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Bears edging Pears derby despite Duffy haul
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Visit Worcestershire New Road, Worcester (day three) Warwickshire 227 & 280: Hain 87*, Woakes 42; Duffy 5-75 Worcestershire 181 & 57-2: Roderick 34* Worcestershire (3pts) trail Warwickshire (3pts) by 269 runs with eight wickets remaining Match scorecard Sam Hain's second highly-skilled innings of the match left Warwickshire well-placed to press for victory over Worcestershire in the County Championship derby at Visit Worcestershire New Road. Hain followed his first innings 86 with an unbeaten 87 (174 balls) as Warwickshire took their second innings to 280 to set the home side 327 to win. Chris Woakes supported Hain with 42, during which he passed 10,000 runs in all formats, while Jacob Duffy took 5-75. Worcestershire closed the third day on 54-2 and face a huge batting challenge on the final day when they must make much the biggest score of the match to win it. Warwickshire resumed on the third morning day on 53-1, already 99 ahead, and soon lost Tom Latham who edged an aggressive shot at Tom Taylor to wicketkeeper Gareth Roderick. Rob Yates eked out a valuable 29 from 112 balls before falling lbw, hit on the back pad, by Ben Allison. Beau Webster paid the price for going on the back foot on a pitch sometimes keeping low when Duffy flattened his leg stump. That was 86-4 and Worcestershire were clawing their way back into the match but the excellent Hain unfurled his second crucial innings of the contest and received important support from the middle and lower orders. Ed Barnard (30) added impetus before top-edging Matthew Waite to third man. Zen Malik helped Hain add 30 and, after he sliced Duffy to point and Kai Smith pulled Allison to long leg, Woakes arrived – not a bad player to have coming in at nine. The eighth-wicket pair added 67 in 21 overs, lifting Worcestershire's target over 300, before Woakes edged Taylor to slip. Duffy completed his five-for with wickets from successive balls when Ethan Bamber hit his wicket from the follow through from a pull and Chris Rushworth edged to slip. Rushworth wasted no time before inflicting damage with the ball when he knocked out Jake Libby's off-stump with an out-swinger. Six balls later, Henry Nicholls copped a tough lbw decision when he appeared to be struck outside the line of off-stump by Woakes. That was 25-2 and, with 27 overs left in the day Warwickshire fancied their chances of making match-clinching inroads before stumps. Batting remained a serious test of concentration and technique but Roderick and Kashif Ali negotiated 12 overs before bad light lopped off the last 15. An intriguing final day beckons with an additional factor from some rain in the forecast. Warwickshire remain strong favourites to bank a win which would owe most to Hain whose high-class batting in this match was worthy of two centuries. Report supplied by the ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport
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Bears edging Pears derby despite Duffy haul
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Visit Worcestershire New Road, Worcester (day three) Warwickshire 227 & 280: Hain 87*, Woakes 42; Duffy 5-75 Worcestershire 181 & 57-2: Roderick 34* Worcestershire (3pts) trail Warwickshire (3pts) by 269 runs with eight wickets remaining Match scorecard Sam Hain's second highly-skilled innings of the match left Warwickshire well-placed to press for victory over Worcestershire in the County Championship derby at Visit Worcestershire New Road. Hain followed his first innings 86 with an unbeaten 87 (174 balls) as Warwickshire took their second innings to 280 to set the home side 327 to win. Chris Woakes supported Hain with 42, during which he passed 10,000 runs in all formats, while Jacob Duffy took 5-75. Worcestershire closed the third day on 54-2 and face a huge batting challenge on the final day when they must make much the biggest score of the match to win it. Warwickshire resumed on the third morning day on 53-1, already 99 ahead, and soon lost Tom Latham who edged an aggressive shot at Tom Taylor to wicketkeeper Gareth Roderick. Rob Yates eked out a valuable 29 from 112 balls before falling lbw, hit on the back pad, by Ben Allison. Beau Webster paid the price for going on the back foot on a pitch sometimes keeping low when Duffy flattened his leg stump. That was 86-4 and Worcestershire were clawing their way back into the match but the excellent Hain unfurled his second crucial innings of the contest and received important support from the middle and lower orders. Ed Barnard (30) added impetus before top-edging Matthew Waite to third man. Zen Malik helped Hain add 30 and, after he sliced Duffy to point and Kai Smith pulled Allison to long leg, Woakes arrived – not a bad player to have coming in at nine. The eighth-wicket pair added 67 in 21 overs, lifting Worcestershire's target over 300, before Woakes edged Taylor to slip. Duffy completed his five-for with wickets from successive balls when Ethan Bamber hit his wicket from the follow through from a pull and Chris Rushworth edged to slip. Rushworth wasted no time before inflicting damage with the ball when he knocked out Jake Libby's off-stump with an out-swinger. Six balls later, Henry Nicholls copped a tough lbw decision when he appeared to be struck outside the line of off-stump by Woakes. That was 25-2 and, with 27 overs left in the day Warwickshire fancied their chances of making match-clinching inroads before stumps. Batting remained a serious test of concentration and technique but Roderick and Kashif Ali negotiated 12 overs before bad light lopped off the last 15. An intriguing final day beckons with an additional factor from some rain in the forecast. Warwickshire remain strong favourites to bank a win which would owe most to Hain whose high-class batting in this match was worthy of two centuries. Report supplied by the ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport
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23-05-2025
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Taylor leads Pears comeback after Hain's 86 for Bears
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Visit Worcestershire New Road, Worcester (day one) Warwickshire 227: Hain 86, Latham 59; Taylor 4-37 Worcestershire 53-0: Libby 39* Worcestershire (3 pts) trail Warwickshire (0 pts) by 174 with 10 wickets remaining. Match scorecard Tom Taylor continued his excellent form with another four wickets as Worcestershire bowled Warwickshire out for 227 on the opening day of their County Championship match at Visit Worcestershire New Road Taylor took 4-37 as Warwickshire, having been strongly placed at 161-2 thanks to Sam Hain (86 from 152 balls) and Tom Latham (59, 153), lost their last eight wickets for 66 runs. Worcestershire then rounded off a very satisfactory day's work by reaching a composed 53 without loss with Jake Libby on 39 (54) and Gareth Roderick 13 (42). Warwickshire chose to bat but had to work hard for runs in the morning session as the seamers found plenty of lateral moment. Rob Yates perished to the seventh ball of the day - and Taylor's first - when he edged an attempt to force through the offside to wicketkeeper Gareth Roderick. Alex Davies fell to the 118th when he was pinned plum lbw by Matthew Waite. Latham and Hain retrenched, the former solidly, the latter sketchily at first before settling into some glorious shots, notably sixes down the ground off Taylor and pulled off Ethan Brookes. The third-wicket pair batted diligently to add 109 in 32 overs and were moving their side into ascendancy when Worcestershire struck three big blows in seven overs. Brookes dismissed Latham with a lovely outswinger which took the edge through to the keeper and Beau Webster who sliced a drive to point. Ed Barnard, warmly applauded to the crease at his former home ground, soon returned to the pavilion nursing a 12-ball duck after edging Jacob Duffy to first slip. Hain passed 50 for the first time this season and was within 14 of building it into a century when he edged Waite to second slip. Henry Nicholls accepted that catch and another one 18 balls later when Kai Smith edged Taylor to first slip. Zen Malik dug in for a well-constructed 34 (58) which included a straight six off Waite to raise the 200 but his departure, lbw to Taylor, triggered the loss of the last three wickets for four runs in four balls. Taylor trapped Ethan Bamber in front and Chris Woakes, playing his first championship match of the season and only his tenth in seven years, edged Duffy to second slip. It was an excellent collective effort from the home seamers, led by Taylor who has taken 15 wickets in the first innings of the last four championship games. Worcestershire's reply started at a gallop with 12 from the first over from Bamber. Against an attack including Woakes and Chris Rushworth, each playing their first game of the season after injury, openers Libby and Roderick put 50 on the board from 68 balls. ECB Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay. Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport
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Essex slump towards defeat by Yorkshire
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford (day three) Yorkshire 216 & 426-6 dec: Lyth 185, Bairstow 79, Wharton 61; Thain 3-96 Essex 123: Pepper 30; Hill 6-51, Coad 3-20 & 64-4 White 3-17 Essex (3 pts) need another 456 to beat Yorkshire (3 pts) with six wickets standing Match scorecard Adam Lyth's patiently accumulated 185, and Jonny Bairstow's typically belligerent half-century, set Essex an unlikely 520 to prevent Yorkshire chalking up their second County Championship win of the season. Lyth's second century of the spring, the 39th of his 18-year first-class career, spanned six hours and 41 minutes of determination and obduracy. The 37-year-old left-hander shared a 153-run second-wicket stand with James Wharton, who added 61 to his unbeaten 63 from the first innings, that underpinned Yorkshire's 426-6 declared. The declaration was hastened by Bairstow's 79 from74 balls that included three sixes and was part of a roller-coaster sixth-wicket stand of 99 with Matty Revis, who contributed 37 off 32 balls. Bairstow, dropped on five by slip that would have enhanced Thain's analysis, played an unorthodox reverse sweep-cum-pull that sent a delivery from Critchley for six over point. With the declaration looming, Bairstow and Revis rattled off 29 runs in a 14-ball spree before the captain raced past his second half-century of the season with two sixes in the last over before tea from Shane Snater that also included a ramped four. Yorkshire batted on for 14 balls after tea before Bairstow holed out to long-on and immediately called a halt to proceedings. With Sam Cook rested in light of his potential England debut against Zimbabwe later this month, the Essex attack had lacked penetration. And the only consolation for Essex's dispirited fielders who circled the boundary by the end, were career-best bowling figures of 3-96 for young seamer Noah Thain. The sense of gathering despair continued when Essex batted. They lost four wickets in the 27 overs that remained in the day in the face of some accurate seam bowling from Jack White, who took 3-17. Essex eked out 64 runs by the close but, with 456 to win, are staring down the barrel of back-to-back defeats when they resume on day four. Their chances of batting out nearly four sessions became considerably slimmer when White got a delivery to jump up around Dean Elgar's adam's apple as early as the second over and it was fended off into third slip's hands. George Hill followed up his six-wicket haul from the first innings by trapping Tom Westley lbw with only his fourth delivery in the second. And next over Charlie Allison drove White uppishly to a tumbling mid-off while Robin Das nudged one to first slip. ECB Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport
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21-04-2025
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Hampshire & Somerset draw after rain-hit final day
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Utilita Bowl (day four)Somerset 184 & 163-2: Dickson 77*, Abell 27* Hampshire 336: Gubbins 82, Dawson 72; Pretorius 5-64 Hampshire (13 pts) drew with Somerset (11 pts) Match scorecard Somerset batter Sean Dickson scored 77 not out as his side drew with Hampshire in the County Dickson, Tom Abell, and the weather quelled any chances of a final day route to a positive result in either direction – with a total of 175 overs, or around five sessions, lost in the ended up unbeaten on 77, and Abell 27, after a 56-run partnership which had wiped out Hampshire's lead and taken Somerset away from any danger of Brown's side took 13 points from the match, to Somerset's 11, to display a healthy 43 points from their opening three rounds and remain within touching distance of the Division One only thing stopping this match from becoming a day four draw was either an inspired morning of bowling or the forecasted rain blowing in the opposite happened, with the first part largely down to Dickson and Abell's stoic had the ideal start as Tom Lammonby fell in the fifth over of the day having added two to his overnight score of left-hander could not control a guide to third man after Kyle Abbott had extracted some bounce off a length, and edged to Tom Prest at first three occasions, Abbott thought he had Dickson lbw but each time the South African's vociferous appeals were turned neither he, nor Brad Wheal, James Fuller, Liam Dawson or Brett Hampton, could do anything to move the steadfast Dickson and Abell.A Dickson pull for two took the visitors into the lead shortly before rain brought an early and then heavy rain prevented a restart until after tea, and even then only three and a half overs - in which the only action of note was a dropped catch at first slip - were possible before bad light suspended proceedings was little surprise when the hands were shaken on a draw at 17:00 BST, with Somerset sweating over a minus over rate and a potential points deduction. ECB Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
