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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Surrey beat Yorkshire as record crowd watches at The Kia Oval
Surrey propelled themselves to within three points of the top spot in the Rothesay County Championship Division One after beating Yorkshire by an innings and 28 runs. The team needed just over an hour on the final day to secure their second win of the season, positioning themselves closely behind leaders Nottinghamshire. This triumph comes after a challenging match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston, where Surrey conceded 665-5 and were forced to follow on in their fourth draw out of five. Record-breaking crowd watches Surrey defeat Yorkshire at the Kia Oval (Image: Getty Images for Surrey CCC) However, back on home turf at the Kia Oval, Surrey clinched their 18th win out of the last 24 matches. Surrey will aim to maintain this momentum against Essex this bank holiday weekend in the Festival of Red Ball Cricket, starting on Friday. Even without key seamer Dan Worrall, who is sidelined with a foot injury, Surrey's fast bowlers proved too formidable for Yorkshire after Rory Burns won the toss. Only opener Adam Lyth (55) and Jonny Bairstow (89) managed to resist for long, as Yorkshire were bowled out on the opening day for 255. Tom Lawes and Jordan Clark each claimed three wickets, with Lawes benefiting from a spectacular catch by Ben Foakes, who removed Jonny Tattersall. Yorkshire's seam attack also found some assistance from the well-grassed pitch. However, a classy 85 from debutant Kurtis Patterson and a solid 86 from Foakes, following his unbeaten 174 at Edgbaston, blunted their efforts. George Hill, the standout performer in Yorkshire's attack, claimed 5-66 from 28 overs, but Surrey's lower order put the hosts out of sight. Clark's 69 and Lawes' aggressive 37 guided Surrey to 512 all out. Facing a massive deficit, Yorkshire threatened to crumble at 83-3. James Wharton's 67 and another Bairstow salvo put on 84 for the fourth wicket. However, once they were split by former colleague Matt Fisher, it was Bairstow or bust. He had hit 10 fours and two sixes in his 77 when Ryan Patel's medium pace uprooted his off-stump, and the visitors were all out soon after for 228. Lawes took his tally for the match to six, and Clark seven, in a fine all-round display. The victory was not the only cause for celebration for Surrey. A 21st-century record crowd of 14,853 at the Kia Oval witnessed the match, beating the 13,706 set in last year's Red Ball Festival. They hope to improve upon that again this weekend. Chief executive Steve Elworthy said: "We've been blown away by the support we've had this year and can't wait to welcome thousands more this weekend." Tickets are available via Almost 38,000 spectators have witnessed the three Championship matches so far. Tickets have been reduced to £15 for adults and £1 for juniors. Among the activities being laid on are free coaching sessions for under-16s.
BBC News
21-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'England to monster Scotland? Where's the evidence?'
Guinness Men's Six Nations: England v ScotlandVenue: Allianz Stadium Date: Saturday, 22 February Kick-off: 16:45 GMTCoverage: Listen live on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Scotland & BBC Sounds; text commentary and highlights on BBC Sport website and app; watch on ITV1 You have to wonder if there's been something in the water in England this past week, a strange substance that causes loss of perspective and certain Lawes, the wonderful former England forward, wrote that he couldn't see "Scotland living with England" provided the hosts produce a seven or eight out of 10 performance at Twickenham on Saturday."It's about time we showed them we are the better team," he a bold view, given that Scotland have won the past four meetings and have lost only one of seven Calcutta Cups under Gregor Townsend, outscoring their big rivals by 19 tries to 13 in the process. But anyway…"I simply cannot see England losing," wrote Sir Clive Woodward, under a headline predicting a monstering of the Scottish England pack is impressive, and perhaps they are about to take Scotland to the cleaners, but as yet we haven't seen much of a sustained capacity for inflicting beatings on too many rival packs in this kind of arena. England 2003, they are in fairness, doesn't write headlines, but he did come out with this: "England will win with plenty to spare." Now, they might. Scotland might lose the physical battle and might be unable to unleash the men who have destroyed England in this fixture. On the other hand, Scotland might create merry hell again. Given recent history, you'd be tempted to go with the latter rather than the former. There's actual evidence to back it what basis will England win with plenty to spare? Because the game is at Twickenham? Maybe, but Scotland have won two and have drawn one of the past three Calcutta Cups in England beat France? A fantastic win and a source of momentum, no question, but isn't there a slight case to be made that France's biggest problem for half of that Test was…France?Because England have turned a corner under the coaching of Steve Borthwick? Well, they might have. They have stellar players and every bookie in the land makes them hot favourites to win on Saturday, but the same was said about them coming of age when they beat Ireland last season, a brilliant win but, as it turned out, a false dawn. 'Underdog status helps Scotland' Amid the serious analysis, some of the stuff that's been said and written about this Scotland team and the landscape it exists in has been weird. In the past week, in various outlets, Scotland have been portrayed as weaklings up front (they were outgunned by Ireland, but it was one game against a phenomenal team); incapable of challenging the rugby hierarchy (er, four wins out of four); and undeserving of a place at rugby's top table. Eh?Apparently, they manage to rouse themselves only for games against England, their over-performances fuelled by hatred of the Red Rose. the next breath there's talk of all the South Africans and Australians in the team and the slow but steady reduction in the team's Scottishness. Which is it, though? A team that comes across as thunderously Scottish against England while not really being Scottish because of the players who weren't born in Scotland? You can't have it both it seems, there's supporter apathy. Scotland have won nothing in 26 years and yet Murrayfield attracted 60,000 fans against Portugal last season and is a sell-out against pretty much everybody else. Apathy?There's been great analysis and the usual knockabout stuff that's essential to Calcutta Cup week, but the hot takes in the build-up have bordered on the barmy."It smacks a little of fear of five in a row," says former Scotland hooker, Fraser Brown, a veteran of five Calcutta Cups, the 2023 win at Twickenham among them."The general theme will help create the type of underdog mentality that Scotland have really used to drive performances over the last seven to eight years."The favourites tag still doesn't sit well with Scotland so the English media are probably doing the coaches and the squad a favour." 'Woodward's opinion is outdated' So where will this game be won and lost? "The strength of England's bench forwards might be what decides it," says Brown, who points to injuries to second rows Scott Cummings and Max Williamson and the absence of hooker George Turner, who started all four of the four in a row."For Scotland, the scrum will have to be good. It's creaked over the first two weeks at times but it needs to be solid and I imagine Zander [Fagerson] will be on the pitch for as close to 80 as he can manage."The lineout needs to improve as well. Scotland just need ball. They didn't have a platform against Ireland. "The breakdown will be massive. It wasn't good against Ireland or Italy and England have a lot of jackal threats starting and on the bench."It won't just be about losing the ball on the floor; Scotland can't afford slow rucks. Quick ball will kill England's defence."And what of this notion that Scotland's pack couldn't punch its way through a paper bag? Short shrift is given to that by Brown. "Scotland's forwards got overpowered against Ireland, but no-one was saying that in the autumn when they went toe-to-toe with the Boks for 50 minutes, or when they battered Ireland last year, or after they won the last four Calcutta Cups," he fell away that day, says Brown, but England are not as good as Ireland. He thinks it's going to be close. No Woodwardian hutzpah? "Can we just retire him?" he replies. "His opinion on the modern game is outdated and lacks education." Not a fan, then.
CBC
16-02-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Manitoba's Lawes routs provincial rival Cameron at Tournament of Hearts
Manitoba's Kaitlyn Lawes recovered from a tough loss at the Canadian women's curling championship with a 12-3 win over provincial rival Kate Cameron in Thunder Bay, Ont. Lawes had given up steals in seven ends, which was a Scotties Tournament of Hearts record, in an 8-2 loss to Quebec to start the tournament. Quebec's Laurie St-Georges improved to 2-0 in Pool B with a 12-3 victory over Northwest Territories' Kerry Galusha. Ontario's Danielle Inglis was an 8-7 winner over Brooke Godsland of Newfoundland and Labrador. Nova Scotia's Christina Black joined Inglis, Lawes and Cameron at 1-1 after a 9-8 loss to Yukon's Bayly Scoffin. Yukon was 1-0, while Galusha and Godsland dropped to 0-2.
