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BBC News
02-07-2025
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Weather and Bears resistance thwart Sussex
Rothesay County Championship Division One, 1st Central County Ground, Hove (day four)Warwickshire 415 & 260-4: Latham 69, Davies 58, Hain 53*Sussex 533: Hughes 151, Coles 150, Hudson-Prentice 45; Rocchiccioli 6-173Sussex 14 pts, Warwickshire 13 ptsMatch scorecard Warwickshire batted through a rain-affected final day to draw their Rothesay County Championship match with Sussex at Latham led the way with 69 and there were half-centuries for skipper Alex Davies and Sam Hain with Warwickshire on 260-4, a lead of 142, when the players shook only 21 wickets had fallen on the first three days there was little likelihood of a clatter on day four, and the already slim odds on Sussex forcing a victory lengthened when 18 overs were lost to rain and bad light before employed spin for most of the day with Ollie Robinson even bowling two overs of off-breaks to support the efforts of off-spinner Jack Carson and slow left-armer James Coles, who bowled 53.3 overs between was some occasionally sharp turn out of the rough and with men clustered around the bat Warwickshire's batters needed to be diligent and they were. The only disappointment was that neither Davies nor Latham, who were well set, could convert their hard work into a century. Hain's unbeaten 53 came off 170 balls and he didn't hit a single began on 88-1, still 30 runs behind, and they knocked off 20 of that deficit in the 25 minutes before bad light followed by rain forced the players they returned Coles struck with his third ball, which spun a little and Davies edged it to slip where Tom Haines held a reflex catch to his left. Davies' 58 – his fifth fifty of the season – included nine had been expected to bowl from the sea end, where Warwickshire's off-spinner Corey Rocchiccioli had taken his six wickets, but it was Coles who settled into a long spell up the slope instead. Robinson, hoping his higher release point might disconcert the batters, gave him a brief respite before Coles returned in the 58th over to pick up a second wicket with his third ball having played well for 69, clipped a ball to short leg and Dan Ibrahim clung on to the ball at chest height. The New Zealander had batted for more than three hours and looked good for a few one stage Coles bowled to a ring of four fielders 15 yards from the bat on the off side before going off halfway through his 21st over. Carson, meanwhile, was into his 31st over before getting a belated reward for his efforts when Zen Malik (44) was caught at leg slip off bat and Carson came off Fynn Hudson-Prentice bowled some off breaks of his own and even opener Dan Hughes turned his arm over before a halt was Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
BBC News
29-06-2025
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Sussex take late wickets to halt Bears' progress
Rothesay County Championship Division One, 1st Central County Ground, Hove (day one)Warwickshire 372-7: Yates 93, Hain 87, Barnard 66; Crocombe 3-73Sussex: Yet to batSussex 2 pts, Warwickshire 3 ptsMatch scorecard Sam Hain and Ed Barnard, with a fifth-wicket stand of 151 in 32 overs, gave Warwickshire the advantage on the opening day of their County Championship match against Sussex at Hove - before the home side fought back to achieve parity at the played a particularly exhilarating innings, using his feet and wrists to play a medley of inventive strokes to unsettle the Sussex reached his half-century for the fifth time in as many Championship innings and went on to make 87 from 118 deliveries, with three sixes and seven impressive in a support role, made would have been worse for Sussex but for Henry Crocombe, their fastest and best bowler in only his second game of the missed the start of the summer with injury but took six wickets in the win over Hampshire in May. Here, he took 3-73, bending his back and achieving some and Warwickshire started the match without the respective services of Jofra Archer and Jacob Bethell, but with the shared hope that both players might be available for the last two days of the game if not selected by England for the second Test against India at replaced Archer from the side that drew with Durham last week, while Zen Malik came in for Bethell in the side that had a similar stalemate with Somerset. Chris Rushworth also came in for Che warm weather and the Kookaburra ball helped persuade Warwickshire to bat first, but the cloud cover and the grassy pitch still offered encouragement to the Sussex first session went Warwickshire's way, the visitors exploiting the short boundary on the pavilion side of the ground as Sussex struggled for Yates, who has suffered indifferent form since his century in the opening match of the season, looked in particularly good form as he shared an opening stand of 79 with captain Alex gifted Sussex their first wicket in the 18th over, looking in two minds as he uppercut a short delivery from Crocombe to Fynn Hudson-Prentice on the deep point boundary. However, Warwickshire reached lunch on a comfortable second session, when the sun came out and the ball turned soft, promised further riches for the batting side. But Sussex, protecting their seven bowlers from the heat with short spells and backing them up with spirited fielding, fought their way back onto level lost their second wicket on 174 when Tom Latham edged one down the leg side from Crocombe, ending a second-wicket stand of run later, in Crocombe's next over, Hudson-Prentice produced an excellent reflex catch at backward square-leg to dismiss Yates, who had struck 15 fours in his impressive 93 from 142 overs later, the challenging Gurinder Sandhu moved one away from Malik, for John Simpson to take the regulation catch behind the stumps, and Sussex were on top with Warwickshire 189-4, though they recovered to 242-4 at took the new ball at 308-4 and took three further wickets. Crocombe - who will make way if Archer joins the game - almost had Hain caught by at mid-on by Ollie Robinson, who finally had the right-hander well caught at leg gully by Tom Haines, before Barnard and Corey Rocchiccioli fell near the Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
BBC News
25-06-2025
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Hain & Latham steer Bears to draw with Somerset
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Edgbaston (day four)Somerset 498 & 229-8 dec: Rew 61; Rocchiccioli 5-67Warwickshire 351 & 161-4: Hain 68*, Latham 52 Warwickshire (11 pts) drew with Somerset (14 pts) Match scorecard Warwickshire and Somerset harvested a predictable County Championship draw as a forgettable match finally petered out on the final day at a notional victory target of 377 in 69 overs, Warwickshire plodded to 161-4 as Tom Latham (52 from 103 balls) and Sam Hain (68 not out from 157) escorted their team to safety and the match to a had extended their second innings in the morning to 229-8 but not as quickly as they hoped as Australian off-spinner Corey Rocchoccioli took 5-67 on had always appeared that a bland pitch would blunt the victory aspirations of either side and so it proved. Both shored up their positions in the middle of Division One with a solid points haul from a match which offered less than vivid entertainment. The deployment of two short mid-wickets and two short extras for Latham off Migael Pretorius was about as exciting as it got for the slumbering Edgbaston resumed on the final morning on 116-3, 283 ahead overall, and started purposefully. James Rew completed a 66-ball half-century but two wickets for Rocchoccioli slowed the momentum and changed the plan. The spinner unfurled a lovely turning delivery which Rew, on 61, edged to wicketkeeper Kai Smith and Tom Banton then missed a sweep and was coach Steve Kirby had suggested after day three that Somerset would need 80 overs to try to bowl Warwickshire out, but that point arrived with the lead only 317. Tom Abell and Archie Vaughan batted watchfully to prevent a collapse then expanded to add 65 in 14 overs before Abell charged and missed at Rocchoccioli. Pretorious had his off-stump removed by Ethan Bamber and Rocchoccioli's five-for was complete when Craig Overton missed a reverse sweep and was lbw, triggering lunch and the challenge the target - 377 in two sessions - Warwickshire needed a strong platform but they lost soon both openers. Alex Davies fell to the fourth ball, lbw to Matt Henry and Rob Yates left a gap between bat and pad and Jack Leach, who opened the bowling, turned the ball through scuppered any chance of a Warwickshire win, but Somerset's hopes were ground away over the next two hours by Latham and Hain, who declined to pursue a target of 276 from 34 overs after tea. Latham drove a return catch to Overton and Jacob Bethell top-edged a pull at Pretorius but the implacable Hain reached 50 for the 58th time in first-class cricket to see the job through in a sparsely-populated stadium as far-removed as can be from the passionate cauldron it will be when England meet India next Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
BBC News
25-05-2025
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Bears edging Pears derby despite Duffy haul
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Visit Worcestershire New Road, Worcester (day three)Warwickshire 227 & 280: Hain 87*, Woakes 42; Duffy 5-75Worcestershire 181 & 57-2: Roderick 34*Worcestershire (3pts) trail Warwickshire (3pts) by 269 runs with eight wickets remainingMatch scorecard Sam Hain's second highly-skilled innings of the match left Warwickshire well-placed to press for victory over Worcestershire in the County Championship derby at Visit Worcestershire New followed his first innings 86 with an unbeaten 87 (174 balls) as Warwickshire took their second innings to 280 to set the home side 327 to Woakes supported Hain with 42, during which he passed 10,000 runs in all formats, while Jacob Duffy took closed the third day on 54-2 and face a huge batting challenge on the final day when they must make much the biggest score of the match to win resumed on the third morning day on 53-1, already 99 ahead, and soon lost Tom Latham who edged an aggressive shot at Tom Taylor to wicketkeeper Gareth Roderick. Rob Yates eked out a valuable 29 from 112 balls before falling lbw, hit on the back pad, by Ben Allison. Beau Webster paid the price for going on the back foot on a pitch sometimes keeping low when Duffy flattened his leg was 86-4 and Worcestershire were clawing their way back into the match but the excellent Hain unfurled his second crucial innings of the contest and received important support from the middle and lower orders. Ed Barnard (30) added impetus before top-edging Matthew Waite to third man. Zen Malik helped Hain add 30 and, after he sliced Duffy to point and Kai Smith pulled Allison to long leg, Woakes arrived – not a bad player to have coming in at eighth-wicket pair added 67 in 21 overs, lifting Worcestershire's target over 300, before Woakes edged Taylor to slip. Duffy completed his five-for with wickets from successive balls when Ethan Bamber hit his wicket from the follow through from a pull and Chris Rushworth edged to wasted no time before inflicting damage with the ball when he knocked out Jake Libby's off-stump with an out-swinger. Six balls later, Henry Nicholls copped a tough lbw decision when he appeared to be struck outside the line of off-stump by was 25-2 and, with 27 overs left in the day Warwickshire fancied their chances of making match-clinching inroads before stumps. Batting remained a serious test of concentration and technique but Roderick and Kashif Ali negotiated 12 overs before bad light lopped off the last intriguing final day beckons with an additional factor from some rain in the forecast. Warwickshire remain strong favourites to bank a win which would owe most to Hain whose high-class batting in this match was worthy of two supplied by the ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay
Yahoo
24-05-2025
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Point Defiance Zoo conservationists support local purple martin swallows with new nests
'Spring is in the air, and so are the Purple Martins!' Conservationists with the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium are supporting local purple martins, North America's largest swallows, with fresh new homes. According to the zoo, Tacoma is a major hotspot for these birds, which rely on human-made homes due to habitat loss. The conservation team hopes to help support the local purple martin population, while still encouraging martins to seek out natural cavities, as the species slowly rebounds. The zoo says these birds travel thousands of miles each year from Brazil to return to places like Tacoma, often arriving as early as April and departing by late August. Locals may spot them circling high over the shoreline or perched on weathered pilings at places like Titlow Beach or Chambers Bay. 'Our data tells us that Tacoma is home to a large percentage of the state's purple martins,' said Sam Hain, conservation specialist at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. 'The city could hold as much as 16 percent of Washington's estimated 600 adult birds, making it a huge bastion for a species that depends on us for nesting habitat.' The team recently added 10 new nest boxes and 6 plastic gourds as new little homes for our local swallows, and say that already spotted at least one nesting pair with signs of more on the way. To learn more, click here.
