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BBC News
08-07-2025
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Willey and Gardner handed Rockets' captaincy
Trent Rockets have named David Willey and Ash Gardner as captain of their men's and women's teams England all-rounder Willey, 35, replaces Lewis Gregory as captain for his first season at Trent Gardner takes over from England skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt, who stepped down from the role to manage her 28, joined the Rockets for her first taste of The Hundred last year, finishing as both the side's second-highest run-scorer and leading wicket-taker."Playing for the Rockets last year was so much fun and it will be incredible this year to lead the team," said Gardner."Taking over from Nat is an honour, and we have a great squad this year so I'm really excited to get going as captain."Trent Rockets' first fixtures are against Birmingham Phoenix on 8 August. Both the men's and women's side finished fifth last season.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
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Steelbacks deserve more recognition
Northamptonshire Steelbacks' players deserve more credit for their T20 Blast performances, according to captain David Willey. A 10-run win over Birmingham Bears on Wednesday made it six wins from their opening six games of the competition. Advertisement They are top of the North Group in which seven victories last season was enough to qualify for the quarter-finals. "There are some brilliant players here - we've got Saif [Zaib] in The Hundred this year but there are a few more guys I would hope would get recognition for their performances and get picked up for a wildcard," the former England all-rounder told BBC Radio Northampton. "We're trying to stay in the present, taking one step at a time and we're actually talking about one ball at a time - and will try to back it up against Durham on Friday." Birmingham looked on course to end the Steelbacks' 100% record when they were 94-1 in the 10th over, chasing 185 for victory, but George Scrimshaw removed Tom Latham and Sam Hain in quick succession before Willey grabbed the prize wicket of Dan Mousley and took a stunning catch in the deep to dismiss Ed Barnard. Advertisement "He [Scrimshaw] is a very talented bowler - he's got some great attributes and to have him out there bowling with the breeze behind him on a pitch which offered him assistance was a game-changer for us and I'm delighted to see him doing well," added Willey. "With the combinations we've got at the death it allows me to use a couple of overs through the middle where we need to make something happen and call on my experience for a couple of tight overs - and to get Mousley out was a key moment."
BBC News
12-06-2025
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Steelbacks deserve more recognition
Northamptonshire Steelbacks' players deserve more credit for their T20 Blast performances, according to captain David Willey.A 10-run win over Birmingham Bears on Wednesday made it six wins from their opening six games of the are top of the North Group in which seven victories last season was enough to qualify for the quarter-finals."There are some brilliant players here - we've got Saif [Zaib] in The Hundred this year but there are a few more guys I would hope would get recognition for their performances and get picked up for a wildcard," the former England all-rounder told BBC Radio Northampton."We're trying to stay in the present, taking one step at a time and we're actually talking about one ball at a time - and will try to back it up against Durham on Friday."Birmingham looked on course to end the Steelbacks' 100% record when they were 94-1 in the 10th over, chasing 185 for victory, but George Scrimshaw removed Tom Latham and Sam Hain in quick succession before Willey grabbed the prize wicket of Dan Mousley and took a stunning catch in the deep to dismiss Ed Barnard."He [Scrimshaw] is a very talented bowler - he's got some great attributes and to have him out there bowling with the breeze behind him on a pitch which offered him assistance was a game-changer for us and I'm delighted to see him doing well," added Willey."With the combinations we've got at the death it allows me to use a couple of overs through the middle where we need to make something happen and call on my experience for a couple of tight overs - and to get Mousley out was a key moment."
BBC News
11-06-2025
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Steelbacks win again as Derbyshire misery continues
Northamptonshire Steelbacks maintained their 100% start to the T20 Blast with a 10-run win over Birmingham Bears despite more heroics from Pakistan paceman Hasan from taking a hat-trick against Derbyshire on Sunday, Ali took three more wickets as the Steelbacks made 184-6 at Wantage Road but a late batting collapse saw the Bears fail to make it three successive miserable campaign continued with a fifth defeat from their opening five games as they were beaten by an Ollie Robinson-inspired Trent Bridge, Nottinghamshire failed to recover from losing two wickets in the first over of their run chase against Yorkshire after Dawid Malan's quick-fire 58 helped the visitors post a daunting target. Match scorecardsLooking for a sixth successive win to start their campaign, Matthew Breetzke (53) and Justin Broad (60) struck half-centuries to help the Steelbacks to a challenging 184-6 with skipper David Willey weighing in with 34 from 29 Ali once again showed what a good operator he is in this format with 3-42 and the vital wicket of Broad to follow club-best figures of 6-28 against Derbyshire on visitors looked in control of the run chase at 139-3 but home skipper David Willey brought himself back on to bowl and he removed Dan Mousley for 68 before taking a diving catch in the deep to remove Ed Barnard off the bowling of Bears lost five wickets for 21 runs to subside to a 10-run defeat and Northamptonshire now have six wins from six, with seven victories in the North Group being enough to make it through to the quarter-finals last season. Falcons fail to fly again while it's all-White for Yorkshire While Northamptonshire have a 100% winning record in the T20 Blast, Derbyshire suffered a fifth defeat in five games as they were beaten by 16 runs at Robinson's T20-best 70 from 46 balls, sharing an 84-run partnership with Colin Ackermann (33), helped the home side reach 168-6 at Falcons reply was given a rapid start by Aneurin Donald and Caleb Jewell as they raced to 30 inside the opening three overs but when Donald was dismissed for 15 the visitors lost wickets at regular 33 and Wayne Madsen with 37 kept Derbyshire's hopes alive but a three-wicket burst from Ben Raine (3-21) ensured the points remained in Jack White returned T20-best figures of 4-33 to inspire Yorkshire to back-to-back victories as Nottinghamshire fell to a nine-run defeat in the East Malan's third successive half-century gave Yorkshire the perfect start at Trent Bridge as he hit seven fours and three sixes in an innings of 58 from only 28 visitors' captain shared an opening stand of 83 with Adam Lyth (29) before Daniel Sams, Liam Patterson-White and Dillon Pennington, with two wickets each, helped Nottinghamshire restrict them to home side's reply got off to an awful start as White removed Lyndon James and Jack Haynes without scoring in the first Joe Clarke anchored the Nottinghamshire innings with 50 and, helped by Freddie McCann (31), worked them back into the Daniel Sams launched Dom Bess for successive sixes to raise hopes of an Outlaws win but when he was caught and bowled by the spinner attempting to hit a third maximum Yorkshire knew the win was theirs."With the ball I tried just to put it on a good length and got a bit of luck," said White."It has been a really enjoyable first season here for me so far and hopefully we can get some more wins and move up the table in all formats." Thursday fixtures South GroupChelmsford: Essex v Glamorgan Taunton: Somerset v MiddlesexThe Oval: Surrey v KentPlay starts at 18:30 BST
BBC News
04-06-2025
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Bopara inspires Northants, Foxes edge out Lightning
Ravi Bopara produced a T20 batting masterclass to inspire Northamptonshire Steelbacks to victory in an entertaining, high-scoring contest against Derbyshire ex-England batter hit an unbeaten 84 off 46 balls to help the hosts recover from 24-3 and set a target of 195, which Derbyshire fell just seven runs short in the the North Group, Leicestershire Foxes ended Lancashire Lightning's 100% winning start to the season with a five-wicket win in a hard-fought encounter at Old who were looking to make it four wins from four, set a target of 146 but the Foxes kept their composure to chase it down with nine balls to spare. Match scorecards Steelbacks remain unbeaten, Falcons still without a win Northamptonshire Steelbacks arrived at the County Ground in Derby having won their first two games to face a Falcons side who lost their was Derbyshire who took charge in the early stages as Northamptonshire lost three wickets inside the opening five overs to slip to skipper David Willey and Bopara steadied the ship with a quickfire 75 partnership as Willey hit three sixes on his way to 37 before he holed out to Pat Brown at deep mid-wicket off Martin Andersson's first Zaib fell for seven but Bopara stepped on the gas, ably supported by Lewis McManus who contributed a useful 29 from 17 Steelbacks racked up 67 runs from the final four overs, including 24 off the last of the innings from Zak Chappell in which Bopara hit three sixes and a left the Falcons with something of a mini mountain to climb, but one which they so nearly reply could not have got off to a worse start when Aneurin Donald spooned one up to Luke Procter off Willey to be dismissed after two balls for the second game in a 0-1 became 12-2, and then 33-3 as David Lloyd and Wayne Madsen both fell without really troubling the Samit Patel. An excellent partnership of 114 between Patel and opener Caleb Jewell gave the Falcons a sniff of pulling off an excellent chase until Jewell was caught by Justin Broad off Procter for 71 from 44 skipper Patel was not to be perturbed and battled on valiantly to try and drag his side over the line, smashing four sixes and nine fours as he made an unbeaten 83. Ross Whiteley came in at the end to hit 15 from 8 balls but Derbyshire were six runs shy of at least tying a thrilling contest. Ahmed outshines Anderson at Old Trafford James Anderson marked his first T20 game for 11 years in style on Sunday, taking 3-17 as Lancashire beat Durham by four wickets in a final-ball there was to be no such joy upon Anderson's first game in the competition at Old Trafford since his return to the T20 Keaton Jennings got the hosts off to a flyer - despite his opening partner Luke Wells going for five - as he smashed 39 from 19 did well to stem the flow though and took wickets at regular intervals throughout to ensure Lightning could not build any real Rehan Ahmed, who is due to join up with England for their T20I series against the West Indies later this week, bowled wonderfully for the took Michael Jones' off stump with a ripper, and then bamboozled Australian batter Ashton Turner with a fantastic googly on his way to 3-16 from his four Trevaskis also did some great work with the ball, taking Green hit 36 towards the end of the innings for Lightning, including running four off the final ball - a rarity in T20 matches - to leave the Foxes needing 146 to win. By the end of the powerplay in Leicestershire's chase, the game was in the balance at 52-3 - Anderson took another T20 wicket with Sol Budinger caught in the deep by Josh Bohannon, and skipper Louis Kimber was making a fist of it with the hit 40 from 22 balls, including three fours and three sixes, before he edged a dolly to Luke Wells at backward point off Tom then did his bit with bat in hand too as he and Ben Cox put on 59 runs for the fifth wicket to swing the tide in Leicestershire's left Trevaskis and Cox needing less than a run a ball in the final five overs after Ahmed was bowled by Charlie two saw it home fairly comfortably in the end as Cox ended on 38 not out and Trevaskis on 22. Lancashire stay top of the North Group on net run-rate ahead of Northamptonshire in second, while Leicestershire climb to third and Derbyshire remain in seventh.
