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Vaughan hounds Hampshire but Gubbins, tail secure vital draw
Spinner takes six wickets as Somerset come close to leaving visitors in deep relegation trouble
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18-Sep-2025
Hampshire 172 (Leach 7-69) and 201 for 8 (Sundar 46, Gubbins 37, Vaughan 6-96) drew with Somerset 454 for 8 dec (Aldridge 180, Abell 118, Overton 50*)
Nick Gubbins led a determined rearguard action as Hampshire eased their relegation fears with a battling draw on the final day of the Rothesay County Championship Division One match with Somerset at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton.
The experienced left-hander faced 203 balls to score 37 and shared a crucial fourth-wicket stand with skipper Ben Brown that occupied 40 overs after their side had begun the day on 35 for one, needing a further 247 runs to avoid an innings defeat.
Full postBohannon lights up dreary draw as promotion hopes evaporate
Neither side able to force a result on final day of season at Emirates Old Trafford
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18-Sep-2025
Middlesex 211 (De Caires 52, Geddes 52, Aspinwall 4-62, Bailey 4-68) and 99 for 4 (Bailey 3-47) drew with Lancashire 375 for 5 dec (Bohannon 87, Hurst 67, Wells 62, Jennings 61)
Josh Bohannon made a superb 87 and both Seb Morgan and Arav Shetty took their maiden first-class wickets on an eventful last day of the first-class season at Emirates Old Trafford but the Rothesay County Championship match between Lancashire and Middlesex ended in a draw.
Replying to Middlesex's 211, Lancashire's batters went on the attack in the first half of the day, scoring 270 runs in 44 overs before declaring on 375 for 5 an hour after lunch. However, their imaginative attempt to conjure a victory was thwarted, not without the odd alarm, by Middlesex's top-order and the game ended with the visitors on 99 for 4.
Full postGay, Rhodes land precious batting points to maintain Durham's survival bid
Spirited batting closes gap to eighth place with one round of matches to come
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18-Sep-2025
Durham 450 for 6 (Gay 161, Rhodes , Bedingham 58) drew with Worcestershire 591 for 9 dec (Roderick 151, Brookes 100, D'Oliveira 84, Taylor 66*, Edavalath 61)
Centuries from Emilio Gay and Will Rhodes helped Durham pick up five crucial batting bonus points as they drew their Rothesay County Championship clash with already relegated Worcestershire.
In the morning the Pears picked up a couple of Durham scalps to halt their quest for batting bonus points, but Gay and David Bedingham (58) combined for a partnership worth 122 to help Durham's cause.
Full postBairstow keeps Yorkshire afloat as weather has final say in Hove
Sussex edge closer to Division One safety while visitors must avoid defeat in final round
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18-Sep-2025
Yorkshire 194 (Lyth 47, Hudson-Prentice 3-33, Unadkat 3-36) and 109 for 3 (Bairstow 64*) drew with Sussex 250 (Simpson 66, Hill 4-43, Milnes 3-80)
Skipper Jonny Bairstow and James Wharton led Yorkshire to safety as their rain-ruined Championship match with Sussex ended in a draw.
Sussex sensed an unlikely triumph when left-arm spinner James Coles picked up three wickets in nine balls after taking the new ball as Yorkshire lurched to 6 for 3. But in their contrasting styles Bairstow and Wharton averted the crisis, adding 103 in 34 overs. When bad light stopped play at 4pm Bairstow was unbeaten on 64 and Wharton 23 and with no improvement in conditions the players shook hands 20 minutes later.
Full postTongue prevails in thriller to put Nottinghamshire on cusp of title
England fast bowler delivers knockout blow in final spell for thrilling 20-run win
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18-Sep-2025
Nottinghamshire 231 and 256 (Patterson-White 58, Fisher 6-73) beat Surrey 173 (Burns 47, James 3-35, Tongue 3-43) and 294 (Lawrence 50, Burns 45, Pope 41, Tongue 5-100) by 20 runs
Josh Tongue, bowling with great pace and huge stamina to take five for 100, bowled Nottinghamshire to a highly dramatic 20-run victory against Surrey at the Kia Oval - the win that could bring Notts their first championship title since 2010.
Surrey, needing 315 in the fourth innings of a great contest, were bowled out for 294 after a final day of continually fluctuating fortunes and packed with incident, and it was Tongue who grabbed the last three wickets to haul his side over the line despite a defiant 33 at the end by Tom Lawes.
Full postGlamorgan return to top-flight return after Derby washout
County set to end 20 years of exile from Division One as rivals Derbyshire are unable to close gap
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18-Sep-2025
Derbyshire 17 for 0 trail Glamorgan 259 (Carlson 94, Reece 4-67, Dal 3-29) by 242 runs
Glamorgan are celebrating a return to the top tier of domestic cricket for the first time in 20 years after the Rothesay County Championship Division Two match against Derbyshire at Derby ended in a draw.
For the second day running, rain prevented any play at the Central Co-op County Ground which meant third place Derbyshire could not overtake the Welsh County in second place
Full postEssex all but seal Division One status with watery draw at Edgbaston
Visitors take 10 points to virtually confirm safety going into final round of Championship season
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18-Sep-2025
Essex 325 for 5 (Allison 98, Pepper 54*) drew with Warwickshire
Essex virtually secured their Rothesay County Championship Division One status as their match with Warwickshire ended in a rain-ruined draw at Edgbaston. No play was possible due to rain on the final day, meaning that three of the four days were completely blank.
Essex collected ten points from the draw, putting them pretty much safe from relegation as two of the teams below them - Yorkshire and Durham - meet in next week's final round of games. It would now take an extraordinary combination of results and bonus points to drag Essex through the trapdoor with Worcestershire.
Full postDhruv Jurel hundred headlines India A's strong reply to Australia A
Devdutt Padikkal (86*), B Sai Sudharsan (73) and N Jagadeesan (64) were also among the runs in Lucknow
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18-Sep-2025
India A 403 for 4 (Jurel 113*, Padikkal 86*, Sai Sudharsan 73, Jagadeesan 64, Scott 1-31) trail Australia A 532 for 6 dec by 129 runs
Dhruv Jurel scored his second first-class century on a day when all India A batters except captain Shreyas Iyer were among the runs against Australia A. The hosts ended day three on 403 for 4, still 129 runs behind the visitors' first-innings total of 532. Apart from Jurel, who was batting on 113 at stumps, Devdutt Padikkal, B Sai Sudharsan and N Jagadeesan also went past fifty at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.
India A started day three trailing Australia A by 416 runs, with nine wickets in hand, and Xavier Bartlett had Jagadeesan caught behind by Josh Phillipe for 64 in the sixth over of the day to end a second-wicket stand of 49. Padikkal then joined Sudharsan in a productive stand, but with their partnership nearing a hundred, Sudharsan missed an attempted reverse-sweep off Cooper Connolly and was trapped lbw for 73.
Full postLeicestershire celebrate Division Two title despite final-day washout
No play possible on third day out of four but draw enough to confirm runaway Foxes in top spot
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18-Sep-2025
Kent 17 for 0 drew with Leicestershire 459 for 7 dec (Patel 114, Cox 93, Masood 90, Hill 54)
Leicestershire's promotion as Division Two champions in the Rothesay County Championship was confirmed despite the final day of their clash with Kent going the same way as days one and three, abandoned without a ball bowled to consign the contest to a draw.
Early morning rain topped up an already saturated outfield at the Uptonsteel County Ground, where umpires Hassan Adnan and Simon Widdup, mindful of their duty to minimise the risk of injury to players, determined after a number of inspections that there was no prospect of it drying out enough for play to resume.
Full postAlleyne and Patil seal thriller to help Royals complete WCPL three-peat
Ashmini Munisar's 3 for 21 including a maiden went in vain after she brought back Amazon Warriors into the contest
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18-Sep-2025
Barbados Royals 137 for 7 (Webb 31, Knight 31, Munisar 3-21, Latchman 2-31) beat Guyana Amazon Warriors 136 for 3 (Hunter 29, Connell 1-20) by three wickets
Barbados Royals seemed down and out with 27 needed off 16 balls. With just three wickets in hand, Shreyanka Patil, batting for the first time in WCPL 2025, walked in to face the hat-trick ball. She reverse hit the first two balls she faced to release the pressure. Aaliyah Alleyne then hit a four and a six in the following over that went for 15. And soon after, Royals were rejoicing as they had not just registered a come-from-behind win in the title clash against Guyana Amazon Warriors, but also completed a three-peat in the WCPL.
While Royals soaked it all in - team-mates rushing to try and get Alleyne, who was flat on her back after hitting the winning run, up on her feet - Amazon Warriors' Ashmini Munisar couldn't contain her tears. She was involved in four of the seven Royals dismissals and picked up 3 for 21 in her four overs that included a maiden.
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