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17-05-2025
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Worcestershire CCC considered move away from historic home due to flooding
WORCESTERSHIRE County Cricket Club have revealed they considered moving away from their historic home due to repeated flooding. The Pears, who have been based at New Road since 1896, were hit by eight floods over the 2024/25 winter period. The club said the repeated flooding took a "huge toll" on the club, which is one of 18 major county clubs in the English and Welsh cricket scene. Helen Grayer, head of operations at the club, said: "We have the most beautiful backdrop for a cricket club, being overlooked by the iconic Worcester Cathedral on the bank of the River Severn, and this has been our home since 1896. "However, as the climate crisis continues to bring us unpredictable weather conditions, and floods continue to ravage our soil quality and financial resources, we really did have to consider moving our operations entirely to save the club." The club said the flooding rendered the lift unusable, as water filled the underground lift pit and damaged the electrical cabling. Mainmark Ground Engineering UK has now provided a solution to reinforce the club's flood infrastructure. John McBey, business development manager at Mainmark, said: "Worcestershire County Cricket Club came to us with a unique challenge, one which required a good deal of problem-solving to find the right solution. "We were very aware of the issues the club faced being on a major flood plain, and needed a solution that would help boost the longevity of the club. "We have a wealth of experience in remedying subsidence issues because of flooding (where wash outs create voids in the ground underneath a structure, causing instability and damage). "But sealing and waterproofing the lift's pit, to make it easier for water to be pumped out during periods of heavy rainfall, was a novel concept for us." The project was completed in just three days, so that the lift could be made functional for the start of the 2025 cricket season. Mr McBey added: "While we have little control over the cases of extreme weather, we feel it's important for our communities to start building resilience measures, future-proofing their infrastructure to boost longevity. "Worcestershire County Cricket Club's demonstration of this is commendable, and we were pleased to play a small role in that."
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12-05-2025
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Libby century not enough as Sussex defeat Worcs
Rothesay County Championship Division One, 1st Central County Ground, Hove (day four)Sussex 284 & 256: Alsop 72, Coles 68; Allison 3-52, Singh 3-58Worcestershire 180 & 313: Libby 167, Nicholls 34; Karvelas 3-52, Robinson 3-66Sussex (20 pts) beat Worcestershire (3 pts) by 47 runs Match scorecard Sussex's persevering seam attack finally broke Worcestershire's determined resistance – led by Jake Libby's 167 – to claim their second win since promotion back to Division One in the County opposition player loves batting at Hove more than Libby, who has now made the three highest scores of his career at the 1st Central County while he was there to anchor their chase, Worcestershire looked capable of overhauling a target of having seen off another testing spell by Ollie Robinson with the new ball, Libby was caught off Robinson's replacement Fynn Hudson-Prentice. His was the eighth wicket to fall with 75 still needed, and Robinson got belated rewards for an excellent performance when took the last two wickets after tea to seal victory by 47 was little assistance in the pitch, even on the fourth day, for Sussex's spinners, so it was left to their seam bowlers – led by the indefatigable Robinson – to take the seven wickets needed at the start of the final day which began with Worcestershire requiring was no surprise that Libby offered supreme resistance. He made his career-best 215 in this fixture in 2022 followed by 198 a year later. Here, having resumed on 64, he batted superbly - especially against Robinson, who beat the bat on numerous occasions, regularly challenged the stumps, and could easily have finished with five or six a nine-over spell at the start of the day Robinson thought he had removed Libby on 86 to a catch behind the wicket, but umpire James Middlebrook remained unmoved and shortly before lunch Libby moved to the 18th first-class hundred of his career, from 180 had picked up nightwatchman Ben Allison in the second over of the day but Sussex only took one more wicket in the morning session when Ethan Brookes played on to Ari Brett D'Oliveira helped Libby put on 81 in 22 overs either side of lunch with few alarms, but with the new ball due Tom Clark made an important breakthrough when he bowled D'Oliveira through the gate for Waite then gave Libby solid support. They survived another outstanding spell by the luckless Robinson down the slope with Waite batting for an hour before Karvelas tempted him into driving at an outswinger and James Coles took a sharp, low catch at third still looked as if he could still guide Worcestershire home but when Hudson-Prentice replaced Robinson he broke through straight away, tempting Libby into a rare loose drive which Clark, diving to his right, clung onto at second slip. Libby had batted for six and a half hours, faced 252 balls and hit 22 fours, and departed to a fully deserved ovation from an appreciative Sussex Singh was put down behind the stumps by John Simpson off Jack Carson on seven but it did not prove costly. Robinson returned for a third spell after tea and finally got some belated reward when Singh took on a short ball and Tom Haines raced in from the mid-wicket boundary to take a well-judged wrapped up victory in emphatic style in his next over when he sent Ben Gibbon's off stump cartwheeling to finish with 3-66 from 29.2 Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
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10-05-2025
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Hudson-Prentice puts Sussex in control against Pears
Rothesay County Championship Division One, 1st Central County Ground, Hove (day two)Sussex 284: Carson 102; Taylor 5-56 & 66-3: Coles 27*Worcestershire 180: Nicholls 32, Taylor 32; Hudson-Prentice 5-40Sussex 4 pts, Worcestershire 3 ptsMatch scorecard Fynn Hudson-Prentice picked up a career-best 5-40 with his medium pace as Sussex took control of their County Championship match against Worcestershire on the second bowling Worcestershire out for 180, Sussex then stretched their overall lead to 170 by reaching 66-3 in their second innings by stumps, with Tom Alsop and James Coles confidently seeing out the day on 24 and 27 not out was a scare for Sussex at the start of their second innings when they lost left-handed openers Tom Haines and Daniel Hughes, both for nought and without a run on the was bowled through an attempted drive by Tom Taylor, coming from around the wicket, and Hughes lost his off stump shouldering arms to one from Ben Allison – again bowled from an around the wicket angle, but which also nipped further in off the Sussex were 18-3 when Taylor, following up his first innings 5-56, pinned Tom Clark lbw for 10 with one that kept a little low. Alsop and Coles, however, calmed Sussex nerves in an unbroken stand of first dismissed opener Jake Libby for 13 as Worcestershire struggled to make much headway against Sussex's seam attack before lunch, and then took three wickets in three overs during a mid-afternoon spell that contributed significantly to Division One's bottom team slumping to 111-8 in reply to the home side's first innings ninth wicket pair of Brett D'Oliveira and Taylor then added a defiant 51, playing some excellent shots amid a largely defensive rearguard action, but D'Oliveira edged the second ball after tea to a diving Coles at second slip to go for was a second wicket for Clark, who finished with 2-29 and bowled his own medium pacers with good control in support of Hudson-Prentice, Ollie Robinson (2-31) and Ari claimed only one scalp, Gareth Roderick edging to first slip on 21 midway through the morning session, but he also bowled a challenging line and length throughout an excellent afternoon spell on a well-grassed pitch that was always giving the seamers had quickly removed nightwatchman Ben Gibbon, caught behind for four, after Worcestershire resumed on seven without loss and they would have been more than three down at lunch if Kashif Ali had not been dropped at first slip from the second ball he however, edged a push-drive at Robinson to keeper John Simpson on 13 soon after lunch, beginning a slide in which five wickets fell for 37 runs in 15 Nicholls, who battled two hours for his 32, was the first victim in Hudson-Prentice's mid-afternoon treble, undone by movement off the seam as he played defensively forward, and Ethan Brookes departed for 20 four overs later, again edging a Hudson-Prentice leg-cutter to balls later Matthew Waite was also back in the pavilion, pushing half-forward at Hudson-Prentice and nicking yet another catch to Waite, the left-handed Fateh Singh fell for nought as James Hayes – the 23-year-old seamer on loan from Nottinghamshire – flew to his right at mid-wicket to pull off a superb catch goalkeeper-style as Singh clipped Clark firmly off his D'Oliveira-Taylor partnership at least gave Worcestershire some hope of staying in the contest but, after D'Oliveira's dismissal, only another 18 runs were added before Hudson-Prentice ended Taylor's brave 32 courtesy of Simpson's sixth catch of the Reporters Network, supported by Rothesay
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09-05-2025
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Carson leads superb Sussex recovery against Worcs
Rothesay County Championship Division One, 1st Central County Ground, Hove (day one)Sussex 284: Carson 102; Taylor 5-56Worcestershire 7-0: Libby 6*Worcestershire (3 pts) trail Sussex (1 pt) by 277 runsMatch scorecard A maiden first-class century from off-spinner Jack Carson helped Sussex recover from 88-6 to 284 all out on the opening day against Worcestershire at at the crease with his side floundering, Carson looked to shepherd the tail and punish anything loose, striking 11 forceful fours and a one whipped leg-side six in his highest first-class score of it looked as if he might run out of partners, Carson was joined by last man and debutant James Hayes, who stuck around for 126 balls as the home side edged past 250. With a first bonus batting point secured, Carson let loose and brought up his century in style, dispatching seam-bowler Ben Allison to the leg-side boundary with a powerful pull shot in the 86th finally fell five overs later, and Worcestershire opener Jake Libby and nightwatchman Ben Gibbon, batted out the remaining three overs without alarm to finish on found themselves in need of a hero after a potent five-wicket haul from Pears' paceman Tom Taylor put the visitors in the driving seat. The right-arm bowler took 5-56 as the home side lost six wickets for just eight runs in the early a blistering mid-morning spell, the talismanic Taylor found the edges of opener Daniel Hughes and middle-order batter Tom Alsop, who were caught by third slip Henry Nicholls and wicketkeeper Gareth Roderick respectively. He then trapped Tom Clark lbw with a searing inswinger, to which Clark shouldered arms. James Coles also fell in the morning, driving a wide Ben Allison delivery to the grateful hands of Ethan Brookes at fourth slip from the final ball of the was equally dangerous after the lunch break, bowling Sussex skipper John Simpson after Tom Haines edged a rising delivery to sub fielder Rob Jones, who took a smart rebound catch at second Haines was the only top-order Sussex batter to offer any meaningful resistance, carving 12 boundaries in a graceful 89-ball 53 before Carson began his remainder of Worcestershire's fast bowling troop was eager to get in on the act in the afternoon session. Left-armer Gibbon had all-rounder Fynn Hudson-Prentice caught behind for a 47-ball 22 before Ollie Robinson and Ari Karvelas fell to short deliveries from Brookes and Matthew Waite took the visitors' final wicket, dismissing Carson with a wide delivery which the centurion chopped onto his Hayes was Sussex's last man and batted valiantly in his unbeaten innings of 33. The 23-year-old has been signed on an emergency two-week loan from Nottinghamshire, after Jayden Seales withdrew from the squad due to his one over before the close of play, Hayes bowled at a good pace and conceded one Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
