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Imam-ul-Haq sends Pakistan reminder with 159 for Yorkshire
Overlooked for West Indies series, opener sets up 202-run win at Northampton
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08-Aug-2025
Yorkshire 374 for 5 (Imam-ul-Haq 159, Revis 69, Wharton 66, Guthrie 3-87) beat Northamptonshire 172 (Moriarty 4-38) by 202 runs
Pakistan international Imam-ul-Haq struck a superb, classy 159, his highest List A score to set up a comprehensive Yorkshire victory over Northamptonshire by 202 runs in the Metro Bank One Day Cup at Wantage Road.
Imam, 29, averages 47.04 across a 75-match ODI career, with nine hundreds, but has been overlooked for Pakistan's three-match series against West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago, which starts on Friday night. His 159 was a reminder of his talent to their selectors.
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New Zealand ended 476 runs ahead after day two as Zimbabwe looked tired on a flat surface
Firdose Moonda
08-Aug-2025
New Zealand 601 for 3 (Ravindra 165*, Conway 153, Nicholls 150*, Muzarabani 1-101) lead Zimbabwe 125 by 476 runs
Centuries from Devon Conway, Henry Nicholls and Rachin Ravindra took New Zealand to their highest total against Zimbabwe, and a 476-run first innings lead in the second Test. They have not declared, and have plenty of batting to come. With conditions suited to the filling of boots, and with three days left in the game, New Zealand might be eyeing more on a flat surface against a tired opposition.
Already, three of New Zealand's line-up have given them food for thought ahead of the next World Test Championship cycle. Conway brought up 2000 Test runs and his fifth hundred, two-and-a-half years and 32 innings since his last - against Pakistan in Karachi in January 2023. Nicholls' century was his tenth in the format and an important one after he was left out of the XI for all of 2024. And Ravindra's hundred was his third and fastest, off just 104 balls.
Full postAlfie Ogborne, Thomas Rew help Somerset overcome Will Rhodes' all-round show
Durham allrounder hits 100 and takes three wickets but ends up on losing side
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08-Aug-2025
Somerset 258 for 6 (T Rew 84*, Rhodes 3-42) beat Durham 255 for 9 (Rhodes 100, Ogborne 5-41) by four wickets
Alfie Ogborne took his first Somerset five-for as Somerset carved out a four-wicket victory over Durham at Taunton to extend their winning start to the Metro Bank One-Day Cup campaign.
Playing in front of a near-sell-out crowd at Taunton, the 22-year-old left arm seamer claimed 5 for 41 as Durham were restricted to 255 for 9 after winning the toss. Will Rhodes kept the visitors afloat, staging an assured knock of 100 from 120 balls with 10 fours and sharing in stands of 78 with Haydon Mustard and 58 with Paul Coughlin for the fifth and seventh wickets respectively. Mustard contributed 38 and Coughlin, the only Durham batter to score at better than a run-a-ball, raised 38 from 30 balls and accrued two fours and a six.
Full postZak Crawley steers Superchargers chase after Fire fizzle out
Visitors post sub-par total despite punchy Bairstow-Smith opening stand
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07-Aug-2025
Northern Superchargers 147 for 2 (Crawley 67*) beat Welsh Fire 143 for 9 (Bairstow 42, Rashid 2-25) by eight wicket
Zak Crawley shone under the lights at Headingley to make an unbeaten 67 and lead Andrew Flintoff's Northern Superchargers to an assured eight-wicket win over Welsh Fire.
The England man hit five fours and four sixes across his enterprising 37-ball stay at the crease to see the Superchargers to a brace of home wins on their opening matchday of the Hundred, following the women's team's win earlier in the day.
Full postCarter, Carson, Lenham sees Sussex lower order sting Kent
Kent appeared to be cruising but Sussex's lower order had other ideas
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07-Aug-2025
Sussex 288 for 7 (Carter 68, Carson 50*, Cohen 4-65) beat Kent 287 for 9 (52 Evison, Hudson-Prentice 3-65) by 3 wickets
A remarkable and unbroken eighth wicket stand of 88 in 11 overs between Jack Carson and Archie Lenham saw Sussex to an unlikely three-wicket win over Kent with ten balls to spare in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup at Arundel.
Kent looked home and dry in their opening game when they had Sussex 200 for 7 in the 38th over. They had weathered a fifth wicket stand of 90 between Oli Carter (68) and John Simpson (50) and then dismissed the dangerous Danny Lamb for 16.
Full postOutlaws conjure astonishing comeback to tie with Rapids
Maiden List A fifties for Joe Pocklington, Rob Lord put Notts in contention after centuries for Jake Libby, Kashif Ali
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07-Aug-2025
Nottinghamshire 326 for 9 (Lord 83, Pocklington 54, Haynes 51) tied with Worcestershire 312 for 7 (Libby 112, Kashif 101, James 4-63) DLS method
Notts Outlaws conjured up an astonishing comeback to grab a share of the points in a tie with Worcestershire Rapids in a dramatic Metro Bank One-Day Cup encounter at Welbeck Cricket Club.
Chasing a target of 327 from 47 overs after centuries from Jake Libby and Kashif Ali, who shared a 180-run fourth-wicket partnership, had put Worcestershire Rapids in the ascendancy, the Outlaws looked out of contention as they slipped to 145 for 7 in reply.
Full postJoe Weatherley's 116* makes light work of Essex
Weatherley was accompanied by India batter Tilak Varma as Hampshire chased down 286
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07-Aug-2025
Hampshire 288 for 5 (Weatherley 116*, Varma 54) beat Essex 285 (Allison 80, Neal 2-44) by 5 wickets
Joe Weatherley classily struck his third Metro Bank One-Day Cup men's competition hundred as Hampshire beat Essex at Utilita Bowl.
Weatherley provided the backbone to a well-managed chase of 286 - after Charlie Allison, Tom Westley and Robin Das all posted half-centuries for Essex.
Full postGeorgia Wareham stars as Superchargers douse Fire
Clinical home performance sees Fire succumb to their heaviest defeat of the women's competition
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07-Aug-2025
Northern Superchargers 141 for 4 (Armitage 34*, Wareham 29*, Mathews 2-18) beat Welsh Fire 94 (Beaumont 36, Wareham 2-14) by 47 runs
Northern Superchargers got their campaign in The Hundred off to the perfect start with a comprehensive win over Welsh Fire at Headingley.
Under the new leadership of former England Women's Head Coach Lisa Keightley, Superchargers batted first and made 141 for 4. In reply, Tammy Beaumont's Welsh Fire were bowled out for just 94, much to the delight of the 7,208 Superchargers fans in attendance.
Full postHenry takes five again as returning Taylor can't inspire insipid Zimbabwe
NZ's openers Conway and Young surpassed Zimbabwe's total of 125 on their own
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07-Aug-2025
New Zealand 174 for 1 (Conway 79*, Young 74, Gwandu 1-31) lead Zimbabwe 125 (Taylor 44, Henry 5-40, Foulkes 4-38) by 49 runs
Matt Henry's sixth Test five-for eclipsed Brendan Taylor's international comeback, and entrenched questions over Zimbabwe's batting in the longest format. Zimbabwe were bowled out for their lowest total in nine innings, and second-lowest since 2023, with Taylor's 44 and Tafadzwa Tsiga's 33 the only individual scores over 11. That Taylor and Tsiga never batted together further underlines the issue, as Zimbabwe mustered a best partnership of only 29 on a surface where they chose to bat first.
There was some early movement but with less bounce on offer than last week, and the quality of New Zealand's seamers shone through. Henry led the attack, but debutants Zakary Foulkes, Jacob Duffy and Matthew Fisher were also impressive. They varied lengths well, and bowled tight lines to a plan to give New Zealand's line-up the best of the batting conditions.
Full postSouthern Brave sneak home as Anderson falls flat on Hundred debut
Reece Topley clinches one-wicket nail-biter after Tymal Mills stars with ball
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06-Aug-2025
Southern Brave 133 for 9 (Roy 30, Currie 4-28) beat Manchester Originals 131 for 4 (Salt 60, Mills 3-22) by one wicket
Reece Topley carved his first ball and the penultimate ball of the match for four to take Southern Brave to a dramatic and unexpected one-wicket win against Manchester Originals in the Hundred.
Last man Topley walked out with three runs needed from two balls, after Craig Overton (18 not out off 8) and Tymal Mills (8 off 4) had wrestled the game back from the home team's grasp with a vital 25-run partnership.
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