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BBC News
05-07-2025
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Lancs top Blast group as Wood destroys Derbyshire
Lancashire Lightning moved top of the T20 Blast North Group with a second victory in 24 hours as they comfortably beat bottom club Derbyshire Falcons at Emirates Old the hosts posted a solid 178-6, Red Rose bowler Luke Wood took two wickets in the first two balls of a Derbyshire reply that never got out of second by 42 runs moved Lancashire four points clear of second-placed Durham with five games to go before the quarter-finalists are locked Derbyshire, meanwhile, already face a scenario where even winning all of their five remaining games might not be enough to progress to the last contrast, Lancashire are on a roll having won their past four Blast fixtures and will go into their final five games with a spring in their step aside from Liam Livingstone, who batted with a runner, adding 35 in 22 balls after pulling his leg spinner did not appear for the second half of the did not much matter after Wood's pacey in-swingers delivered the two-wicket burst in the first two deliveries of Derbyshire's innings, having Caleb Jewell caught at slip and bowling Martin Andersson with a perfect off-stump Madsen briefly threatened to make the match interesting with 53 from 40 balls but when he became the second victim of Chris Green's second over, the Derbyshire reply rather fizzled who also took a catch, finished with 3-25 from his four overs.
BBC News
14-06-2025
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T20 Blast: Derbyshire beat Foxes in exciting chase
Vitality T20 Blast North Group, Edgbaston, BirminghamLeicestershire 196-5 (20 overs)Derbyshire 197-3 (18.2 overs)Derbyshire beat Leicestershire by seven wicketsMatch scorecard Derbyshire Falcons took East Midlands bragging rights after successfully chasing down Leicestershire Foxes' target of 197 in the Vitality T20 Blast at win lifted Falcons off the bottom of North Group although they still need a continuation of their recent improvement to reach the knockout stages after losing five of their seven games thus the first of two Midlands derbies at Warwickshire's home ground on Saturday, Foxes opener Sol Budinger's bludgeoned 49 off just 24 deliveries to help set an imposing target for the bottom Budinger was eventually dismissed by veteran spin bowler Samit Patel (2-33), the Foxes had rapidly moved to 64-2 at the beginning of the eighth Ahmed and Shan Masood were dismissed in quick succession by Falcons seamer Pat Brown, who finished with 3-51, but Logan van Beek (26 not out) and Ben Cox (28 not out) put on 55 off the final five overs to hand Derbyshire a tough reply, Derbyshire opener Aneurin Donald continued where he left off following Friday's knock of 73 not out against Nottinghamshire with a terrific 60 to help them race to 80-0 after six included the fastest half-century in the club's history from just 18 balls - beating his own previous record set in last year's were given a glimmer of hope when seamer Tom Scriven removed both openers in his first when Wayne Madsen found Matt Salisbury at deep fine leg for Scriven's third wicket, Derbyshire were still 43 runs shy of their target with 32 balls a terrific 52 not out off just 32 balls from 40-year-old Patel, accompanied ably by Ross Whiteley (13 not out), helped the Falcons home comfortably with 10 balls to spare to seal back-to-back victories in consecutive days.
BBC News
13-03-2025
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Derbyshire sign spin bowler Ghazanfar for T20 Blast
Derbyshire Falcons have signed Afghanistan spin bowler Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar for the upcoming T20 Blast 18-year-old made his Test debut last year and his efforts with the white ball saw him named in the International Cricket Council's Men's ODI Team of the Year for claimed 21 white-ball wickets at international level last year at an average of just 13.57, with his best haul of 6-26 coming in against Bangladesh in described Ghazanfar as a player with "the world at his feet", external after he was named in that head of cricket Mickey Arthur said bringing Ghazanfar to the County Ground is "really exciting""AM Ghazanfar is a player who we will be seeing at the very top of the international game for many years to come and our supporters are in for a treat watching him," Arthur told the club website., external Ghazanfar, a spinner capable of turning the ball both directions, joins a Derbyshire side that have failed to get beyond the group stage of the T20 Blast since reaching the quarter-finals in with Arthur at the helm, the teenager said he was eager to work with the former South Africa, Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka head coach."Derbyshire have got a rich cricket history and I'm really looking forward to playing for the team, and to work with a legendary coach like Mickey Arthur, who has so much experience and has won so many things, he can help me to take my game to a new level," Ghazanfar said.
