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BBC News
01-07-2025
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Coles and Rocchiccioli shine but draw looms large
Rothesay County Championship Division One, 1st Central County Ground, Hove (day three)Warwickshire 415 & 88-1: Davies 48*Sussex 533: Hughes 151, Coles 150, Hudson-Prentice 45; Rocchiccioli 6-173Warwickshire (5 pts) trail Sussex (6 pts) by 30 runs with nine second-innings wickets remainingMatch scorecard James Coles made 150 for Sussex and there were six wickets for Warwickshire off-spinner Corey Rocchiccioli but despite their efforts their Rothesay County Championship match is heading for a second successive Championship hundred helped Sussex take a first-innings lead of 118 after their first innings ended on 533, 20 minutes after tea on day left Warwickshire with 24 overs to get through to stumps and they closed on 88-1, losing Rob Yates for 11 when he inside-edged a fine ball from Ollie Robinson onto his middle Jack Carson nearly broke through late on but Daniel Ibrahim put down a tough chance at short leg to reprieve skipper Alex Davies, who has so far added 66 with Tom Latham as Warwickshire closed 30 runs in arrears. But the effects of a slow pitch and the Kookaburra ball are likely to ensure a stalemate, especially with some rain in the forecast on the final 21, made an unbeaten 148 against Durham last week and followed it up with his sixth first-class hundred, sharing stands of 73 with Ibrahim (36), 59 with John Simpson (30) and 50 with Fynn Hudson-Prentice (45) before he was sixth out, caught behind via an inside edge off Ethan without Chris Rushworth, who injured his hamstring after sending down just three overs on the second day, Warwickshire bowled diligently and fielded well. Coles, unbeaten on 50 overnight, brought up his hundred with an edge to the boundary just before lunch, but it was one of the few unconvincing shots he played in a 294-ball stay, an outstanding effort on another day of sweltering heat at Hove. He hit 19 fours and pulled a six into the pavilion off Oliver hard work in the field was epitomised by Rocchiccioli, the Western Australian who arrived in England for his first taste of county cricket last month having taken 84 Sheffield Shield wickets in the past two seasons. Here he followed up his six wickets on debut against Somerset at Edgbaston last week with six more. Three came on the second day and he had to plug away from the sea end until his 18th over today for further reward when Jack Carson (28) was smartly taken at leg then polished off the innings by removing Gurinder Sandhu and Henry Crocombe with successive deliveries. The 328 balls he sent down was the most in an innings by a Warwickshire bowler since Ashley Giles bowled 68.3 overs against Yorkshire at Headingley in 1996. He just about had the strength to doff his cap to acknowledge the appreciative applause of the crowd after he'd sent down his 50th was the pick of Warwickshire's seam attack, picking up Ibrahim who played around a straight one as well as Coles and there was a wicket apiece for Yates and Ed Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
BBC News
30-06-2025
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Hughes ton helps Sussex fight back against Bears
Rothesay County Championship Division One, 1st Central County Ground, Hove (day two)Warwickshire 415: Yates 93, Hain 87, Barnard 66; Crocombe 3-82, Robinson 3-93Sussex 278-3: Hughes 151, Coles 56no; Rocchiccioli 3-94Sussex 3 pts, Warwickshire 4 ptsMatch scorecard Daniel Hughes made a season's best 151 before departing to the last ball of the second day as Sussex made a strong response to Warwickshire's 36-year-old Australian left-hander was lbw to off-spinner Corey Rocchiccioli off the penultimate delivery of the second day as Sussex reached shared an opening partnership of 98 with Tom Haines and then added 142 with James Coles as the combination of a flat pitch, a Kookaburra ball doing little off the straight and the Hove heat made it a tough day for Warwickshire's toiled away manfully, bowling unchanged for two sessions, apart from a solitary over, to pick up all three Sussex wickets for 3-94 from 35 Hughes' and Coles' scoring options were limited after tea when Warwickshire skipper Alex Davies employed as many as eight leg-side fielders as he rotated his seamers while Rocchiccioli wheeled away at the other looked like being a fruitless session for the Bears until Rocchiccioli, armed with the new ball, skidded a quicker delivery on to Hughes' pads for a belated but deserved reward. Hughes' 151 came off 260 deliveries with 26 had only previously passed 50 three times this season, although 60 against Durham last week hinted at a return to form. Here, the majority of his boundaries came through his strong areas between extra cover and wicketkeeper Kai Smith was convinced Haines had edged a ball from Rocchiccioli in his fourth over but the umpire was unmoved and in his next over Haines lofted Rocchiccioli for six, necessitating a ball did the trick as Rocchiccioli got enough grip to knock back Haines' off stump and end an opening stand of 98 in 22 had a second wicket in the 32nd over when the out-of-form Tom Clark, who had faced 28 balls for his five, was held low down at slip by Tom scored 140 in the afternoon session with Hughes reaching his 10th first-class hundred by taking two boundaries in three balls off Ethan runs dried up after tea, though, as Warwickshire went on the defensive and Rocchiccioli plugged away, trying to force a mistake. Coles was still there at the close, though, having passed 50 for the fifth time this season just before Warwickshire's final three wickets added a further 43 runs in just under an Robinson struck in the second over of the day when he found Smith's inside edge and Gurinder Sandhu also claimed his third wicket of the innings when he had Chris Rushworth caught behind. Jack Carson trapped Bamber in front with a ball which kept a shade low to end the supplied by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay
BBC News
25-06-2025
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Hain & Latham steer Bears to draw with Somerset
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Edgbaston (day four)Somerset 498 & 229-8 dec: Rew 61; Rocchiccioli 5-67Warwickshire 351 & 161-4: Hain 68*, Latham 52 Warwickshire (11 pts) drew with Somerset (14 pts) Match scorecard Warwickshire and Somerset harvested a predictable County Championship draw as a forgettable match finally petered out on the final day at a notional victory target of 377 in 69 overs, Warwickshire plodded to 161-4 as Tom Latham (52 from 103 balls) and Sam Hain (68 not out from 157) escorted their team to safety and the match to a had extended their second innings in the morning to 229-8 but not as quickly as they hoped as Australian off-spinner Corey Rocchoccioli took 5-67 on had always appeared that a bland pitch would blunt the victory aspirations of either side and so it proved. Both shored up their positions in the middle of Division One with a solid points haul from a match which offered less than vivid entertainment. The deployment of two short mid-wickets and two short extras for Latham off Migael Pretorius was about as exciting as it got for the slumbering Edgbaston resumed on the final morning on 116-3, 283 ahead overall, and started purposefully. James Rew completed a 66-ball half-century but two wickets for Rocchoccioli slowed the momentum and changed the plan. The spinner unfurled a lovely turning delivery which Rew, on 61, edged to wicketkeeper Kai Smith and Tom Banton then missed a sweep and was coach Steve Kirby had suggested after day three that Somerset would need 80 overs to try to bowl Warwickshire out, but that point arrived with the lead only 317. Tom Abell and Archie Vaughan batted watchfully to prevent a collapse then expanded to add 65 in 14 overs before Abell charged and missed at Rocchoccioli. Pretorious had his off-stump removed by Ethan Bamber and Rocchoccioli's five-for was complete when Craig Overton missed a reverse sweep and was lbw, triggering lunch and the challenge the target - 377 in two sessions - Warwickshire needed a strong platform but they lost soon both openers. Alex Davies fell to the fourth ball, lbw to Matt Henry and Rob Yates left a gap between bat and pad and Jack Leach, who opened the bowling, turned the ball through scuppered any chance of a Warwickshire win, but Somerset's hopes were ground away over the next two hours by Latham and Hain, who declined to pursue a target of 276 from 34 overs after tea. Latham drove a return catch to Overton and Jacob Bethell top-edged a pull at Pretorius but the implacable Hain reached 50 for the 58th time in first-class cricket to see the job through in a sparsely-populated stadium as far-removed as can be from the passionate cauldron it will be when England meet India next Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
BBC News
18-06-2025
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Bears sign spinner Rocchiccioli on short-term deal
Warwickshire have signed Australian off-spinner Corey Rocchiccioli to cover the next four County Championship 27-year-old has been brought in to use his experience of playing with the Kookaburra ball for the fixtures against Somerset and Sussex this month and Worcestershire and Essex in July. The Kookaburra ball is used in Australia and has a less prominent seam which usually offers less movement to the bowlers than the Dukes ball, which is normally used in switch in the ball type was introduced in the County Championship in 2023."We are very excited about welcoming Corey into our squad through June and July," Bears first-team coach Ian Westwood said., external"He is a proven performer in Sheffield Shield cricket, and with his experience of the Kookaburra ball, we know he will make an impact for us." Rocchiccioli has taken 114 wickets in 34 first-class games for his home state Western Australia, and finished the recent Sheffield Shield season as the third highest wicket-taker with 38, including a career-best 7-52 against Queensland in are the second county to bring in an overseas player on a short-term deal after Hampshire signed India white-ball batter Tilak Varma to cover the same block of four are currently fourth in Division One of the County Championship after the first seven matches, 22 points behind leaders Friday's T20 Blast derby against Worcestershire Rapids, they return to red-ball action against Somerset on Sunday, 22 June.
