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Seales, Shamar scythe through Australia before quicks return fire
Seales took 5 for 60, Shamar Joseph 4 for 46 to bowl Australia out for 180 before the visitors' quicks returned fire with four late wickets
Andrew McGlashan
25-Jun-2025
West Indies 57 for 4 (King 23*, Starc 2-35) trail Australia 180 (Head 59, Seales 5-60, S Joseph 4-46) by 123 runs
Jayden Seales and Shamar Joseph shared nine wickets on the opening day in Barbados to increase the pressure on Australia's faltering batting line-up, but the visitors' quicks struck back to suggest another Test match that could unfold in fast forward on a surface that offered assistance for the seamers.
Australia's reshaped top order slipped to 22 for 3 against new ball before Usman Khawaja, who was dropped twice on 6 and 45, and Travis Head added 89 as they threatened to take control. However, Khawaja's dismissal to Shamar Joseph sparked a collapse of 7 for 69 which included Head for 59 after he'd been controversially reprieved by the third umpire who ruled a catch hadn't carried to wicketkeeper Shai Hope.
Full postRanjane, Ferreira and spinners bring TSK back to winning ways
LAKR hardly got going in the chase, as Akeal Hosein and Noor Ahmad shared four wickets
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25-Jun-2025
Texas Super Kings 196 for 8 (Ranjane 70, Ferreira 43, Smit 38, Russell 3-37, van Schalkwyk 3-51) beat Los Angeles Knight Riders 144 for 7 (Chand 30, Hosein 2-10, Noor 2-27) by 52 runs
Texas Super Kings returned to winning ways and rose to second place on the MLC 2025 points table with an all-round display that brushed Los Angeles Knight Riders aside. It was TSK's fourth win in six games and LAKR's fourth loss in five matches as the tournament reached the halfway mark of its league phase.
The stars of the game for TSK were lower-middle-order batters Shubham Ranjane and Donovan Ferreira and left-arm spinners Akeal Hosein and Noor Ahmad.
Full postDebutant Dinusha, seamers make it Sri Lanka's day in rain-hit Colombo
Left-arm spinner Dinusha, Vishwa Fernando and Asitha Fernando got two wickets each on opening day
Madushka Balasuriya
25-Jun-2025
Bangladesh 220 for 8 (Shadman 46, Mushfiqur 35, Dinusha 2-22, Vishwa 2-35) vs Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka dropped five catches, had a couple of edges fall short, and missed a run-out chance. But such was their dominance with the ball on day one of the second Test against Bangladesh that they still managed to pick up eight wickets.
It meant that at stumps, on a rain-affected day, Bangladesh, who had won the toss in the hope of setting an imposing first-innings total on what was supposed to be a generally batter-friendly SSC track in Colombo, were left picking up the pieces on 220 for 8. Taijul Islam and Ebadot Hossain were at the crease for the visitors.
Full postThree Lancashire centurions put victory quest on the table
Luke Wells, Josh Bohannon and Ashton Turner all scored tons against Kent
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24-Jun-2025
Lancashire 639 for 9 (Turner 154, Wells 152, Bohannon 124) lead Kent 374 (Compton 135, Finch 52, Balderson 3-54) by 265 runs
Centuries by Luke Wells, Josh Bohannon and Ashton Turner on debut have given Lancashire a chance of defeating Kent on the final day of the Rothesay County Championship match at Blackpool and thereby securing their first red-ball victory of the season.
Replying to the visitors' 374, Lancashire were 639 for 9 at the close after a day in which their batters savaged Daniel Bell-Drummond's attack.
Full postSomerset bowlers keep pressure high on Warwickshire
Warwickshire narrowly avoid follow on as match looks headed for a draw
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24-Jun-2025
Somerset 498 (Lammonby 133, Kohler-Cadmore 104, Davey 64) and 116 for 3 (Rew 45*, Abell 5*) lead Warwickshire 351 (Davies 78, Hain 78, Latham 65, Overton 4-61) by 263 runs
Warwickshire and Somerset are heading for a Rothesay County Championship draw at Edgbaston after the home side narrowly avoided the follow on on the third day.
In reply to 498, Warwickshire were bowled out for 351, achieving the 349 follow on figure with just two wickets to spare. Alex Davies hit 78 (186 balls), Sam Hain 78 (170) and Tom Latham 65 (158) but, on a very good batting pitch, nobody else reached 30 against a Somerset attack which kept the pressure high, led by skipper Craig Overton (four for 61).
Full postJosh de Caires takes opening chance to strengthen Middlesex position
Northamptonshire take slender first-innings lead thanks to Justin Broad efforts
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24-Jun-2025
Middlesex 413 (Cracknell 112, Guthrie 7-94) and 215 for 3 (De Caires 87) lead Northamptonshire 435 (Zaib 102, McManus 71, Broad 70, Procter 62, Gohar 5-121) by 193 runs
Josh de Caires struck his highest first-class score, to put Middlesex in a strong position at the end of day three of this Rothesay County Championship match at Wantage Road. Playing his first game of the season, de Caires, who has batted at No. 7 for the last couple of years as a spinning allrounder, shared an opening stand of 89 with Sam Robson, the Seaxes finishing the day on 215 for 3, a lead of 193.
De Caires' 87, from 144 balls with 12 fours, helped wrestle back the initiative for Middlesex after allrounder Justin Broad hit 70 (81 balls, 10 fours) and combined with Lloyd Pope in a record 10th wicket partnership for Northamptonshire against Middlesex to earn a slender first-innings lead.
Full postFinlay Bean's double-hundred highlights Yorkshire fightback
Opener puts difficult start to season firmly behind him
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24-Jun-2025
Yorkshire 414 for 6 (Bean 224, Revis 54*) trail Nottinghamshire 487 (Kishan 87, Patterson-White 87, Pennington 61, Moriarty 4-91) by 73 runs
Opener Finlay Bean put a difficult start to the season firmly behind him, compiling a superb maiden double hundred spanning more than nine hours as Yorkshire fought back against Rothesay County Championship leaders Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.
Replying to the home side's 487, Yorkshire - with only one win so far after earning promotion to Division One last season - closed on 414 for 6.
Full postCameron Bancroft bats all day to dig Gloucestershire out of trouble
Australian finishes on 170 not out as Derbyshire bowlers toil to take two wickets on lifeless pitch
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24-Jun-2025
Gloucestershire 187 and 364 for 3 (Bancroft 170, van Buuren 105*) lead Derbyshire 398 (Madsen 123, Came 103, Murphy 3-120) by 153 runs
Skipper Cameron Bancroft batted through all three sessions to score 170 not out and lead a strong Gloucestershire fightback on the third day of the Rothesay County Championship Division Two game with Derbyshire at the Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol.
Unbeaten on 32 overnight, the experienced Australian extended his stay at the crease to seven hours 19 minutes by stumps, having faced 337 balls, struck 16 fours, and shared an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 205 with Graeme van Buuren, who ended the day 105 not out in a second innings total of 364 for 3.
Full postDuckett 149 lays the foundation as England hunt down 371 at Headingley
Root and Crawley got fifties in the chase as India's six dropped catches in the match proved costly
Matt Roller
24-Jun-2025
England 465 (Pope 106, Brook 99, Duckett 62, Bumrah 5-83) and 373 for 5 (Duckett 149, Crawley 65, Root 53*, Thakur 2-51) beat India 471 (Gill 147, Pant 134, Jaiswal 101, Tongue 4-86) and 364 (Rahul 137, Pant 118, Tongue 3-72, Carse 3-80) by five wickets
Headingley has become the home of the run chase, and England hauled in a target of 371 to prove it. Set up by Ben Duckett's dazzling 149, and sealed with a six by Jamie Smith, they romped home in just 82 overs to seal a sixth consecutive win in Leeds - all while bowling first - and to take a 1-0 lead in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.
It left Ben Stokes to breathe a sigh of relief after his decision to field on Friday morning, and India to dwell on the countless opportunities they missed to take control of this Test. They hit five centuries to England's two, but lower-order collapses of 7 for 41 and 6 for 31 proved costly - as did their six dropped catches.
Full postSam Northeast leads stubborn Glamorgan resistance with 72 not out
He shares unbroken fourth-wicket partnership of 95 with Colin Ingram after visitors were 36 for 3
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24-Jun-2025
Glamorgan 353 (Ingram 56, Green 3-55) and 131 for 3 (Northeast 72*, Ingram 37*) trail Leicestershire 576 for 7 dec (Budinger 118, Rehan 106, Patel 70, Hill 70, van Beek 67* Green 58*) by 92 runs runs
Captain Sam Northeast led stubborn late resistance with an unbeaten 72 as Glamorgan battled to stop Leicestershire registering a fifth successive victory on the third day of the Rothesay County Championship division two match at the UptonSteel County Ground, Grace Road.
Northeast, who hit a record 410 not out on this ground three years ago, put together an unbroken fourth-wicket partnership of 95 with Colin Ingram after the visitors had been reduced to 36 for 3 in their second innings.
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