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Revis 150, Coad 89 as Yorkshire put squeeze on fellow strugglers Essex
Ninth-wicket stand of 169 followed by top-order strikes to give hosts a window of opportunity
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01-Jul-2025
Essex 368 and 33 for 3 trail Yorkshire 459 (Revis 150, Coad 89, Lyth 84) by 58 runs
Centurion Matthew Revis and Ben Coad combined to a post a record-breaking ninth-wicket partnership of 169 and fashion a Yorkshire day-three turnaround to give themselves hope of a Rothesay County Championship victory against fellow strugglers Essex at York.
Second-bottom Yorkshire and Essex, one place above them in the Division One table, were separated by 14 points ahead of a ninth-round fixture which had advanced to the White Rose county starting this day's play on 143 for 3 in reply to a first-innings 368.
Full postTom Taylor excels as Hampshire wilt in face of Worcestershire run-mountain
Innings defeat looms as seamer leads onslaught with four first-innings wickets
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01-Jul-2025
Hampshire 221 (Varma 56, Prest 48, Taylor 4-42) and 86 for 3 trail Worcestershire 679 for 7 dec (Hose 266, Libby 228, Roderick 80) by 458 runs
Tom Taylor led an exemplary Worcestershire bowling performance as Hampshire wilted in the sun to head towards an innings defeat in the Rothesay County Championship.
Fast bowler Taylor belied a flat wicket, a Kookaburra ball and searing heat to claim four for 42 in 19 tireless overs.
Full postJames Coles makes 150 as Sussex dispense with any jeopardy
Warwickshire battle through six wickets for Rocchiccioli but stalemate beckons on final day
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01-Jul-2025
Warwickshire 415 (Yates 93, Hain 87, Barnard 66, Crocombe 3-82) and 88 for 1 trail Sussex 533 (Hughes 151, Coles 150, Rocchiccioli 6-173) by 30 runs
James Coles made 150 and there were six wickets for Warwickshire offspinner Corey Rocchiccioli but despite their efforts Sussex's Rothesay County Championship match against Warwickshire is heading for a draw.
Coles' second successive Championship hundred helped Sussex take a first-innings lead of 118 after their first innings ended on 433, 20 minutes after tea on day three.
Full postGloucestershire face final-day deficit as Ingram, Kellaway star
Colin Ingram, Ben Kellaway make centuries to push Glamorgan into first-innings lead
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01-Jul-2025
Gloucestershire 380 and 12 for 0 trail Glamorgan 528 (Kellaway 139, Ingram 117) by 136 runs
Ben Kellaway and Colin Ingram both made centuries as Glamorgan pushed into a first-innings lead to set up the prospect of a draw against Gloucestershire.
Glamorgan's middle-order pair put on 254 for the fifth wicket (147 added from overnight) out of a total of 528, as Gloucestershire's bowlers were subjected to a mammoth 151.1 overs on a day in which just six wickets fell.
Full postRodrigues, Amanjot help India breach fortress Bristol
The pair hit aggressive half-centuries to lift India from 31 for 3; England suffer their first T20I defeat at the venue
Alan Gardner
01-Jul-2025
India 181 for 4 (Rodrigues 63, Amanjot 63*) beat England 157 for 7 (Beaumont 54, Ecclestone 35, Charani 2-28, Amanjot 1-28) by 24 runs
India inflicted a wounding defeat on England for the second match in succession to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. Jemimah Rodrigues and Amanjot Kaur dug India out of trouble with vibrant half-centuries, and the bowlers all did their bit to keep England's chase at bay despite a belligerent fifty from Tammy Beaumont.
Coming off the back of a record loss in the series opener at Trent Bridge, England kept faith with the same XI - and the same tactics as Nat Sciver-Brunt put India in. England's seamers backed that call by reducing India to 31 for 3 in the powerplay, only for a fourth-wicket stand of 93 in 55 balls to emphatically wrest the game from their grasp.
Full postHaynes hits the heights as Nottinghamshire turn tables on Somerset
Leach toils to six-wicket haul but hosts face a challenging final day at Taunton
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01-Jul-2025
Somerset 379 (Banton 84, Abbas 3-59) and 4 for 1 trail Nottinghamshire 509 (Haynes 157, Slater 124, Kishan 77, James 66, Leach 6-121) by 126 runs
Jack Haynes hit his third Rothesay County Championship century of the season to lead Division One leaders Nottinghamshire into a strong position on the third day of the match with Somerset at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton.
Starting the day on 214 for three in reply to their opponents' first innings score of 379, the visitors ran up 509 all out, Haynes leading the way with a career-best 157, while Ben Slater fell early for 124, Ishan Kishan made 77 and Lyndon James 66.
Full postBosch's maiden five-for helps SA complete monster win over Zimbabwe
A stubborn seventh-wicket stand between Ervine and Masakadza only delayed the inevitable
Himanshu Agrawal
01-Jul-2025
South Africa 418 for 9 dec (Pretorius 153, Bosch 100*, Chivanga 4-83) and 369 (Mulder 147, Maharaj 51, Masakadza 4-98) beat Zimbabwe 251 (Williams 137, Mulder 4-50, Yusuf 3-42) and 208 (Masakadza 57, Bosch 5-43, Yusuf 3-22) by 328 runs
The first ball of the day set the tone. Corbin Bosch wished Zimbabwe good morning by cramping Nick Welch with a sharp short delivery, which he ended up fending to short leg. That left Bosch on a hat-trick after he had had Takudzwanashe Kaitano caught at third slip off what had turned out to be the last ball of the third day. Sean Williams avoided the hat-trick, but soon after, a collapse of 4 for 18 left little scope for Zimbabwe to take the game deep after South Africa had set them 537 to win. The visitors won by 328 runs soon after lunch.
From 82 for 6, Zimbabwe captain Craig Ervine and Wellington Masakadza doubled the total in a fighting seventh-wicket partnership of 83. South Africa's frustration lasted for just over an hour, as a superb diving catch by Tony de Zorzi - again at short leg - helped Bosch break the stand. Ervine departed on 49 to give Bosch his fourth wicket, and with that, ended South Africa's irritation.
Full postThomas Rew's blistering century helps England U19s level series with India
Wicketkeeper-batter hits 132 off 89 balls as hosts scrape to victory with one wicket to spare
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30-Jun-2025
England U19s 291 for 9 (Rew 131, Ambrish 4-80) beat India U19s 290 (Malhotra 49, French 4-71) by one wicket
Somerset wicketkeeper-batter Thomas Rew scored a sensational 131 to break the record for the fastest century for England Under-19s and propel his country to a dramatic one-wicket win in this second one-day international against India at Northampton.
Rew reached three figures off just 73 balls, beating Ben Foakes' 79-ball ton against New Zealand in 2012. In all, Rew faced 89 balls in a display of brutal hitting and deft strokeplay, smashing 16 fours and six huge sixes.
Full postJames Bracey leads recovery as battle hangs in the balance
Colin Ingram, Ben Kellaway score unbeaten fifties as Glamorgan look to reel in Gloucestershire
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30-Jun-2025
Glamorgan 228 for 4 (Kellaway 55*, Ingram 52*) trail Gloucestershire 380 (Bracey 133, van der Gugten 4-61, Crane 4-89) by 152 runs
A day of recoveries, led by James Bracey and later by Glamorgan's middle order left the Severnside derby in the balance in Cardiff.
The Gloucestershire vice-captain continued his brilliant season-turning 57 overnight to 133, passing 6,000 First-Class runs in the process thanks to a 89-run final-wicket partnership with Archie Bailey, rescuing the visitors to 380 after an early morning wobble.
Full postAnderson sets tone, Balderson cleans up as Lancashire take charge
Derbyshire facing significant deficit as Keaton Jennings adds another half-century in second innings
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30-Jun-2025
Lancashire 367 and 114 for 1 (Jennings 51*) lead Derbyshire 261 (Andersson 79, Madsen 70, Balderson 4-71) by 220 runs
James Anderson gave another impressive demonstration of the fast bowler's art as Lancashire took control of the Rothesay County Championship match on day two against Derbyshire at Chesterfield.
The former England great struck twice in his opening burst and bowled two more spells in sweltering heat to finish with 2 for 45 from 13 overs. George Balderson was the visitors' most-successful bowler claiming 4 for 71 with wicketkeeper Matty Hurst taking five catches.
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