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Nick Gubbins century condemns defending champions Glamorgan to opening defeat
Skipper's career-best 144 not out leads young Hampshire side to dominant win
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05-Aug-2025
Hampshire 341 for 6 (Gubbins 144, Mayes 74, Leonard 3-54) Glamorgan 252 (Carlson 135, Lumsden 3-64) by
Nick Gubbins' career-best 144 not out led an inexperienced Hampshire to a winning start in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup against defending champions Glamorgan at The Gnoll in Neath.
Four teenagers featured for the visitors - including a three-man seam attack with ages of 19, 19 and 16. The youngest of the trio - Manny Lumsden took 3 for 64 to derail the top order despite Kiran Carlson's magnificent 135.
Full postTom Moores flattens Essex with devastating 148
Nottinghamshire wicketkeeper strikes his highest professional score in rain-affected match
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05-Aug-2025
Nottinghamshire 283 for 9 (Moores 148, Porter 4-29) Essex 234 (Das 46, Lord 3-30) by 51 runs (DLS)
Tom Moores smashed a career-best 148 from 93 balls as Notts Outlaws launched their Metro Bank One-Day Cup campaign with a comfortable victory over Essex.
It is the 28-year-old wicketkeeper-batter's highest score in senior cricket, eclipsing his first-class best of 106. He hit five sixes and 18 fours, sharing a 137-run sixth-wicket partnership with Daniel Sams (45 off 42) as the Outlaws recovered to 283 for 9, having been 41 for four inside the first hour thanks to Essex seamer Jamie Porter taking a List A career-best 4 for 29.
Full postOllie Robinson, Will Rhodes dismantle Sussex
Keeper-batter's first List A century for Durham was followed by Will Rhodes' maiden List A five-for
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05-Aug-2025
Durham 310 for 7 (Robinson 100, Rhodes 96) beat Sussex 259 (Lamb 74, Rhodes 5-30) by 51 runs
A brilliant century from Ollie Robinson and an excellent all-round effort from Will Rhodes led Durham to a 51-run victory over Sussex in the Metro Bank One Day Cup.
Robinson's counter-attacking century, which was his first List A ton for Durham, supported by a gutsy innings from Rhodes fired Durham to a total of 310 for 7 from their 50 overs, with Archie Lenham the pick of the Sussex bowlers.
Full postOllie Price is right as Gloucestershire start with a win
Price century followed by four wickets for departing seamer Zaman Akhter as Derbyshire fall short
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05-Aug-2025
Gloucestershire 341 for 8 (Price 103, Bracey 83, Taylor 67*, Charlesworth 60, Potts 3-72) beat Derbyshire 282 (Guest 86, Akther 4-47) by 59 runs
Ollie Price illuminated the final day of the Towergate Cheltenham Festival, scoring a superb hundred as Gloucestershire beat Derbyshire Falcons by 59 runs to make a winning start to their Metro Bank One-Day Cup campaign.
The Oxford-born batter posted 103 from 115 balls and staged stands of 141 with James Bracey and 97 with Ben Charlesworth for the second and third wickets respectively as the home side ran up an imposing 341-8 at the famous College Ground. Promoted to open the innings, Bracey contributed an enterprising 83, while Charlesworth and skipper Jack Taylor weighed in with half-centuries.
Full postCliff five-for sends Warwickshire tumbling
Imam-ul-Haq notches fifty as Yorkshire wrap up comfortable win in Scarborough
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05-Aug-2025
Yorkshire 140 for 5 (Imam 55) beat Warwickshire 137 (Jani 82, Cliff 5-46) by five wickets
Ben Cliff's maiden five-wicket haul in first-team cricket - a superb 5 for 46 from 8.3 overs - set Yorkshire up for an opening day Metro Bank One-Day Cup win over last year's semi-finalists Warwickshire at Scarborough, by five wickets chasing 138.
New-ball quick Cliff, aged 22, was playing his first first-team game since the summer's opening week following a side injury, and he was the chief tormenter as the Bears were bowled out for 137 inside 37 overs at the start of Group B.
Full postSiraj the star as India square series with epic six-run victory
India sealed their closest-ever Test win in terms of runs as Siraj picked up a five-for
Andrew Miller
04-Aug-2025
India 224 (Nair 57, Atkinson 5-33) and 396 (Jaiswal 118, Tongue 5-125) beat England 247 (Crawley 64, Prasidh 4-62, Siraj 4-84) and 367 (Brook 111, Root 105, Duckett 54, Siraj 5-104, Prasidh 4-126) by six runs
A dank, grey morning in South London, a packed crowd at the Kia Oval, and 53 of the most extraordinary deliveries in Test-match history… all of which culminated in the inevitable, indefatigable redemption of Mohammed Siraj, whose gut-busting five-wicket haul trumped a very different, but every bit as heroic, intercession from England's incapacitated Chris Woakes, in one of the greatest climaxes in all of Test history.
Twenty years ago, on this very day, the legendary Edgbaston Ashes Test of 2005 got underway, but even that match's breathless two-run finish paled against the agonising drama that spanned a solitary hour of play of this, the 25th and final day of another all-timer of a Test series. By the end of it all, India had landed their closest victory in Test history, by six runs. Their players were doing a lap of honour in front of a sea of their jubilant fans, grins beaming out from their battle-weary bodies, safe in the knowledge that they had earned every drop of the acclaim.
Full postFarhan, Ayub set up Pakistan's series-clinching win in Lauderhill
This is the seventh successive time Pakistan have won a T20I series against West Indies
Danyal Rasool
03-Aug-2025
Pakistan 189 for 4 (Farhan 74, Ayub 66, Chase 1-31) beat West Indies 176 for 6 (Athanaze 60, Rutherford 51, Muqeem 1-20) by 13 runs
After the drama of the second game came something of a repeat of the first today. Pakistan edged out West Indies by 13 runs to seal a 2-1 series win, a seventh successive such outcome in bilateral T20I series between the two sides. Pakistan proved just a touch too good for their hosts with both bat and ball, inspired by a 138-run opening partnership between Saim Ayub and Sahibzada Farhan and a flurry at the death. They held their nerve with ball in hand, a clutch few overs at the death shutting the door in West Indies' face, leaving their pursuit of 190 just short once again.
Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat again, but this time avoided losing early wickets as they had on Saturday. Ayub and Farhan saw through the first few overs with solidity, if not quite the aggression this new-look Pakistan may have desired, and before long found the innings drawing to a close without having lost a wicket, but also bereft of the explosiveness that would put the game out of West Indies' reach.
Full postIndia claw back after Brook, Root tons to set up thrilling finish
Prasidh got Root and Bethell in nine balls to keep India's hopes alive, but the hosts need only 35 more
Matt Roller
03-Aug-2025
Stumps England 247 and 339 for 6 (Brook 111, Root 105, Duckett 54, Prasidh 3-109, Siraj 2-95) need 35 more runs to beat India 224 and 396
An extraordinary series will head into its 25th day on Monday, with its outcome still undecided. Powered by sparkling hundreds from Harry Brook and Joe Root, England were cruising towards a target of 374 without breaking sweat. But Prasidh Krishna kept India's hopes alive with two wickets in nine balls, before bad light first and then heavy rain sent a fifth Test out of five into a fifth day.
The equation is tantalising. England only need 35 more runs with four wickets in hand. But one of those, Chris Woakes, has his arm in a sling following a shoulder injury; he is expected to bat - as last man - if required. A new ball is available to India in 3.4 overs, and their seamers will return rested and refreshed after an exhausting workload on Sunday.
Full postHolder's 4 for 19 and last-ball heroics keep series alive
He took four wickets across phases, took two catches and finished things off with a last-ball boundary to end West Indies' losing streak
Danyal Rasool
02-Aug-2025
West Indies 135 for 8 (Motie 28, Hope 21, Mohammad Nawaz 3-14) beat Pakistan 133 for 9 (Hasan Nawaz 40, Agha 38, Holder 4-19) by two wickets
This was not so much a game as an exhibition to showcase the brilliance of Jason Holder. The allrounder opened the bowling, took four wickets across phases of the Pakistan innings, walked in to bat when the equation was steepest, and won West Indies the second T20I with a boundary off the final delivery from Shaheen Shah Afridi. The two-wicket win sees the hosts level the series following a pulsating contest, one that ended with a savage Holder swipe past fine leg when they needed three off one, and a yell of unadulterated joy that ripped through Florida.
West Indies had won just two of their last 19 completed T20Is before this, but began the better of the two sides, puncturing Pakistan with early wickets that left them trying to catch up through the middle overs. They accomplished this to a point thanks to a counter-attacking 60-run fifth-wicket partnership between Salman Agha and Hasan Nawaz, only for Holder's double-strike to peg them back again. The hosts dominated the final five overs which saw Pakistan produce just 23 runs, setting Shai Hope's side an eminently manageable 134 for victory.
Full postJaiswal hundred, Siraj's late strike make India favourites
England lose Zak Crawley to last ball of day after being set 374 to win with series on the line
Matt Roller
02-Aug-2025
England 247 and 50 for 1 (Duckett 34*) need 324 more runs to beat India 224 and 396 (Jaiswal 118, Akash Deep 66, Jadeja 53, Washington 53, Tongue 5-125, Atkinson 3-127)
The fate of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy will be sealed at The Oval on Sunday. England need another 324 runs to pull off the second-biggest chase in their history and win 3-1; India need eight wickets - or nine, in the improbable event that Chris Woakes walks out to bat one-handed - to square the series. The draw is no longer on the table.
India are the favourites, and owe that status to four men: Yashasvi Jaiswal, who scored his sixth century, and second of the series; Akash Deep, the nightwatcher whose maiden Test fifty wore England's seamers down; Ravindra Jadeja, who passed 500 runs for the series; and Washington Sundar, whose late blitz took the target from 335 to 374 inside five overs.
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