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BBC News
4 days ago
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Relive County Championship day four: Wins for Warks & Lancs; Rehan Ahmed takes 13 wickets
Update: Date: 18:18 BST 25 July Title: And relax! Content: #bbccricket That'll do it for this round of games then. We have seen wins for Somerset, Essex and Warwickshire in Division One. In Division Two Leicestershire have continued their charge towards promotion while Lancashire, Glamorgan and Middlesex were also victorious. You can read all about it here and pore over the league tables as well. We are back next Tuesday for another round of matches in the County Championship. Thanks for joining us and enjoy your weekend. Update: Date: 18:05 BST 25 July Title: Day four close of play scoreboards Content: #bbccricket Division One Division Two Update: Date: 18:04 BST 25 July Title: Post Content: After that hectic finish let's take a look at the close of play scores around the grounds Update: Date: 17:54 BST 25 July Title: Lancashire beat Gloucestershire by nine wickets Content: Glos 381 & 285 f/o v Lancs 577 & 111-1 But this will be Tom Hartley's match. From 302-8 in the first innings, he made a maiden first-class century in a record ninth-wicket stand of 213 with Chris Green who made 160. Hartley then took his best Lancashire figures of 6-116 and followed-up with 5-99 - the first time he's taken 10 wickets in a match. A superb display and a second win of the season for Lancashire, who have been revived under Jimmy Anderson. Update: Date: 17:52 BST 25 July Title: Lancashire beat Gloucestershire by nine wickets Content: Glos 381 & 285 f/o v Lancs 557 & 111-1 Josh Bohannon with the winning boundary and Lancashire have won with eight minutes to spare! Another wonderful game at Cheltenham College. Gloucestershire came back this morning following on but with all 10 wickets standing. They endured a very poor morning, were four down by lunch, and having got close to saving the game, that period might be the biggest area of regret. Update: Date: 17:43 BST 25 July Title: Lancs need 18 to win Content: Glos v Lancs 92-1 - target 110 Keaton Jennings drives Miles Hammond past cover for four before reaching fifty in 60 balls. The target within touching distance now. Update: Date: 17:42 BST 25 July Title: 'A noticeable upturn in results' Content: Glos v Lancs 92-1 - target 110 Ed SeabourneBBC Radio Bristol There has been a noticeable upturn in terms of the results, but not just the results that is clear as Lancashire have won two on the spin but the feel amongst the players as well. The performance levels have increased, there is a sense of optimism amongst the Lancashire fans. Update: Date: 17:35 BST 25 July Title: Lancs need 31 to win Content: Glos v Lancs 79-1 - target 110 Another 26 minutes, or nine overs, whichever comes latest, for Lancashire to score another 31. Cheltenham is such a hard ground to defend and Gloucestershire have been powerless to make this at all nervy for Lancashire so far. Keaton Jennings, 41, and Josh Bohannon, 34, bringing their side home. Update: Date: 17:32 BST 25 July Title: Yorkshire draw with Surrey Content: Yorkshire 517-6d & 120-5 v Surrey 537 When more than two sessions were lost on the second day at Scarborough a draw became most likely and this game has dribbled away. Some personal milestones - Matthew Revis's second hundred of the season, he made 110 not out in the first innings, and 7-162 for Dom Bess. Another decent haul of points for Surrey who stay top of the table by a point from Notts with four games to play. Yorkshire remain in the bottom two, 13 points from safety. Update: Date: 17:31 BST 25 July Title: 'Warwickshire have completed their giant chase' Content: Warks 184 & 396-5 v Worcs 333 & 243 Mike TaylorBBC WM commentator Warwickshire have completed their giant chase and they have won a game where they were second best on the second and third days, but they have come charging back today to recover from 12-2 last night. They chased down 393 and record a win that not only makes their first division status considerably more secure, but looking at the games ahead, they might still have an outside chance. That will hurt Worcestershire badly. Update: Date: 17:30 BST 25 July Title: Yorkshire draw with Surrey Content: Yorks 517-6d & 120-5 v Surrey 537 There's a determination to win and never give up - and then there's delusion. And surely Surrey have veered into the latter camp in the last 20 minutes. But finally hands are shaken at Scarborough. Update: Date: 17:28 BST 25 July Title: Lancs need 38 to win Content: Glos v Lancs 72-1 - target 110 Josh Bohannon's turn to go large as he takes Todd Murphy from round the wicket into the pavilion with a slog sweep. Update: Date: 17:26 BST 25 July Title: Warwickshire beat Worcestershire by five wickets Content: Warks 184 & 396-5 v Worcs 333 & 243 What an effort that is from the home side - their third highest successful run chase in the County Championship and Beau Webster finishes 100 not out. Ethan Brookes scored 227 runs in the game for Worcestershire who were on top for most of it. A victory target of 393 looked like it would be well beyond Warwickshire given how they batted in their first innings and when they were reduced to 12-2 but Zen Malik's century was the bedrock of their successful chase before Webster and Kai Smith (48*) guided them home. A hammer blow to the Pears survival hopes (assuming there is relegation) but are Warwickshire in the title hunt now? Update: Date: 17:25 BST 25 July Title: 100 for Beau Webster Content: Warks 392-5 v Worcs (target 393) Beau Webster scampers a single and reaches his century. Well played sir. Update: Date: 17:22 BST 25 July Title: 'Malik will get the headlines' Content: Warks 390-5 v Worcs (target 393) Dave BradleyBBC Hereford & Worcester cricket commentator It has been a good game of county cricket! Zen Malik will get the headlines but Beau Webster has played such a crucial role in this game. You get the feeling Webster is playing the hosts he has wanted to play all day, but couldn't risk it for his team. Update: Date: 17:21 BST 25 July Title: Post Content: Warks 390-5 v Worcs (target 393) Beau Webster thwacks Harry Finch to the cover boundary. He goes to 94 not out. Make that 98 as he pulls the next one to the square leg rope. Update: Date: 17:20 BST 25 July Title: Post Content: Warks 382-5 v Worcs (target 393) A mis-field costs Worcestershire two more runs - it's all academic to be honest but Worcestershire will be kicking themselves if (when) they lose this one. They just haven't been able to create enough wicket-taking chances in this second innings. Warwickshire need 11 more runs. Update: Date: 17:20 BST 25 July Title: MIDDLESEX WIN BY AN INNINGS & 107 RUNS Content: Middlesex 625-8 dec v Northants 261 & 257 They were made to work hard for it by Northants but Middlesex have their victory. Noah Cornwell takes the final wicket of Yuzvendra Chahal to seal the win for Middlesex. Middlesex's win had always looked likely but Northants deserve praise for holding out for this long. Their determined attitude was exemplified by Rob Keogh who finishes unbeaten on 61 from 192 balls. Update: Date: 17:19 BST 25 July Title: Lancs need 49 to win Content: Glos v Lancs 61-1 - target 110 Lancashire cruising now as Keaton Jennings comes down again and slap Graeme van Buuren's left-arm spin wide of midwicket for four. And follows up with a reverse sweep that beats deep point to the fence. Update: Date: 17:17 BST 25 July Title: 'It would take something pretty spectacular' Content: Yorks 108-5 lead Surrey by 88 Mark ChurchBBC Radio London commentator If you think about this logically and it would take something pretty spectacular but if they get two in an over and then another two in an over. Then leave themselves 10 overs to chase down around 90, that is why we are still out here.
Times
4 days ago
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- Times
Rehan Ahmed and Tom Hartley join exclusive century and ten-for club
In claiming a second five-wicket haul in successive days, Tom Hartley not only inspired his side's second victory of the season but also became the first Lancashire player for 31 years to score a hundred and take ten wickets in the same match (Geoffrey Dean writes). The last to do so had been Mike Watkinson against Hampshire at Old Trafford in 1994. This was Hartley's third five-wicket return for his county, and his most important yet as it helped lift Lancashire from a lowly sixth to fourth in Division Two. They remain 21 points behind second-placed Glamorgan, but if they can beat the Welsh county at Old Trafford next week, will be well-placed to push for promotion. Gloucestershire had begun the day 78 adrift with all second-innings wickets in hand, but immediately lost Cameron Bancroft when he fell tamely to James Anderson, being caught at mid-wicket. Gallingly for the home side, his fellow opener Ben Charlesworth was also caught there off George Balderson to end a fine innings of 71. At one point, Lancashire's field placings were so funky they had seven men, and at one point eight, posted on the leg side for the seamers. On a dry pitch without much carry, it was always going to be spin that was the chief threat. Hartley lured Ollie Price into a rash drive that he edged to slip, before Chris Green, the Australian off spinner, deceived Miles Hammond with an arm ball, pinning him leg-before. After James Bracey was caught behind off a loose waft at Jack Blatherwick's medium pace, it was Hartley who took the key wicket of Joe Phillips. The 21-year old Cornishman had underlined his promise with a second fifty of the match, but when his side badly needed him to play a long innings, he was caught at short leg. In his next over, Hartley bowled the ball of the day to find Graeme van Buuren's edge with one that turned sharply. Zaman Akhter's cameo was ended by a superb diving return catch by the athletic Green, before Hartley ended Todd Murphy's stubborn resistance with one that spun out of the rough to bowl him through the gate. Last man Marchant de Lange was caught at silly point to give Hartley outstanding match figures of 11 for 215 from 62.4 overs. Needing 110 from 26 overs to win, Lancashire lost Luke Wells to Murphy in the third over, but even on a turning pitch, Gloucestershire had far too few runs to play with. Keaton Jennings, with a 60-ball fifty, saw his side home with ample time to spare. Rehan Ahmed became only the fourth Englishman this century to score a hundred and take ten wickets in the same match, guiding Division Two leaders Leicestershire to a 189-run victory over Derbyshire and strengthening their push for promotion. Shortly afterwards, Lancashire's Hartley repeated the remarkable feat, becoming the fifth Englishman to achieve the milestone in the 21st century. England all-rounder Ahmed finished the day with seven for 93, and 13 wickets in the match, as the hosts were dismissed for 256. Scarborough (final day of four): Yorkshire (13pts) drew with Surrey (14pts) Yesterday morning there seemed little chance of this game ending in anything but a draw (Paul Edwards writes). A combination of a true pitch, the Kookaburra ball and Wednesday's rain had seen to that. But Surrey are chasing a fourth successive title, so that did not prevent Rory Burns's side from doing their damnedest to pressurise hosts whose own concerns centre on the bottom of the Division One table. Having saved the follow-on inside the first hour of the morning's play, the Surrey batsmen went hell for leather for five bonus points. They reached that initial target of 450 with eight balls to spare and their overall approach was made clear by Ryan Patel, who drove Jack White to Dom Bess in the third over of the day and was dismissed eight runs short of his first century of the season. Patel's colleagues pursued similar tactics and by the time they were dismissed for 537, giving them a lead of 20, Surrey had smashed 199 runs off 33 overs yesterday. Josh Blake made his maiden first-class fifty before being stumped off Adam Lyth for 72 but the chief beneficiary and target of the visitors' aggression was Bess, who returned the eventful analysis of 35-6-162-7. Surrey's aim was to sweep aside a Yorkshire side reduced to ten men by the absence of Jonny Bairstow, whose partner, Megan, was in labour with their second child. The strategy produced an early success when Fin Bean fell to Sai Kishore for a single and a second three overs before tea when Lyth failed to get to the pitch of Dan Lawrence's off spinner, edging to Jamie Overton. Lawrence also took the catch at deepish gully that removed James Wharton just after tea and when the same fielder snaffled Will Luxton off Will Jacks, Yorkshire's lead was just 61 and there was a minimum of 19 overs remaining. In truth, though, it was never quite on. The draw was certain some time before the players shook hands with Yorkshire on 120 for five, giving them a lead of 100, and only 8.3 overs left. Yet Surrey's dynamic cricket preserved their unbeaten record and keeps them one point ahead of Nottinghamshire going into the final four games. Yorkshire, meanwhile, drop into the relegation places following Essex's victory at Hove, although they are only 13 points behind sixth-placed Hampshire.
BBC News
5 days ago
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- BBC News
Hartley helps Lancs to nine-wicket win over Glos
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Cheltenham (day four)Lancashire 557 & 111-1: Jennings 57*; Murphy 1-32Gloucestershire 381 & 285: Charlesworth 71, Phillips 56; Hartley 5-99, Green 2-62Lancs (22pts) beat Glos (5pts) by nine wickets Match scorecard Man of the match Tom Hartley produced another career-best performance to propel Lancashire to a hard-earned nine-wicket victory over Gloucestershire at Cheltenham and keep alive their hopes of winning promotion back to Division One of the County previously staged his highest score of 130 and taken 6-116 to put his team in control, the England slow left armer claimed 5-99 on the final day of an entertaining match at the famous old College Ground as the red rose county made it two wins out of two in the red-ball format under the new leadership team of interim head coach Steve Croft and captain James to follow on, Gloucestershire were dismissed for 285 in 98 overs in their second innings, slow left armer Hartley finishing with match figures of 11-215 after Ben Charlesworth and Joe Phillips had scored 71 and 56 respectively for the home side. Chris Green weighed in with 2-62 as spin accounted for seven wickets on a surface offering some 110 to win in 26 overs, Lancashire chased down their target for the loss of Luke Wells with five overs to spare, courtesy of an authoritative unbroken second wicket partnership of 103 between Keaton Jennings and Josh Bohannon. Confronted by four spinners as Gloucestershire dispensed with seam, Jennings top-scored with a brisk 57 not out from 67 balls, while the equally forthright Bohannon faced 50 deliveries in raising an undefeated 45 as the visitors eased to victory in the final took 22 points to move into fourth place in Division Two, in the process, leapfrogging Gloucestershire, who settled for five points after sustaining their third defeat of the resumed their second innings on 98 without loss, still 78 in arrears and potentially vulnerable to a repeat of the collapse that undermined their first innings. It was incumbent upon openers Cameron Bancroft and Charlesworth to build upon their good start on a pitch that was offering some assistance to spin, but which was not expected to break Gloucestershire's minimum requirement was to bat two sessions, Lancashire were reading from an altogether different script, Anderson claiming the prized scalp of Bancroft in the opening over, the Australian edging to mid-wicket without adding to his overnight score of seen off Anderson, Charlesworth was no doubt disappointed to then succumb to George Balderson in his first over from the Chapel Lawn End. Attempting a back-foot flick, Gloucestershire's first-innings centurion found Marcus Harris at short mid-wicket and departed for 71 with the score 129-2. Guilty of poor shot selection, Ollie Price then pursued a wide delivery from Hartley that bounced off a length and edged to Luke Wells at slip, at which point Gloucestershire were 134-3, still 42 in arrears, having lost three wickets in the first came close to losing another in the next over, Miles Hammond standing his ground and being afforded the benefit of the doubt when Jennings claimed a catch at short square leg off the bowling of Hartley. The reprieve proved temporary, Green pinning Hammond lbw for 22 in the final over before lunch, which was taken with the score 168-4. Representing Gloucestershire's best chance of saving the game, Phillips remained unbeaten on was joined by James Bracey and these two wiped out the remaining arrears early on in the afternoon session, Phillips going to a hard-earned 50 from 91 balls with his eighth four. But Lancashire continued to take wickets, Jack Blatherwick angling a short delivery into the body of Bracey, who was unable to get his bat out of the way and edged behind. His departure was a blow for Gloucestershire, who were in effect 21-5 with 57 overs left in the even bigger blow befell the home side when Phillips' vigil came to an end soon afterwards, the Cornishman held by the safe hands of Jennings at short leg off the bowling of the ubiquitous Hartley. Phillips had faced 110 balls, accrued eight fours and defied the red rose bowlers for three hours. Hartley then extracted additional spin to remove van Buuren, who stretched forward and was caught behind for eight to leave the home side between a rock and a hard place at Murphy led a Gloucestershire counter-attack, going for his shots, pushing the field back and sharing in a useful stand of 41 in eight overs with Zaman Akhter, who scored a breezy 20 before offering a return catch to Green as the home side slipped to 251-8. Ajeet Singh Dale survived a searching examination at the hands of Anderson and the new ball, he and Murphy digging in to reach tea on 268-8. Gloucestershire had a slender lead of 92 with a minimum 35 overs go-to man, Hartley returned to bowl Murphy for a 56-ball 33 and complete the first 10-wicket match haul of his career as an enthralling contest entered its final session. He then accounted for last man Marchant de Lange, held at short square leg as Gloucestershire's resistance with the bat finally came to an end in the early-evening sunshine. Report supplied by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay
The Guardian
5 days ago
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- The Guardian
Yorkshire v Surrey, Hampshire v Notts, and more: county cricket day four
Update: Date: 2025-07-25T09:20:42.000Z Title: Thursday's round up Content: James Coles' unbeaten 99 is likely to be in vain at Hove, where Sussex are still 55 behind Essex, with three second-innings wickets left. Tom Hartley, fresh from a career-best 130 for Lancashire, rattled through Gloucestershire at Cheltenham to finish with six for 116 – figures bettered only on his remarkable Test debut at Hyderabad. Ben Charlesworth's dismissal for a charming 160, stumped dawdling down the pitch to Hartley, started a collapse of seven for 85. Ethan Brookes' six hitting salvo boosted Worcestershire for the second time in the match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston, while at Scarborough, Surrey's Dom Sibley – in action against Yorkshire – became the first man to 1,000 Championship runs this summer, pipping Saif Zaib by 15 minutes. Northants were forced to follow-on against Middlesex at Merchant Taylors' school, despite Zaib's 82, which made him the first batter at the club to make 1,000 runs since Ben Duckett in 2016. Ryan Higgins grabbed four first-innings wickets, two in the second, to leave Northants looking to the skies for salvation. Rehan Ahmed once again reigned at the County Ground, though not before Leicestershire's Luis Reece collected career-best match figures of 11 for 120 . Ahmed then took all four wickets to fall in Derbyshire's second innings. Kent made a much better stab of their second innings against Glamorgan, thanks to Harry Finch and Grant Stewart; while Tilak Varma's century kept Hampshire on the scoresheet against Nottinghamshire. Josh Tongue, who replaced Brett Hutton at the start of the day, went wicketless. Update: Date: 2025-07-25T09:20:42.000Z Title: Scores on the doors Content: Southampton: Hampshire 367-6 v Nottinghamshire 578-8dec Taunton: Somerset 250 and 89-5 BEAT Durham 145 and 190 By FIVE WICKETS Hove: Sussex 204 and 245-7 v Essex 504 Edgbaston: Warwickshire 184 and 55-2 v Worcestershire 333 and 243 Scarborough: Yorkshire 517-6dec v Surrey 338-4 DIVISION TWO Derby: Derbyshire 189 and 98-4 v Leicestershire 398 and 236-9dec Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 327 and 25-2 v Kent 155 and 360 Cheltenham: Gloucestershire 381 and 98-0 v Lancashire 557 Merchant Taylors' School: Middlesex 625-8 dec v Northamptonshire 261 and 64-3 Update: Date: 2025-07-25T09:20:42.000Z Title: Preamble Content: Good morning! The sun is out in Manchester, which bodes well for the Test, though the Met office warns of cloud and patchy rain that may float down from Scotland during the day. Eight games remain in the Championship and only two – at Southampton and Scarborough - seem certain to be draws. Lots to look forward to, play starts at 11am.
BBC News
6 days ago
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- BBC News
Glos dig in against Lancs after Hartley's heroics
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Cheltenham (day three)Lancashire 557: Green 160, Hartley 130, Hurst 106; Akhter 4-85Gloucestershire 381 & 98-0: Charlesworth 61*, Bancroft 35*Glos (5pts) trail Lancs (6pts) by 78 runs with ten second-innings wickets remaining Match scorecard Tom Hartley produced another stellar performance to put the skids under Gloucestershire as Lancashire made the running on day three of the County Championship match at the College Ground, posted a career-best innings of 130 with the bat on day two, the England slow left armer returned notable figures of 6-116 - his best for Lancashire - to again steal the show. Replying to Lancashire's mammoth 557, the home side were dismissed for 381, conceding a first-innings deficit of Charlesworth staged an outstanding season's-best knock of 160 and Joe Phillips weighed in with 64 as Gloucestershire advanced confidently to 296-3. But Hartley then induced a collapse which saw the hosts lose their last seven wickets for 85 runs in 26 captain Jimmy Anderson enforced the follow-on and Gloucestershire made a better fist of things second time around, Cameron Bancroft and Ben Charlesworth safely negotiating 30 overs to stage an unbroken opening stand of 98. Gloucestershire still trail by 78 runs and Bancroft (35*) and Charlesworth (61*) will be called upon to muster further resistance on a pitch offering some assistance to spin when they return in the day had begun full of hope for Gloucestershire. Resuming on 179-1, Charlesworth and Phillips set a new county record partnership for the second wicket in matches against Lancashire, eclipsing the 160 registered by Bill Athey and Paul Romaines at Bristol in 1984. Phillips perished soon afterwards, superbly held at short square leg by Keaton Jennings off the bowling of Chris Green as Lancashire effected an early breakthrough and terminated a profitable alliance of 171 in 47.3 and Ollie Price applied themselves diligently to the task of cussed defiance and, in between performing the hard yards, these two took advantage of sufficient poor balls to post a half century stand from 104 to make something happen, Lancashire were indebted to Hartley, who persuaded Price to slice a cut shot to Luke Wells at backward point in the 72nd over. Price had contributed 31 to a stand of 58 for the third wicket, and Gloucestershire were 249-3, still 308 runs behind and with further graft required. Charlesworth was joined by Cheltenham-born Miles Hammond and these two advanced the score to 259-3 by the new ball available upon the resumption, Anderson returned at the Chapel End, only for Hammond to greet him with an off-driven four and another boundary behind square. Charlesworth then crunched the former England man through the covers off the back foot to bring up his 150 from 233 balls with his 20th Charlesworth's resistance ended soon afterwards, the 24-year-old left hander inexplicably advancing down the pitch to Hartley and being stumped by Phil Salt with the score 296-4. His dismissal sparked an alarming collapse in which the home side lost six wickets for the addition of 62 runs in 21.1 oversHammond had traded almost exclusively in boundaries, his brisk 36 including six fours and a six, when he miscued an attempted drive and offered a return catch to Hartley. On a roll by now, Hartley struck again in his next over, dismissing Graeme van Buuren lbw without scoring, before persuading James Bracey to pop a catch up to short square leg to complete a remarkable five-wicket seen their middle order blown away by Hartley, Gloucestershire's tail end fared no better against Lancashire's back-up spinners. Zaman Akhter fell lbw to Green and Ajeet Singh Dale succumbed in near-identical fashion to Wells' leg breaks. Hindered by a hamstring strain, Marchant de Lange emerged with Phillips as a runner and the big man suggested a possible escape route for Gloucestershire by smiting two huge sixes. But Hartley returned to have the South African held in the deep, leaving Todd Murphy high and dry on 22 not out, as the hosts fell 27 short of saving the follow and Charlesworth restored calm during a final session that, in stark contrast to what had gone before, failed to yield a single dismissal. Watchful in the face of a new-ball examination at the hands of Anderson, Gloucestershire's openers initially focused their efforts on occupying the crease and taking up time. But as Lancashire's bowlers began to tire, so the opening partnership up where he left off in the first innings, Charlesworth went to 50 from 64 balls with seven fours and a six, his antics causing the threat of further collapse to recede into the distance. His captain proved rock-solid, Bancroft chiselling an unbeaten 35 from 86 balls to serve notice that Gloucestershire remain in the fight. Report supplied by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay
