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26-05-2025
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Surrey stay unbeaten despite Porter five-for for Essex
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Kia Oval (day four) Essex 217 & 479: Allison 140, Walter 118, Thain 50, Westley 50; Worrall 4-77 Surrey 279 & 289-7: Curran 77, Overton 47; Porter 5-88 Surrey (12 pts) drew with Essex (11 pts) Match scorecard Sam Curran added 77 to his first innings 70, in his first red-ball appearance since last September, as Surrey saw out a rain-hit final day on 289-7 to secure a draw against Essex at the Kia Oval. Curran's 121-ball effort held Surrey's batting together as seamer Jamie Porter and off-spinner Simon Harmer threatened to bowl Essex to a second County Championship win of the season. Six separate rain interruptions – all of them short, but lopping 20 overs in all from the final day's allocation – did not help Essex's cause and in the end, a 51-run stand between Jamie Overton and Jordan Clark proved decisive. Overton stayed just over two hours for his 47 from 102 balls, edging Porter to third slip just before 6.00pm from what became the last ball of the game, Clark finishing 23 not out. Porter took 5-88 from 27 overs and Harmer 2-94 from 34 with Essex taking 11 points for the draw and Surrey, who stay second in the Division One table, picked up 12. Surrey had started the day on 32 without loss, having been set an unlikely 418 in the fourth innings after Essex, led by centuries from Paul Walter and 20-year-old Charlie Allison on days two and three, had reached 479 in their own second innings. Rory Burns and Dom Sibley, Surrey's openers, were fluent early on against Essex's seamers and took their stand to 76 before Harmer made the breakthrough with the first ball of his third over of the morning. Left-hander Burns, on 39, jumped out to drive but was beaten by appreciable spin and bounce out of the bowlers' footmarks and superbly stumped by Michael Pepper, who had to bring the ball down from almost shoulder height. Sibley, having reached 40 with some excellent strokes down the ground, was similarly deceived by Harmer. The former South African Test spinner, seeing Sibley advance from his crease, tossed the ball a bit wider to leave the former England man groping for it and Pepper to complete a far simpler stumping. At lunch, with only one over at that stage lost to a sharp mid-session shower, Surrey had stabilised the innings at 142-2 through Australian left-hander Kurtis Patterson and Curran, who got off the mark in spectacular style by hooking Porter for six over deep square leg. Another shower delayed the restart by 10 minutes and, in the afternoon's second over Patterson was beaten by a break-back from Porter, operating from around the wicket, and bowled off a thin inside edge for 40. Surrey's faint hopes of chasing down their distant target fell away when Porter removed Ben Foakes and Jason Roy in the space of three balls to leave the home side 167 for five. Nibbling the ball away from the right-handers, he first had Foakes caught behind for seven before Roy was superbly held, low and left-handed, by a diving Harmer at second slip. It completed an unhappy pair for the former England one-day opener. In between further showers, Curran and Overton steadied Surrey once again in a sixth-wicket partnership that eventually realised 77 in 24 overs. Curran, on 76, survived an impassioned appeal for a low legside catch behind the wicket off Porter that may not have carried. But later, in an eventful over and one ball after Overton had looked fortunate not to be given leg-before as he moved across his stumps, Allison flung himself to his left at point to clutch a Curran square drive and give Essex renewed hope with Surrey now 244-6. Only eight more balls were possible, however, before more rain arrived and after another subsequent delay the final mini-session of play saw Essex crowding the bat in vain while Surrey's seventh wicket pair kept out Porter and Harmer - until Overton fell with the draw assured. ECB Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport
BBC News
26-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Surrey stay unbeaten despite Porter five-for for Essex
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Kia Oval (day four)Essex 217 & 479: Allison 140, Walter 118, Thain 50, Westley 50; Worrall 4-77 Surrey 279 & 289-7: Curran 77, Overton 47; Porter 5-88Surrey (12 pts) drew with Essex (11 pts)Match scorecard Sam Curran added 77 to his first innings 70, in his first red-ball appearance since last September, as Surrey saw out a rain-hit final day on 289-7 to secure a draw against Essex at the Kia 121-ball effort held Surrey's batting together as seamer Jamie Porter and off-spinner Simon Harmer threatened to bowl Essex to a second County Championship win of the separate rain interruptions – all of them short, but lopping 20 overs in all from the final day's allocation – did not help Essex's cause and in the end, a 51-run stand between Jamie Overton and Jordan Clark proved stayed just over two hours for his 47 from 102 balls, edging Porter to third slip just before 6.00pm from what became the last ball of the game, Clark finishing 23 not took 5-88 from 27 overs and Harmer 2-94 from 34 with Essex taking 11 points for the draw and Surrey, who stay second in the Division One table, picked up had started the day on 32 without loss, having been set an unlikely 418 in the fourth innings after Essex, led by centuries from Paul Walter and 20-year-old Charlie Allison on days two and three, had reached 479 in their own second Burns and Dom Sibley, Surrey's openers, were fluent early on against Essex's seamers and took their stand to 76 before Harmer made the breakthrough with the first ball of his third over of the Burns, on 39, jumped out to drive but was beaten by appreciable spin and bounce out of the bowlers' footmarks and superbly stumped by Michael Pepper, who had to bring the ball down from almost shoulder having reached 40 with some excellent strokes down the ground, was similarly deceived by Harmer. The former South African Test spinner, seeing Sibley advance from his crease, tossed the ball a bit wider to leave the former England man groping for it and Pepper to complete a far simpler lunch, with only one over at that stage lost to a sharp mid-session shower, Surrey had stabilised the innings at 142-2 through Australian left-hander Kurtis Patterson and Curran, who got off the mark in spectacular style by hooking Porter for six over deep square shower delayed the restart by 10 minutes and, in the afternoon's second over Patterson was beaten by a break-back from Porter, operating from around the wicket, and bowled off a thin inside edge for faint hopes of chasing down their distant target fell away when Porter removed Ben Foakes and Jason Roy in the space of three balls to leave the home side 167 for the ball away from the right-handers, he first had Foakes caught behind for seven before Roy was superbly held, low and left-handed, by a diving Harmer at second slip. It completed an unhappy pair for the former England one-day between further showers, Curran and Overton steadied Surrey once again in a sixth-wicket partnership that eventually realised 77 in 24 on 76, survived an impassioned appeal for a low legside catch behind the wicket off Porter that may not have carried. But later, in an eventful over and one ball after Overton had looked fortunate not to be given leg-before as he moved across his stumps, Allison flung himself to his left at point to clutch a Curran square drive and give Essex renewed hope with Surrey now eight more balls were possible, however, before more rain arrived and after another subsequent delay the final mini-session of play saw Essex crowding the bat in vain while Surrey's seventh wicket pair kept out Porter and Harmer - until Overton fell with the draw Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
Daily Mail
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Sam Cook, England's new star - by those who know him best: The model student who trains while everyone else is asleep - and why lack of pace means nothing as he eyes Ashes glory
Sam Cook had just turned 17 when he first came up against Jamie Porter in August 2014. Within three years the two would form a lethal new-ball pairing in county cricket, but for now they were rivals: Cook opening the bowling for Chelmsford in an Essex Premier League game at Chelmer Park, Porter the batting for Chingford. 'The pitch was a real green nipper,' says Porter. 'It was putrid. He didn't miss a length, and the amount of times I came forward to defend and got hit on the arm or the elbow…'
News.com.au
23-04-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Kristie Batten: Victoria punching above its weight in modern gold rush
Australia's high grade Fosterville gold mine is printing $1m of free cash a day The gold price boom has more explorers chasing new high-grade deposits nearby in Victoria Bubalus closing in on drill program at underexplored Crosbie project The allure of finding the next ultra high-grade gold deposit continues to draw explorers to Victoria. The Australian Gold Rush kicked off in 1851 in Victoria and while the bulk of Australia's gold production now comes from other states, recent evident suggests there's more to be found in the Garden State. The Fosterville mine near Bendigo was a struggling operation until the discovery of the Swan Zone in 2016, which had a reserve grade of 58.8 grams per tonne gold. The discovery transformed Fosterville into a 500,000 ounce per annum producer, in turn elevating then-owner, Canada's Kirkland Lake Gold, into a market darling. Fosterville now produces around 150,000ozpa but still has resources of around 3.3Moz at roughly 4g/t gold. The mine is now owned by major Agnico Eagle, which remains bullish on its exploration potential, based on its exploration budget of US$30 million this year. Agnico chief financial officer Jamie Porter told this month's Mining Forum Europe in Zurich that the company's geologists believe the potential for another super high-grade zone like Swan remains. 'At these gold prices, we're still generating about a million dollars a day of free cashflow and as our VP of Australia likes to put it, it's the single best gold exploration option in the world that happens to generate a million dollars a day of free cashflow,' he said. 'It's a very profitable operation, and we've got a potential lottery ticket in the event that we hit something.' Bang for buck Recent research from Melbourne-based MinEx Consulting shows that explorers can get real bang for their buck working in Victoria. In a presentation last month, MinEx managing director Richard Schodde said Victoria had accounted for 8% of all discoveries in Australia over the past 180 years. In the decade to 2023, Victoria accounted for 4% of the total spend on exploration, resulting in 7% (by number) of the country's discoveries and roughly 13% of the estimated value. On a value/cost basis, Victoria was the top performing state in Australia, with a ' bang-per-buck' of 4.16 versus a national average of 1.26. Schodde acknowledged that a large proportion of the value in Victoria was associated with the discovery of the Swan Zone, leading to a 6.6x increase in spend between 2016 and 2021. However, even when excluding Fosterville, Schodde said Victoria still outperformed the other states. Over the past three decades, gold has accounted for 72% of total exploration expenditure in Victoria, though Schodde noted the increasing focus on mineral sands and critical minerals, as evidenced by VHM's (ASX:VHM) Goschen project, which was recently granted a mining lease. Big programs underway Outside of Fosterville, the company to have experienced the most gold exploration success in Victoria is Southern Cross Gold (ASX:SX2). Southern Cross has an exploration target of 2.2-3.2Moz at 8.3-10.6g/t gold equivalent for its Sunday Creek project, 60km north of Melbourne. The company recently bolstered the number of drill rigs at the project to eight, with seven rigs to continue expansion and infill drilling in the 1.5km long core drill area and the other to drill regional targets along the 12km mineralised trend and parallel trends. An induced polarisation survey over 6km of strike is underway, while Fleet Space Technologies is undertaking an orientation real time ambient noise tomography passive seismic and gravity survey over the core drill area. Meanwhile, S2 Resources (ASX:S2R), run by two-time AMEC Prospector Award-winner Mark Bennett, won a hotly contested ballot for exploration ground around Fosterville in 2021, even beating out Kirkland Lake. In just the first eight holes last year, S2 identified a discrete mineralised structure, the Blackadder Fault, which it said broadly lined up with well delineated structures containing gold and being mined to the south on Agnico's mining lease. At the end of March, S2 started aircore drilling to test two of three coincident anomalies in the Rasmussen's area. The company said the anomalies were considered gold targets because they could indicate the presence of disseminated sulphide haloes, which are known to occur around the gold mineralised lodes at the Fosterville mine itself. Results are due next month. Fosterville nearology still a draw While the Swan Zone has been mined out, the potential of finding another one remains attractive for explorers. Bubalus Resources (ASX:BUS) recently entered Victoria via the acquisition of more than 2000km2 of ground across the state, including the Crosbie project, which is within 20km of Fosterville. Bubalus managing director Brendan Borg told Stockhead that it was a common misconception that all of the gold had been found in Victoria. 'I say, 'well, all the easy gold has been found' – of course, it has,' he said. 'All the stuff that's at surface, and all the high-grade reefs that outcrop and things like that. They've largely been mined. 'But Fosterville is a perfect example of where they were scratching around, hardly making a dollar for so long, and then they made that high-grade discovery at depth.' Borg said Sunday Creek was another good example. 'They're getting some really good results in a long-standing goldfield,' he said. 'Sunday Creek has been around for ages, and people would have almost said the gold's gone from there, but then you do some deeper drilling, and Southern Cross has proven, and certainly Agnico has proven that at Fosterville, that you spend the money doing some deeper, more extensive exploration, and you can certainly get the rewards for that. 'Where we're located is really close to both of these projects. We're obviously at the very early stage and we have to prove we've got anything, let alone something as good as that.' Amazingly, Crosbie has never been drilled, something which Bubalus will change in the coming days, with plans to kick of a program to follow up rock chip results of up to 19.1g/t gold. Victoria-based Borg said he had reservations about projects in the state due to poor perceptions of permitting, but has been pleasantly surprised in the four months since acquiring the ground. The previous project owner had taken Crosbie through the land access agreement process and engagement with Traditional Owners to the point where the project is ready for drilling. 'I didn't want to get caught in a permitting vortex for a year or two years or three years before we'd be able to drill,' Borg said. 'So part of the attraction for me getting involved was that we were going to be able to drill this Crosbie target pretty quickly.' Others also busy A number of other juniors are also active in Victoria. Shares in Advance Metals (ASX:AVM) surged last week after it reported high-grade gold from its Myrtleford project. Also a new entrant to Victoria, Advance reported an intersection of 7.5m at 47.9g/t gold, with a peak grade of 446g/t gold. Yesterday, North Stawell Minerals (ASX:NSM) reported a hit of 2.3m at 29.2g/t gold from 108.2m, including 0.8m at 82.3g/t gold at its Darlington Project, 6km north of Stawell. Stawell executive director Campbell Olsen said if the intercept was proven to be part of a larger, coherent mineralised zone, it had the potential to focus some of the strong interest in high-grade Victorian gold systems to western Victoria. Adelong Gold (ASX:ADG) is kicking off an exploration program at its Apollo project, adjacent to Sunday Creek, to follow up high-grade gold and antimony results. Aureka (ASX:AKA) is drilling across two projects, Irvine Stawell and St Arnaud, after completing a program at Tandarra, near Fosterville, last month. Earlier this month, First Au (ASX:FAU), acquired the remaining 20% it didn't already own of the Victorian Goldfields project, and is planning drilling to follow up its initial 2023 program. Late last month, Infinity Lithium (ASX:INF) acquired a portfolio of gold tenements in eastern Victoria and plans to start exploration shortly.
The Independent
21-04-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Jamie Porter claims six second-innings wickets as Essex see off Worcestershire
Jamie Porter took six wickets in the second innings as Essex earned their first win of the season with a 28-run victory over Worcestershire in Division One of the Rothesay County Championship. The pace bowler struck early on the morning of day four, bowling Matthew Waite and soon dismissed Tom Taylor before Kasun Rajitha claimed the scalp of Ben Allison for a duck. Ethan Brookes offered some fightback for Worcestershire, scoring 88 before being caught and bowled by Porter, who finished with match figures of eight for 101. Essex recorded the only top-flight win on Monday as the remainder of the games ended in draws and they sit third in the table. Surrey are seventh after picking up their third draw of the campaign against Sussex. Ollie Robinson struck early to dismiss Dan Lawrence for 117 and wicketkeeper Ben Foakes made 60 before James Coles claimed five wickets for 108 runs as Surrey finished their first innings on 490 all out. Tom Haines and Daniel Hughes then scored an unbeaten 69 and 49, respectively, as Sussex closed on 132 without loss. Hampshire's rain-affected meeting with Somerset also ended with players shaking hands as Sean Dickson finished unbeaten on 77 and Tom Abell also scored 27 not out. Yorkshire skipper Jonny Bairstow finished with an unbeaten 86 as his side's clash with Durham ended in a draw, with rain bringing an early end to the match. Bairstow's unbeaten knock alongside Matthew Revis' 40 saw Yorkshire close on 277 for six, with Durham bowlers Ben Raine, Matthew Potts and Colin Ackermann all taking two wickets each. Rain also affected Warwickshire's draw with Nottingham, where a stubborn display saw Ed Barnard finish with a top score of 40 not out from 149 balls and Oliver Hannon-Dalby added seven runs from 62 deliveries to close on 181 for six. In Division Two, Middlesex earned a nine-wicket win against Glamorgan. Kiran Carlson was dismissed early in the session by Toby Roland-Jones – who finished with three wickets – before Chris Cooke added 69 from 151 balls. The wicketkeeper's knock was brought to an end by Henry Brookes and Ned Leonard's cameo of 47 saw Glamorgan finish on 329 all out and Middlesex easily chased down their target of 59 runs to win their first County Championship game of the season. Leicestershire remain top of the Division Two standings after three games, despite drawing with Lancashire. A rain-affected day four saw Lancashire build on their overnight score of 16 for three, closing on 90 for three with Josh Bohannon and Marcus Harris scoring 45 and 34, respectively. Kent stay second in the standings after their clash with Gloucestershire ended in a draw. Miles Hammond claimed 89 off 136 balls, while Oliver Price and Graeme van Buuren scored half-centuries before Gloucestershire declared on 333 for five. England opener Zak Crawley made an unbeaten 54, but Tawanda Muyeye was Kent's next highest scorer as a brilliant display from Tom Price saw the all-rounder take four wickets for 33 runs to reduce the hosts to 124 for six at close. Rain prevented any play taking place on day four as Derbyshire and Northamptonshire's clash finished in a draw.
