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25-05-2025
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Kuhnemann bowls Glam to three-day win over Middlesex
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (day three) Glamorgan 383: Northeast 122, Carlson 109; Higgins 5-59, Roland-Jones 4-95 & 8-0 Middlesex 155: Holden 42; Gorvin 4-39 & 235 (following on): Robson 66, Roland-Jones 57; Kuhnemann 6-53 Glamorgan (22 pts) beat Middlesex (2 pts) by 10 wickets Match scorecard Australian spinner Matt Kuhnemann bowled Glamorgan to a three-day win over Middlesex by 10 wickets. Kuhnemann, in a one-off appearance, took six for 53 as Middlesex were dismissed for 235 after following on. Rapid knocks of 66 from Sam Robson and 57 from Toby Roland-Jones only served to avoid the innings defeat, with Glamorgan needing only eight to win. Glamorgan claimed three Championship wins in a row for the first time since 2015, and it was the first time they have ever won three consecutive games with a day to spare. The home side owed much to the first innings stand of 228 between centurions Sam Northeast and Kiran Carlson, with Middlesex unable to find similar application in their second successive defeat. Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport The Glamorgan flag was flying at half-mast in memory of former Glamorgan groundsman Len Smith as Middlesex followed on 228 runs behind. The visitors surprised everyone with Robson and Max Holden racing along at a run a ball for the first hour in an opening stand of 98. Robson hit seamers James Harris and Andy Gorvin out of the attack with a series of ferocious drives, as they were unable to find the lengths that served them so well the previous day with the former England man racing to a 40-ball 50. It looked like the T20 Blast had come early, but as Glamorgan switched their attack round, it was left-arm spinner Kuhnemann who made the breakthrough as Holden was well taken at short leg by Asa Tribe for 35. Robson had blasted 13 fours when he was trapped lbw by Kuhnemann, who then bowled Leus du Plooy, and with Luke Hollman edging Timm van der Gugten to slip Middlesex had lost four wickets for 17. Glamorgan kept chipping away after lunch with Ben Geddes trying to get after Kuhnemann but being well taken by Zain ul Hassan back-pedalling at mid-off for 12. Harris's second spell was a considerable improvement as he got rid of Ryan Higgins for 19 and Zafar Gohar, brilliantly caught by a leaping Chris Cooke. Kuhnemann completed his five-for as Jack Davies (12) swung to mid-wicket before Roland-Jones launched a magnificent counter-attack, smashing three successive sixes into the grandstand off Gorvin, and speeding to 50 off just 33 balls. The scores were level when Roland-Jones swung Gorvin to a diving Harris at deep square leg, and fittingly Kuhnemann had the final word when Dane Paterson was taken by Gorvin at mid-on. Glamorgan knocked off the eight needed in 14 balls as Middlesex ran round to salvage a potential points deduction for their over-rate. Middlesex now start their T20 Blast campaign against Sussex at Lord's on Thursday 29 June, while Glamorgan's opener sees them travel to face Middlesex at Northwood on Sunday, 1 June.
BBC News
02-05-2025
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Roland-Jones five-for as Middlesex skittle Kent
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Lord's (day one)Kent 129: Muyeye 29; Roland-Jones 5-33Middlesex 158-4: Higgins 44*, Hollman 42; Garrett 2-39Middlesex 3 pts, Kent 1 ptMatch scorecard Toby Roland-Jones's latest five-wicket haul gave Middlesex the edge on a bowler-dominated opening day against Kent at Lord' former England seamer took 5-33, the 33rd time in his career he has achieved a five-wicket haul, as the visitors were skittled for Muyeye top-scored with 29, but Zak Crawley's poor run of first-innings scores continued as he made only sixKent, though, hit back with the ball on an unusually sporty Lord's pitch, offering both seam and a hint of turn, with George Garrett taking 2-39 as the hosts reached 158-4 at stumps, Ryan Higgins on 44 not named in the squad for the Test against Zimbabwe in less than three weeks, was undone by a beauty from South African Dane Paterson which angled in before leaving him off the pitch and pinning him in his departure Roland-Jones took centre-stage. The Seaxes skipper, who would have played many more than his four Tests for England were it not for two stress fractures of the back, demonstrated again, that even at 37, his relentless accuracy can harass top quality players into skipper Daniel Bell-Drummond appeared a little skittish before Roland-Jones produced a fullish ball which he nicked to wicketkeeper Jack brought Muyeye in to join Ben Compton, a pair whose record third-wicket stand had won the reverse fixture between the sides three weeks psychological scars were banished when Compton, having grafted for an hour, shouldered arms and was bowled by looked at ease, taking heavy toll of some loose deliveries from Henry Brookes, dispatching him to the short boundary three times in two Roland-Jones returned to dismiss him on the stroke of lunch, Higgins providing safe hands at that was a good catch, his left-handed grab to remove the dangerous Jack Leaning soon after the resumption was sensational and gave Roland-Jones his fourth victim. The five-for was celebrated shortly afterwards courtesy of Chris Benjamin's nick provided good support, though Joey Evison looked unlucky to be adjudged lbw with question marks over both height and mopped up the tail leaving the self-effacing Roland-Jones to accept acclaim for his bowling feats as he reached the a bowling attack shorn of the likes of Nathan Gilchrist and Grant Stewart, Kent found a new-ball hero of their own in his first Championship game of the season, he accounted for both openers, Stephen Eskinazi bowled by one which pitched middle and clipped the off bail, while Robson, on his return from paternity leave appeared unlucky to be adjudged leg Max Holden, with over 500 runs so far in the campaign including two centuries at Lord's, also fell cheaply courtesy of Leaning's super catch at Hollman, into the side at a career-high number four in place of the injured Leus du Plooy after scoring 160 in the second XI last week, counter-attacked for 42 before Matt Parkinson got one to turn and take the and Ben Geddes then further steadied the home ship with an unbeaten fifth-wicket stand of 62 to leave Middlesex in front ahead of day two. ECB Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
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25-04-2025
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Derbyshire's Lloyd back in runs against Middlesex
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, County Ground, Derby (day one)Derbyshire 267-5: Lloyd 93, Came 73, Madsen 49; Roland-Jones 2-47 Middlesex: Yet to batBonus points: Derbyshire 1pt, Middlesex 1ptMatch scorecard Derbyshire opener David Lloyd emerged from a poor start to the season before Middlesex fought back on the opening day of the County Championship Division Two match at made 93 from 197 balls, his highest innings since September 2022, and shared a second-wicket stand of 156 with Harry Came who scored 73 after the visitors put the hosts into the in-form Caleb Jewell was out for a duck, there was little in the pitch for the Middlesex bowlers until late in the day, when the second new ball did the Roland-Jones bowled Wayne Madsen for 49 to finish with figures of 2-47 from 20 overs as Derbyshire closed on 267-5. Lloyd came into the game under pressure to deliver after a run of low scores in his first six innings of the would have increased after his opening partner Jewell registered a rare failure when he fell to Roland-Jones in the third over of an overcast Tasmanian had scored five half-centuries in the first three matches but was still looking for his first run when he edged Roland-Jones low to second the overhead conditions and a green-tinged pitch had persuaded Middlesex to bowl first but their bowlers found there was not much to encourage the bowling was disciplined, there was hardly any seam movement or swing to trouble Lloyd and Came, who showed good judgement to bat through to added 85 from 182 balls which showed how hard they had to work for the runs and it got no easier after the interval. In the first 10 overs of the afternoon session, there were only seven scoring shots and three of those were edges to the vacant third man pair faced 73 dot balls in the first hour until Lloyd relieved some of the tension by cutting and pulling Ryan Higgins for two Glamorgan batter Lloyd passed his previous best score for Derbyshire of 73 but had an escape when he edged Zahar Gohar just past Higgins, who should have got a hand to it.A century looked there for the taking until he was drawn into pulling a short ball from Higgins to long leg, where Blake Cullen dived forward to take the body language showed that he had thrown away a great opportunity and Came also lost patience after tea when he came down the pitch to Gohar but failed to clear deep mid-off where Stephen Eskinazi took a good catch above his took the second new ball as soon as it became available and the breakthrough they badly needed arrived when Dane Paterson beat Brooke Guest's defensive no addition to the total, Roland-Jones got the big wicket of Madsen, who was bowled by one that moved away to shave the off-stump which brought his average for the season down below 88.
BBC News
21-04-2025
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Middlesex scramble to win over Glamorgan
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Lord's (day four)Glamorgan: 199: Ul Hassan 65, Kellaway 54*; Roland-Jones 3-44 & 329: Cooke 69, Carlson 54; Roland-Jones 3-68Middlesex: 470-9 dec: Holden 107, Du Plooy 89, Geddes 83; Kellaway 4-61 & 59-1: Du Plooy 27*Middlesex (21 pts) beat Glamorgan (1 pt) by nine wicketsMatch scorecard Middlesex scrambled to their first win of the season beating Glamorgan and the weather in a nine-wicket victory at Lord' needed just 59 despite some belated defiance from the visitors, reaching their target after a nerve-racking weather were bowled out for 329 in their second innings with Chris Cooke (69) and Ned Leonard (47) leading their final day Roland-Jones (3-68) was the most successful of a team effort with the ball, while Henry Brookes made the key breakthrough. The visitors suffered a second loss in three outings to slip to bottom of Division Two. Glamorgan resumed on 186-5, still 85 runs short of making Middlesex bat again, with the home side in a hurry to wrap the game up given the poor weather forecast for the Middlesex managed just two wickets in the first session despite Roland-Jones striking early on an overcast morning, as Kiran Carlson looked disappointed to have been given out caught van der Gugten defied the bowlers for 70 minutes for his 28 before Dane Paterson bowled him with the second delivery of the new survived a couple of strong lbw shouts from Roland-Jones but he and Ned Leonard, whose previous best score was 16, nudged Glamorgan precariously ahead the over after lunch. The eighth-wicket pair settled in with a partnership of 88 and were starting to play their shots, causing Middlesex some got the long-awaited breakthrough when he won an lbw verdict against Cooke after his gritty three and a half hour stay. Leonard's valiant effort ended in the next over when he tried to reverse-sweep persevering spinner Zafar Gohar and was bowled, and Brookes had Shoaib Bashir caught as the end came Holden was promoted to finish the game off quickly, hitting Leonard's first ball for six and his fourth to mid-off, before bad light and rain interrupted at 16-1 off 3.3 overs. Middlesex deserved the chance to seal their victory but had to endure a protracted delay after tea with the hover-cover on, and the umpires and ground staff waiting in the middle until the resumption at 17:25 Eskinazi and Leus Du Plooy wasted no time in getting the required 43 off a further 4.2 overs, Du Plooy finishing the match with two leg-side sixes off Leonard into the Mound Stand in the space of three balls. Middlesex travel to Derby on Friday, 25 April, while Glamorgan sit out the next round before hosting Derbyshire a week later.
BBC News
20-04-2025
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Middlesex set for win over Glamorgan
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Lord's (day three)Glamorgan: 199: Ul Hassan 65, Kellaway 54*; Roland-Jones 3-44 & 186-5: Carlson 54*; Roland-Jones 2-50Middlesex: 470-9 dec: Holden 107, Du Plooy 89, Geddes 83, Fernandes 58; Kellaway 4-61, van der Gugten 3-71Glamorgan (1 pt) trail Middlesex (5 pts) by 85 runs with five second-innings wickets standingMatch scorecard Middlesex are strong favourites for a first win of the season after reducing Glamorgan to 186-5 in their second innings, still 85 runs home bowlers took charge in the second half of the day, with captain Toby Roland-Jones hitting the stumps twice in two balls to ram home his team's advantage. Glamorgan were left battling defeat for the third time in a row, despite Kiran Carlson's 54 not declared on 470-9 with Leus du Plooy making 89 and Ben Geddes 83, with 21-year-old off-spinner Ben Kellaway claiming 4-61 to follow his maiden first-class 50. After a sedate evening session on day two, Du Plooy and Geddes immediately moved up several gears as Middlesex looked to press on towards a both men looking set for three figures, Kellaway removed the pair in quick succession. Glamorgan were rushing to erase an errant over-rate of minus six, and Kellaway out-bowled England Test spinner Shoaib Bashir, in his final game on loan.A cameo of 31 off 27 balls from Roland-Jones allowed him to declare 20 minutes before lunch. Middlesex's bowlers were held up by Zain Ul Hassan and Eddie Byrom for much of the afternoon as they made respectable progress in a stand of Pakistan spinner Zafar Gohar made the breakthrough as Ul Hassan, on 44, top-edged a sweep to short fine leg and seamer Ryan Higgins found the edge of Byrom's bat for 43 in the next impressive South African quickie Dane Paterson winning an lbw verdict against Sam Northeast under the floodlights just after tea, Middlesex were completely on and Colin Ingram (19) defended grimly before Ingram played down the wrong line to Roland-Jones, who then forced Kellaway to play on first ball to mar the youngster's fine match up until mostly moderating his natural attacking instincts, reached his half-century off 84 balls in murky light as the home side turned to double spin before being forced off by bad light four overs early. A home win looks to be a matter of time, unless bad weather intervenes on the final day.
