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Leicestershire get back on track as Mike return sets up six-wicket in
Foxes canter to target after below-par batting efforts from visitors Worcestershire
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15-Jun-2025
Leicestershire 153 for 4 (Budinger 30) beat Worcestershire 150 for 8 (Roderick 49, Mike 3-14) by six wickets
Leicestershire Foxes bounced back from defeats to Yorkshire and Derbyshire on the road with a comfortable home victory over Worcestershire Rapids to keep themselves among the North Group contenders at the halfway point of the Vitality Blast campaign.
Chasing a modest target of 151, the home side were victorious by six wickets with 17 balls to spare. Sol Budinger made 30 with three of his team-mates contributing 26, captain Louis Kimber's coming off just 12 balls and including the winning runs.
Full postMeg Austin lays platform as Bears hold off Hampshire
Millie Taylor, Georgia Davis share four wickets as hosts make it three wins from last four
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15-Jun-2025
Birmingham 178 for 7 (Austin 51, Gibb 3-25) Hampshire 165 for 7 (Adams 32, Taylor 2-19) by 13 runs
Birmingham Bears continued their strong form in the Women's Vitality Blast as they beat Hampshire by 13 runs at Edgbaston to record their third win in four games.
Put in, Birmingham totalled 178 with Meg Austin making a polished T20-best 51 from 38 balls. Daisy Gibb took 3 for 25, her wickets all coming in the space of four balls in her third over to put a crucial brake on the Bears when they appeared to be heading for 200.
Full postPotts takes five as Durham trounce Yorkshire
Alex Lees makes 62 against old club to drive Durham to six-wicket win at York
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15-Jun-2025
Durham 131 for 4 (Lees 62) beat Yorkshire 128 (Potts 5-17) by six wickets
England seamer Matthew Potts excelled with a superb T20 career-best five for 17 as dominant Durham ran through Yorkshire en-route to a six-wicket Vitality Blast victory at York Cricket Club.
Potts, who made his T20I debut for England against West Indies earlier this month, was destroyer in chief on a helpful Clifton Park pitch as the White Rose, inserted, were bowled out for 128 in 19 overs. James Wharton top-scored with 26.
Full postHarris stars again as Surrey see off Essex challenge
Australia allrounder takes three-for and then smashes 31 off 17 to ensure visitors get home
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15-Jun-2025
Surrey 150 for 5 (Chathli 40, MacGregor 3-33) beat Essex 148 for 7 (Scrivens 39, Harris 3-26, Farrant 3-20) by five wickets
Grace Harris starred with bat and ball as Surrey got back to winning ways with a five-wicket win over hosts Essex to return to the top of the Vitality Blast standings.
The Australian allrounder took 3 for 26, including two caught and bowled, before striking the game's only six in a swashbuckling 31 as the visitors chased down a target of 149 with nine balls to spare, despite 3 for 33 for in-form home seamer Esmae MacGregor.
Full postBates, Heath steer Durham to victory over winless Somerset
Visitors win basement battle despite all-round efforts of Amanda-Jade Wellington
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15-Jun-2025
Durham 139 for 6 (Bates 49, Heath 38*) beat Somerset 138 for 7 (Odgers 36, Villiers 2-23) by four wickets
Bess Heath demonstrated maturity aplenty to carry Durham to a four-wicket victory over Somerset in the Vitality Blast women's competition at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton.
Chasing 139 to win, the visitors were indebted to the 23-year-old middle order batter, who scored 38 not out from 25 balls under pressure to help the visitors reach their target with 11 deliveries to spare. Suzie Bates top-scored with 49, while Somerset seamer Mollie Robbins returned figures of 3 for 22 in a losing cause.
Full postIan Holland's four-for gets Washington Freedom off the mark
Washington Freedom cruised to victory in their modest chase with quick knocks from Rachin Ravindra and Glenn Maxwell
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15-Jun-2025
Washington Freedom 149 for 5 (Ravindra 44, Maxwell 38*, Salamkheil 2-27) beat Seattle Orcas 145 for 9 (Warner 31, Mayers 27, Holland 4-19, Edwards 2-24) by five wickets
Seattle Orcas had no answers to fast bowler Ian Holland's variations as they slumped to 145 for 9, which Washington Freedom chased down with 39 balls to spare. Holland finished with career-best T20 figures of 4 for 19 to restrict Orcas after a flying start, before Rachin Ravindra set up the chase at the top and Glenn Maxwell finished things off with an unbeaten 38 off 20.
Orcas were in a strong position of 66 for 1 at the end of the powerplay as MLC debutant David Warner and his opening partner Kyle Mayers peppered boundaries. Warner stood outside the crease to bash the ball around while Mayers went 6, 4 and 4 off consecutive deliveries against Glenn Phillips in the fifth over to power Orcas past 50.
Full postLuus and Mlaba lead South Africa to series-levelling victory
West Indies put up a fight with Hayley Matthews and Shemaine Campbelle scoring half-centuries but it wasn't enough
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15-Jun-2025
South Africa 309 for 9 (Luus 76, Shangase 55, Fletcher 4-64) beat West Indies 269 (Matthews 56, Campbelle 53, Mlaba 4-33) by 40 runs
South Africa's men had their day at Lord's and it might well have roused the women's team because they came back from 0-1 down in the ODI series against West Indies with a power-packed performance. There were contributions all the way down the batting order to put up 309 for 9, led by Sune Luus' enchanting 76 off just 65 balls. Nondumiso Shangase produced a career-best 55 having been trusted with the No. 3 position for only the second time ever. And Annerie Dercksen was around to provide the flourish at the end, even though wickets were falling, as South Africa picked off 106 runs in the last 10 overs.
West Indies, in reply, built their innings around fifties from Hayley Matthews and Shemaine Campbelle but their challenge wilted in the face of some miserly spin bowling from Nonkululeko Mlaba, who brought up her best figures in ODI cricket with 4 for 33. Her dismissal of Matthews came at a crucial time with West Indies keeping up with the required rate at 107 for 2 in the 20th over largely thanks to their captain's fluency. She made 56 off just 58 balls with nine fours.
Full postAllen, Fraser-McGurk, Bartlett, Rauf give Unicorns second straight win
Fraser-McGurk roared back to form in T20s with a blistering 88 off 38 balls that was studded with 11 sixes
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15-Jun-2025
San Francisco Unicorns 219 for 8 (Fraser-McGurk 88, Allen 52, van Schalkwyk 3-50) beat Los Angeles Knight Riders 187 (Chand 53, Tromp 41, Bartlett 4-28, Rauf 4-41) by 32 runs
Finn Allen smashed his second straight 50-plus score, Jake Fraser-McGurk roared back to form, and fast bowlers Xavier Bartlett and Haris Rauf picked up four wickets apiece to lead San Francisco Unicorns to their second win on the bounce in MLC 2025. Unicorns posted a 200-plus total for the second game in a row, after their record-breaking 269 for 5 in the opening game of the tournament, and it proved to be too much for Los Angeles Knight Riders as only two of their batters scored over 30.
It was Fraser-McGurk this time who led Unicorns' charge with a blistering 88 off 38 balls that was studded with 11 sixes and just two fours, and it came after he had tallied just 61 runs in his last seven T20 innings at an average of just 8.71, which also included him getting dropped from the Delhi Capitals (DC) playing XI in the IPL. Against LAKR, however, he and Allen hammered 121 runs in just 55 balls for the second wicket - including a powerplay of 76 for 1. The highlight in that phase was the four consecutive sixes Fraser-McGurk smashed off Shadley van Schalkwyk in the fifth over that went for 25. After a rare boundary-less seventh over for just four runs from Sunil Narine, and seven more in the next bowled by Jason Sangha, Fraser-McGurk and Allen got back to smashing the ball around before Allen holed out to long-on off Narine for 52 off 27.
Full postTom Moores swings Outlaws to victory
Unbeaten 74 combined with Lyndon James fifty ends run of three defeats
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14-Jun-2025
Notts Outlaws 212 for 4 (Moores 74*, James 50) beat Birmingham Bears 206 for 7 (Latham 69, Mousley 53, Patterson-White 3-37) by six wickets
Notts Outlaws ended a run of three successive Vitality Blast defeats with a scintillating six-wicket victory at Edgbaston.
The Bears piled up 206 for 7, with Tom Latham striking 69 off 39 balls and Dan Mousley 53 off 40 before a spectacular late barrage from Moeen Ali and Ed Barnard brought 57 in 20 balls. Liam Patterson-White took 3 for 37.
Full postWard fifty sets up Sussex win, McAndrew haul finishes it
Nathan McAndrew's 6 for 21 seals Sharks' second win over Glamorgan this season
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14-Jun-2025
Sussex 199 for 7 (Ward 55, Simpson 41) beat Glamorgan 172 (Douthwaite 40, Ingram 37, McAndrew 6-21) by 27 runs
Sussex Sharks completed a double over Glamorgan thanks to 6 for 21 from Australian international Nathan McAndrew to give the visitors a 27-run win at Sophia Gardens.
A strong all round performance kept Sussex occupying an all-important top spot in the South Group of the Vitality Blast at the halfway stage.
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