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Du Plooy, Williamson provide base for Middlesex win over Gloucestershire
Debutant Sebastian Morgan shines as home side win battle of South Group stragglers
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11-Jul-2025
Middlesex 189 for 5 (du Plooy 54, Williamson 52) beat Gloucestershire 166 for 7 (Short 64, Hollman 2-30, Morgan 2-34) by 23 runs
Half-centuries for Kane Williamson and skipper Leus du Plooy helped Middlesex to a 23-run win over Gloucestershire at Merchant Taylors' School - only their fifth ever victory over the west country men in the Vitality Blast.
Williamson's 50 came in 28 balls with two sixes and six fours while du Plooy produced two maximums of his own, the pair sharing a stand of 92 as the hosts totaled 189 for 5.
Full postNabi, Allen and batters help Hobart Hurricanes blow Dubai Capitals away
Both spinners had identical figures of 4-0-21-3 to restrict Dubai Capitals to 141
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11-Jul-2025
Hobart Hurricanes 142 for 3 (Wright 50, McDermott 48, Varma 1-17) beat Dubai Capitals 141 for 8 (Naib 31, Allen 3-21, Nabi 3-21) by seven wickets
BBL champions Hobart Hurricanes started their GSL 2025 campaign with a thumping win over ILT20 winners Dubai Capitals in Providence. Their comfortable seven-wicket win was set up by the 78-run second-wicket stand between Macalister Wright (50) and the captain Ben McDermott (48). Hurricanes chased the target down with 18 balls to spare.
That Hurricanes needed only 142 to win, though, was courtesy their spin bowlers Fabian Allen and Mohammad Nabi. The two finished with identical figures of 4-0-21-3.
Full postBumrah five-for, Archer's Test return headline closely contested day
KL Rahul headed to stumps unbeaten on 53 with India 242 runs behind England's first innings 387
Alagappan Muthu
11-Jul-2025
Stumps India 145 for 3 (Rahul 53*, Nair 40, Pant 19*, Stokes 1-16) trail England 387 (Root 104, Carse 56, Smith 51, Pope 44, Stokes 44, Bumrah 5-74, Reddy 2-62, Siraj 2-85) by 242 runs
Jasprit Bumrah was saved, or he had saved himself, for Lord's. The temptation of the most famous honours board in the world might have had something to do with it, and if so, the plan worked. Bumrah claimed a five-for that helped bowl England out for 387 but he was far from the only fast bowler that set the pulse racing.
Jofra Archer would have spent three years thinking about this moment, being told of the light at the end of the tunnel as he willed himself through the rehab his body needed to shoulder the burden that comes with Test cricket. Three balls into his first over back, the light wasn't hypothetical anymore. His day in the sun had finally come and he was bathed in its glow as he celebrated a wicket. Yashasvi Jaiswal was sent back, wondering what he could have done against an 89mph rocket that had squared him up. Karun Nair was greeted by a 93mph missile.
Full postSurrey clinch Finals Day place defending 132 at The Blaze
Ryana MacDonald-Gay, Kalea Moore restrict home side despite unbeaten fifty for Kathryn Bryce
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11-Jul-2025
Surrey 132 for 9 (Davidson-Richards 27, Harris 26, Glenn 3-20, Graham 2-20) beat The Blaze 122 for 5 (K Bryce 53*, MacDonald-Gay 2-14, Moore 2-17) by 10 runs
Surrey clinched their place at Finals Day in the inaugural Vitality Blast women's competition by defending a meagre 132 for nine against The Blaze at Trent Bridge, restricting the home side to 122 for 5 to secure a 10-run victory.
They pulled it off despite a bizarre start to The Blaze's pursuit of their 133-run target in which Alice Monaghan had to be removed from the Surrey attack for bowling two full tosses above waist height and 27 were conceded in the opening two overs.
Full postKhaled four-for gives Rangpur Riders winning start to title defence
Guyana Amazon Warriors, the hosts, go down by eight runs after restricting Rangpur Riders to 162
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11-Jul-2025
Rangpur Riders 162 for 5 (Mayers 44*, Sarkar 35, Iftikhar 34*, Tahir 2-21, Motie 2-32) beat Guyana Amazon Warriors 154 (Charles 40, Khaled 4-36, Omarzai 2-13, Shamsi 2-24) by eight runs
Bangladesh quick Khaled Ahmed was the star of the show as defending champions Rangpur Riders began their Global Super League 2025 campaign with a narrow but solid win over hosts Guyana Amazon Warriors at Providence.
Having opted to bat, Rangpur put up 162 for 5 with contributions from Kyle Mayers, Soumya Sarkar and Iftikhar Ahmed, before Khaled's four-for and two-wicket hauls from Tabraiz Shamsi and Azmatullah Omarzai mande sure Amazon Warriors fell short by eight runs.
Full postRoderick retort leads Worcestershire to victory from 10-4
Maiden T20 fifty lifts Rapids to 174 before Derbyshire fall short in charse
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10-Jul-2025
Worcestershire 174 for 6 (Roderick 71, Chappell 3-26) beat Derbyshire 162 for 6 (Madsen 77*) by 12 runs
Gareth Roderick led an impressive recovery as the Worcestershire Rapids beat Derbyshire Falcons by 12 runs in the Vitality Blast North Group match at the Central Co-op County Ground.
Roderick scored 71 from 57 balls and shared a stand of 85 from 62 with Ethan Brookes as the Rapids fought back from 10 for 4 to reach 174 for 6 with Zak Chappell taking 3 for 26.
Full postAlbert onslaught condemns Glamorgan to 95-run loss
Wicketkeeper-batter makes career-best 98 not out before Sonny Baker seals rout
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10-Jul-2025
Hampshire 208 for 4 (Albert 98*, Cartwright 48) beat Glamorgan 113 (Baker 4-20) by 95 runs
Toby Albert was left stranded two runs shy of a maiden Men's Vitality Blast century but his new highest score allowed Hampshire Hawks to leapfrog Glamorgan into third in the South Group.
Wicket-keeper batter Albert built his innings up slowly to reach a fever-pitch 98 off 57 balls but he lost strike to Hilton Cartwright in the last over to fall short of a deserved ton.
Full postRehan delivers six-wicket victory as Foxes stay in the hunt
Unbeaten half-century sinks Northamptonshire with 23 balls to spare
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10-Jul-2025
Leicestershire 173 for 4 (Rehan 52*, Budinger 40, Scrimshaw 3-33) beat Northamptonshire 171 for 7 (Bopara 53) by six wickets
Leicestershire Foxes kept themselves in the race for a quarter-final spot in the Vitality Blast after defeating Northamptonshire Steelbacks by six wickets with 23 balls to spare to go fourth in the North Group, moving ahead of their opponents, who remain in contention despite losing five matches in a row.
Rehan Ahmed was the Foxes' match-winner with an unbeaten 52 off 30 balls after Sol Budinger had hit 40 off 22, pace bowler George Scrimshaw taking three for 33 for the Steelbacks.
Full postShakib's fifty and four-for seal the deal for Dubai Capitals
He top-scored from No. 5, with seven fours and one six, and left too much for the Central Districts batters to do
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10-Jul-2025
Dubai Capitals 165 for 7 (Shakib 58*, Atal 41, Schaw 3-27, Tickner 2-27) beat Central Districts 143 for 8 (Bruce 34, Shakib 4-13, Tanveer 2-28) by 22 runs
Shakib Al Hasan starred with both bat and ball for Dubai Capitals to give the ILT20 champions a winning start in the Global Super League over New Zealand's Central Districts.
Shakib first held fort in the middle order, striking seven fours and a six in his unbeaten 37-ball 58 from No. 5 to help Capitals post 165 for 7 in their 20 overs. Then he dismissed four of the top-six batters in the Central Districts line-up to derail their chase, finishing with figures of 4 for 13 at an economy rate of 3.25.
Full postRoot holds the fort with 99* as India put brakes on Bazball
A disciplined bowling effort from India's seamers led England to scale back their usual aggressive intent
Matt Roller
10-Jul-2025
England 251 for 4 (Root 99*, Pope 44, Reddy 2-46) vs India
Shubman Gill declared the return of "boring Test cricket" but England did not care. They scored uncharacteristically slowly - at just 3.02 runs per over - and ground their way into the ascendancy on their slowest-scoring full day of the Bazball era, as Joe Root reached the close a run short of his 37th Test century and his eighth at Lord's.
"Baz-Baz-Bazball! Come on, I want to see it," Mohammed Siraj was heard telling Root over the stump microphones, as England put their attacking shots away during a wicketless second session. "No more entertaining cricket, lads," Gill told his team-mates, after Ollie Pope left the ball alone outside his off stump. "Welcome back to the boring Test cricket."
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