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Smeed leads the smackdown as Essex suffer eight-wicket rout
Elgar, Critchley make fifties but hosts are undermined by top and tail collapses
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01-Jun-2025
Somerset 149 for 2 (Smeed 81) beat Essex 148 (Critchley 54, Elgar 50, Green 3-30) by eight wickets
Will Smeed made light work of Essex's meagre total as 2024 runners-up Somerset made it two wins from two to begin their Men's Vitality Blast campaign.
T20 powerhouse Smeed whacked 81 in 54 balls to canter to an eight-wicket victory, as they chased 148 with 25 balls to spare.
Full postMills mows down Gloucestershire to make it two from two for Sussex
Defending champions routed by 80 runs in Hove after Alsop, Coles star with the bat
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01-Jun-2025
Sussex 173 (Alsop 58, Payne 3-24) beat Gloucestershire 93 (Mills 3-13) by 80 runs
Sussex Sharks made it two wins out of two in the Vitality Blast when they marked their first home fixture with victory over Gloucestershire by 80 runs. But after their success last season it has been a disappointing start to the new campaign by Gloucestershire, who had been beaten by just four runs in their high-scoring opener against Kent.
They needed 174 for victory here but were bundled out for 93, with only three batsmen making double figures. After making a bright start to their chase Gloucestershire soon ran into trouble. Ollie Robinson sent Cameron Bancroft's off-stump cartwheeling to make it 19 for one and when D'Arcy Short was caught on the deep backward-square boundary they had lost both their Australian overseas players inside the first four overs.
Full postCrane lifts Glamorgan as Middlesex implode on tricky surface
Legspinner stars at Merchant Taylors' School with matchwinning four-wicket haul
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01-Jun-2025
Glamorgan 128 for 5 (Tribe 40, Douthwaite 31) beat Middlesex 124 for 9 (Williamson 25, Crane 4-28) by five wickets
Mason Crane sparked a spectacular Middlesex collapse as Glamorgan opened their 2025 Vitality Blast campaign with a five-wicket win at Merchant Taylors' School.
The 28-year-old leg-spinner struck with his first ball on the way to figures of 4 for 28 as the hosts capitulated from 45 for 0 to 124 for 9 in their 20 overs.
Full postD'Oliveira, Hose take centre stage as Worcestershire rout Yorkshire
Visitors collapse to 51 for 6 and never recover, with Finch claiming 2 for 19
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01-Jun-2025
Worcestershire 201 for 5 (D'Oliveira 79, Hose 54) beat Yorkshire 135 for 8 (Bess 41, Finch 2-19) by 60 runs (DLS)
Brett D'Oliveira's scintillating 79 off 48 balls sent his team on their way to a first Vitality T20 Blast win of the season, as they swept aside Yorkshire at Visit Worcestershire New Road.
Adam Hose, (54), joined his skipper in finding form at the right time as their partnership of 117 propelled the Rapids to 201 for 5.
Full postHaines, Mousley and Holden make India A toil in Canterbury
Mukesh Kumar took three of the five wickets to fall on the third day in Canterbury
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01-Jun-2025
England Lions 527 for 7 (Haines 171, Mousley 113, Holden 101, Mukesh 3-75) trail India A 557 by 30 runs
Centuries from Tom Haines, Dan Mousley and Max Holden helped England Lions reduce the deficit against India A to 30 runs on the third day of the first unofficial Test in Canterbury. Lions ended on 527 for 7 in reply to India A's 557 as the match headed towards a draw.
Mousley, who scored his maiden first-class hundred, fell off the last ball of the day - lbw to part-time offspinner Karun Nair. Batting at No. 7, Mousley came to the middle when Lions had lost two wickets in nine balls. Mukesh Kumar trapped James Rew lbw before having Rehan Ahmed caught at wide slip. Mousley put on a 93-run partnership with Haines. He looked at ease against pace and spin, using the sweep as well as the depth of the crease to play left-arm spinner Harsh Dubey.
Full postSanderson, Willey run amok as Steelbacks do for Foxes
Veteran seamers reduced Leicestershire to 39 for 7 before fellow oldie Ravi Bopara saw Northants home
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01-Jun-2025
Northamptonshire 123 for 5 (Bopara 46*, Walker 2-20) beat Leicestershire 122 (van Beek 42, Sanderson 4-15) by five wickets
Northants Steelbacks maintained their 100 per cent start to the Vitality Blast after comfortably beating Leicestershire Foxes by five wickets at Northampton.
The Foxes mustered only 122 after their top order was blown away by Ben Sanderson (4 for 15) and David Willey (3 for 20). It was a meagre total, albeit a decent recovery from 39 for 7 thanks to a Foxes record T20 eighth-wicket stand of 55 between Logan van Beek (42 from 42 balls) and Tom Scriven (23).
Full postGrace Potts puts Durham to the sword as Lancashire win by 18 runs
Threlkeld stars with bat to ensure visitors emerge with the spoils at Chester-le-Street
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01-Jun-2025
Lancashire 140 for 7 (Threlkeld 48, Lister 42*) beat Durham 122 (Bates 49, Potts 4-33) by 18 runs
Lancashire Thunder produced a gutsy performance in the field to defend 140 to beat Durham by 18 runs at the Bank Homes Riverside and secure their first victory in the 2025 Vitality Blast.
The odds were against Ellie Threlkeld's side when Durham were 61 without loss after eight overs but Grace Potts took four for 33 to derail their pursuit. Threlkeld produced a brilliant stumping to remove the New Zealand legend, Suzie Bates, off Potts for 49 before England's Sophie Ecclestone took two wickets in four balls to end the match
Full postHaris stars with 107* as Pakistan complete whitewash
Emon and Tanzid had led Bangladesh to 196 for 6 but Pakistan chased it down with 2.4 overs to spare
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01-Jun-2025
Pakistan 197 for 3 (Haris 107*, Ayub 45, Mehidy 2-26) beat Bangladesh 196 for 6 (Emon 66, Tanzid 42, Afridi 2-26) by seven wickets
Mohammad Haris' maiden T20I century gunned down the 197-run target against Bangladesh in the third T20I in Lahore. Pakistan coasted to a seven-wicket win to complete an impressive 3-0 series win, testing themselves in the third game by deciding to chase a total. They won with 2.4 overs to spare, giving their new style of batting a huge confidence boost.
Haris put on a big-hitting show in front of the 29,000-plus crowd at the Gaddafi Stadium, slamming seven sixes and eight fours. Haris was so efficient that he didn't play a dot ball from the ninth over to the end of the innings. He reached the three-figure mark off 45 balls, becoming the first non-opener from Pakistan to score a T20I century. He finished on 107 not out off 46 balls.
Full postEsmae MacGregor takes 4 for 8 as Essex rout Somerset
Winfield-Hill impresses for loan county to give hosts big victory over Somerset
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01-Jun-2025
Essex 149 for 7 (Winfield-Hill 42, Anderson 3-19) beat Somerset 84 (MacGregor 4-8) by 65 runs
Esmae MacGregor claimed career-best T20 figures as Essex's bowlers ripped through the Somerset batting line-up to secure their side's first win of the Women's Vitality Blast at Chelmsford.
The Essex medium-pacer finished with four for eight from 3.2 overs, while leg-spinner Abtaha Maqsood took two for 16 as the visitors were rolled for just 84, with Fran Wilson their only batter to reach double figures.
Full postJoe Root's magnificent 166* drives England to 309-run chase, and series win
Carty century and Joseph fiery four-for lead fight for gutsy Windies, as England's sloppy display is rescued
Vithushan Ehantharajah
01-Jun-2025
England 312 for 7 (Root 166*, Jacks 49, Brook 47, Joseph 4-31) beat West Indies 308 (Carty 103, Hope 78, Rashid 4-63, Mahmood 3-37) by three wickets
England did not quite turn their back on Joe Root as a limited-overs batter, but certainly the schedule threatened to axe him from white-ball cricket.
A couple of crises and a change of management later, here Root was in Cardiff, unfurling perhaps the best of his 18 ODI hundreds, a career-best 166 not out. His first 42 runs put him top of the pile of English run-scorers in the format, usurping Eoin Morgan's tally of 6957, before the rest iced a chase of 309 to secure a series win over West Indies with a game to spare.
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