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Gaby Lewis steers Lancashire to victory
Thrilling century stand with Seren Smale reels in revised target with five balls to spare
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10-Sep-2025
Lancashire 172 for 5 (Lewis 75, Smale 47) beat Warwickshire 283 for 7 (Freeborn 60, Surenkumar 49, Kalis 43) by five wickets (DLS method)
Lancashire Women won an exciting rain-affected Metro Bank One Day Cup match against Warwickshire Women at Sale by five wickets.
Warwickshire had posted 283 for 7 from their 50 overs but the Lancashire innings was halted halfway through the sixth over with the score 20 for 1 due to increasingly heavy rain. Set a revised target of 172 to win in 22 overs, a thrilling partnership of 106 off 73 balls between Gaby Lewis and Seren Smale set Lancashire on their way with victory achieved with five balls to spare.
Full postWash-out at Hove leaves Hampshire, Sussex frustrated
No play possible on third day with contest evenly poised
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10-Sep-2025
Sussex 122 and 37 for 1 need a further 241 runs to beat Hampshire 226 and 173
Day three of Sussex's Championship game against Hampshire at Hove was abandoned without a ball bowled - the first day's play to be lost this season.
Morning showers delayed the start to day three at the 1st Central County Ground and when more persistent rain arrived at lunchtime umpires Nigel Llong and Rob White called play off at 2.15pm with puddles forming on a saturated outfield.
Full postJaydn Denly builds Kent lead
Exciting finish with Lancashire could be in prospect after rain wipes out much of day three
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10-Sep-2025
Kent 293 and 206 for 5 (Jaydn Denly 74) lead Lancashire 284 (Wells 80, Hartley 64, Quinn 4-43, Parkinson 4-93) by 215 runs
An exciting finish could be in prospect on the final day of the Rothesay County Championship between Kent and Lancashire at Canterbury, after the hosts reached 206 for 5 at stumps, a lead of 215.
Although rain wiped out much of day three, with only 38.3 overs bowled, Jaydn Denly hit 74 as Kent built their lead, before Mitch Stanley helped rein them in with 2 for 56.
Full postTaylor, Dale put Leicestershire celebrations on ice
Seamers share eight wickets as table-toppers face awkward final day at Grace Road
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10-Sep-2025
Gloucestershire 482 (Van Buuren 101, Charlesworth 74, Bracey 69, Akhter 64, Hammond 50) and 10 for 0 lead Leicestershire 342 (Masood 111, Hill 88, Taylor 5-70) by 150 runs
If Leicestershire's vision was to clinch promotion to Division One with a resounding victory, it looks unlikely to come to pass this week after a truncated third day of their Rothesay County Championship match left them trailing Gloucestershire by 150 runs.
Shan Masood compiled a typically elegant 111 to mark his first-class debut for the county with the 30th hundred of his career but Leicestershire then lost their last six wickets for 22 to trail by 140 on first innings, bowled out for 342 as Gloucestershire seamer Matt Taylor finished with five for 70, backed up by new-ball partner Ajeet Singh Dale's three for 78.
Full postJames, Tongue push Worcestershire to the brink as Notts scent crucial win
Visitors need 96 more runs on final day to potentially take control of title race
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10-Sep-2025
Nottinghamshire 207 (McCann 56, Taylor 4-70) and 40 for 1 need another 96 runs to beat Worcestershire 182 and 160 (James 5-35 Tongue 5-52)
Nottinghamshire advanced to the threshold of a vital Rothesay County Championship victory over Worcestershire on a heavily rain-affected third day at Visit Worcestershire New Road.
The visitors' seam attack excelled for the second time in the match as the home side followed their first innings 182 all out with 160. Lyndon James took five for 35, passing 100 first-class wickets in the process, and Josh Tongue added four for 52 (seven for 111 in the match).
Full postKuldeep bags four as India demolish UAE in 17.4 overs
UAE folded for 57, their collapse highlighting the gulf between the two sides
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10-Sep-2025
India 60 for 1 (Abhishek 30, Gill 20*) beat UAE 57 (Sharafu 22, Kuldeep 4-7, Dube 3-4) by nine wickets
UAE's 57 was the lowest total any team had achieved against India in T20Is. India's 4.3-over chase was their quickest in T20Is.
Full postZaib notches sixth Championship hundred as Northants near parity
Glamorgan's promotion bid encounters further resistance despite Crane taking five wickets
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10-Sep-2025
Northamptonshire 413 for 9 (Zaib 145, Procter 67, Vasconcelos 50, Crane 5-126) trail Glamorgan 467 for 6 (Tribe 206, Cooke 84) by 54 runs
Saif Zaib continued his prolific summer, becoming the first Northamptonshire batter to score six Championship tons in a season since Lance Klusener in 2006 as he posted 145 (186 balls) on day three of this Rothesay County Championship against Glamorgan at Wantage Road.
Zaib, the second leading run-scorer in Division Two, extended his overnight score of 76, smashing a total of 22 fours and two sixes as he shared a ninth-wicket partnership of 56 in 15 overs with debutant Ben Whitehouse (6 not out).
Full postFoakes, Lawrence build imposing Surrey lead at rainy Oval
Limited play increases prospect of draw, but champions have a shot at pushing for victory
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10-Sep-2025
Surrey 246 and 276 for 2 (Pope 78, Sibley 64*, Burns 56, Foakes 41*) lead Warwickshire 248 (Young 72, Barnard 50, Lawes 4-42) by 274 runs
Only 21.1 overs were possible on day three at the Kia Oval but title favourites Surrey still used that time profitably to score 95 more second-innings runs and boost their chances of being able to force championship victory against Warwickshire.
Dodging the showers in the afternoon, in two mini-sessions, allowed Ben Foakes and Dan Lawrence to add an unbroken 57 for the third wicket as Surrey reached 276 for two - and a lead of 274 to take into the Division One game's final day.
Full postPotts keeps Durham afloat after Elgar, Critchley hundreds
Seamer's three-wicket burst limits hosts' progress and increases likelihood of draw in relegation battle
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10-Sep-2025
Essex 457 for 8 (Elgar 150, Critchley 129, Potts 3-95) lead Durham 333 (McKinney 121, Lees 94, Porter 4-77) by 124 runs
Matthew Potts made a serious claim for a place in England's tour party for the Ashes this winter with a three-wicket haul for Durham at Chelmsford including the key scalps of Essex centurions Dean Elgar and Matt Critchley.
The 26-year-old pace bowler had been pulled out of next week's one-day internationals in Ireland by the England management for an up-to-date assessment of his red-ball form with an outing or two in the Rothesay County Championship ahead of the trip Down Under. However, it took him 22 overs of unrelenting toil, and occasional bad luck when his pace beat the bat without reward, before he finally struck to end the 191-run fourth-wicket partnership. Potts finished a day shorn of 57 overs by rain interruptions with figures of 3 for 95 from 30 overs.
Full postPromotion hopes take a blow on ten-over day at Lord's
Caleb Jewell passes 1,000 runs for the season but is only wicket to fall in Derbyshire second innings
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10-Sep-2025
Derbyshire 283 and 33 for 1 lead Middlesex 298 (du Plooy 105, De Caires 46, Cracknell 43, Aitchison 3-35) by 18 runs
Caleb Jewell reached 1,000 County Championship runs for the season on a rain-ravaged third day of Derbyshire's clash with hosts Middlesex at Lord's.
Only 10 overs were possible, but it proved sufficient time for the Tasmanian left-hander to reach the landmark with a glance tickled to the fine-leg fence.
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