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Indian Express
03-07-2025
- Sport
- Indian Express
With a leg-break peach, Yuzvendra Chahal makes his county return
Featuring in his first county game of the season, Yuzvendra Chahal almost bowled Northamptonshire to a famous win over Kent. After securing a lead of 156 runs on the final, his four-wicket burst had Kent reeling at 135 for eight before Matthew Quinn and Joey Evison stitched 25 runs for the ninth wicket and rescued a draw. Chahal was the wrecker-in-chief, taking the new ball and trading early blows. Erratic in the first innings, his 42 overs costing 29 wicketless runs, he made up in the second outing, bowling with precision and guile, returning with figures of 30-6-51-4. The pick of the wicket was Ekansh Singh, the number three batsman who he deceived with a pearler. The flattish ball drifted viciously inward, dropped suddenly and broke away past the timid defensive prod of Singh and disarrayed his off-stump. It's one of his staple deliveries in red-ball cricket, even though he employs it only sporadically in T20s, relying more on his wrong'uns and sliders. But this IPL has seen a return of his leg-break, which he had been using more lavishly. He goes more round-arm with leg-breaks, which explains the sharp, almost spitting turn he gets. He had bowled a similar peach, more theatrical than the Singh one, to fox Rinku Singh this IPL. 7.3 | @yuzi_chahal that is delightful! 🤩 Chahal removes the off stump of Singh with an absolute beauty! 🌀 Kent 29/2. Watch live 👉 — Northamptonshire CCC (@NorthantsCCC) July 2, 2025 He then returned to consume Ben Compton, caught at square leg playing the sweep, before nailing Matt Parkinson (caught at first slip off another leg-break) and Wes Agar (caught behind of a slider) in successive deliveries to raise hopes of an outlandish win. Chahal enjoyed a profitable yield last season too, wherein he snared 19 wickets from four games, including his career best red-ball figures of 9/99. 'I thoroughly enjoyed my time here last season so I'm very happy to be coming back. There are some great people in that dressing room, and I can't wait to be part of that again,' he had said before the game. 'We played some great cricket towards the back end of the season so hopefully we're able to replicate that and bring up some victories,' he added. Head coach Darren Lehmann was chuffed to see him back too: 'I'm really excited that one of best leg spinners in the world is returning to Northamptonshire this season. He brings invaluable experience and he's an absolute gentleman who loves the game. Having him available from mid-June until the end of the season will be fantastic for us.'
BBC News
24-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Northamptonshire commentator Andrew Radd wins prestigiou award
A BBC local radio cricket commentator with a "fountain of knowledge" has been honoured with a prestigious Radio Northampton's Andew Radd - who is also Northamptonshire County Cricket Club's official archivist - was presented with the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians' (ACS) statistician of the year award on Brooke-Lambert Award recognises outstanding work in the field of cricket research and David Kendix, the president of the ACS, said Mr Radd was a "well-deserved winner" and "a distinguished scholar and historian of the game"Mr Radd, better known as Radders, said he was "honoured" to have his work recognised by the association. He was given the award on the pitch during the interval in Northamptonshire's County Championship Division Two fixture against Middlesex at the County Radd began to study cricket and its history while he was still in primary school. He joined BBC Radio Northampton in the 1980s and is a familiar voice on the station's news bulletins and other programmes outside of the cricket an author he has also written a number of books about Northamptonshire County Cricket Club and its personalities. Gavin Warren, president of Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, said: "As a club we're proud [of Andrew]. It's a just reward. His passion for the game is second to none and the information and the dedication and the stats he comes up with are just phenomenal."Radders wanted a low-key presentation today and I made sure that wasn't going to happen."We are just a fraction of the time of the club's existence, to remember the past... we're just here in 2025 and we've got to remember what happened all those years ago. Radders helps us do that. "He's so passionate about it, we're lucky to have him and he's a national treasure." Follow Northamptonshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Perth Now
11-05-2025
- Sport
- Perth Now
Aussie quicks give Darren Lehmann county lift-off
Darren Lehmann has enjoyed his first win as Northamptonshire coach in the county championship -- with a little bit of help from two Australian quick bowlers, Harry Conway and Liam Guthrie. The two pacemen grabbed half of Lancashire's wickets between them over the three-day contest at Wantage Road and even the best efforts of another Aussie Marcus Harris, the leading scorer in English cricket this season, wasn't enough to prevent a 70-run defeat on Sunday. Former Test batter Lehmann has sworn by the efforts of his two Australian recruits, and he was rewarded again as South Australia's Conway, who took eight wickets on debut in his last match, finished with match figures of 5-84 while Queensland's Guthrie took 5-106. 32.3 | One brings two. 👀Conway bowls Hurst with a beauty and he has to go for a 117/ live 👉 Northamptonshire CCC (@NorthantsCCC) May 11, 2025 On a pulsating day's cricket, No.10 Guthrie, who had scored an invaluable 42 in the first innings, played another big part with the bat, notching 18 valuable runs in a ninth-wicket partnership of 81 while big-hitting Ben Sanderson was smashing a 28-ball 65 at the other end. Those runs helped the home side set Lancashire a much tougher target of 236 on a tricky pitch and Guthrie then dismissed both the visiting openers to leave Harris having to try to steer them back on course. The Australian, who scored 121 in the first innings, again looked on course for a seventh score above 50 this season as he moved smoothly on to 43 off 73 balls, with seven fours, only to have a bit of a rush of blood to the head as he tried to hit legspinner Calvin Harrison out of the park and got stumped. 32 | Gone! ☝️Harris advances down the track but misses the ball and is stumped by 116/ live 👉 Northamptonshire CCC (@NorthantsCCC) May 11, 2025 It was the beginning of the end for Lancashire as Conway bowled Matty Hurst with a beauty and had George Balderson caught behind for another duck, while Harrison ripped through the middle order with figures of 4-32. Guthrie finished the job by dismissing last man Will Williams with Lancs all out for 165. It was enough to push Nothamptonshire up to mid-table in the second division, while Lancashire, who had been tipped for promotion, are rock bottom at the moment. That's despite Harris's runs. The 32-year-old now has a total of 749 runs in 10 knocks at an average of 83.22 and his fifth boundary on Sunday made him the first man to hit a hundred fours in county cricket this season. Meanwhile, Glamorgan have confirmed that their ever popular import Marnus Labuschagne will be back to face Northamptonshire this week in Cardiff, as well as playing Middlesex the following week, as he warms up for the World Test Championship final against South Africa at Lord's.
