside 12 overs for the first wicket with Marie Kelly, who contributed 40. But Kathryn Bryce's nerveless 49 not out off 29 sealed a seven-wicket win with five balls remaining.
Full postBell-Drummond, Denly allow Kent to survive late onslaught
Despite thrashing 34 from the last two overs, Gloucestershire fell four runs short in pursuit of 209
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30-May-2025
Kent 208 for 3 (Bell-Drummond 60, Denly 48*, 2-39) beat Gloucestershire 204 for 7 (Price 51, Rogers 2-22, Gilchrist 2-46) by four runs
Daniel Bell-Drummond top-scored with 60 as Kent Spitfires began their Vitality Blast campaign with an exciting four-run win over reigning champions Gloucestershire at the Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol.
The visitors posted an impressive 208 for three after losing the toss, Bell-Drummond and Tawanda Muyeye (42) sharing an opening stand of 98 before Zak Crawley (37) and Joe Denly (48 not out) accelerated the scoring in the second half of the innings.
Full postDavid Willey haunts Yorkshire to lead Northants to victory
Former England allrounder strikes 54 and takes 3 for 42 on Headingley return
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30-May-2025
Northamptonshire 237 for 4 (Broad 67, Willey 54) beat Yorkshire 224 for 9 (Wharton 58, Sutherland 58, Willey 3-42) by 13 runs
Captain David Willey haunted his former side as Northamptonshire's captain starred with bat and then ball in a remarkable opening night Vitality Blast win for the Steelbacks, by 13 runs, against Yorkshire at Headingley.
Willey led Yorkshire's T20 side before returning home in 2022. Here, he smashed six sixes in 54 off 24 balls in a mammoth 237 for 4 total - his county's highest ever in this format.
Full postBudinger's fastest fifty sets platform for Foxes to down Falcons
Martin Andersson's career-best 70 not out unable to stave off defeat for visitors
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30-May-2025
Leicestershire 171 for 5 (Budinger 51) beat Derbyshire 170 for 6 (Andersson 70*, van Beek 3-37) by five wickets
Sol Budinger equalled the fastest half-century in Vitality Blast history, from 15 balls, as Leicestershire Foxes beat Derbyshire Falcons by five wickets in the campaign opener at the Uptonsteel County Ground.
The Falcons totalled 170 for 6 thanks to a sixth-wicket stand of 76 in 52 balls from Martin Andersson, who made 70 not out from 46 balls, and Ross Whiteley (37 off 27). That represented a strong recovery from 11 for 3 and early damage inflicted by Logan van Beek.
Full postSomerset best Surrey despite Jason Roy's 92
Former England opener's 54-ball blitz set 147 but the hosts eased home with 13 balls to spare
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30-May-2025
Somerset 147 for 5 (Smeed 35, Abell 29*, Majid 2-26) beat Surrey 146 for 9 (Roy 92, Henry 3-21) by five wickets
Somerset continued to hold sway over Surrey, beating their arch rivals by five wickets in an entertaining Vitality Blast curtain-raiser at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton.
Looking to avenge their defeat to the Cider county in last season's semi-final, the Londoners were on the receiving end of a strong batting and bowling display as Somerset gave their short format campaign lift-off in front of a raucous sell-out crowd.
Full postMI eliminate GT to set up Qualifier 2 with PBKS
Rohit and Bairstow took MI to the second-highest total in any IPL playoff game, and ensured that GT's target always remained just out of reach
Karthik Krishnaswamy
30-May-2025
Mumbai Indians 228 for 5 (Rohit 81, Bairstow 47, Suryakumar 33, Sai Kishore 2-42, Prasidh 2-53) beat Gujarat Titans 208 for 6 (Sai Sudharsan 80, Washington 48, Boult 2-56) by 20 runs
Strip away everything else, and you can more often than not reduce T20 contests to a simple count-off: who hit more sixes? Mumbai Indians (MI) hit 17 in the IPL 2025 Eliminator, and Gujarat Titans (GT) hit eight.
Rohit Sharma top-scored for MI with 81 off 50 balls; B Sai Sudharsan top-scored for GT with 80 off 49. The difference lay in MI's hitting depth. Five of their batters cleared the boundary at least three times each.
Full postNair pushes for Test case with 186* on opening day of England tour
Sarfaraz Khan and Dhruv Jurel also hit steady half-centuries - the latter unbeaten on 82 - to make Lions' bowlers toil
Nagraj Gollapudi
30-May-2025
India A 409 for 3 (Nair 186*, Sarfaraz 92, Jurel 82 *, Hull 2-51) vs England Lions
While the opinion might be divided whether Karun Nair should be in the India XI for the first Test against England starting June 20 in Leeds, the batter strengthened his case with a stroke-filled century on the opening day of the unofficial Test between India A and England Lions in Canterbury. Cuts, upper cuts, steers, punched drives, pulls, inside-out drives and several reverse sweeps - Nair exhibited all those strokes while easing his way to his 24th first-class century, which he made big to end the day unbeaten on 186.
Nair walked in early in the morning after India A opener and captain Abhimanyu Easwaran was trapped plumb for 8 in the sixth over by left-arm fast bowler Josh Hull. As a cloudy and slightly nippy first hour cleared way for a picture-perfect sunny afternoon, Nair warmed up to the conditions and the bowling. It was not Nair who was in focus until Yashasvi Jaiswal played an erroneous stroke about half hour before lunch. Jaiswal, who has a penchant to make big centuries, showed all signs of having a good first day on this long England tour, before he decided to attempt a wild slog against a length delivery from Eddie Jack.
Full postWong holds nerve against Bryce sisters to salvage tie
Blaze fail to close out run chase as Bears sneak a share of the spoils
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30-May-2025
The Blaze 160 for 4 (K Bryce 60*, Elwiss 52) tied with Bears 160 for 8 (Pavely 46, Gordon 2-26)
The Blaze and Bears Women shared the points after opening their Vitality Blast season with a tie at Trent Bridge.
Charis Pavely, who hit a career-best 46, shared a 75-run partnership with Katie George as Bears Women finished on 160 for 8 from 20 overs.
Full postScholfield, Wyatt-Hodge steer Surrey to comfortable win in Blast opener
Somerset batters graft to post 131 for 6 but come up well short in final analysis
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30-May-2025
Surrey 135 for 2 (Scholfield 63, Wyatt-Hodge 53*) beat Somerset 131 for 6 (Griffiths 36*, Corteen-Coleman 2-21) by eight wickets
Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Paige Scholfield raised a match-winning stand of 112 as Surrey women launched their Vitality Blast campaign with a convincing eight-wicket win over Somerset at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton.
Both hit half-centuries, Scholfield top-scoring with an enterprising 63 from 48 balls with 11 fours, while former England star Wyatt-Hodge made 53 not out from 35 deliveries in a sparkling innings that included six fours and a six as the visitors chased down a modest target with 4.3 overs to spare to claim a bonus point.
Full postFarhan, Nawaz and Abrar heroics put Pakistan 2-0 up
The series win over Bangladesh is Pakistan's first at home in three years
Mohammad Isam
30-May-2025
Pakistan 201 for 6 (Farhan 74, Nawaz 51*, Tanzim 2-36) beat Bangladesh 144 (Tanzim 50, Tanzid 33, Abrar 3-19) by 57 runs
Pakistan won their first T20I series at home after three years when they beat Bangladesh by 57 runs in the second game in Lahore. Sahibzada Farhan and Hasan Nawaz struck fifties to set up Pakistan's 201 for 6, before Abrar Ahmed's three wickets sparked a collapse that saw Bangladesh go from 44 for 0 to 56 for 5 in three overs.
Tanzim Hasan Sakib, in at No. 9, struck his maiden T20I fifty to finish as the innings' top scorer for the visitors. He became the first batter to score a half-century from No. 9 or lower in T20Is for a Full Member nation. Tanzim's 50 came off 31 balls, with five sixes, after he came to bat with the side reeling on 77 for 7 in the tenth over.
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