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Breezy Breetzke blows Derbyshire away with hard-hitting 93
South African returns from Test duty with a bang to reignite Northamptonshire's Blast hopes
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11-Jul-2025
Northamptonshire 237 for 4 (Breetzke 93, Willey 53, Zaib 53*) beat Derbyshire 224 for 6 by 13 runs
Matt Breetzke blazed 93 off 45 balls, just one short of his highest T20 score, to reignite Northamptonshire Steelbacks' Vitality Blast campaign by setting up a 13-win over bottom-placed Derbyshire.
The victory puts the Steelbacks' quest for qualification back on track, after they lost their previous five games, following six straight wins at the start of the tournament.
Full postBelligerent Bairstow ton seals Roses spoils for Yorkshire
Lancashire chase fizzles out despite half-century from Jos Buttler
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11-Jul-2025
Yorkshire 236 for 6 (Bairstow 116, Luxton 90*, Green 4-34) beat Lancashire 217 for 7 (Buttler 55, Thompson 2-37) by 19 runs
Jonny Bairstow hit 10 sixes in a stunning career-best 116 off 54 balls as struggling Yorkshire shocked high-flying Lancashire Lightning by claiming an entertaining 19-run Roses Vitality Blast win at Emirates Old Trafford.
Yorkshire won in Manchester for the first time since 2014, claiming only their fourth win in 11 North Group games this season on the back of 236 for 6.
Full postPepper gives Essex the pep-talk with first home victory in 12 months
Sussex's mid-season slump continues with quarter-final place in jeopardy
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11-Jul-2025
Essex 148 for 4 (Pepper 87) beat Sussex 145 (Simpson 52, Amir 3-16) by six wickets
Michael Pepper's pyrotechnical 87 off 47 balls led Essex to their first home Men's Vitality Blast victory in exactly a year, as Sussex Sharks' quarter-final hopes took a new battering.
The Eagles hadn't won at the Ambassador Cruise Line Ground in a T20 since downing Kent Spitfires on July 11, 2024, after a dismal beginning to this season.
Full postGregory, Abell dig deep to keep Somerset clear at the top
South Group leaders find a way as Kent are out-muscled at Canterbury
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11-Jul-2025
Somerset 138 for 5 (Gregory 37, Abell 34) beat Kent 137 for 8 (Denly 40, Meredith 3-19) by five wickets
Somerset guaranteed themselves a home quarter-final in the Vitality Blast with a five-wicket win over the Kent Spitfires at Canterbury.
Riley Meredith took three for 19 as the hosts were held to a paltry 137 for 8 from 20 overs, Joe Denly their top scorer with 40.
Full postHain, Hasan and Briggs keep Bears on track for quarter-finals
Worcestershire chase never gets going despite fifty from Adam Hose
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11-Jul-2025
Birmingham 176 (Hain 44, Dwarshuis 3-30) beat Worcestershire 153 (Hose 51, Hasan 3-32, Briggs 3-37) by 23 runs
Birmingham Bears took a big stride towards Vitality Blast qualification with a comfortable 23-run win over neighbours Worcestershire Rapids at broiling Visit Worcestershire New Road.
The Bears' 176 all out was solid rather than spectacularly compiled. It lacked a major contribution but Sam Hain (44 off 35 balls) and George Garton (36 not out off 22) ensured a competitive total against an attack led by Ben Dwarshuis.
Full postKalis sets up Bears before spinners see off Somerset
Hannah Baker leads defence with 3 for 32 as hosts suffer ninth loss of campaign
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11-Jul-2025
Birmingham 149 for 8 (Kalis 51, Robbins 4-29) beat Somerset 127 for 9 (Wellington 33, Baker 3-32) by 22 runs
Sterre Kalis registered an assured half-century as Birmingham beat Somerset by 22 runs at Taunton's Cooper Associates Ground to improve their prospects of qualifying for the knockout stages of the women's Vitality Blast competition.
The Dutch international top-scored with 51 from 41 balls, struck six fours and dominated a profitable stand of 63 in 9.1 overs with Katie George for the fourth wicket as the visitors raised 149 for 8. George contributed 28 and Laura Harris made a brisk 29, while Mollie Robbins returned career-best figures of 4 for 29 to keep Somerset in the hunt.
Full postDu Plooy, Williamson provide base for Middlesex win over Gloucestershire
Debutant Sebastian Morgan shines as home side win battle of South Group stragglers
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11-Jul-2025
Middlesex 189 for 5 (du Plooy 54, Williamson 52) beat Gloucestershire 166 for 7 (Short 64, Hollman 2-30, Morgan 2-34) by 23 runs
Half-centuries for Kane Williamson and skipper Leus du Plooy helped Middlesex to a 23-run win over Gloucestershire at Merchant Taylors' School - only their fifth ever victory over the west country men in the Vitality Blast.
Williamson's 50 came in 28 balls with two sixes and six fours while du Plooy produced two maximums of his own, the pair sharing a stand of 92 as the hosts totaled 189 for 5.
Full postNabi, Allen and batters help Hobart Hurricanes blow Dubai Capitals away
Both spinners had identical figures of 4-0-21-3 to restrict Dubai Capitals to 141
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11-Jul-2025
Hobart Hurricanes 142 for 3 (Wright 50, McDermott 48, Varma 1-17) beat Dubai Capitals 141 for 8 (Naib 31, Allen 3-21, Nabi 3-21) by seven wickets
BBL champions Hobart Hurricanes started their GSL 2025 campaign with a thumping win over ILT20 winners Dubai Capitals in Providence. Their comfortable seven-wicket win was set up by the 78-run second-wicket stand between Macalister Wright (50) and the captain Ben McDermott (48). Hurricanes chased the target down with 18 balls to spare.
That Hurricanes needed only 142 to win, though, was courtesy their spin bowlers Fabian Allen and Mohammad Nabi. The two finished with identical figures of 4-0-21-3.
Full postBumrah five-for, Archer's Test return headline closely contested day
KL Rahul headed to stumps unbeaten on 53 with India 242 runs behind England's first innings 387
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11-Jul-2025
Stumps India 145 for 3 (Rahul 53*, Nair 40, Pant 19*, Stokes 1-16) trail England 387 (Root 104, Carse 56, Smith 51, Pope 44, Stokes 44, Bumrah 5-74, Reddy 2-62, Siraj 2-85) by 242 runs
Jasprit Bumrah was saved, or he had saved himself, for Lord's. The temptation of the most famous honours board in the world might have had something to do with it, and if so, the plan worked. Bumrah claimed a five-for that helped bowl England out for 387 but he was far from the only fast bowler that set the pulse racing.
Jofra Archer would have spent three years thinking about this moment, being told of the light at the end of the tunnel as he willed himself through the rehab his body needed to shoulder the burden that comes with Test cricket. Three balls into his first over back, the light wasn't hypothetical anymore. His day in the sun had finally come and he was bathed in its glow as he celebrated a wicket. Yashasvi Jaiswal was sent back, wondering what he could have done against an 89mph rocket that had squared him up. Karun Nair was greeted by a 93mph missile.
Full postSurrey clinch Finals Day place defending 132 at The Blaze
Ryana MacDonald-Gay, Kalea Moore restrict home side despite unbeaten fifty for Kathryn Bryce
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11-Jul-2025
Surrey 132 for 9 (Davidson-Richards 27, Harris 26, Glenn 3-20, Graham 2-20) beat The Blaze 122 for 5 (K Bryce 53*, MacDonald-Gay 2-14, Moore 2-17) by 10 runs
Surrey clinched their place at Finals Day in the inaugural Vitality Blast women's competition by defending a meagre 132 for nine against The Blaze at Trent Bridge, restricting the home side to 122 for 5 to secure a 10-run victory.
They pulled it off despite a bizarre start to The Blaze's pursuit of their 133-run target in which Alice Monaghan had to be removed from the Surrey attack for bowling two full tosses above waist height and 27 were conceded in the opening two overs.
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