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Afghanistan hold their nerve, UAE go down fighting in nail-biting finish
After leaking ten runs off the first two balls of the 20th over, Fareed roared back to close out the game successfully
Alagappan Muthu
05-Sep-2025
Afghanistan 170 for 4 (Zadran 48, Gurbaz 40, Haider 2-23) beat UAE 166 for 5 (Waseem 44, Asif 40, Sharafuddin 1-20, Noor 1-23) by four runs
Afghanistan had the game sewn up. They were playing a second-string side with even their captain Rashid Khan among six players sitting out. But Asif Khan threatened to rip it wide open. A dead rubber had burst to life. Fareed Ahmad started the final over with 16 to defend and was bashed for 4 and 6 off the first two deliveries. An upset was looming and the left-arm quick felt it. Asif felt it, batting on 40 off 25. It never came to be.
Fareed had three chances to influence the outcome and he came up with the perfect option each time to close out the match: 4, 6, 2, dot, dot, wicket. And so, UAE ended the tri-series winless but they came so very close. The emotions at the end were excruciating, particularly for Asif and the captain Muhammad Waseem. They're going to make the Asia Cup very interesting.
Full postMotie, Hope and Pretorius combine to keep Royals winless
The win helped Amazon Warriors get their campaign back on track after two losses in a row
ESPNcricinfo staff
05-Sep-2025
Guyana Amazon Warriors 170 for 6 (Hope 62*, Pretorius 53, Sampson 33*, Bosch 3-35, Simmonds 2-27) beat Barbados Royals 165 for 6 (Powell 50*, van der Dussen 45, King 39, Motie 2-16) by four wickets
Barbados Royals continued their winless run in CPL 2025, sliding to their fourth defeat in five games thanks to Shai Hope and Dwaine Pretorius in the main, as Guyana Amazon Warriors bounced back from successive losses to register their third win in five games in a rain-hit contest in Bridgetown.
Asked to bat at home, Royals didn't have a great start, losing Quinton de Kock in the fourth over and Kadeem Alleyne in the seventh, but Brandon King ensured they had a decent powerplay on the whole, reaching 43. But he was gone by the eighth over for a 27-ball 39, and then it was over to Rassie van der Dussen to keep things on course with Eathan Bosch and Sherfane Rutherford following King back to the dugout quickly.
Full postSomerset boost knock-out hopes with hard-earned win at Old Trafford
Ellie Anderson three-for trumps Kate Cross' hard-fought fifty for hosts
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04-Sep-2025
Somerset 167 for 5 (Gibson 44*, Holland 44, Collins 2-11) beat Lancashire 169 for 9 (Cross 51, Anderson 3-44) by five wickets - DLS
An impressive bowling display set Somerset up for an entertaining five-wicket DLS victory against high-flying Lancashire at Emirates Old Trafford as they boosted their Metro Bank One-Day Cup semi-finals hopes.
Sixth-placed Somerset restricted their second-placed hosts to 169 for nine from 44 overs and chased a revised 164 from the same allocation inside 35 for a bonus point.
Full postHampshire edge out Essex in low-scoring tussle at Chelmsford
Bouchier, Kemp top-score with 31 before Davies, Tyson defend below-par target of 102
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04-Sep-2025
Hampshire 101 for 7 (Bouchier 31, Kemp 31) beat Essex 97 for 6 (Munro 28*, Davies 2-15, Tyson 2-20) by 4 runs
Freya Davies and Bex Tyson starred with the ball as leaders Hampshire defended a total of 101 to win by four runs in a game reduced to 17 overs-a-side by rain at Chelmsford.
Davies returned figures of 2 for 15 and Tyson 2-20 in a heroic fielding effort by the visitors which meant Essex fell short of a target of 102, finishing 97 for 6, Sophie Munro top-scoring with an unbeaten 28.
Full postPakistan seal final berth as Fakhar and Abrar headline commanding win
Hosts UAE eliminated after a sloppy display in the field, and eventually fell well short in a chase of 172
Danyal Rasool
04-Sep-2025
Pakistan 171 for 5 (Zaman 77*, Nawaz 37*, Haider 2-17) beat UAE 140 for 7 (Sharafu 68, Abrar 4-9, Afridi 1-23) by 31 runs
Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Nawaz punished an error-strewn display in the field from the UAE, helping Pakistan recover from a jittery 80 for 5 and seal a 31-run win. Having set UAE 172 to win, Abrar Ahmed, playing his first game this series, helped run through the top and middle order, removing each of Muhammad Waseem, Asif Khan, Rahul Chopra and Harshit Kaushik. UAE would end up folding with limited resistance, and the result guarantees Pakistan and Afghanistan passage through to the final on Sunday, with the hosts eliminated.
Pakistan soon ran into trouble after winning the toss and opting to bat. Sahibzada Farhan made a brisk start once more but couldn't find staying power, holing out to the short onside boundary. It is the fourth game in a row he has been unable to convert a start, and Saim Ayub fell soon after.
Full postBreetzke stars as South Africa seal series in five-run thriller
England's poor 50-over form continues as South Africa claim first ODI series win in country since 1998
Matt Roller
04-Sep-2025
South Africa 330 for 8 (Breetzke 85, Stubbs 58, Archer 4-62) beat England 325 for 9 (Root 61, Buttler 61, Bethell 58, Burger 3-63) by five runs
Matthew Breetzke had not been born when South Africa last won a bilateral ODI series in England. By extending a remarkable start to his career in the format, he helped them clinch this one with a match to spare. On his return from a hamstring injury, Breetzke hit 85 to underpin South Africa's total of 330, before their bowlers closed out a tense win under the floodlights.
Breetzke, 26, was born five-and-a-half months after South Africa's 2-1 triumph in the 1998 Texaco Trophy but will now lift the series trophy in Southampton on Sunday after his team took an unassailable 2-0 lead at Lord's. Unlike in Leeds, England at least competed but none of their three half-centurions - Joe Root, Jacob Bethell and Jos Buttler - kicked on past 61.
Full postShamsi leads spinners' show to thump Knight Riders as Kings make playoffs
Tim Seifert and Ackeem Auguste led the chase of 110, as Kings topped the table and ended TKR's winning streak
ESPNcricinfo staff
04-Sep-2025
St Lucia Kings 112 for 3 (Seifert 36, Narine 2-28) beat Trinbago Knight Riders 109 (Pooran 30, Shamsi 3-12, Potgieter 2-6, Chase 2-19, Pierre 2-31) by seven wickets
The St Lucia Kings spinners Tabraiz Shamsi, Roston Chase and Khary Pierre shared seven wickets to bundle Trinbago Knight Riders for 109 and set up a commanding seven-wicket win in Tarouba. Victory took Kings into the playoffs of CPL 2025.
Tim Seifert, Ackeem Auguste, Chase and Tim David made sure the chase was wrapped up at the start of the 12th over to give their net run rate a big boost with their fourth win in a row that placed them on top of the points table. Their streak also ended TKR's hot run of five wins in a row as they lost the top spot after the game.
Full postBrilliant Bopara century powers Northants to Finals Day
Sam Curran fights for Surrey with unbeaten 69 but Scrimshaw three-for seals win for visitors
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03-Sep-2025
Northamptonshire 154 for 4 (Bopara 105*, Clark 3-13) beat Surrey 147 for 6 (S Curran 69*, Scrimshaw 3-34) by 7 runs
Former England all-rounder Ravi Bopara produced an explosive knock of 105 not out from 46 balls to stun Surrey and propel Northamptonshire Steelbacks to their first Vitality Blast Finals Day since 2016.
The 40-year-old, a former Blast winner with Essex, turned back the clock with a magnificent display - posting his first Northamptonshire hundred as they fought back after losing two early wickets to post 154 for four in a rain-reduced contest at the Kia Oval.
Full postLitton scores 73 in wet finish to T20I series
Bangladesh took the series 2-0 after rain ended the third T20I with only 18.2 overs played
S Sudarshanan
03-Sep-2025
Match abandoned Bangladesh 164 for 4 (Litton 73, Nurul 22*, Klein 3-53) vs Netherlands
Scott Edwards finally won the toss and wanted Netherlands' bowlers to, for once, bowl without dew around. But rain that fell as early as the fifth over ensured they had to contend with wet conditions anyway. They had bowled second in the first two T20Is of the three-match series and had lost both times.
Netherlands fared better on Wednesday and managed to rein Bangladesh in after the first rain stoppage. But rain returned about two hours later to have the final say.
Full postKamindu and Nissanka salvage a victory for Sri Lanka
The visitors had collapsed from 96 for 0 to 125 for 5 in a chase of 175 in Harare
Andrew Fidel Fernando
03-Sep-2025
Sri Lanka 177 for 6 (Nissanka 55, Kamindu 41, Ngarava 2-19) beat Zimbabwe 175 for 7 (Bennett 81, Chameera 3 for 30) by four wickets
Kamindu Mendis' 41 not out off 16 from No. 6 rescued Sri Lanka from a collapse, and catapulted them to victory in a game that seemed to be slipping away. Sri Lanka needed 46 runs off the last four overs, having slipped from 96 for no loss to 125 for 5.
But Kamindu crashed four sixes and a four, the vast majority of those shots coming behind square on the leg side as Zimbabwe's seamers got their lines wrong at the death. In the end, Sri Lanka cruised home with five balls remaining and four wickets in hand.
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