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12 hours ago
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Hain & Latham steer Bears to draw with Somerset
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Edgbaston (day four)Somerset 498 & 229-8 dec: Rew 61; Rocchiccioli 5-67Warwickshire 351 & 161-4: Hain 68*, Latham 52 Warwickshire (11 pts) drew with Somerset (14 pts) Match scorecard Warwickshire and Somerset harvested a predictable County Championship draw as a forgettable match finally petered out on the final day at a notional victory target of 377 in 69 overs, Warwickshire plodded to 161-4 as Tom Latham (52 from 103 balls) and Sam Hain (68 not out from 157) escorted their team to safety and the match to a had extended their second innings in the morning to 229-8 but not as quickly as they hoped as Australian off-spinner Corey Rocchoccioli took 5-67 on had always appeared that a bland pitch would blunt the victory aspirations of either side and so it proved. Both shored up their positions in the middle of Division One with a solid points haul from a match which offered less than vivid entertainment. The deployment of two short mid-wickets and two short extras for Latham off Migael Pretorius was about as exciting as it got for the slumbering Edgbaston resumed on the final morning on 116-3, 283 ahead overall, and started purposefully. James Rew completed a 66-ball half-century but two wickets for Rocchoccioli slowed the momentum and changed the plan. The spinner unfurled a lovely turning delivery which Rew, on 61, edged to wicketkeeper Kai Smith and Tom Banton then missed a sweep and was coach Steve Kirby had suggested after day three that Somerset would need 80 overs to try to bowl Warwickshire out, but that point arrived with the lead only 317. Tom Abell and Archie Vaughan batted watchfully to prevent a collapse then expanded to add 65 in 14 overs before Abell charged and missed at Rocchoccioli. Pretorious had his off-stump removed by Ethan Bamber and Rocchoccioli's five-for was complete when Craig Overton missed a reverse sweep and was lbw, triggering lunch and the challenge the target - 377 in two sessions - Warwickshire needed a strong platform but they lost soon both openers. Alex Davies fell to the fourth ball, lbw to Matt Henry and Rob Yates left a gap between bat and pad and Jack Leach, who opened the bowling, turned the ball through scuppered any chance of a Warwickshire win, but Somerset's hopes were ground away over the next two hours by Latham and Hain, who declined to pursue a target of 276 from 34 overs after tea. Latham drove a return catch to Overton and Jacob Bethell top-edged a pull at Pretorius but the implacable Hain reached 50 for the 58th time in first-class cricket to see the job through in a sparsely-populated stadium as far-removed as can be from the passionate cauldron it will be when England meet India next Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
BBC News
18-06-2025
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Bears sign spinner Rocchiccioli on short-term deal
Warwickshire have signed Australian off-spinner Corey Rocchiccioli to cover the next four County Championship 27-year-old has been brought in to use his experience of playing with the Kookaburra ball for the fixtures against Somerset and Sussex this month and Worcestershire and Essex in July. The Kookaburra ball is used in Australia and has a less prominent seam which usually offers less movement to the bowlers than the Dukes ball, which is normally used in switch in the ball type was introduced in the County Championship in 2023."We are very excited about welcoming Corey into our squad through June and July," Bears first-team coach Ian Westwood said., external"He is a proven performer in Sheffield Shield cricket, and with his experience of the Kookaburra ball, we know he will make an impact for us." Rocchiccioli has taken 114 wickets in 34 first-class games for his home state Western Australia, and finished the recent Sheffield Shield season as the third highest wicket-taker with 38, including a career-best 7-52 against Queensland in are the second county to bring in an overseas player on a short-term deal after Hampshire signed India white-ball batter Tilak Varma to cover the same block of four are currently fourth in Division One of the County Championship after the first seven matches, 22 points behind leaders Friday's T20 Blast derby against Worcestershire Rapids, they return to red-ball action against Somerset on Sunday, 22 June.
