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Liam Dawson shines - again - as Hampshire round on Worcestershire
Allrounder strikes fifty and takes two wickets as Hampshire close in on their fifth win of the season
ECB Reporters Network
19-Sep-2024
Worcestershire 273 and 117 for 5 (Libby 55*, Dawson 2-36) need 277 runs to beat Hampshire 462 and 204 (Dawson 51, Virdi 4-108)
Liam Dawson returned 50 wickets in a Vitality County Championship season for the first time after scoring an eighth fifty of the season as Hampshire closed in on victory over Worcestershire.
Spinning all-rounder Dawson reached a half-century of scalps by adding Kashif Ali and Adam Hose to his tally - in doing so beating the 49 wickets he claimed last season - with no spinner in the country taking more this year.
Full postChahal stars again as Northants seal three-day win
India spinner completes nine-wicket match haul after Currie resists with century
ECB Reporters Network
19-Sep-2024
Northamptonshire 383 (Sales 135, Zaib 71, Keogh 49, Holland 4-53) and 137 for 1 (Procter 68*, Bartlett 54*) beat Leicestershire 203 (Budinger 56, Chahal 4-82) and 316 (Currie 120, Chahal 5-134) by nine wickets
Scott Currie's valiant maiden first-class century proved in vain despite helping to stage a remarkable Leicestershire fightback as Northamptonshire completed back-to-back first-class victories for the first time in five years to the day.
Sent in as nightwatcher, Currie kept his calm as Leicestershire lost three early wickets on the third morning of this Vitality County Championship match at Wantage Road, slumping to 92 for seven, still 88 runs behind. The arrival of Tom Scriven (48 off 66 balls) heralded a complete change of approach though as he and Currie wrestled back the initiative in an attacking partnership of 101 in 21 overs either side of lunch.
Full postKent demotion confirmed in 10-wicket loss to Notts
Notts will stay up if they avoid defeat in final round of fixtures
ECB Reporters Network
19-Sep-2024
Nottinghamshire 433 (Slater 160, Haynes 62, Hameed 56, Gilchrist 4-101) and 28 for 0 (Slater 22*, Hameed 6*) beat Kent 225 (Evison 76, Farhan 4-37) and 230 (Muyeye 60, Evison 42, Duffy 4-60, Lord 3-42) by 10 wickets
Nottinghamshire have thrashed Kent by ten wickets in the Vitality County Championship at Canterbury, condemning the hosts to relegation and boosting their own survival hopes into the bargain.
Jacob Duffy took 4 for 60 and Robert Lord 3 for 42 as Kent were dismissed for 230 in their second innings.
Full postQuicks keep India C on top despite Rawat's unbeaten century
Kamboj, Vyshak and Gaurav Yadav shared six wickets between them to restrict India A to 224 for 7
Ashish Pant
19-Sep-2024
India A 224 for 7 (Rawat 122*, Mulani 44, Kamboj 3-40, Vyshak 2-33) vs India C
Shashwat Rawat waged a lone battle for India A with an unbeaten 122 off 235 balls as the India C quicks kept a lid on proceedings on the opening day of the Duleep Trophy 2024-25 encounter in Anantapur.
Anshul Kamboj grabbed three wickets, Vijaykumar Vyshak two, while Gaurav Yadav returned one wicket to restrict India A to 224 for 7 in 77 overs on day one.
Full postLitchfield rescues Australia after dramatic pre-game injury to Gardner
The left-hander made 64 not out as Australia chased 144 five down but the win was overshadowed by Gardner's withdrawal due to a head knock pre-game
Alex Malcolm
19-Sep-2024
Australia 145 for 5 (Litchfield 64*, Wareham 26, Penfold 2-24) beat New Zealand 143 for 7 (Green 35, Bates 33, Graham 1-13, Sutherland 1-18) by five wickets
A stunning unbeaten half-century from Phoebe Litchfield guided Australia to victory after a serious wobble against New Zealand in Mackay, but the win was overshadowed by a bizarre head knock to Ashleigh Gardner pre-game that saw her ruled out as a precaution given her concussion history.
The toss was delayed after Gardner had collided with team-mate Georgia Wareham during a vibrant warm-up game involving throwing and catching a vortex. Both players tried to catch the vortex thrown by Sophie Molineux and clashed heads. Gardner came off second best and was withdrawn from the team although it is understood she passed her initial concussion test. Heather Graham was called in as Kim Garth (knee) and Grace Harris (calf) were ruled out of the series entirely but both are expected to be available for the T20 World Cup 2024.
Full postSamson's 89* drives India D after Iyer bags another duck
Bhui, Padikkal and Bharat also scored fifties as India D ended the opening day on 306 for 5
ESPNcricinfo staff
19-Sep-2024
India D 306 for 5 (Samson 89*, Bhui 56, Bharat 52, R Chahar 3-60) vs India B
Shreyas Iyer bagged his second duck in as many Duleep Trophy games but half-centuries from Sanju Samson, Devdutt Padikkal, KS Bharat and Ricky Bhui helped India D gain the upper hand against India B in Anantapur.
Samson stayed unbeaten on 89 off 83 balls at stumps, taking India D to 306 for 5 in 77 overs. He had Saransh Jain for company on 26.
Full postSussex seal promotion with three-day win over Gloucestershire
Relegated in 2015, Sussex made their return to Division One official with an emphatic eighth win of the campaign
ECB Reporters Network
19-Sep-2024
Sussex 311 (Carson 71, Simpson 61, Gohar 6-76) beat Gloucestershire 109 (Unadkat 4-32, Clark 3-17, Robinson 3-33) and 195 (Dent 61, Crocombe 4-22, Unadkat 3-39) by an innings and seven runs
Jubilant Sussex needed less than a session of the third day to wrap up an innings victory over Gloucestershire at Bristol and clinch promotion from Division Two of the Vitality County Championship with a game to spare.
Resuming on 140 for 3 in their second innings, trailing by 62 runs, the home side were skittled for 195, left-arm seamer Jaydev Unadkat finishing with 3 for 39 and match figures of 7 for 71, while Henry Crocombe took 4 for 22.
Full postMiddlesex drub Derbyshire to push promotion race into final round
Toby Roland-Jones ensures battle with Yorkshire for last promotion spot moves into last week of the summer
ECB Reporters Network
19-Sep-2024
Middlesex 358 (Stoneman 115, De Caires 80, Holden 68) beat Derbyshire 173 (Came 66, Roland-Jones 5-34) and 119 (Roland-Jones 5-38, Hollman 2-10) by an innings and 66 runs
Middlesex wrapped up their fifth win of the Division Two season to keep their Vitality County Championship promotion challenge mathematically alive after a dismal Derbyshire succumbed to a three-day defeat by an innings and 66 runs at the Incora County Ground.
With skipper Toby Roland-Jones continuing his impressive streak of form with another five-wicket haul, Derbyshire, 74 for 3 overnight, were shot out for 119 after 87 minutes of the day's only session.
Full postTravis Head's unbeaten hundred completes Australia fightback after spinners star
Dwarshuis injured on debut but Labuschagne leads fightback with ball then bat
Andrew Miller
19-Sep-2024
Australia 317 for 3 (Head 154*, Labuschagne 77*) beat England 315 (Duckett 95, Labuschagne 3-39, Zampa 3-49) by seven wickets
It was a tale of two unconventional opening batters at Trent Bridge, both aggressive left-handers, both with a love of placing bat on ball, especially through anything remotely off-line or length. But where Ben Duckett's innings ended tamely, on 95 from 91 balls, to open the door for a spirited Australia fightback, Travis Head's powered onwards and upwards, to 154 not out from 129, and ultimately to a seven-wicket victory in the first ODI.
That converted century, Head's sixth in 66 ODIs and his second against England, was the fundamental reason why Australia overcame the odds, including a sickness bug that robbed them of a swathe of key names, not least Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc - two of the "big three" (alongside the absent Pat Cummins) without any of whose presence Australia had lost each of their last eight completed ODIs against England.
Full postLatham, Williamson fifties extend New Zealand's advantage
Earlier, O'Rourke completed his five-for as Sri Lanka folded for 305 in their first innings
Madushka Balasuriya
19-Sep-2024
New Zealand 255 for 4 (Latham 70, Williamson 55, Dhananjaya 2-31) trail Sri Lanka 305 (Kamindu 114, Kusal 50, O'Rourke 5-55) by 50 runs
Partnerships were the name of the game as New Zealand strung together several of significance to come within 50 runs of Sri Lanka's first-innings total of 305 at stumps on day two in Galle.
There were breezy fifties from Tom Latham and Kane Williamson, and Rachin Ravindra also put forward an aggressive cameo. By the time an extended final session ended 15 minutes early due to bad light, there were more names on that list, as Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell had put together an unbeaten stand of 59 off 105. Theirs was the fourth 50-plus stand of the innings on a day that belonged almost in totality to the visitors.
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