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6 days ago
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Star India Batter Departs For Duck On One-Day Cup Debut After County Flourish
Last Updated: Star India batter Tilak Varma's Royal London One-Day Cup debut for Hampshire ended in disappointment with a duck, but Hampshire still posted a strong score of 324/6. Star India batter Tilak Varma's debut in the Royal London One-Day Cup in England didn't go as per plans as the youngster was dismissed for a duck while representing Hampshire against Glamorgan at Neath, although that didn't deter his team from posting a big score batting first. Varma joined Hampshire earlier this year, marking his maiden stint in County Cricket in the UK. In his four County Championship appearances, Varma notched up two hundreds and a half-century. But the start to his One-Day Cup stint has not been as smooth. Having been put in to bat, Ali Orr and Hampshire skipper Nick Gubbins added 68 runs for the opening stand before the former was dismissed by Ned Leonard. Varma walked in next but could last just three deliveries as he was caught by Asa Tribe off Leonard as well, departing for a three-ball duck. Watch the video here: Hampshire soon found themselves at 81/3 before Gubbins and Tom Prest added 34 runs for the fourth wicket. After the latter was dismissed by Kiran Carlson, Gubbins and wicketkeeper Ben Mayes built a 141-run partnership for the fifth wicket. Hampshire eventually posted 324/6 with Gubbins scoring 144, while Mayes contributed with a 55-ball 74. Glamorgan are yet to bat. Since making his T20I debut two years ago, Varma has featured in 25 games, boasting a brilliant average of 49.93 and a strike rate of 155. Varma has played four ODIs as well, but is yet to make a mark, with 68 runs at 22.66. In List A cricket, he averages 46.68 across 36 games, while in first-class cricket, he holds a brilliant average of 52 from 22 matches. Varma is yet to represent India in Tests. view comments First Published: Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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19-04-2025
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Hampshire remain in control against Somerset
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Utilita Bowl (day two)Somerset 184: Pretorius 47*; Fuller 4-42, Wheal 4-46Hampshire 194-3: Gubbins 58*, Dawson 50*; Pretorius 2-36Hampshire (3 pts) lead Somerset (1 pt) by 10 runsMatch scorecard Nick Gubbins continued where he left off at the Kia Oval as his unbeaten 58 put Hampshire in the box seat of their County Championship match with batter Gubbins struck a century against Surrey in the previous round to save a draw, having scored 43 in the first played the anchor in stands of 80 and an unbeaten 76 with Tom Prest (42) and Liam Dawson (50 not out) as Hampshire wiped out Somerset's 184 to take their lead to 10 by Wheal and James Fuller had ended up with four wickets each, but Migael Pretorius bolstered Somerset's meagre score with 47 not out in a 48-run partnership for the 10th a half-hour delay to the start of play, Hampshire needed just 10 deliveries to continue their day one dominance, as Craig Overton was powerless to not edge a Brad Wheal beauty Fuller entered soon after to take a wicket in each of his first two overs of the day, with Tom Abell and Jack Leach leg before. They helped Fuller reach eventual figures of 4-42 in his first appearance of the Somerset 136-9 an hour before lunch, Hampshire would have been expecting to be batting before the interval, but Pretorius and Alfie Ogborne hung around and added some much-needed was the natural attacker, while Ogborne got his head down and defended. They were abetted by defensive fields and lax fielding in their 48-run salvo off 84 balls in exactly 60 was eventually bowled by Wheal, to give the Scotland international his third four-wicket haul in as many matches, with Pretorius unbeaten on 47 and Somerset bowled out for the sun and blue skies now making conditions perfect for batting, the hosts' opening batters Mark Stoneman and Fletcha Middleton got through 59 balls with ease, but both fell in quick who is playing his third first-class match for Somerset with all three coming against Hampshire, had shown control before a peach of a delivery was edged behind by balls later and Middleton was joined back in the dressing room by Stoneman as Pretorius found a huge gap between bat and pad to send the middle stump African Pretorious should have then been on a hat-trick as his pinned Prest with the next delivery, but he turned around to see umpire David Milne's arm raised for a no made hay with Gubbins in continuing to wipe out Somerset's total as they negotiated accurate but flat picked off the poorer balls with seven boundaries, while Gubbins put his wicket at a huge premium with his defensive strokes impressed onto the eyelids of every spectator at Utilita partnership was broken when Pretorius had his lbw, but Dawson entered to take his had spits of aggression – best shown with four boundaries, including a pinged pulled six in back-to-back Ogborne overs – but largely battered down with reached his half-century in 111 balls, Dawson in 92 balls as Hampshire took the light ended proceedings seven overs early, with Hampshire having a platform to amass a big first-innings lead on day Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
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14-04-2025
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Gubbins and Albert help Hants deny Surrey victory
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Kia Oval (day four)Surrey 253 & 342-9 dec: Sibley 105, Smith 84; Baker 5-80Hampshire 219 & 300-5: Gubbins 117, Albert 78*; Clark 2-39Surrey (12 pts) drew with Hampshire (11 pts) Match scorecard Nick Gubbins and Toby Albert were Hampshire's heroes as they denied Surrey's last-day attempt to force a first victory of the new County Championship season at the Kia scored a five-hour 117 and Albert an equally defiant 78 not out as Hampshire, starting the day on 35-3 in their second innings in pursuit of a 377-run win target, finished on light actually had the final say, forcing the players from the field for what turned out to be the loss of four overs, when 10 overs were left and Hampshire were still 78 short of what would have been a remarkable triumph against the 2022, 2023 and 2024 just six overs left when the players returned, Jordan Clark sent down two balls – one of which was hit for a single by Albert – and then the players shook hands on the truth, however, and despite Tom Prest being unbeaten on 32 alongside Albert, it had seemed increasingly unlikely that Hampshire could have scored the remaining runs anyway against a testing Surrey seam attack in gloomy conditions and with the floodlights 22.2 overs with the second new ball, Surrey had restricted Hampshire to 80 runs for the loss of Gubbins and run-scoring was difficult against a high-class pace quartet in which Matt Fisher and Clark were especially it took Surrey almost an hour and a half to claim their only wicket of the morning session, Fletcha Middleton pinned leg before by Fisher after advancing steadily from his overnight 11 to fourth wicket stand with Gubbins had been worth 74 and provided Hampshire with much-needed stability following the chaotic slide to 30-3 in the murk of the third evening, when Kemar Roach had removed opener Mark Stoneman and both nightwatchmen, Brad Wheal and Sonny Baker, had fallen to Jordan was to come for Hampshire, with Albert – who had laboured through 27 balls for just one run before lunch – joining Gubbins in a partnership that eventually realised 143 in 52 overs and which grew in authority during an afternoon session in which Surrey went tea Gubbins, three short of his hundred, and Albert, who had gone to his half-century from 111 balls, looked in total 27 runs came from the first nine overs with the second new ball, with Clark particularly miserly, and then Fisher replacing Worrall at the Vauxhall End brought an almost immediate to whip a ball from around the wicket that appeared to keep a little lower than expected, Gubbins was trapped lbw after facing 247 balls and hitting 12 fours, perhaps the best of them a magnificent on drive off Worrall that took him to Reporters Network supported by Rothesay.
