Jeanes guides Glamorgan to cup win over Derbyshire
An unbeaten century from Daisy Jeanes steered Glamorgan to a comfortable nine-wicket win over Derbyshire in the Women's One Day Cup at Duffield.
With Glamorgan chasing 214 to win, Jeanes hit 115 not out and captain Lauren Parfitt made 71 in an opening partnership of 159.
Jeanes and Bethan Gammon (22 not out) took Glamorgan home with 13 overs to spare.
Derbyshire were restricted to 213-7 despite an innings of 80 from opener Ella Porter.
The home side were 151-2 at one point, but lost wickets steadily with two victims apiece for Eve Jackson, Gemma Porter and Sara Phillips.
Glamorgan next face Lancashire Thunder in the third round of the T20 Cup at Brecon on Saturday, 17 May.
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Sir Jimmy Anderson is running late, five, then 10 minutes past 10 before he arrives in front of his computer. He is dishevelled, like he is just up and into his T-shirt and jeans. He finished his first match since July the previous evening, Lancashire against Derbyshire in the County Championship, on a flat pitch at Old Trafford, and is still feeling it. The fourth day had been hard going: 16 overs, eight maidens, two for 25, in a thwarted attempt to force victory against a Derbyshire team hell-bent on securing a draw. Lancashire finished two wickets short. 'I've woken up feeling like absolute death,' Anderson says. 'It was a bit of a wake-up call.' Related: Pope determined to prove he warrants England place and Stokes' defence He arranges his stiff limbs into his office chair. 'You can do all the training you want, but being out in the field for a full day is just so different. Particularly on that wicket. You feel like you have to put 100% effort in every ball to get anything from it. So it was interesting getting out of bed this morning.' I mention a line from one of Ian Botham's books, that appeared in this paper that same day. 'I knew it was all over the morning it took me five minutes to get out of bed,' Botham wrote. Anderson laughs. 'I'm not there yet,' he says, 'but I know what he means.' Anderson will be 43 in July. He has played more Tests than any other Englishman, taken more Test wickets than any other fast bowler, has his own end at Old Trafford – and now a knighthood, too, after Rishi Sunak named him in his resignation honours list. Anderson is a man who manages to make his own first name seem too formal to use, so it is no surprise he seems as comfortable with his new title as a teenage boy with the wedding suit his mother has picked out for him. He almost winces when it's mentioned. 'Until I've actually been to receive it, I'm not even sure I believe it is happening,' he says. He makes sense of it by seeing it as a shared honour, one belonging to the people around him too, his family, and his friends, coaches, and teammates at Lancashire, where he has played since he was a teenager. 'For something like this to happen to a player that's come through the ranks, I think everyone's just really, really happy about it.' Some of his teammates, the ones born after he made his debut, talk about how amazed they are to find themselves playing alongside him. And some of his old teammates, the ones who served with him through a couple of decades of Test cricket, are just as amazed he is still at it. They have long since moved on, into coaching or commentating. Anderson has done a bit of both. He worked as a coaching consultant for England last year, has his BBC podcast, Tailenders, his book, Finding the Edge, which is just out in paperback, and he is about to go on tour around England in September. He is not back bowling for Lancashire because he needs to be, but because he wants to be. You could ask him why. And you could also ask a bird why it flies. I do wonder if, deep down, he is a little scared by the idea of letting go of a job that's been such a large part of his life for the past 25 years. Anderson says not. 'Because I know for a fact that my body has got a certain amount of deliveries left in it. Once that goes, I'll no longer be a bowler. But as long as my body allows me to bowl, I will see myself as a bowler. And other people can see me as whatever they want to see me as. I don't care.' He enjoys playing senior pro around Lancashire's young team. 'I know the standards that you've got to set yourself if you want to make it as a county cricketer, hopefully they can see how I go about things and that helps.' It's not dissimilar to what he was doing with England, when he was counselling the bowlers they had picked to take over from him. 'I enjoyed that, the tactical side of things is something I've done all through for the latter part of my career, trying to come up with plans for how we're going to win a Test match. That wasn't that new to me.' The other stuff, 'the actual technical side of it', he still needs to learn. He has picked up bits of it along the way, but he wants to do his coaching qualifications some day soon. 'There'll be plenty of time to do that in the future, right now I'm focused on playing this year with Lancashire.' There was a thought he could turn out for other teams. He put in for the Indian Premier League auction – 'as a bit of a punt really, it wasn't about the money, it was about trying to experience the IPL, especially with my dip into coaching, I wanted to see how things work over there, because I've never been' – but he was not picked up. It was the same in the Hundred and curse the fool who thought their team would do better without him. He is one of the biggest draws in English cricket and more than capable of bowling 20 good balls. He is contracted to play the Blast for Lancashire, 'but I think we've got a really strong T20 bowling attack, so I'm not expecting to play a huge amount'. He watches the way the white ball swings in those first few overs, and thinks: 'I'd love to be able to have a chance of doing that.' He says: 'But there are so many good bowlers around, so many much younger bowlers as well, who deserve their chance, you never know. 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I was moved on from the white-ball team and I was moved on from the Test team. There's nothing whatever I could do about that. You put it down to whatever you want to put it down to, fate, I guess.' He mentions his daughter, who is doing her GCSEs. 'She texted me after her chemistry exam yesterday. 'I got really lucky with the questions,' she said. She was really worried about chemistry. And I said back: 'You've worked so hard that you deserve whatever luck you get.' 'That's how I've gone through my whole career. If I work hard enough off the field, I'll get what I deserve on the field. Everything after that is what it is. Whether it's an injury, or someone saying 'you're not playing white‑ball cricket any more', or 'we don't want you in the Test team any more', you deal with it as best you can then find the best way to move on from it by working hard at the next thing.' It is why, he says, he would not change a thing about his career. 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That statement was issued at 11.25am, but a little over three hours later in a move reminiscent of a scene from The Thick of It, another missive followed saying Keaton Jennings was resigning as captain of the County Championship team with in-form Australian Marcus Harris taking over. After a draw against Derbyshire and a thumping defeat at leaders Leicestershire in Harris's two games in charge, Benkenstein has now followed Jennings in leaving his post. Steven Croft, the 40-year-old who retired from playing last season, has been placed in interim charge. The messy, muddled triptych of statements act as an emblem for the club's start to a season in which Lancashire have been so bad that barely anyone noticed Yorkshire's slide to the lower reaches of Division One. South African Benkenstein, who enjoyed a fine career as a player, arrived from Gloucestershire, who finished bottom of Division Two in his last season in 2023 and had won just two Championship matches in two years. At Lancashire, he managed just three red-ball wins, all of them in a relegation campaign last year, out of 21 matches. It leaves the club at a low ebb; a far cry from 2022, when they finished second in all three county competitions. To compete on all three fronts is a fine achievement. All the while, a host of Lancashire products thrive elsewhere, such as Nottinghamshire captain Haseeb Hameed, Warwickshire captain Alex Davies, and Surrey's lynchpin Jordan Clark. It is unusual for a county coach to depart mid-season, but this one was greeted with little surprise and few complaints. Now, attention among a restless, angry support base will turn to those who hired him just 18 months ago with such a modest record: Mark Chilton, the director of cricket, Daniel Gidney, the chief executive, and Andy Anson, the chairman. They may feel that the departure of Benkenstein will slightly quieten the music they face at the annual general meeting at 4pm on Thursday, but that seems optimistic. 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'There is a feeling, from both within and outside the club, that cricket isn't the main priority,' he wrote. 'Rather the balance sheet is. That is a real concern. We must get back to being a cricket club.' Lloyd described Anson, who is also CEO of the British Olympic Association, as a 'thoroughly decent bloke who is very busy doing lots of other things, so he can't be hands-on', adding that the well-respected board member John Abrahams is the 'only one with any cricket knowledge at senior level'. For context, Lloyd's lifetime in and around the club has led to him becoming one of 29 vice-presidents at Lancashire, and he still works for the club in commentary and commercial roles. He knows the place like the back of his hand, and his words carry weight. Lloyd's words would chime with many of Lancashire's members, who have been vocal in their dissent for some years. As one says: 'Lancashire and Old Trafford have become an events business attached to an inconvenient cricket team, and an even more inconvenient membership alongside that.' The members have a fraught relationship with the club's leaders. Anson has been in charge since 2020, and Gidney was appointed CEO in 2012, making him one of the longest-serving officials in county cricket. He has helped transform Lancashire off the field, has been innovative in his courting of the lucrative Indian market, and has been a great champion of women's cricket. It should be noted that Lancashire won the inaugural Vitality Women's County Cup on Monday, so it has not all been bad on the field at the start of the season. But he has also had a way of angering cricket fans, not least when he told a Lancashire members' forum that some non-host counties were like 'heroin addicts' in their reliance on the England and Wales Cricket Board. This matter is understood to have been raised at meeting of county leaders. On the more extreme fringe of the Red Rose membership was the Lancashire Action Group, which was founded in 2014 and replaced by Lancashire CC Members Group last year. Earlier this month, their leader Alan Higham wrote an open letter looking ahead to the AGM, saying 'the club is struggling – both on the pitch, financially and for the continued support of loyal fans'. They laid out a series of complaints, including the failure of the club to allow members to be represented on the board, and the stifling of dissent. Some of these issues can be expected to dominate proceedings at the AGM on Thursday. But chief among their complaints was 'a loss of focus on Lancashire CCC'. They accuse the club of failing to encourage attendances at Lancashire matches. In 2019, the last season before the pandemic and the inaugural Hundred, Lancashire's Blast attendances averaged more than 10,000. In 2024, not helped by a washed-out Roses match, that dropped to under 5,500. The highest attendance was still the Yorkshire fixture, at 7,699, with the lowest just 3,768. Blast numbers have been declining across the country since the Hundred (and will continue to do so this year, with advanced sales very poor), but Lancashire's is an extreme example. Membership figures have been dropping, too; in 2006, Lancashire had more than 12,000 members. Now they have just 1,400 full annual members, along with a few thousand others in lower categories that allow access to international tickets. This group clearly fluctuates year-on-year; there were a total of 8,604 members for the Ashes year of 2023, but that dropped to 5,022 in 2024. Members are always likely to grumble when a team perform as poorly as Lancashire are now. But for all that the off-field business is well set up, the club's finances are in a tight spot. When their last accounts (for 2023) were published, Lancashire had £32.2 million of debt, which is expensive to service. The club's finances are tied to the England calendar, and are vulnerable to the whims of the weather. In 2023, they hosted an Ashes Test, but two days were badly affected by rain, costing them revenue. Last year, their Test against Sri Lanka was a low-key affair, while the Roses match and T20 international against Australia were both rained off – bad luck, and brutal for the balance sheet. Next year, Old Trafford does not host a Test match of any sort, denying the club income from advance ticket sales, and in 2027 they are due to host a Test, but not in the Ashes. Last summer, concern about the club's cash flow rose among the playing group when there was a delay in their expenses being paid, affecting some players' personal financial position. When contacted by Telegraph Sport about this last year, the club accepted that one payment was delayed, putting it down to a change of system. Concerts, like Test matches, have been a sure-fire money-spinner for Lancashire in recent decades. There are currently no concerts in the diary, which the club say is because they are focusing on cricket. But reports in local and national media earlier this year revealed that Trafford Council, the local authority, had taken Lancashire CCC and mega-promoter Live Nation to court over an incident in which a member of the public was injured at a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert three years ago. The trial will not happen until March 2027, and Lancashire are still able to host concerts while this happens, although it could be that the opening of the Co-Op Live arena in Manchester affects who performs there. Later this year, Lancashire will be offered a route out of their financial difficulties by the Hundred sale. Gidney, Anson and former board member James Sheridan deserve credit for their work on this, which secured them the IPL partner they so desperately sought, Lucknow's billionaire owner Sanjiv Goenka, and a good overall value of £116 million. Lancashire were gifted 51 per cent of the franchise by the ECB, and chose to sell 21 per cent and keep 30 per cent of it, meaning Goenka is buying 70 per cent overall. When the deal is eventually done – and it is not Lancashire or their partners dragging their feet – the club could receive upwards of £40 million and an opportunity to write off some of that debt and build the business further. That can wait, though. The first step out of Lancashire's crisis will be to win a few games.
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Jimmy Anderson: ‘I know my body has got a certain amount of deliveries left in it'
Jimmy Anderson bowls for Lancashire against Derbyshire. 'You can do all the training you want, but being out in the field for a full day is just so different.' Jimmy Anderson bowls for Lancashire against Derbyshire. 'You can do all the training you want, but being out in the field for a full day is just so different.' Photograph: Alex Davidson/Getty Sir Jimmy Anderson is running late, five, then 10 minutes past 10 before he arrives in front of his computer. He is dishevelled, like he is just up and into his T-shirt and jeans. He finished his first match since July the previous evening, Lancashire against Derbyshire in the County Championship, on a flat pitch at Old Trafford, and is still feeling it. The fourth day had been hard going: 16 overs, eight maidens, two for 25, in a thwarted attempt to force victory against a Derbyshire team hell-bent on securing a draw. Lancashire finished two wickets short. 'I've woken up feeling like absolute death,' Anderson says. 'It was a bit of a wake-up call.' Advertisement Related: Pope determined to prove he warrants England place and Stokes' defence He arranges his stiff limbs into his office chair. 'You can do all the training you want, but being out in the field for a full day is just so different. Particularly on that wicket. You feel like you have to put 100% effort in every ball to get anything from it. So it was interesting getting out of bed this morning.' I mention a line from one of Ian Botham's books, that appeared in this paper that same day. 'I knew it was all over the morning it took me five minutes to get out of bed,' Botham wrote. Anderson laughs. 'I'm not there yet,' he says, 'but I know what he means.' Anderson will be 43 in July. He has played more Tests than any other Englishman, taken more Test wickets than any other fast bowler, has his own end at Old Trafford – and now a knighthood, too, after Rishi Sunak named him in his resignation honours list. Anderson is a man who manages to make his own first name seem too formal to use, so it is no surprise he seems as comfortable with his new title as a teenage boy with the wedding suit his mother has picked out for him. He almost winces when it's mentioned. Advertisement 'Until I've actually been to receive it, I'm not even sure I believe it is happening,' he says. He makes sense of it by seeing it as a shared honour, one belonging to the people around him too, his family, and his friends, coaches, and teammates at Lancashire, where he has played since he was a teenager. 'For something like this to happen to a player that's come through the ranks, I think everyone's just really, really happy about it.' Some of his teammates, the ones born after he made his debut, talk about how amazed they are to find themselves playing alongside him. And some of his old teammates, the ones who served with him through a couple of decades of Test cricket, are just as amazed he is still at it. They have long since moved on, into coaching or commentating. Anderson has done a bit of both. He worked as a coaching consultant for England last year, has his BBC podcast, Tailenders, his book, Finding the Edge, which is just out in paperback, and he is about to go on tour around England in September. He is not back bowling for Lancashire because he needs to be, but because he wants to be. You could ask him why. And you could also ask a bird why it flies. I do wonder if, deep down, he is a little scared by the idea of letting go of a job that's been such a large part of his life for the past 25 years. Anderson says not. 'Because I know for a fact that my body has got a certain amount of deliveries left in it. Once that goes, I'll no longer be a bowler. But as long as my body allows me to bowl, I will see myself as a bowler. And other people can see me as whatever they want to see me as. I don't care.' He enjoys playing senior pro around Lancashire's young team. 'I know the standards that you've got to set yourself if you want to make it as a county cricketer, hopefully they can see how I go about things and that helps.' It's not dissimilar to what he was doing with England, when he was counselling the bowlers they had picked to take over from him. 'I enjoyed that, the tactical side of things is something I've done all through for the latter part of my career, trying to come up with plans for how we're going to win a Test match. That wasn't that new to me.' Advertisement The other stuff, 'the actual technical side of it', he still needs to learn. He has picked up bits of it along the way, but he wants to do his coaching qualifications some day soon. 'There'll be plenty of time to do that in the future, right now I'm focused on playing this year with Lancashire.' There was a thought he could turn out for other teams. He put in for the Indian Premier League auction – 'as a bit of a punt really, it wasn't about the money, it was about trying to experience the IPL, especially with my dip into coaching, I wanted to see how things work over there, because I've never been' – but he was not picked up. It was the same in the Hundred and curse the fool who thought their team would do better without him. He is one of the biggest draws in English cricket and more than capable of bowling 20 good balls. He is contracted to play the Blast for Lancashire, 'but I think we've got a really strong T20 bowling attack, so I'm not expecting to play a huge amount'. He watches the way the white ball swings in those first few overs, and thinks: 'I'd love to be able to have a chance of doing that.' He says: 'But there are so many good bowlers around, so many much younger bowlers as well, who deserve their chance, you never know. If I have a good year …' Three days after we spoke, Lancashire rested him from their game against Leicestershire at Grace Road. They said they were 'managing his workload'. Advertisement The way Anderson talks about working with younger players begs the question: does he wish he had been given a crack at the captaincy? Especially since Pat Cummins has proved fast bowlers can do it. He chews over the idea. 'I don't think so. Just having been quite close to a couple of the England captains recently, like Joe Root and Ben Stokes, I saw everything that comes with it, and I don't know how I'd have coped with all that. 'I would have loved the nice bits, tossing the coin at half-ten in the morning and deciding what to do, setting the fields, all that, but everything else, you need to be a certain type of character for it.' He doesn't really do 'what ifs'. Never has. He says it helps that a lot of the big decisions he has faced in his career were made for him. 'I haven't had to think twice about them. I was moved on from the white-ball team and I was moved on from the Test team. There's nothing whatever I could do about that. You put it down to whatever you want to put it down to, fate, I guess.' He mentions his daughter, who is doing her GCSEs. 'She texted me after her chemistry exam yesterday. 'I got really lucky with the questions,' she said. She was really worried about chemistry. And I said back: 'You've worked so hard that you deserve whatever luck you get.' Advertisement 'That's how I've gone through my whole career. If I work hard enough off the field, I'll get what I deserve on the field. Everything after that is what it is. Whether it's an injury, or someone saying 'you're not playing white‑ball cricket any more', or 'we don't want you in the Test team any more', you deal with it as best you can then find the best way to move on from it by working hard at the next thing.' It is why, he says, he would not change a thing about his career. Related: Ben Stokes hits out at speculation over centurion Pope's England status Anderson is not sure if he would rather be starting out in cricket in 2000 or 2025. 'It's such a different game now, in terms of the opportunities that are out there. I really hope there are enough guys coming through wanting to play Test cricket, looking up to Ben Stokes, to Joe Root, thinking, 'yeah, I want to be the next Harry Brook' or whoever it is. Because I do hear a lot of chat about the franchises, there's so many leagues throughout the winter. Even T10 is a thing you can earn decent money playing now.' He pauses. 'I was never well off growing up, but I never once thought that I wanted to play cricket because it would make me good money, I always just wanted to be 'the next Darren Gough' or whoever it was. That is what I was thinking. I love the game so much. I just hope that we've got enough guys who love it that way too, love watching it, and love playing it, and who want to be stars for England, because unless you've got that, unless you've got people pushing and pushing and pushing to get into that England Test team, then it all drifts away.' The idea hurts him, same as it hurts everyone who loves cricket. There is nothing like a Test, he says. 'It brings out all different sorts of sides to you that you would never find if you just played T20 for your whole career. I know it's hard, especially for the bowlers, but it is just the most satisfying thing to take five wickets to win a game of cricket for your team, to walk off the field afterwards with your head held high. That's like the best feeling.' And if he could only hold on to it, he would never let it go.
