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31-07-2025
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Broad & Keogh star as Northants dominate Derbyshire
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, County Ground, Northampton (day three)Derbyshire 377 & 52-4Northants 550-9 dec: Broad 171, Keogh 125*; ; Reece 3-114Derbyshire (5 pts) trail Northants (5 pts) by 121 runsMatch scorecard All-rounder Justin Broad hit a brilliant 171, his second score in excess of 150 this month amid a Northamptonshire runfest against Derbyshire at Wantage Road as the hosts racked up a mammoth 550-9 from a wrist injury, Broad struck 18 fours and a six, following his maiden first-class ton, 157 not out at Canterbury at the beginning of July. On a day of records, his 171 was the highest score ever made by a number seven from any team against Rob Keogh also striking an excellent unbeaten 125, the pair put on 208, the highest seventh wicket partnership for Northamptonshire against Derbyshire as the visitors' attack wilted in the afternoon Reece was the pick of Derbyshire's bowlers, finishing with figures of declared 173 ahead and reduced Derbyshire to 52-4 at stumps, Indian leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal picking up two wickets in two balls. It leaves the visitors with a mountain to climb on a pitch offering turn and bounce, still trailing by 121 at the end of day three of this County Championship resuming on 265-5, Broad and George Bartlett extended their sixth-wicket partnership to 127, also the highest for Northamptonshire against Derbyshire. But after posting 66, his highest score this season, Bartlett was trapped lbw by a Ben Aitchison delivery which nipped back and kept and Keogh though looked relatively untroubled by a lacklustre Derbyshire bowling display throughout the morning as they focused on building a partnership and taking a first innings lead, picking up a handful of boundaries along the way. Broad, 64 overnight, deployed the pull against Zak Chappell and on drove handsomely, while Keogh swept and reverse swept against Joe Hawkins' lunched nervously on 99, but despite flashing outside off stump against Martin Andersson after the break, he took a single off Hawkins to celebrate his first century at the scoring rate accelerating, Keogh drove Andersson sweetly through midwicket to reach his second successive half-century off 112 balls and crunched Andersson through extra cover to bring up the 100 partnership and put Northamptonshire ahead. Broad then punched Blair Tickner down the ground for another plugged away, trying several short-term experiments to try to force a breakthrough. Andersson bowled consistently wide outside off-stump to Broad, while Aitchison reverted to bowling spin. Then for Chappell, three fielders were stationed in the area between mid-on and short Northamptonshire's batters continued unabated, Keogh cutting Tickner to backward point to bring up the 150-partnership before passing the previous highest seventh-wicket stand (163) by Josh Cobb and David Willey at Derby in Northamptonshire milestones continued to keep the public address announcer busy, Keogh turning Andersson away for two to bring up his century, Broad taking a single next ball off Hawkins to reach his a scrappy passage of play before tea, Derbyshire's tired fielders shelled three catches, but picked up one vital wicket in between. First, Keogh, on 101, swept Hawkins firmly to short midwicket where Madsen put down a straightforward chance. Then after Broad smashed Reece through extra cover, Caleb Jewell dropped one at backward point off an attempted reverse Broad and Keogh celebrated their 200 partnership, Broad swinging Reece for six into the sightscreen as Northamptonshire accelerated further. Broad's 273-ball knock finally ended though when he hit Reece down the ground again but was caught just inside the Scrimshaw won an immediate reprieve when Aitchinson failed to hold a one-handed grab at first slip off Reece. But his intentions were evident as he quickly went on the offensive against struck after tea castling Scrimshaw with a full and straight delivery, but Keogh found good support from Liam Guthrie (22), Northamptonshire declaring when Hawkins had the Australian caught hitting down the reply started ominously when Jewell flashed outside off, Ricardo Vasconcelos snatching the ball at first to opener Zak Chappell made 22 before Chahal's double strike. First Chappell reverse swept straight to backward point, then Harry Came was lbw playing back to a slider. Finally skipper Wayne Madsen edged Keogh to Broad at first slip to further compound Derbyshire's Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay.
BBC News
30-07-2025
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Northants recover well with bat against Derbyshire
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, County Ground, Northampton (day two)Derbyshire 377: Andersson 105; Chahal 6-118Northants 265-5: Procter 71, Broad 64*, Bartlett 60*Northants (4 pts) trail Derbyshire (4 pts) by 112 runsMatch scorecard George Bartlett and Justin Broad shared an unbroken sixth-wicket partnership of 111 to lead the Northamptonshire recovery in response to Derbyshire's total of 377 at Wantage equalled his season's best of 60 not out, made in the opening round of the County Championship, while Broad struck an unbeaten 64 as the pair batted through the evening session, having joined forces at captain Luke Procter anchored his side's innings with a gritty 71 at the top of the order before becoming one of a trio of departures in quick succession prior to Indian leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal picked up the final two Derbyshire wickets to register figures of 6-118, his best in the County resumed on 348-8 and Ben Aitchison wasted no time in securing their third batting bonus point, clubbing Liam Guthrie's first delivery of the morning to the cover looked on course to reach a first-class half-century for only the second time in his career, but he departed five short of that landmark, chopping Chahal back onto leg spinner soon wrapped up Derbyshire's innings as Blair Tickner – having blazed a couple of boundaries off George Scrimshaw – took an ambitious swing and was caught at slip off a thick ball in hand, Tickner then sent down a fiery opening spell, generating plenty of pace and bounce and earning his reward by removing Ricardo Vasconcelos with a delivery that swung in to hit the left-hander on the and Lewis McManus – who was awarded his county cap prior to the start of play – saw their side through to lunch, not without the odd scare as debutant Joe Hawkins' first ball found the edge of the skipper's bat but fell just short of visitors struck in the first over after the interval, when McManus misjudged the line from Zak Chappell and was caught behind, but James Sales started perkily as he dispatched Hawkins for two cover Procter withstood a barrage of short-pitched bowling from Tickner, emerging unscathed after he ducked into a bouncer and continued to accumulate, guiding Aitchison to the rope at third man to bring up his third-wicket partnership yielded 74 before Luis Reece achieved the breakthrough, tempting Sales to drive outside off stump and Harry Came clasped the catch at prised out Procter, foxing the batter with a slower ball that trapped him in front and Derbyshire also removed the in-form Saif Zaib on the stroke of tea, caught behind to provide Hawkins with his first senior made a scratchy start but began to open up in the wake of Procter's exit, lifting Hawkins over the top for four and responding to another pounding by Tickner with a classy straight drive back over the bowler's was soon overtaken by Broad, whose tendency towards the pull shot almost proved his downfall when he miscued Tickner to leg slip, only for the ball to drop just in front of the stretching Caleb it was Bartlett who won the race to 50, pummelling Reece for six and four in quick succession and Broad soon followed suit, capitalising on the left-armer's full toss to find the Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay.
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01-07-2025
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Four centurions for Northants in run riot at Kent
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Spitfire Ground, Canterbury (day three)Kent 566-8 dec: Bell-Drummond 158, Finch 118, Compton 66; Guthrie 3-92 Northamptonshire 624-6: Zaib 150*, Harrison 122, Broad 107*, Vasconcelos 100Kent 5 pts, Northants 6 ptsMatch scorecard Bat continued to dominate ball on day three of the Rothesay County Championship match between Kent and Northamptonshire at Canterbury, with Saif Zaib, Calvin Harrison, Justin Broad and Ricardo Vasconcelos all making centuries as the visitors closed on 624-6, a lead of was unbeaten on 150, Harrison hit 122 and Broad was 107 not out at stumps. Earlier Vasconcelos made exactly 100 and Tim Robinson weighed in with was another sapping day for the bowlers but Jaydn Denly took his first red-ball wickets at the Spitfire Ground, finishing with temperature was already 27 degrees in the shade when Northants resumed on 140-1 and the overnight batters quickly reached their 41 overnight, drove Nathan Gilchrist to reach his half-century and Vasconcelos, who'd ended day two on 87, took a single from Joey Evison to reach three figures, but he was then out, caught behind off Wes it was Harrison's turn to rack up his hundred he did it in style, heaving Matt Parkinson for six over mid-wicket and seeing the visitors through to 255-2 at apparently dead game was briefly reignited when Parkinson had Harrison caught at mid on by Denly and James Sales was then brilliantly run out by Gilchrist and Harry Finch for 41: Robinson narrowly avoided getting caught by Ekansh Singh at short leg but hared down the track looking for a single that wasn't however, couldn't take an ankle-high chance offered by Zaib when he was on nine and Robinson eased to 50 with a single off claimed his first first-class wicket at the Spitfire Ground when he had Robinson lbw but Zaib reverse swept him for four to bring up his half-century in his next over and it was 416-5 at struck again in the second over after the resumption to get Lewis McManus caught and bowled for 13, but Zaib eased to three figures. He'd reached 99 when Kent brought the field in and then swept Tawanda Muyeye for six over square drove Denly to put Northants into the lead and took a single from the same bowler to reach three figures in the 130th over. Rain is forecast for swathes of day four, but if it stays away the visitors might yet make life awkward for Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
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24-06-2025
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Middlesex build lead after Gohar five-for against Northants
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, County Ground, Northampton (day three)Middlesex 413 & 215-3: De Caires 87, Robson 48; Holden 35*Northamptonshire 435: Zaib 102, McManus 71, Broad 70; Gohar 5-121, Higgins 3-48Middlesex (7 pts) lead Northants (6 pts) by 193 with seven wickets standingMatch scorecard Josh de Caires struck 87, his highest first-class score, following a five-for by Zafar Gohar to put Middlesex in a strong position at the end of day three of their County Championship match against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road. Playing his first game of the season, de Caires, who has batted at seven for the last couple of years as a spinning all-rounder, shared an opening stand of 89 with Sam Robson (48) and the Seaxes finished the day on 215-3, a lead of helped wrestle back the initiative after all-rounder Justin Broad hit 70 off 81 balls and combined with Lloyd Pope in a record 10th wicket partnership for Northamptonshire against Middlesex to earn them a slender first innings and Pope's heroics came after Ryan Higgins' hat-trick spearheaded a Northamptonshire batting collapse in the morning session. From a dominant 342-5, the hosts lost four wickets for eight runs in just 4.2 overs after Saif Zaib posted an excellent 102, his fourth century of the summer, making him the first Northants batter since Ben Duckett in 2016 to do finished with figures of 3-48 while spinner Zafar Gohar took a further wicket to add to his four on day two for figures of resuming on 308-5, Zaib and Lewis McManus looked to extend their defiant partnership which already extended into three reached three figures by bottom-edging an attempted reverse sweep past the keeper for four, but the shot proved his undoing later in the over when he picked out de Caires who took a stunning flying catch at backward point off set in motion Northamptonshire's collapse, as Higgins, employing a short-pitched tactic, had McManus fending a legside bouncer to the keeper with the final ball of the 103rd over. And he struck again with the first two balls of his next over to complete his hat-trick - Rob Keogh moved across his stumps and was bowled around his legs while Liam Guthrie upper cut a short ball straight to though, was proactive from the outset, employing the sweep and reverse sweep against the spinners and muscling Gohar through Pope providing solid support, Broad cut Gohar for four to bring up the 50 partnership and take Northamptonshire to 400. He pulled Toby Roland-Jones to the ropes, but the Middlesex captain couldn't hold onto a difficult diving chance at mid-wicket, the ball going for four to bring up Broad's targeted Pope with the short ball, but he was content to duck under the bouncers and take runs off the spinners and give Broad the bulk of the duly wiped out the deficit and took Northamptonshire into the lead just before the delayed lunch interval before falling shortly after the resumption when he stepped away to a Robson delivery which turned and hit the bat, Robson took three boundaries off Northamptonshire's seamers and the hosts soon turned to the he bowled the occasional half-tracker which Middlesex punished, Pope obtained some sharp turn and bounce out of the foot Harrison bowled tidily, conceding just one boundary in his first five overs, and also posed some tough questions for both batters, beating Robson's outside edge before de Caires failed to pick the struck with another wrong'un soon afterwards, trapping Robson lbw as he moved across his Caires brought up his half-century off 84 balls and after the break was harsh on anything loose from the spinners as he and Max Holden extended their partnership to turned to Guthrie who made the breakthrough almost instantly, bowling a bouncer which lifted sharply to de Caires who could only fend to second (35*) and Leus du Plooy (28) then added a brisk 48 together but the latter's departure came via a bizarre dismissal in the closing overs. Caught in two minds, he seemed to be considering whether to reverse sweep or run the ball down to third man but instead guided the ball straight to the day ended tantalisingly poised with Middlesex considering when best to time their day four Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
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17-05-2025
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Kellaway shines as Glam pile pressure on Northants
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Cardiff (day two)Northamptonshire 185: Procter 61; Fernando 3-28, Gorvin 3-36& 49-3: Procter 30*, Gorvin 2-3Glamorgan 424 (107.1 overs): Kellaway 95, Northeast 67, Van der Gugten 61, Carlson 54; Broad 3-82, Conway 3-99Northamptonshire (3 pts) trail Glamorgan (7 pts) by 190 runs with seven second-innings wickets standing Glamorgan strengthened their grip on the match against Northants with the visitors on 49-3 in their second innings, still 190 all-rounder Ben Kellaway led the way for Glamorgan with a fluent 95 off just 104 balls in their total of Sam Northeast (67) played a calm support role to Kiran Carlson's dashing 54 and Kellaway's exciting knock, while Timm van der Gugten's 61 made sure Glamorgan picked up four batting Broad, the pick of the attack on day two, and Harry Conway picked up three wickets apiece, but the visitors toiled as the pitch appeared to ease in the sun. Glamorgan seamer Andy Gorvin took two wickets in the penultimate over as Northants struggled to survive. Resuming on 82-3, Glamorgan made good early headway led by Carlson who found the gaps in the field in an attractive half-century in a stand of 96 with Sam Northeast, before Ben Sanderson snared Carlson into flicking a catch to short backward square leg. But Northants could not keep the pressure on despite two very tight spells from captain Luke Procter, leading by example as he also threw himself into a couple of boundary Northeast reached a patient 50 off 120 balls, the prolific Kellaway was quickly into his stride to take Glamorgan ahead before 21 year old all-rounder, who hit a career-best 181 not out at Canterbury in the previous match, was again in sparkling form with some sumptuous off-drives and a lofted straight six off leg-spinner Calvin played a composed supporting role in a partnership of 141 before he edged Justin Broad to looked set for three figures when Harrison got one to bounce and he was caught the double breakthrough did not end the visitors' suffering as Chris Cooke (36) and Van der Gugten added 87, the Netherlands international striking nine fours, before Broad dismissed bowlers Conway and Sanderson returned to wrap up the innings belatedly as Northants at least maintained their 100% record on bowling points in 2025. With 14 overs for the visitors to bat, James Harris had Ricardo Vasconcelos caught at slip for one. The hard-working Procter and George Bartlett looked set to bat out the final 40 minutes of the in the penultimate over Bartlett was given lbw to Gorvin, who then trapped nightwatchman Calvin Harrison plumb leg-before second ball to deepenNorthants' misery.
