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Scholfield's crucial six at Lancs takes Surrey top
Paige Scholfield hit nine runs from the final over against Lancashire Thunder to earn Surrey victory [Getty Images] Paige Scholfield hit a vital six to help Surrey beat Lancashire Thunder by just two runs on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method and move top of the Women's T20 Blast table on a day severely affected by rain. Durham also picked up a dramatic one-run victory at Hampshire Hawks on DLS after poor weather ended the contest with the hosts on 33-2 six overs into their chase of 119 at Arundel. Advertisement Elsewhere, the first half of a double-header at Trent Bridge was washed out as The Blaze's game with Somerset was abandoned without a ball being bowled and both sides had to settle for two points each. The Blaze are now level on points with Surrey at the top, albeit having played one match more, while Durham and Somerset both picked up their first points of the campaign. Surrey maintain 100% winning start With Lancashire and Surrey's start time already delayed by more than two hours, the match was reduced to 11 overs at Emirates Old Trafford. Lancashire set a respectable target of 86 and the game was slightly in their favour as rain began to fall at the start of the eighth over of Surrey's run chase. Advertisement With Surrey 53-4 and needing to be on 60 to tie with the DLS par score by the end of the over, Scholfield came down the track and smashed Darcey Carter for six over extra cover before nudging three more to push her side on to 62. Downpours worsened and forced the umpires to take the players off after the eighth over, leaving Surrey just two runs ahead on DLS with play unable to resume. It may have been a shortened game, but one thing it was not short of was entertainment. Lancashire lost opener Tilly Kesteven with the first ball of the match when she was stumped by Kira Chathli off Kalea Moore and the hosts then slipped to 10-2 in the second over when Seren Smale was trapped lbw by Ryana MacDonald-Gay. Advertisement Fi Morris and skipper Ellie Threlkeld stabilised the innings with a 50-run partnership before the latter swung across the line and was bowled for 24 by Dani Gregory to leave the Thunder 60-3 midway through the seventh over. Ailsa Lister then fell for just five after she lost her footing while on the stretch, allowing Chathli to make her second stumping of the game from Moore's bowling. Tilly Corteen-Coleman picked up a couple of quickfire wickets, bowling Morris for 29 before doing the same to Danni Collins moments later. Thunder eventually managed to drag their way to 85-6 after going along at 7.73 an over. Advertisement Surrey pressed ahead in the early stages of the run chase, moving to 38 after four overs, but two quick wickets for Lancashire's Tara Norris, who removed Bryony Smith and Grace Harris, evened things up. Danni Wyatt-Hodge then holed out to Lister at long on from Carter to set up what looked to be a tense finale with Surrey at 46-3 at what should have been the midway stage of their innings. The Thunder piled further pressure on Surrey as Alana King took her first wicket for her new side, bowling Chathli for just two. Rain started to fall as the eighth over began and Scholfield pulled off heroics just in time to give Surrey their third win in three games and take them to the summit of the table. Thompson helps Durham pick up dramatic first win Durham bowler Grace Thompson only went for three runs off what proved to be the last over of the match against Hampshire Hawks [Getty Images] Hampshire Hawks also looked to be on course to maintain their 100% winning start after they limited visitors Durham to 119 from their 20 overs. Advertisement Opener Suzie Bates top scored with 34 from 33 deliveries for Durham, while Bess Heath made an unbeaten 29 off 24 - though they were the only two batters to score at more than a run a ball. Freya Davies took 2-20 and Bex Tyson 2-28 from their four-over spells in a Hampshire bowling attack that kept things tight. Hampshire were 30-2 heading into the sixth over of their run chase after Ella McCaughan and Charli Knott had fallen cheaply early on to Mady Villiers and Katie Levick respectively. With rain starting to close in, the Hawks needed to reach at least 34 by the end of the over to tie on DLS but Grace Thompson bowled excellently to limit them to just three runs from it. Advertisement The rain only got heavier, leaving the umpires little choice but to take the players off and with the weather showing no signs of letting up, the game was ended an hour later to hand Durham the narrowest of victories.
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Scholfield's crucial six at Lancs takes Surrey top
Paige Scholfield hit a vital six to help Surrey beat Lancashire Thunder by just two runs on the DLS method and move top of the Women's T20 Blast table on a day severely affected by also picked up a dramatic one-run victory at Hampshire Hawks on DLS after poor weather ended the contest with the hosts on 33-2 six overs into their chase of 119 at the first half of a double-header at Trent Bridge was washed out as The Blaze's game with Somerset was abandoned without a ball being bowled and both sides had to settle for two points Blaze are now level on points with Surrey at the top, albeit having played one match more, while Durham and Somerset both picked up their first points of the campaign. Scorecards Surrey maintain 100% winning start With Lancashire and Surrey's start time already delayed by more than two hours, the match was reduced to 11 overs at Emirates Old set a respectable target of 86 and the game was slightly in their favour as rain began to fall at the start of the eighth over of Surrey's run Surrey 53-4 and needing to be on 60 to tie with the DLS par score by the end of the over, Scholfield came down the track and smashed Darcey Carter for six over extra cover before nudging three more to push her side on to worsened and forced the umpires to take the players off after the eighth over, leaving Surrey just two runs ahead on DLS with play unable to may have been a shortened game, but one thing it was not short of was lost opener Tilly Kesteven with the first ball of the match when she was stumped by Kira Chathli off Kalea Moore and the hosts then slipped to 10-2 in the second over when Seren Smale was trapped lbw by Ryana Morris and skipper Ellie Threlkeld stabilised the innings with a 50-run partnership before Threlkeld swung across the line and was bowled for 24 by Dani Gregory to leave the Thunder 60-3 midway through the seventh Lister then fell for just five after she lost her footing while on the stretch, allowing Chathli to make her second stumping of the game from Moore's Corteen-Coleman picked up a couple of quickfire wickets, bowling Morris for 29 before doing the same to Danni Collins moments eventually managed to drag their way to 85-6 after going along at 7.73 an pressed ahead in the early stages of the run chase, moving to 38 after four overs, but two quick wickets for Lancashire's Tara Norris, who removed Bryony Smith and Grace Harris, evened things Wyatt-Hodge then holed out to Lister at long on from Carter to set up what looked to be a tense finale with Surrey at 46-3 at what should have been the midway stage of their Thunder piled further pressure on Surrey as Alana King took her first wicket for her new side, bowling Chathli for just started to fall as the eighth over began and Scholfield pulled off heroics just in time to give Surrey their third win in three games and take them to the summit of the table. Thompson helps Durham pick up dramatic first win Hampshire Hawks also looked to be on course to maintain their 100% winning start after they limited visitors Durham to 119 from their 20 Suzie Bates top scored with 34 from 33 deliveries for Durham, while Bess Heath made an unbeaten 29 off 24 - though they were the only two batters to score at more than a run a Davies took 2-20 and Bex Tyson 2-28 from their four-over spells in a Hampshire bowling attack that kept things were 30-2 heading into the sixth over of their run chase after Ella McCaughan and Charli Knott had fallen cheaply early on to Mady Villiers and Katie Levick rain starting to close in, the Hawks needed to reach at least 34 runs by the end of the over to tie on DLS but Grace Thompson bowled excellently to limit them to just three runs from rain only got heavier, leaving the umpires little choice but to take the players off and with the weather showing no signs of letting up, the game was ended an hour later to hand Durham the narrowest of victories.
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19-05-2025
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Derbyshire hold out for draw with Lancashire
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Emirates Old Trafford (day four)Lancashire 458 & 184-7 dec: Hurst 56*, Wells 50; Morley 3-54Derbyshire 314 & 220-8: Came 63, Andersson 43; Bohannon 2-21, Anderson 2-25Lancashire (13 pts) drew with Derbyshire (11 pts) Match scorecard England bowlers past and present, James Anderson and Tom Hartley, took two wickets apiece but Lancashire's County Championship against Derbyshire ended in a tense visitors closed on 220-8, 109 runs short of what had become a notional victory the morning session, Lancashire had declared on 184-7, thereby challenging their opponents to score 328 in 88 overs for victory. Harry Came made 63 but after reaching tea on 165-5, Derbyshire's batsmen settled for the visitors' heroes were Anuj Dal, who faced 114 balls for 13 not out and Jack Morley, who was unbeaten on nought after 36 balls when the game ended. Despite remaining winless after six games, Lancashire take 13 points from the match, meaning that they move off the bottom of the Division Two table, whereas Derbyshire's 11 points keeps them in second the morning session, Lancashire scored 43 runs off six overs before declaring -the only batsman dismissed was George Balderson, who was caught at third man by Martin Andersson off Blair Tickner for nine, with Matthew Hurst 56 not out when Marcus Harris called his batsmen pursuit of 329 began poorly when Caleb Jewell, on 12, played too early at a slower ball from Anderson and chipped a catch at Tom Bailey at returned figures of 6-1-17-1 in his first spell but David Lloyd and Harry Came guided their side to 78-1 after 20 overs at lunchBut any optimism among the visiting supporters was dampened four balls after the resumption when Anderson trapped David Lloyd lbw for 30. Undaunted, Came and Wayne Madsen, saw off Anderson's second spell (4-2-4-1) and had added 50 in 16 overs before Madsen tickled Bailey down the leg side and was caught by Hurst for that stage, Came has reached his third fifty of the season off 72 balls, most of them pedigree strokes, but Brooke Guest could not match his partner's fluency and was bowled round his legs for two when trying to sweep overs later, Hartley struck again when he took the vital wicket of Came, the Derbyshire batsman pushing uncertainly forward and giving a catch to George Bell at short tea the visitors had reached 165-5 and it soon became clear that Derbyshire's batsmen had abandoned all thoughts of victory. Over an hour into the evening session, Lancashire took their sixth wicket when Josh Bohannon induced Martin Andersson to drive a full toss straight to Keaton Jennings at short extra cover and his dismissal for 43 was followed two overs later by a second success for Bohannon when Zak Chappell gave him a return left Derbyshire on 212-7 with 18 overs to be bowled and Tom Bailey struck the next blow when he had Ben Aitchison lbw for nought with 65 balls left in the game. After 80 overs Lancashire took the new ball but Dal and Morley resisted Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
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18-05-2025
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Lancashire build good lead over Derbyshire
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Emirates Old Trafford (day three)Lancashire 458 & 141-6: Wells 50; Morley 3-32Derbyshire 314: Guest 77; Anderson 3-53, Hartley 3-68Lancashire (5 pts) lead Derbyshire (3 pts) by 285 runsMatch scorecard The final day of this County Championship match at Emirates Old Trafford looks set for an intriguing finish after Lancashire had ended the third evening on 141-6 in their second innings, giving them a lead of 285 and an opportunity to set Derbyshire a target early on the final Guest's 77 had helped the visitors avoid the follow-on during an afternoon when James Anderson could add only one more wicket to the two he took on Anderson's 3-53 and Tom Hartley's 3-68 were instrumental in Derbyshire being dismissed for 314 in reply to Lancashire's 458, and aggressive batting by the home side, plus a clatter of wickets, has also set up the possibility of a natural conclusion on the last first session was dominated by Derbyshire's batsmen who scored 93 runs for the loss of two wickets. In particular, the morning was a triumph for the nightwatchman, Jack Morley, who made a career-best 41 against his former looked in little trouble during his 116-minute innings until six overs before lunch when he chipped a low catch to Keaton Jennings at short mid-wicket off George and Morley added 76 for their side's fifth wicket but Martin Andersson survived only three balls from Balderson before being incontrovertibly lbw to the fourth for nought. Andersson's dismissal was the only serious setback the visitors suffered and they reached the first interval on 205-6 with Guest on 53 and Anuj Dal unbeaten on afternoon's cricket began far less pleasantly for Derbyshire. They first lost Dal, who had added only three to his lunchtime score when he carelessly cut Tom Hartley to Anderson Phillip. The vital scalp of Guest was then claimed by the occasional off-spinner, Josh Bohannon, who turned a ball inside the batsman's drive, thus taking his first wicket since dismissal for 77 left his side on 236-8, still 222 runs in arrears, but the resilience of Derbyshire's lower-order batting was demonstrated once again as Zak Chappell and Ben Aitchison added a further 68 runs for the ninth wicket, thereby taking their side to within five runs of saving the follow was recalled but conceded four boundaries in his two overs, with the last of these, Blair Tickner's off-driven four, ensuring that Derbyshire saved the the midst of this rough treatment, the former England bowler had Chappell caught at short leg by George Bell for 24 and Aitchison was the last man dismissed when he was caught at midwicket by Bell off Hartley for 45, an innings that had included a four and two sixes off three successive balls from with 33 overs to extend their advantage, Lancashire batsmen went on the attack and lost six wickets in the process. Jennings was caught at third man by Andersson off Tickner for 33, Bohannon made two before skying Morley to Zak Chappell, running back from mid-on and Marcus Harris managed only a single before edging Aitchison to Guest, who took a superb full-length followed his hundred in the first innings with a half-century off 65 balls but was bowled next ball for 50 by Morley, who took his third wicket of the innings when he caught and bowled Bell for two. And there was further success for Derbyshire two overs before the close when David Lloyd dived full length to take a brilliant catch off Hartley, who made Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
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17-05-2025
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Anderson takes two wickets on Lancashire return
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Emirates Old Trafford (day two)Lancashire 458: Wells 141, Balderson 73, Bell 57; Aitchison 3-87Derbyshire 112-4: Came 31; Anderson 2-24Derbyshire (1 pt) trail Lancashire (3 pts) by 346 runsMatch scorecard James Anderson eased back into county cricket by taking two wickets for Lancashire in his first appearance since international 309 days after England's greatest fast bowler bade an emotional farewell to the Test arena at Lord's, Anderson needed only 18 deliveries of his Lancashire return to inflict damage on two months shy of his 43rd birthday, bowled left-hander Caleb Jewell with a trademark trimmer from round the wicket, then had David Lloyd glove a short ball to wicketkeeper Matty his five overs, Anderson ended with 2-24 to help leave Derbyshire 112-4, 346 adrift of Lancashire's 458 after two days at Emirates Old first appearance since signing a one-year contract extension with the Red Rose had been delayed by a calf that time, Lancashire had endured a torrid return to the second tier of the County Championship, going winless in their first five matches, sinking to the bottom of the table, issuing an apology to supporters and replacing captain Keaton Jennings with Marcus Harris. Since Anderson ended his Test career with 704 wickets, an England record and more than any other pace bowler, he has worked as a bowling consultant with the national team and unsuccessfully attempted to be picked up in the Indian Premier League and The Hundred. In April, he was knighted in former prime minister Rishi Sunak's resignation honours or not Lancashire were buoyed by his return, their strong position in this match is down to the graft of their batters, who made Derbyshire toil after the visitors chose to after Luke Wells made a century on day one, then George Balderson and George Bell added half-centuries on day two, Anderson did not take part in the match until he walked out to bat at number 11 at 15:16 BST on warm applause he received on entering the field was matched by the ovation for the forward defence to the first ball he faced from left-arm spinner Jack Morley, then outstripped by the noise that greeted a sweep for four not out when Lancashire were dismissed, there was a genuine feeling of anticipation in the wait for Anderson to bowl. Spectators gathered to watch him loosen up during the tea from the end named after him, Anderson needed a little time to find his radar, understandable given this was his first competitive spell in 10 was frustrated when Australian Jewell drove through the covers for four, but responded with a classic Anderson dismissal: angled in from round the wicket, straightening to beat the bat and clatter into off the surface offering lift, Anderson bent his back to discomfort Lloyd. One short ball induced a top edge, another ricocheted off the back of the bat. When Anderson went short once more, the catch looped to keeper Hurst, albeit with a disgruntled Lloyd claiming the ball came off his wary of his workload after such a long lay-off, Harris withdrew Anderson after the ninth over and he was not employed for any of the remaining 27 in the day.
