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Another Brookes barrage puts Worcestershire on victory trail
Allrounder takes match tally of sixes to 15 as visitors close in on rare Edgbaston win
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24-Jul-2025
Warwickshire 184 and 55 for 2 need a further 338 runs to beat Worcestershire 333 and 243 (Brookes 87, Roderick 50)
Ethan Brookes climbed into Warwickshire's bowlers again, in record-breaking fashion, to keep Worcestershire on course for a vital Rothesay County Championship victory at Edgbaston.
Of his side's second-innings total of 243, Brookes' share was a violent 87 from 137 balls. He struck seven sixes which, added to his eight in the first innings, amounted to 15 in the match - a record for any individual at Edgbaston, surpassing the 12 by Ian Botham for Somerset in 1985 and Dean Jones for Australia in 1989.
Full postDom Sibley crosses 1000 runs to lead Surrey response in Scarborough
Matthew Revis hundred helps Yorkshire to post imposing 517 for 6 declared
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24-Jul-2025
Surrey 338 for 4 (Patel 86*, Burns 78, Lawrence 78, Sibley 52) trail Yorkshire 517 for 6 dec (Revis 110) by 179 runs
Opener Dom Sibley became the first batter in either division of the Rothesay County Championship to reach 1000 runs for the summer as Surrey responded strongly to Yorkshire's first-innings 517 for 6 declared from late morning onwards on day three at Scarborough.
Sibley is enjoying a superb 2025, highlighted by a career best 305 earlier this month against Durham, and he needed to reach 24 in this game to get to four figures.
Full postTilak Varma century steers Hampshire towards safe passage
Supporting fifties from Middleton, Weatherley and Organ defy Notts push to enforce follow-on
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24-Jul-2025
Hampshire 367 for 6 (Varma 112, Organ 71*, Weatherley 52, Middleton 52) trail Nottinghamshire 578 for 8 dec (James 203*, Haynes 103, McCann 79, Hutton 71) by 211 runs
Tilak Varma once again proved his enormous talent with his second century in three matches as Hampshire fought hard to keep title-challenging Nottinghamshire at bay at Utilita Bowl.
India prodigy Varma added 112 to take his average in his Hampshire stint to just under 79. He put on 42 with Nick Gubbins, 58 with Ben Brown, and most substantially 126 with Felix Organ to bite into Nottinghamshire's large 578 first-innings score.
Full postKelly, Boyce provide Blaze base for solid victory
Kathryn Bryce spearheads bowling as Freeborn-Wraith stand falls short of rescuing Warwickshire
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24-Jul-2025
The Blaze 218 for 6 (Kelly 66) beat Warwickshire 171 (Wraith 75, Freeborn 56, K Bryce 3-18) by 47 runs
A rain-hit 50-overs match on a club ground might bear little resemblance to a T20 at the Kia Oval but The Blaze will draw some confidence from a 47-run victory over Warwickshire Women in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup as a dress rehearsal of sorts for Sunday's Vitality Blast semi-final.
After Marie Kelly's List A career-best 66 and opening partner Georgia Boyce's 46 had laid the foundations for a total of 218 for 6 after opting to bat first in a match reduced to 39 overs-a-side, The Blaze dismissed Warwickshire for 171, despite a determined effort by Abbey Freeborn (56 off 73 balls) and Nat Wraith (75 off 71) to give the visitors a chance after being reduced to 13 for 4.
Full postHartley six-for puts Lancashire in control despite Charlesworth 160
Gloucestershire opener adds unbeaten fifty second time around as hosts follow on
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24-Jul-2025
Gloucestershire 381 (Charlesworth 160, Phillips 64, Hartley 6-116) and 98 for 0 (Charlesworth 61*) trail Lancashire 557 by 78 runs
Tom Hartley produced another stellar performance to put the skids under Gloucestershire as Lancashire made the running on day three of the Rothesay County Championship match at the College Ground, Cheltenham.
Having posted a career-best innings of 130 with the bat on day two, the England slow left-armer returned notable figures of 6 for 116 - his best for Lancashire - to again steal the Festival show. Replying to Lancashire's mammoth 557, the home side were dismissed for 381, conceding a first-innings deficit of 176.
Full postDuckett, Crawley flatten India on day headlined by Pant's bravery
Ben Stokes took five to restrict India to 358 before India's bowlers fluffed their lines
Alagappan Muthu
24-Jul-2025
England 225 for 2 (Duckett 94, Crawley 84) trail India 358 (Sai Sudharsan 61, Jaiswal 58, Stokes 5-72, Archer 3-73) by 133 runs
India had one high moment at Old Trafford, the kind that cuts through eras, uniting the hardcore fan, radicalising the casual ones and irritating those who have no idea about cricket because why is a video of a man walking down the stairs wearing weird body armour suddenly blowing up on social media? Rishabh Pant's bravery rendered trivial things like the match situation and its result as he walked out to bat on a fractured foot, which is just as well because by the end of the day his team was losing control of the Manchester Test.
England's openers alone took a massive bite out of India's total of 358 as Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley put on a 166-run stand at 5.18 runs an over. It was accidental Bazball though. Neither of them was really looking to score quickly but they were given no choice in the matter by a bowling performance so error prone that packaging it as a highlights reel would be a missed opportunity. There's a word starting with 'B' and ending with 'looper' that fits better.
Full postColes 99* fights for Sussex but Essex close in
Tom Alsop makes 72 as Matt Critchley's legspin chips away for visitors
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24-Jul-2025
Sussex 204 and 245 for 7 (Coles 99*, Alsop 72) trail Essex 504 (Harmer 53) by 55 runs
James Coles led Sussex's resistance with an unbeaten 99 but his efforts seem unlikely to deny Essex victory over Sussex at Hove.
Coles was on the verge of a third successive Rothesay County Championship century when rain arrived at 5.20pm and play was abandoned shortly afterwards with Sussex 245 for seven in their second innings, still trailing by 55 after conceding a first-innings deficit of 300.
Full postArmitage century powers Durham past Lancashire
Alana King fights with three wickets but can't avoid 89-run loss at Chester-le-Street
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24-Jul-2025
Durham 257 (Armitage 111, Windsor 55, King 3-31) beat Lancashire 168 (Fraser 3-33) by 89 runs
An excellent century from Durham captain Hollie Armitage led her side to an 89-run win in their Metro Bank One Day Cup clash with Lancashire Thunder.
Durham's total of 257 was supercharged by Armitage's century, the first scored by a Durham player in professional women's cricket, but three wickets from Alana King restricted the hosts in the closing period of the innings.
Full postHolland flattens Essex before rain has final say
Somerset pile on 312 for 6 in 49.2 overs before the match is washed out
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24-Jul-2025
Somerset 312 for 6 (Holland 76, Hazell 60) vs Essex - No result
Somerset's bid for victory against strugglers Essex was thwarted by the rain at Chelmsford.
Niamh Holland led the visitors' run-fest with 76, including eight fours in 76 balls after they were put in while Jess Hazell hit 60 in 56 balls as they raised 312 for 6 off the 49.2 overs possible.
Full postMirza, Ashraf's new-ball demolition job hands Pakistan consolation win
Sahibzada Farhan's 63 finished Pakistan's tour with an improved batting performance
Mohammad Isam
24-Jul-2025
Pakistan 178 for 7 (Farhan 63, Hasan Nawaz 33, Taskin 3-38) beat Bangladesh 104 (Saifuddin 35*, Mirza 3-19, Nawaz 2-4) by 74 runs
Pakistan ended their Bangladesh tour with a 74-run win in the third T20I in Dhaka. They bowled out the home side for 104 runs, after posting 178 for 7, a marked improvement from the last two games when their batting hardly stood up.
Sahibzada Farhan, who took Fakhar Zaman's place, top scored with 63 off 41, with 54 runs coming from boundaries. He provided Pakistan with a blistering start, after which Hasan Nawaz and Mohammad Nawaz struck quick runs to take them to the highest total at the Shere Bangla National Stadium since 2021.
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