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Samit Patel serves Notts a reminder of his class
Veteran spinner gets one over old club with three matchwinning wickets
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13-Jun-2025
Derbyshire 199 for 5 (Donald 73, Harrison 3-32) beat Nottinghamshire 153 for 9 (Patel 3-14) by 46 runs
Derbyshire Falcons broke their duck for the season and recorded a first Blast victory at Trent Bridge since 2013 as Samit Patel delivered a reminder to his former club that he can be a match-winner even at the age of 40.
The veteran left-arm spinner, who took 208 T20 wickets in 21 seasons in Nottinghamshire colours, claimed another three for 14 as the Falcons consigned the Outlaws to a third straight defeat on their own turf, going down by 46 runs as they finished on 153 for nine chasing a target of 200.
Full postAnderson shines again as Lancashire continue Blast revival
Worcestershire bowled out for 143 before Keaton Jennings, Liam Livingstone steer comfortable chase
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13-Jun-2025
Lancashire 146 for 3 (Jennings 42) beat Worcestershire 143 (Anderson 3-32, Wood 3-34) by seven wickets
Lancashire Lightning continued their strong start to the Vitality Blast with a convincing seven-wicket victory over Worcestershire Rapids at Visit Worcestershire New Road.
Rapids, having chosen to bat, were bowled out for 143 in 19.1 overs. Only Gareth Roderick (35 from 28 balls) resisted for long as the innings failed to recover from early damage inflicted by James Anderson and Luke Wood.
Full postMarkram and Bavuma put South Africa in sight of glory
The duo added an unconquered 143 after joining forces at 70 for 2, and have left South Africa needing only 69 more on the fourth day
Andrew McGlashan
13-Jun-2025
South Africa 138 and 213 for 2 (Markram 102*, Bavuma 65*, Starc 2-53) need 69 runs to beat Australia 212 and 207 (Starc 58, Carey 43, Rabada 4-59, Ngidi 3-38)
South Africa can dare to dream. With Aiden Markram and Temba Bavuma playing the most significant innings of their careers, the latter while carrying a hamstring injury, they closed within 69 runs of claiming the World Test Championship title, which would be the finest hour for a cricket nation steeped in history but short on silverware.
The second-wicket pair combined to add 143 in 38 overs of wonderfully controlled batting, a partnership that will go down in South Africa folklore barring extraordinary events on the fourth morning, with Markram reaching his eighth Test century from 156 deliveries in the closing moments of the day. They repelled everything Australia threw at them on a pitch that, with the sun out for most of the day, was at its friendliest for batting in the Test. The way Australia's last-wicket pair of Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood had earlier been able to add 59 in 22 overs had foretold what was to come.
Full postAllen's 51-ball 151 consigns Freedom to 123-run defeat in MLC 2025 opener
Allen, who hit 19 sixes, led San Francisco Unicorns to 269 for 5, which was 123 too many for defending champions Washington Freedom
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13-Jun-2025
San Francisco Unicorns 269 for 5 (Allen 151, Hassan 38*, Edwards 2-39) beat Washington Freedom 146 (Ravindra 42, Owen 39, Rauf 3-30, Hassan 3-38) by 123 runs
For a little while in Washington Freedom's chase against San Francisco Unicorns in the MLC 2025 opener, it looked like we might be in for something special. As it turned out, all the special stuff was already done in the first half by Finn Allen, whose record-breaking 51-ball 151 powered Unicorns to 269 for 5, and despite a promising start, scoreboard pressure told on Freedom, who eventually went down by a massive 123 runs.
Freedom, the defending champions, got what they wanted after they won the toss and opted to field, Jack Edwards getting rid of Tim Seifert and Jake Fraser-McGurk falling to Saurabh Netravalkar inside the powerplay. But Allen was already looking ominous, and the six-over phase ended with Unicorns on a solid 67 for 2.
Full postJordan stars as Surrey win last-ball thriller against Kent
Surrey snatch victory in dramatic finale after Jason Roy, Laurie Evans steer chase
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12-Jun-2025
Surrey 173 for 6 (Roy 56, Evans 46*, Agar 3-26) beat Kent 171 for 7 (Denly 40, Jordan 4-10) by four wickets
Chris Jordan hit a boundary off the last ball as Surrey beat Kent Spitfires by four wickets in a South Group thriller at the Kia Oval. It was quite a night for Jordan who had earlier taken 4 for 10 - his best figures in the competition - in Kent's 171 for 7.
Jason Roy (56) and skipper Sam Curran (32) seemed to have the chase under control when they put on 90 in nine overs but there were more twists to come.
Full postDickson, Gregory outmuscle Middlesex to make it four from four
Hefty 229 not sufficient as Somerset pile through to five-wicket win
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12-Jun-2025
Somerset 235 for 5 (Dickson 76, Gregory 58*) beat Middlesex 229 for 5 (Holden 87*, Geddes 69) by five wickets
Sean Dickson marked his return to Somerset's team with top score of 76 as they made it four wins from as many Vitality Blast group games with a five-wicket victory over Middlesex in a Taunton run-feast.
Middlesex ran up 229 for five - the highest ever Blast total by a visiting side at the Cooper Associates Ground - after losing the toss, Max Holden striking 87 not out off 47 balls and Ben Geddes a career-best 69 from 32 deliveries, including seven sixes.
Full postSmale's pace puts Glamorgan on fast track to big win
Essex lose fifth game in a row despite pyrotechnics from Luc Benkenstein
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12-Jun-2025
Glamorgan 220 for 6 (Smale 65) beat Essex 180 (Benkenstein 62, Crane 3-24) by 40 runs
Will Smale's career-best 65 handed Glamorgan their third Men's Vitality Blast win of the summer, and kept Essex on zero points at the foot of the table.
Batter Smale had watched sister Sophia score a season's best 24 in a losing cause for Essex against Hampshire Hawks earlier in the day and, as the older of the two, decided to win the sibling rivalry. He put on 84 with Colin Ingram as Glamorgan piled on 220 against the low-in-confidence Eagles.
Full postO'Dowd 158* trumps Munsey 191 as Netherlands chase down 370 against Scotland
It was the third-highest successful chase in ODIs
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12-Jun-2025
Netherlands 374 for 6 (O'Dowd 158*, Nidamanuru 51, Croes 50, Sharif 3-62) beat Scotland 369 for 6 (Munsey 191, Cross 59, Levitt 2-41, Dutt 2-73) by four wickets
Max O'Dowd's 158 not out trumped George Munsey's 191 as Netherlands pulled off the third-highest successful chase in ODI cricket in their World Cup League 2 match against Scotland in Dundee.
Batting first after winning the toss, Scotland rode on Munsey's record 191 off 150 balls to put up 369 for 6. It was the highest ODI score by an Associate batter, going past Paul Stirling's 177 against Canada in 2010. Munsey had a great chance to score a double-hundred - when he fell, ten balls were still left in the innings.
Full postAustralia ahead after Cummins, Rabada and Ngidi dominate pulsating second day
With two third-innings wickets still to prise out, South Africa already need to pull off the fourth-highest successful chase at Lord's
Firdose Moonda
12-Jun-2025
Australia 212 and 144 for 8 (Carey 43, Ngidi 3-35, Rabada 3-44) lead South Africa 138 (Bedingham 45, Bavuma 36, Cummins 6-28, Starc 2-41) by 218 runs
For two hours in the middle of day two, Australia had one hand on the WTC mace after taking a 74-run first-innings lead at Lord's. For the next two, South Africa did their utmost to prise their fingers from it, and for the one after that, Alex Carey and Mitchell Starc fought them off with a 61-run eighth-wicket partnership. As things stand, Australia still have a few fingers on the mace after a gripping day of Test cricket.
It was, once again, a day for bowlers. Fourteen wickets fell on day two, the same number as the first day, for a total of 28 wickets in six sessions.
Full postMcCaughan century leads Hampshire rout of Essex
Charli Knott helps add hefty total before Adams four-for seals emphatic 42-run win
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12-Jun-2025
Hampshire 195 for 2 (McCaughan 106, Knott 72*) beat Essex 153 for 8 (Adams 4-26) by 42 runs
Ella McCaughan became the first women to make a Vitality Blast T20 hundred as Hampshire completed a double over Essex with a 42-run victory at Chelmsford.
The tournament's leading run scorer plundered 106 in 60 balls complete with 16 fours as she passed 1000 runs in the format.
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