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BBC News
24-05-2025
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Returning Woakes helps put Bears on top against Worcs
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Visit Worcestershire New Road, Worcester (day two)Warwickshire 227: Hain 86, Latham 59; Taylor 4-37 & 53-1: Yates 17*Worcestershire 181: Libby 45; Rushworth 4-37, Woakes 3-34Warwickshire (3 pts) lead Worcestershire (3 pts) by 99 runs with nine wickets scorecard Chris Rushworth and Chris Woakes bowled Warwickshire into the ascendancy over Worcestershire on the second day of the County Championship Division One derby at Visit Worcestershire New (4-37) and Woakes (3-34) exploited perfect seam-bowling conditions to bowl the home side out for 181. That gave Warwickshire a first innings lead of 46 - small but potentially decisive in a low-scoring visitors closed the second day on 53-1 - 99 ahead overall. It was an encouraging day for Warwickshire and also for England as Woakes safely came through his return to first-team bowling after a knee injury. He looked fluent and in good rhythm as he bowled well from the Diglis resumed on the second morning on 53 without loss, strongly placed but in batting conditions which were even more tricky than on the first day. Cloud cover and dampness from overnight rain had been added to the mischievous and Woakes could not have asked for more helpful conditions for their first competitive bowl of the season and both took full advantage as Worcestershire's ten wickets fell for 117 began the collapse by pinning Jake Libby (45) lbw. He then extended Henry Nicholls' thin spell of form via a catch at third departure was the first of four wickets to fall for eight runs in seven overs as Rushworth found his rhythm from the New Road End. Perfectly pitched outswingers induced three fatal edges in eight balls from Gareth Roderick (24), Rob Jones and Brett D' glowering skies, the outside edges continued to come. Wicketkeeper Alex Davies took the catches as Woakes snared Ethan Brookes and Matthew Waite became Rushworth's 673rd first class victim. Kashif Ali's 159 minutes of impressive defiance for 31 ended when he edged Ed Barnard high to second Taylor clubbed Webster to mid on and when the Aussie all-rounder, on his farewell appearance for Warwickshire before joining up with the Australia squad, bowled Ben Allison through a slog, Warwickshire's first innings lead was a solid the last session to bat, Warwickshire soon lost Alex Davies, beaten for pace and bowled by Jacob Duffy. In murky light, Rob Yates (17*) and Tom Latham (15*) ground out an unbroken partnership of 38 in 115 balls to cement their side's advantage while Rushworth's happy day got even better when his beloved Sunderland knocked in a stoppage time winner against Sheffield United in the Championship play-off final at Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
BBC News
12-05-2025
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Libby century not enough as Sussex defeat Worcs
Rothesay County Championship Division One, 1st Central County Ground, Hove (day four)Sussex 284 & 256: Alsop 72, Coles 68; Allison 3-52, Singh 3-58Worcestershire 180 & 313: Libby 167, Nicholls 34; Karvelas 3-52, Robinson 3-66Sussex (20 pts) beat Worcestershire (3 pts) by 47 runs Match scorecard Sussex's persevering seam attack finally broke Worcestershire's determined resistance – led by Jake Libby's 167 – to claim their second win since promotion back to Division One in the County opposition player loves batting at Hove more than Libby, who has now made the three highest scores of his career at the 1st Central County while he was there to anchor their chase, Worcestershire looked capable of overhauling a target of having seen off another testing spell by Ollie Robinson with the new ball, Libby was caught off Robinson's replacement Fynn Hudson-Prentice. His was the eighth wicket to fall with 75 still needed, and Robinson got belated rewards for an excellent performance when took the last two wickets after tea to seal victory by 47 was little assistance in the pitch, even on the fourth day, for Sussex's spinners, so it was left to their seam bowlers – led by the indefatigable Robinson – to take the seven wickets needed at the start of the final day which began with Worcestershire requiring was no surprise that Libby offered supreme resistance. He made his career-best 215 in this fixture in 2022 followed by 198 a year later. Here, having resumed on 64, he batted superbly - especially against Robinson, who beat the bat on numerous occasions, regularly challenged the stumps, and could easily have finished with five or six a nine-over spell at the start of the day Robinson thought he had removed Libby on 86 to a catch behind the wicket, but umpire James Middlebrook remained unmoved and shortly before lunch Libby moved to the 18th first-class hundred of his career, from 180 had picked up nightwatchman Ben Allison in the second over of the day but Sussex only took one more wicket in the morning session when Ethan Brookes played on to Ari Brett D'Oliveira helped Libby put on 81 in 22 overs either side of lunch with few alarms, but with the new ball due Tom Clark made an important breakthrough when he bowled D'Oliveira through the gate for Waite then gave Libby solid support. They survived another outstanding spell by the luckless Robinson down the slope with Waite batting for an hour before Karvelas tempted him into driving at an outswinger and James Coles took a sharp, low catch at third still looked as if he could still guide Worcestershire home but when Hudson-Prentice replaced Robinson he broke through straight away, tempting Libby into a rare loose drive which Clark, diving to his right, clung onto at second slip. Libby had batted for six and a half hours, faced 252 balls and hit 22 fours, and departed to a fully deserved ovation from an appreciative Sussex Singh was put down behind the stumps by John Simpson off Jack Carson on seven but it did not prove costly. Robinson returned for a third spell after tea and finally got some belated reward when Singh took on a short ball and Tom Haines raced in from the mid-wicket boundary to take a well-judged wrapped up victory in emphatic style in his next over when he sent Ben Gibbon's off stump cartwheeling to finish with 3-66 from 29.2 Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
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12-05-2025
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County Championship, Hove game in balance, Essex hold up Yorkshire - radio & text
Click on the 'watch & listen' tab to access BBC local radio commentaries or choose one using your smart speaker Get involved #bbccricket Yorkshire need six wickets to beat Essex at Chelmsford Ben Foakes makes career-best 174 not out for Surrey against Warwickshire Worcestershire chasing target of 361 against Sussex at Hove Opener Jake Libby completes century off 180 balls faced County Championship, Hove game in balance, Essex hold up Yorkshire - radio & text
BBC News
11-05-2025
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Sussex on top after setting Worcs 351 to win
Rothesay County Championship Division One, 1st Central County Ground, Hove (day three)Sussex 284 & 256: Alsop 72; Allison 3-52Worcestershire 180 & 117-3: Libby 64*; Robinson 1-18Worcestershire (3 pts) need 244 more runs to beat Sussex (4 pts)Match scorecard Sussex go into the final day of their County Championship fixture against Worcestershire with their noses in front after dismissing New Zealand stalwart Henry Nicholls and number four batter Kashif Ali late in the evening 81-run second-wicket stand from Nicholls and opening batter Jake Libby had steered the visitors into a decent position before Nicholls' mistimed pull shot found the gloves of wicketkeeper John Simpson and gave Sussex debutant James Hayes his maiden first-class Ollie Robinson snagged the day's final wicket in the penultimate over, extracting a thick edge from Ali, which fell to the grateful hands of James Coles at third on 117-3, Worcestershire require a further 244 runs to win after twin fifties from Tom Alsop and Coles, and some tail-end bashing helped the hosts to a second innings lead of chance of a Worcestershire victory likely rests with Libby, who remains unbeaten on 64, accompanied by nightwatchman Ben Allison on three. Libby kept a steady head while wickets fell around him and cashed in on some loose Hayes deliveries to pass fifty with a thrashing cut Karvelas took Sussex's only wicket of the Worcestershire innings, bowling Gareth Roderick for four with a dipping yorker that snuck beneath the opener's home side secured its dominant position in the morning session with a sturdy batting performance from Alsop and Coles. Both began the day in the twenties and took advantage of some loose deliveries from Worcestershire's fast bowlers, striking 21 boundaries between them as the Sussex lead sailed past Coles was particularly strong through the leg side, passing fifty with a forceful clip for four off Ben Gibbon in the 39th over. Alsop was equally convincing and reached his half-century one over later against the same 125-run partnership took Sussex from a potentially dangerous situation to a likely insurmountable lead before both were dismissed lbw before the lunch break. Coles fell for a 132-ball 68, shouldering arms to an inswinger from Ben Waite before his batting partner played back to a sharp-spinning Fateh Singh delivery for dismissals led to something of a mini-collapse for Sussex, who lost four wickets for 45 runs around the lunch break as captain Simpson 13 and Hudson-Prentice were both caught behind off the bowling of Allison, for took 3-52 in the the flurry of wickets, Sussex at 188-7 had extended their lead past 300 and now looked in the mood to attack as first-innings centurion Jack Carson combined with Robinson for a fiery rearguard stand of targeted left-arm spinner Singh, who the former hit for consecutive fours in the 66th over, and the latter crashed for a long, straight six in the fun came to an end soon after when both batters sprinted to the same end after a single and Robinson was run out for a feisty 30. Singh, who finished with admirable figures of 3-58 from his 17.4 overs, took the final two Sussex wickets in quick succession as Sussex were dismissed for 256. He first bowled Karvelas for a single before last man Hayes edged a turning delivery to second Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
