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The Independent
2 days ago
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- The Independent
Durham toil as 22 wickets fall on first day at Taunton
Twenty-two wickets fell on a remarkable first day of Durham's Rothesay County Championship match against Somerset at Taunton which ended with the visitors languishing on five for two in their second innings. Craig Overton took six for 23 as Durham were bowled out for 145 before the hosts, boosted by a superb 89 from Tom Lammonby, chiselled their way to 250 all out despite George Drissell's five for 59. Durham's hopes were further hit as opener Alex Lees and nightwatchman Callum Parkinson were dismissed when they returned to the crease. Yorkshire shrugged off the absence of new overseas signing Imam-ul-Haq to reach 282 for four on the first day of their clash with leaders Surrey in Scarborough. The Pakistan opener, nephew of the great Inzamam, warmed up with his new team-mates but was forced to remain on the sidelines due to visa issues and his replacement Will Luxton responded with a first-class best 71 off 118 balls. Luxton's knock was surpassed by James Wharton's 78, with Finlay Bean contributing 57. Captain Jonny Bairstow – whose own participation was in doubt due to the impending arrival of his child – stood on 19 when play was curtailed due to bad light. Dan Worrall took three for 49. Essex's hopes of avoiding relegation were boosted by a sturdy opening day against third-placed Sussex at Hove. Jamie Porter took four for 30 as Sussex were bowled out for 204 and the visitors responded by reaching 152 for four at the close to leave them in a promising position. Nottinghamshire reached 241 for five after being put in to bat by hosts Hampshire at Southampton. Freddie McCann fired a fine 79 and Jack Haynes was unbeaten on 70 for the visitors, while Kyle Abbott added two more wickets to his season's tally on a day that saw three hours lost to rain. Ethan Brookes' 80 helped Warwickshire muscle their way to a hard-earned 262 for eight against Warwickshire at Edgbaston. Division Two leaders Leicestershire served up a statement of intent with a commanding opening day's play against nearest challengers Derbyshire at Derby. Openers Rishi Patel and Sol Budinger fell with no score on the board but Lewis Hill's unbeaten 132, backed up by 115 from Rehan Ahmed and 99 not out by Peter Handscomb, helped their side reach an imposing 357 for three at stumps. Middlesex were also well on their way to a big target as an unbeaten 199 stand from Max Holden – who stands on 137 not out – and Kane Williamson (88no) helped them reach 319 for the loss of just one wicket at Northwood. Kent collapsed from 148 for three to 155 all out as Glamorgan took command on day one at Sophia Gardens, although the Welsh side were far from faultless in a response that reached 125 for four at close. Matty Hurst was 105 not out as Lancashire reached 290 for six on a competitive first day against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham. Zaman Akhter's four for 64 helped the hosts remain very much in with a shout.
BBC News
2 days ago
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- BBC News
Somerset on top against Durham as 22 wickets fall
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton (day one)Durham 145 & 5-2: Leach 1-1Somerset 250: Lammonby 89, Kohler-Cadmore 40; Drissell 5-59Durham (3pts) trail Somerset (4pts) by 100 runs with 8 wickets remainingMatch scorecard Somerset's Craig Overton claimed 6-23 as 22 wickets fell on the opening day of their Division One game against Durham at to bat first on a green pitch, the visitors subsided to 145 all out, with Overton twice on a hat-trick during ten probing overs from the Marcus Trescothick Pavilion End. Ben Raine top-scored with reply, Somerset posted 250 all out, Tom Lammonby putting the pitch in perspective with an impressive 89 off 109 balls, including eight fours. Off-spinner George Drissell returned career-best figures of then lost skipper Alex Lees and nightwatchman Callum Parkinson in the three remaining overs to close on 5-2, trailing by 100 was little sign of the carnage to come when Lees and Emilio Gay launched Durham's day with a stand of 26 in 5.5 overs before Gay edged a low catch to second slip to become Overton's first next ball saw Colin Ackerman taken at first slip by Tom Kohler-Cadmore and before they knew it the visitors were 33-3, David Bedingham nicking a delivery from Gregory to wicketkeeper James dropped Ollie Robinson at second slip in the same Gregory over and Durham were relieved when rain arrived at 12.10pm, forcing an early lunch half an hour later. The restart saw Overton strike with his fourth and fifth balls, Robinson caught behind off a defensive push and Graham Clark taken at third slip by Tom Abell, both without had struck five fours in moving to 27 when miscuing a big hit off Overton and providing the bowler with a steepling catch to make it 43-6. Drissell drove in the air to mid-off to give Overton his sixth wicket with the total on 71, while Raine hit a defiant straight six off Josh Davey before edging a defensive shot off the same bowler through to Wagner struck four fours in a Davey over before a cross-batted shot saw him caught at mid-on off Jake Ball and Matthew Potts had cleared the mid-wicket boundary off Leach before reverse-sweeping the left-arm spinner straight to Abell at short third-man to end a Durham innings spanning just 30.1 openers Davey and Kohler-Cadmore quickly went on the attack, Davey striking three successive fours off Potts and his partner lofting two sixes over the short boundary on the town side of the ground in the same Raine dispatched three consecutive Wagner deliveries for four as the pair brought up a half-century stand in just 7.1 overs. But the experienced South African took revenge with the total on 62, accepting a skied return catch as Kohler-Cadmore top-edged a pull was taken with Davey unbeaten on 22. He had added 15 in the final session when edging a back-foot defensive shot off Potts to Bedingham at first slip. The same over saw Rew depart for a duck, cutting a catch to gully, and when Abell also fell without scoring, caught at short leg in Drissell's first over, Somerset had slumped to Banton could make only 10 before Drissell induced another short-leg catch with a ball that turned. But Lammonby and Archie Vaughan steadied the ship and a swept boundary by Vaughan off Parkinson put his side in moved to a fluent 52-ball half-century with a reverse sweep for four off Drissell. But Vaughan fell lbw to Parkinson for 15, the first wicket of the day not to fall to a catch, with Somerset just 11 runs Gregory hit 17 before fending a catch to short-leg off Wagner and Lammonby's excellent contribution ended when he edged to second slip off Drissell, who quickly followed up by bowling Overton for 19.A Ball six off Drissell took Somerset to a batting bonus point, but the former Gloucestershire spinner immediately responded by bowling him to complete a maiden seen the ball turn, the hosts gave the new ball to off-spinner Vaughan, who struck with the second delivery, Lees edging to second slip. Leach then pinned Parkinson lbw to cap an extraordinary supplied by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay
The Guardian
26-06-2025
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- The Guardian
County cricket: balls bring bore draws and Blast needs a boost
The County Championship returned for its first fortnight of high-summer matches (there's another in a month's time) and it was much welcomed, as always, at grounds and online. Less welcome was the return of the Kookaburra ball, which is being used to help England players prepare to play with it overseas. It's a good idea on paper – not so good on grass. There were four draws in Division One. Call them nailed on or hard-earned if you like, I'm calling them boring. Perhaps batters need to be more positive: Essex scored 654 runs at Chelmsford at three an over and Hampshire weren't much better at the other end, compiling 453 at 3.27. Perhaps captains need to be bolder: did stand-in skipper Craig Overton need to set Warwickshire 377 (in 69 overs), a chase understandably declined? If the four-day game is using the five-day ball, perhaps an injection of five-day attitudes to the draw might be worth a trial too? It was no surprise that the one positive result in the top flight came at New Road, where champions Surrey steamrollered basement dwellers Worcestershire with five sessions or so in hand. Rory Burns can call on six international bowlers, supplemented by the very consistent Jordan Clark and the pace of Tom Lawes, in for Dan Worrall. They're not all going to have an off-day are they? It was Clark and Matt Fisher who led the way in bowling out the hosts for 214 in their first dig and Fisher (again) and Nathan Smith who hogged the wickets second time round, Worcestershire mustering just 125. Surrey are now two points behind leaders Nottinghamshire, who drew against Yorkshire, just 20 wickets falling to bowlers across four days at Trent Bridge. Slightly against history, there was much more enterprise shown in Division Two, especially at Bristol, where emotions were still very raw after the untimely death of David 'Syd' Lawrence, an icon of Gloucestershire cricket – and beyond the West Country too. With a daddy hundred of his own and another from Graeme van Buuren, Cameron Bancroft declared well past 500, setting Derbyshire 316. The visitors, tucked in behind runaway leaders Leicestershire, need wins if they want to secure the second promotion slot and they went off like a Brunel express train. An opening stand of 177 in 31.3 overs set up the victory chance, but Harry Came and Caleb Jewell fell in swift succession and van Buuren was back to torment them, this time with the ball and Derbyshire fell 19 runs short, eight wickets down. A fine match, a worthy draw. After two first innings, each of 400+ characterised by late middle-order runs, Toby Roland-Jones declared at Wantage Road to set Northamptonshire 311 for the win, Middlesex with 73 overs to take the 10 wickets. But he ran into a perfect storm of two centurions (Luke Procter and James Sales) and drops where the catches that win matches should have been. Both sides needed to put together a run of wins to grab what looks like one available promotion slot, so a declaration that opened up the game made perfect sense. In the past, Roland-Jones would have been castigated for losing after a declaration, but I hope we live in more enlightened times. I hope too that should the same circumstance arise in Middlesex's next match, he does the same thing. Sometimes the winners win much more than the losers lose. In the T20 Blast North Group, despite two consecutive defeats, Northamptonshire still enjoy a four-point lead at the top, with Lancashire, Leicestershire and Durham occupying the other qualification spots. Only Derbyshire and Yorkshire look out of it as the competition pauses for some high-summer red-ball cricket. It's a similar picture down south, with Somerset leading Surrey, Sussex and Kent, with Essex tailed off and reigning champions Gloucestershire, despite two wins on the bounce, needing snookers. I'd like to suggest making this break more meaningful, more natural, perhaps splitting into Trophy and Shield competitions, but it seems that it's all changing again soon. Can't The Problem Of The English Domestic Cricket Season be given to some bright MBA students as a case study and then make their pitches public for us to have a squint? Their ideas would surely be better than the miasma of compromise the suits usually come up with and foist on us for five years, before deciding that they need even more money and rip it up again. It would be easy to say that England has so much history that it can be complacent about it, ignoring its potential. But India is hardly short of history either, and the IPL has done much more to create a sense of heritage for what was once an upstart tournament. You can't open Cricinfo or social media without seeing stories such as 'Which teenager has the best strike rate in death overs in IPL history?' or 'Which batter has hit a six and a four off consecutive deliveries and been out next ball most often for the Bangalore Balladeers?' As shown by the Ploughman's lunch – both the meal and the film – history can be conjured from thin air and then used as a powerful marketing tool. English cricket should trade more off the oldest professional T20 tournament and less off a format ignored by the rest of the world (and plenty at home too). Starting now, every Cricinfo question about the IPL, every morsel of inconsequential IPL clickbait on social media, every meme marking MS Dhoni's 50th leg-side stumping of a left-hander, should be mirrored by whoever runs that operation for the T20 Blast. It shouldn't be that hard to do. This article is from The 99.94 Cricket Blog
Yahoo
25-06-2025
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- Yahoo
Somerset and Warwickshire heading for draw on batting-friendly pitch
Rothesay County Championship: Somerset 498 & 116-3 lead Warwickshire 351 by 263 runs Warwickshire and Somerset are heading for a Rothesay County Championship draw at Edgbaston after the home side narrowly avoided the follow on on the third day, writes Brian Halford, ECB Reporters' Network. Advertisement In reply to 498, Warwickshire were bowled out for 351, achieving the 349 follow on figure with just two wickets to spare. Alex Davies hit 78 (186 balls), Sam Hain 78 (170) and Tom Latham 65 (158) but, on a very good batting pitch, nobody else reached 30 against a Somerset attack which kept the pressure high, led by skipper Craig Overton (four for 61). Somerset closed the third day on 116 for three, 263 ahead overall, a commanding position but unlikely to be a winning one on a batter-friendly pitch which is not deteriorating. Somerset's seamers opened up superbly after Warwickshire resumed on the third morning on 158 for one. Matt Henry bottled up fellow Kiwi Latham with a sequence of maidens before, still to add to his overnight score, Latham drove at one that nipped away and edged to wicketkeeper James Rew. Five overs, and just six runs, later, Davies perished when he edged Overton to slip where Tom Kohler-Cadmore took a fine catch, low to his right. Jacob Bethell, promoted to four, batted solidly until the stroke of lunch when he bottom-edged a pull at Overton to Rew. The wicketkeeper collected again shortly after the interval when Ed Barnard edged an injudicious drive at Overton and self-flagellated all the way back to the pavilion. Read more: As Warwickshire wobbled to 235 for five, Somerset had all the more reason to regret their recklessness with the bat on the second afternoon. A follow on figure of 550 would have put the home side under pressure but 349 was within reach albeit, it transpired, only just. Advertisement Kai Smith and an increasingly expansive Hain added 66, Hain passing 50 from 133 balls and celebrating with two straight sixes in an over from Jack Leach. Smith supplied Rew's fifth catch with a leg-side tickle off Overton and when, in the final over before tea, Hain edged Leach to slip, Warwickshire were still 32 short of the follow on figure with three wickets left. Corey Rocchiccioli responded aggressively with 28 from 31 balls but pulled Migael Pretorius to long leg with ten still required. Tense moments followed for the home side until Ethan Bamber reverse-swept Leach for four to avert the follow on and pretty much sentence the match to a draw. Bamber and Che Simmons both soon fell playing the forward defensive, Simmons bowled by Archie Vaughan and Bamber lbw to Leach. Somerset's second innings started with a couple of jolts when both openers fell in the first eight overs. Kohler-Cadmore lifted Bamber to mid off and Josh Davey's off-stump paid a high price for his decision to play back to Olly Hannon-Dalby. Tom Lammonby and James Rew added 83 before the former (33, 46) lifted Rocchiccioli to mid-wicket to squander the opportunity of reaching a third century in successive championship innings tomorrow.
Times
25-06-2025
- Sport
- Times
Jacob Bethell's long-awaited red-ball innings ends in umpire row
Edgbaston (third day of four): Somerset, with seven second-innings wickets in hand, are 263 runs ahead of Warwickshire Jacob Bethell's long-awaited first red-ball innings since eight days before Christmas, when his 76 was comfortably England's best match score in a Test defeat by New Zealand, ended with a little ire as, with what became the last ball before lunch, he fell for 20, hooking at Craig Overton and offering a faint bottom edge to the wicketkeeper. Bethell plainly did not think so. Whether the umpire, Michael Gough, who has stood in 42 Tests and was on the ICC Elite Umpires panel until last March, deems his response sufficient — 'dissent by word or action' — to merit Level One disciplinary points remains to be decided. But, after 37 innings, the 21-year old still seeks his first century. His wicket left Warwickshire four down, 120 away from avoiding a follow-on that was only saved after tea with eight gone at which point the last two succumbed in a dozen balls. Somerset, with 27 overs to build on a lead of 147, could reflect on five squandered chances, albeit none easy, through the innings. It was ten months ago that the elegant Bethell last graced a championship crease and he took 25 balls of impeccable calm to post the two runs needed to complete his opening 1,000 at first-class level. On three he savagely drove a full toss back through bowler Jack Leach's hands for his only four, rubbing salt in later with a six. In a gripping resumption, Warwickshire had earlier taken 18 overs to add just 29 to their overnight 158 for one, losing incumbents Tom Latham, without addition to his 65, and Alex Davies for 78, superbly held at slip as the excellent Overton claimed the first of four consecutive wickets. Removing Bethell, the acting skipper did for Ed Barnard and Kai Smith too, before Leach at last dislodged Sam Hain for 78 from 51 overs of staunch occupation. It brought tea at 317 for seven, the follow-on figure 32 runs distant, but Corey Rocchiccioli's bravura 28 from 31 balls left only ten more to get. On a slow pitch, Somerset will need as many overs as possible to dismiss the home side again. Their openers were gone within 30 minutes before Tom Lammonby fell for 33. James Rew's unbeaten 45 helped plunder 73 from the last dozen overs, the climax now set up. Blackpool (third day of four): Lancashire, with one first-innings wicket in hand, are 261 runs ahead of Kent For the first time this season Lancashire's cricketers completely dominated three sessions of a championship match but they face a stiffer challenge if they are to take ten Kent wickets on a flat Blackpool pitch to secure their first red-ball victory of the season (Paul Edwards writes). Led by Luke Wells, Josh Bohannon and Ashton Turner, the latter on his red-ball debut for the county, meant Lancashire ended on 639 for nine, giving them a lead of 261, with the power to smack a few more on the final morning before declaring. But while James Anderson's batsmen had proved it was possible to score quickly on this slow wicket — the day yielded 519 runs in 104 overs — taking ten wickets in 96 overs could prove far harder. So far 19 batsmen have been dismissed in three days, five of them swiping. However, Lancashire's interim captain has risen to challenges throughout his career and Anderson now has the task of inspiring his bowlers in the hope that Daniel Bell-Drummond's side collapse in a spectacular heap. It will be a heck of a task but the skipper will be able to call on the pace of Mitchell Stanley in addition to Wells's underestimated leg-spin and his own craft as he attempts to revive a County Championship season in which Lancashire have lost two and drawn five of their previous First Division games. Regardless of the result, home supporters were able to take pleasure from their side's domination on the third day. Following his 150 at Canterbury almost exactly a year ago, Wells made 152 and was plainly dejected when he holed out to the leg spin of Matt Parkinson at long off when attempting to thrash a fourth six. Bohannon made 205 in that game at the St Lawrence Ground and he contributed 124 here, putting on 174 with Turner, and reaching his own century off 191 balls with a square cut off his fellow Boltonian, Parkinson, before being caught at long off by Agar off Jack Leaning for 124. Turner was much quicker, reaching three figures off 117 balls and had made 154 off 148 balls when Parkinson had him caught at long-off.
