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The Guardian
27-05-2025
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County cricket: Nottinghamshire flying in Division One at the break
Nottinghamshire bounced back from last week's defeat to go into the T20 Blast break with a handy 10-point lead at the top of the County Championship. Yorkshire, enduring a tricky return to the top flight, were their victims, the leaders simply too strong at Headingley. Ben Slater (52 and 78) and Joe Clarke (64 and 94) gave the bowlers something to work with, but it was the craft of Mohammad Abbas, with a first innings 6 for 45, and the hostility of Dillon Pennington, with a second-innings 5 for 106, supported by Liam Patterson-White's 3 for 40 in 30 parsimonious overs, that delivered the win. The Pakistani artist is only available for six matches, but Abbas is as close to a sure thing as you'll find in first-class cricket – ask fans of Hampshire, shorn of his services this season and languishing in seventh. Pennington has been in the England conversation for years, but is still only 26 and might finally be finding the core strength and consistency required to realise his potential. He'll need to be managed carefully if he is to lead the attack in Abbas's absence, but Haseeb Hameed knows all about how injury can destroy form, so I'm sure he will do the right thing. Notts finished one place above relegated Lancashire and Kent last season – those two counties are now propping up Division Two. It's a funny old game. It was a frustrating on-off day four at The Oval, although Essex would probably have felt more aggrieved as the clouds rolled in over Kennington. Surrey's late order had, yet again, propelled them into a first-innings lead of 62 with two and a half days to play and a familiar story looked likely to play out over the Bank Holiday weekend. But the Surrey pacers were blunted by a Bazballing Paul Walter, who made 118 at the top of the order, and 20-year-old Charlie Allison who improved his first-class best from 28 to 140, the kid taking the fight to some very experienced bowlers. Rory Burns and Dom Sibley would not have been daunted by a target of 418 at four or so an over – they've done it before – but whenever a partnership looked set to launch, the canny pair of Simon Harmer and Jamie Porter took a wicket or the groundstaff intervened. The draw keeps Surrey well in touch in second, but Essex could really have done with the win, their only success of the first half of the season coming against whipping boys Worcestershire. At least one Lancastrian is enjoying his cricket. Bury-born John Simpson was one my county cricketers of the year in 2024 and simply carried his form into Division One as if moving from a club's Saturday XI to its Sunday XI. A third century of the season, contributing to a match-defining 173-run stand for the sixth wicket with Finn Hudson-Prentice, set up Jack Carson's second-innings five-fer and a comfortable win for Sussex at Hampshire. It was 16 years before the wicketkeeper-batter took on captaincy responsibilities but, halfway through his third decade in the county game, Simpson is thriving. His team are third in the table and he is third on the run-scoring ladder, with 675 at 84. No team puts their fans through the mill like Somerset. They opened the season with two draws and two defeats then produced a hat-trick of wins. Nobody at Taunton needs to be reminded about what it is that kills. Lewis Gregory's men made the long trip to Chester-le-Street and it looked likely to be a wasted journey with the last pair at the crease still 149 runs behind on first innings. Cue a handy last-wicket stand and bring on Matt Henry, Josh Davey, Migael Pretorius and Craig Overton. That quartet has more than 400 first-class matches between them, in which they've taken more 1,400 wickets, and they soon got to work. If one batter makes a century, a target of 265 looks a lot easier and Tom Lammonby was that man, putting on an undefeated 139 with Tom Abell to cruise over the line. Lammonby, not yet 25, was one of my county cricketers of the year 2020, that strange Covid summer. With an average of 32 and just eight tons in 68 first-class matches, it's fair to say he hasn't kicked on as expected. At least not yet. Who expected Leicestershire to be team of the season at the halfway mark? Five wins and two draws from seven matches doesn't quite allow Peter Handscomb's team to freewheel through the midsummer and autumn matches, but they're sitting pretty and can be forgiven for a little preliminary reprogramming of the satnavs for 2026. Lancashire were the latest opponents to be swept aside inside three days by another irresistible team effort. There was only one wicket in the match for the hitherto unstoppable seamer Ian Holland, but that just opened the door for Logan van Beek to lead the attack with seven and Josh Hull to underline his return to full fitness with five wickets. The match turned on the third-wicket record partnership of 256 between Rehan Ahmed and Lewis Hill, both of whom plundered tons at better than four runs per over. It was the leg-spinner's second century of the season, both taken off Lancashire, as he morphs, ever more convincingly, into an all-rounder. Ahmed seems to enjoy batting against this attack – mind you, who doesn't? Another big middle-order partnership from two centurions proved the key as Glamorgan picked up a third win on the bounce to go third and into the Blast in great heart. Having lost Marnus Labuschagne with the scoreboard showing 52 for 3 and with the old pros Toby Roland-Jones and Ryan Higgins in the groove for Middlesex, the reliable Sam Northeast was joined by the mercurial Kiran Carlson and 228 runs were added in contrasting styles. Chris Cooke had time to make his sixth score of the season between 36 and 69, before Glamorgan were dismissed for 383, about 100 more than Roland-Jones intended when he invited them to bat at Sophia Gardens. Only Sam Robson offered much resistance to the home side's bowling as 20 Middlesex wickets fell in fewer overs than Glamorgan's 10, Australian Test bowler Matt Kuhnemann delivering on the slow left-armer's job description with six second-innings victims. Kuhnemann has returned strongly after having had his action cleared by assessors and was recently rewarded with a Cricket Australia central contract. He's behind Nathan Lyon in the pecking order for now, but he's nine years younger than the grizzled GOAT and may well be first choice come the 2027 Ashes. This article is from The 99.94 Cricket Blog
The Guardian
20-05-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
County cricket talking points: Notts stay top but Surrey are on the prowl
At the end of day one, Haseeb Hameed had carried his bat for 206, his team had posted more than 400 and Nottinghamshire's position at the top of Division One was secure. At the end of day four, all of that was still true but quite a lot had happened in-between. James Minto, Durham's 17-year-old left-arm seamer with a grand total of 40 runs in his previous four first-class matches, took guard for the first time this season and made 67 as a nightwatching opener. Alex Lees made 82 at the other end; Emilio Gay delivered a second century for his new county; Ollie Robinson made 141; and Graham Clark cashed in on coming to the crease at 402 for 5 with a ton of his own. Liam Patterson-White's five wickets cost him 179 runs, but no bowler had figures to be proud of and a shellshocked Hameed walked to the middle a second time a scarcely-believable 257 in arrears. That deficit had been reduced to 190 for the loss of just one wicket by the start of day four and the obituaries for the pitch were being drafted. The match still looked likely to finish as a draw even after a couple of quick wickets, as Ben Slater was set and Joe Clark was en route to the fifth ton of the match, but Kyle Verreynne got out for his second middling score of the game and the tail's resistance was swept away by Ben Raine. Durham's batters had 18 overs to get the 91 they needed in the last session of the match and they weren't all going to fail. Colin Ackermann's 53 got the job done and left the visitors with a long drive south to lick their wounds. Nottinghamshire stay top of Division One but they'll need to rise from the canvas at Headingley on Friday. Surrey have woken up and are looming in Notts' rear-view mirror. It was like their spluttering start to the season had never happened as a phalanx of seamers (this time Nathan Smith, Matt Fisher, Tom Lawes and Jordan Clark) encountered resistance only from Yorkshire's old pros, Adam Lyth and Jonny Bairstow. A mention must also go to Dan Lawrence, whose eccentric off-breaks chipped in with a couple of wickets. He has now bowled the second most overs for the champions – I bet they didn't tell him that when he signed up at the start of last season. It was a familiar story. No batter made three figures but they all made two, as Kurtis Patterson introduced himself with 85, and the locals piled up more than 500 in the south London sunshine. George Hill was the pick of the bowlers with 5 for 66, but only Bairstow could hold off the inevitable in the Tykes' second dig and his 77 merely delayed the innings defeat. Surrey's ability to rotate players as impressive as Lawes (3-77, 3-47 and 37 not out) shows how strong they are from No 1 to No 22. Were they really just teasing us with those four draws? Worcestershire, off the back of four defeats, were invited to bat at New Road and the story was a familiar one until Matthew Waite marshalled the tail to add 166 runs for the last three wickets. Late-order runs count the same as any others, but they can lift morale and frustrate opponents – they're worth more than they look. Essex were suddenly 9 for 2 and on their way to 157 all out, with the home fans' spirits soaring. Seven LBWs soon flattened the optimism – Jamie Porter, Shane Snater and Simon Harmer in no mood for charity – but Ethan Brooke's 38 from No 9 had pushed the target out to 336 and the Pears were looking ripe for a first success of the season. Matthew Waite starred again with 6 for 19 as Essex folded quicker than a cheap deckchair in a Clacton gale. The Yorkshire-born all-rounder is finally getting a run of matches injury-free and his 296 runs at 29.6 and 23 wickets at 17.5 speak for themselves. He'll need some help to get his team off the foot of the table though, with local rivals Warwickshire up next to finish the Championship's first tranche of matches. Somerset's second win on the bounce has lifted them to seventh place, just nine points off Warwickshire in third. Lewis Gregory and Josh Davey formed an unlikely pair of openers, but they provided a foundation for a first innings of 338, perfectly acceptable after being asked to bat. Archie Vaughan, another increasingly resourceful Somerset cricketer, top-scored with 80. Sussex never got going against an extremely experienced home attack first time round but, as is so often the case, they did rather better after being asked to follow on. Skipper John Simpson led the late order in adding 206 for the last four wickets as the Somerset bowlers, with the main five in their 30s, understandably tired. Not so Gregory, who led from the top with 89 of the 150 his team needed for the win. Sign up to The Spin Subscribe to our cricket newsletter for our writers' thoughts on the biggest stories and a review of the week's action after newsletter promotion Ian 'Dutchy' Holland is having the season of his life, the bowler with the most wickets at the lowest average and lowest economy rate in Division Two taking Leicestershire 30 points clear at the top of the table. Thirteen years on from winning the Cricket Superstar reality TV show in Australia, the USA international is turning into Grace Road's very own Harry Styles (maybe not, but I'm infected by the T20 Blast marketing hype that is getting into full swing). At Lord's, his first fivefer of the campaign rolled Middlesex for 232 before Peter Handscomb did for Leicestershire what he could seldom do when playing for the Seaxes – make a crucial score. His first-innings 87, having had a stumping reprieve, was the only half-century of the match, and looked even better when the home side collapsed from 65 for 1 to 143 all out in their second innings. The Foxes' Australian skipper was at the crease when the winning run was scored and he would hardly have been human had he not allowed himself a little smirk in the Long Room as he reflected on how life can turn around after his miserable time as captain at Lord's in 2020 and 2021. There are only two ways to win a first-class cricket match – score the run that lifts your team one above the opposition or break the second-innings' 10th-wicket partnership before they do that to you. But, such is the gift of hindsight, there are many ways you can fail to win a cricket match. Amid the relief at stopping the rot with a decent performance against Derbyshire, new Lancashire captain Marcus Harris may be reflecting on where the match was drawn – and it certainly felt like a loss. After a traumatic week that saw Keaton Jennings step down as captain and public statements from the club acknowledging the unacceptability of what has been sloshed on to the plates of members and fans so far, perhaps a first-day scoreboard showing 250 for 5 with Luke Wells, restored to his opening slot making 141, was perfectly acceptable. But a run rate of 2.6 across a whole day with a man to bat around speaks to a lack of confidence, the price of which was paid on the fourth afternoon when Jimmy Anderson and co ran into a fine rearguard action from Anuj Dal (173 minutes), Ben Aitchison (34) and Jack Morley (45) with only the injured Blair Tickner padded up in the dressing room. Had they batted with more urgency on day one, would an hour or so more on day four have made the difference? Lancashire, still winless, are off the bottom and unbeaten Derbyshire are in the second promotion slot. This article is from The 99.94 Cricket Blog.
The Guardian
17-05-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Lancashire v Derbyshire, Surrey v Yorkshire and more: county cricket
Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature In Division One, a feisty Jonny Bairstow frisked 89 at a honey-warm Oval, where the Guardian football writer Jonathan Wilson and his stag do were among the 6,000 spectators. There were three wickets apiece for Surrey's Jordan Clark and Tom Lawes and a gravity-defying catch by Ben Foakes, hanging in the air like an unvoiced memory. Adam Lyth added another fifty to his hefty season's collection, but Yorkshire wilted after tea. The Nottinghamshire captain Haseeb Hameed was a sea of calm on a stormy scorecard at Chester-le-Street, carrying his bat for 206. Brydon Carse, playing in his first game for Durham this season after a toe injury, bowled through 14 overs, and grabbed three wickets. Somerset appeared to have thrown their batting order into a paper bag and pulled out the numbers at random - but the new approach had its successes against Sussex. The upside-down opening partnership put on just 21, but there were contributions down the order, including an unbeaten 70 from Archie Vaughan. Warwickshire's Ed Barnard (four for 56) and Olly Hannon-Dalby (three for 47) riffed through Hampshire at Edgbaston, despite an unbeaten 52 from James Fuller. At New Road, a swarm of bees forced the players off the pitch where Worcestershire earned their first batting points of the season, ending on 354-9 against Essex. In Division Two, more than 2,000 children revelled in the heat of the concrete concourse at Old Trafford, where it has been a busy few days. On Tuesday, Keaton Jennings stepped down as Lancashire captain, replaced by Marcus Harris, and the club officially apologised for the bad start to the season. That bad start continued shortly after Jennings walked out and was caught off Blair Tickner for two, Josh Bohannon following close behind. But Luke Wells took charge of the rebuild against Derbyshire, his carefully crafted 141 his highest score at Old Trafford. At Lord's, Ian Holland's golden summer continued, his five for 35 giving Division Two leaders Leicestershire the upper hand over Middlesex. Northants lost nine for 80 at Sophia Gardens, brittle as overcooked flapjack, before Marnus Labuschagne made a duck on his Glamorgan return. At Bristol, Grant Stewart's boundary-biffing 173 not out transformed Kent's day as they made 386-6 against Gloucestershire. Share DIVISION ONE Chester-le-Street: Durham 2-0 v Nottinghamshire 470 Taunton: Somerset 317-6 v Sussex The Oval: Surrey 46-0 v Yorkshire 255 Edgbaston: Warwickshire 27-2 v Hampshire 300 New Road: Worcestershire 354-9 v Essex DIVISION TWO Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 82-3 v Northants 185 Bristol: Gloucestershire v Kent 386-6 Old Trafford: Lancashire 250-5 v Derbyshire Lord's: Middlesex 232 v Leicestershire 22-1 Share Good morning from a cloudy Old Trafford – possibly not the best news for Derbyshire with Jimmy Anderson due to stretch that 42nd year old body later today. Play starts around the grounds at 11am, do join us. Share
Powys County Times
16-05-2025
- Sport
- Powys County Times
Haseeb Hameed leads by example for Nottinghamshire on day one against Durham
Haseeb Hameed made a brilliant unbeaten 206 as Rothesay County Championship Division One leaders Nottinghamshire reached 407 on the opening day's action against Durham at Chester-le-Street. The Nottinghamshire captain faced 241 balls and hit 30 fours and three sixes in a brilliant display before running out of partners, with Durham on two without loss after facing one over before the close. Archie Vaughan hit an unbeaten 70 to shift momentum in Somerset's direction against Sussex at Taunton. Solid first day for Surrey! 💪 Surrey 46/0, trailing by 209 runs. 🤎 | #SurreyCricket — Surrey Cricket (@surreycricket) May 16, 2025 The hosts were 187 for five when Tom Banton fell in the 61st over but Vaughan teamed up with Craig Overton, unbeaten on 22 at the close, to tilt things in the hosts' direction. James Fuller hit 52 off as many balls in an unbeaten innings as Hampshire totalled 300 against Warwickshire at Edgbaston. After the hosts lost openers Rob Yates and Alex Davies to reach the close on 27 for two, the first day appeared to belong to the visitors. Surrey are on top at home to Yorkshire after bowling out the visitors for 255, and then reaching 42 without loss thanks to Rory Burns and Dom Sibley. Jonny Bairstow made 89 off just 114 balls and Adam Lyth contributed 55 but Jordan Clark took three wickets for 31 runs as Yorkshire failed to capitalise. HIGHLIGHTS: Vaughan records career high as Somerset score 300 on opening day #SOMvSUS #WeAreSomerset @WPAinsurance — Somerset Cricket (@SomersetCCC) May 16, 2025 Matthew Waite (73) top-scored as bottom club Worcestershire reached 354 for nine at home to Essex, for whom Matt Critchley took three for 75. In Division Two, Ian Holland gave leaders Leicestershire the edge at the end of the first day at Lord's, taking five for 35 as Middlesex were bowled out for 232. Rishi Patel fell to the final ball of the day to leave the visitors on 22 for one. Luke Wells' 141 helped Lancashire have a strong opening day against Derbyshire as they reached 250 for five at stumps. Ben Aitchison led the resistance for the visitors, taking three for 51, but the hosts will likely look forward to the returning James Anderson's first involvement in the match on Saturday. Kent were indebted to Grant Stewart and Chris Benjamin as they recovered from a poor start to reach stumps on 386 for six against Gloucestershire at Bristol. Ajeet Singh Dale ended with four for 97 after helping reduce the visitors to 36 for three and 64 for four, but Stewart reached 173 and Benjamin 82 in an unbroken stand of 249 to turn things around. Asitha Fernando and Andy Gorvin took three apiece as Northamptonshire slumped from 104 for one to 185 all out in Cardiff. The opening day's action ended with Glamorgan reaching 82 for three in reply.
BBC News
16-05-2025
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- BBC News
Hameed's double ton puts Notts in charge at Durham
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Banks Homes Riverside (day one)Nottinghamshire 407: Hameed 206*, Slater 52; Yusuf 4-99, Carse 3-64Durham 2-0: Durham (3 pts) trail Nottinghamshire (4 pts) by 405 runsMatch scorecard Haseeb Hameed's remarkable unbeaten double-century put Nottinghamshire in a strong position on day one of their County Championship clash with Division One leaders, who were put in to bat at Banks Homes Riverside, had the better of the morning, with openers Hameed and Ben Slater combining for a partnership worth it was Durham's afternoon as four wickets from Codi Yusuf helped the hosts rein Nottinghamshire Hameed reached three figures for the second time this season and he dominated the evening session to reach his second first-class double-hundred and lead his side to a first innings total of 407. Durham began their reply with one over left to bat and they reached two without loss at close. Hameed's innings didn't go without its chances, but on the whole it was an excellent knock from the former England opener, who was a rock during the Nottinghamshire first innings as wickets fell around who had England quick Brydon Carse in their line-up for the first time this season, won the toss and elected to bowl on a green Nottinghamshire got off to a good start with the bat, with skipper Hameed taking a liking to the bowling of Yusuf as he picked up three boundaries in an opening pair continued to accumulate and frustrate Durham's bowling attack, as they accelerated to their 100 partnership within 20 overs and Slater brought up his half-century with a clip off his legs that went to the Minto got the breakthrough soon after as Slater departed for 52, with the opener edging one straight into the gloves of Ollie in-form Hameed then reached his half-century from 71 balls in the final moments before lunch, but Durham struck back after the break as Yusuf got Freddie McCann for 26 when the number three attempted a pull shot but he could only help the ball on its way through to Robinson. Yusuf struck again to remove Joe Clarke, with the South African forcing the Nottinghamshire man to chop one on to his off-stump and Carse then produced a moment of brilliance to remove Jack Haynes for one, as the former Worcestershire man chipped one up and the England bowler made an excellent one-handed return Verreynne joined Hameed at the crease and they steadied the ship for the visitors, absorbing the pressure that the Durham bowlers were putting them looked to break the shackles as he got back-to-back boundaries off the bowling of Minto. The former England man then danced down the pitch to George Drissell and launched one down the ground for after, Yusuf broke the partnership and got his third of the day as the dangerous Verreynne was caught behind for a well-made 41. Lyndon James could not build on a nice start as Yusuf got him caught behind for 21 and George Drissell struck soon after to remove Liam Patterson-White without the wickets falling, Hameed remained calm and passed three figures for the 17th time in his first-class career, but another partner was back in the pavilion when Ben Raine bowled Rob tea, Hameed came out and attacked the Durham bowling, taking his side over 300 when he swatted a Raine delivery to the Hutton remained solid alongside Hameed as they tried to eke out every run they could from their first innings and Hameed reached his 150 as he hooked a Yusuf ball for continued to be frustrated as Hutton played a nice shot through the offside to the took the second new ball, but it had little effect as Hameed pulled a Raine ball for four as he closed in on then departed at the hands of Carse for a stubborn 32, but Hameed doubled up and reached 200 from 240 balls and he did it in style as he plundered a Drissell ball for removed Muhammad Abbas to bowl Nottinghamshire out for 407, which left Hameed unbeaten on 206. Durham had one over to bat, with nightwatch Minto and Alex Lees seeing the hosts through to close. ECB Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
