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Yahoo
26-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Sam Curran steers Surrey to draw while Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire earn wins
Sam Curran's second consecutive first-class fifty helped Surrey bat out a final-day draw at home to Essex in Division One of the Rothesay County Championship. Champions Surrey started 386 runs short of an improbable victory target of 418 and when Simon Harmer accounted for openers Rory Burns (39) and Dom Sibley (40), Jamie Porter's three wickets in quick succession – on his way to five for 88 – set up a tantalising evening session at Kia Oval. Struggling on 167 for five, England outcast Curran backed up his first-innings 80 with another mature knock of 77 from 121 balls before his dismissal sparked brief hope for Essex. Match drawn 🤝 We take 12 points from a tense game at the Kia Oval. 🤎 | #SurreyCricket — Surrey Cricket (@surreycricket) May 26, 2025 Further light showers in a rain-affected day four halted the visitors momentum before Surrey's fifth draw from seven fixtures was confirmed after they got to 289 for seven from 84 overs. Leaders Nottinghamshire strengthened their grip at the top of the table, seeing off Yorkshire with five wickets on the final day at Headingley. The Division One pace-setters racked up their fourth win of the campaign by 163 runs, with Dillon Pennington making the running. Pennington, an unused member of the England Test squad last year, had two wickets overnight and finished with five for 106 as he prised out the defiant Matthew Revis, stand-in skipper Dom Bess and tailender Ben Coad. 💬"We've got to find some answers because as much as we talk and everything like that, it's about performances." Anthony McGrath spoke on Yorkshire's defeat to Notts and upcoming player availability.#YorkshireGrit — Yorkshire CCC (@YorkshireCCC) May 26, 2025 Yorkshire batted for 120.3 overs to show some grit but were finally dismissed for 299 when Mohammad Abbas claimed the final wicket. While Nottinghamshire ride high, question marks are piling up for the White Rose, who sit second-bottom of the standings with one win from seven, and have just lost captain Jonny Bairstow to the Indian Premier League. Chris Woakes claimed three wickets for Warwickshire, but they were denied victory by rain at Worcestershire. Worcestershire resumed on 57 for two and, while Woakes finished with three for 30, Matthew Waite hit 44 not out amid plenty of showers to help the hosts escape with a draw after they battled to 181 for eight. In Division Two, Derbyshire ended a sequence of five successive draws at Kent's expense, skittling the visitors before lunch to win by an innings and 14 runs. Mickey was delighted after the win over Kent. Watch the full interview ⤵️ — Derbyshire CCC (@DerbyshireCCC) May 26, 2025 Needing six more wickets overnight, they picked them up for the addition of just 90 runs as Kent subsided for 247 after following on. The writing was on the wall when Zak Chappell had Tawanda Muyeye caught behind for 55 off the first ball of the day. A knock of 49 from tailender Grant Stewart was the only real resistance as a cheap double from all-rounder Luis Reece and Jake Ball's injury absence helped Derbyshire to take the result. Rain forced Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire to settle for a draw. After Northamptonshire declared on 259 for six, it set the visitors 350 for victory and a thrilling finish was on the cards when Gloucestershire slipped to 214 for six before wet weather after tea ended the chances of a winner.
Times
12-05-2025
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- Times
Mixed fortunes for Roy and Bairstow as Notts go top with trouncing
Jason Roy's return to first-class cricket for the first time in five years was short-lived after the former England opening batsman lasted only nine balls as part of Surrey's reply to Warwickshire's mammoth first-innings score of 665 for five. Roy has not played first-class cricket since the Covid-hit summer of 2020, when he made scores of 4 and 14 in a one-off Bob Willis Trophy appearance for Surrey against Hampshire. Roy, 34, who was part of England's 2019 World Cup-winning side, averages 36.46 in 87 red-ball matches but in recent years has opted to be a white-ball-only player in various T20 tournaments around the world. This year, however, he did not have a contract in either the IPL or the Pakistan Super League, and with
Times
09-05-2025
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- Times
Can delightfully simple James Rew break the Bazball mould?
It was a startling statistic that Somerset's James Rew had recently become the youngest Englishman since Denis Compton in 1939 to score ten first-class centuries. It was certainly one that made you wonder: first, from a purely selfish perspective, about how many hundreds I had at that age, of 21 years and 114 days. So a quick email to the brilliant and always helpful Sky Sports statistician Benedict Bermange brought the answer of one, but, as that was against Oxford University, we can rule that out immediately. So none, then. My friend and colleague Mike Atherton? He had six hundreds at that age. Not bad. Compton actually had 17, Len Hutton 13 and WG Grace 11. Interestingly, Nottinghamshire's Joe Clarke had nine. But now
The Independent
08-05-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Somerset batter James Rew called up to England squad after Jordan Cox injury blow
The talented 21-year-old made his 10th first-class hundred this week in a brilliant fourth-innings chase against Essex, becoming the youngest Englishman to reach the mark since the great Denis Compton. Rew steps in for the desperately unfortunate Jordan Cox, who hurt himself while compiling a century of his own in that same game at Taunton. Having been denied a debut in New Zealand in the winter after fracturing his thumb while batting in the nets ahead of the first Test, Cox had remained in the squad as the spare batter for the clash in Nottingham from 22 May. But he has now been ruled out of the game with an abdominal injury in his side, a bitter blow for a luckless player. Rew is unlikely to play with Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root and Harry Brook set to take up the places in England's top five, but has earned his call-up with consistent County Championship runs over several seasons. The youngster currently averages more than 43 in first-class cricket and toured Australia with the England Lions in the winter having been part of the age-group squad that reached the final of the 2022 U19 World Cup. Jacob Bethell and Rehan Ahmed have already made their international debuts from that group. Rew also offers quality keeping cover for Jamie Smith, who returns to the Test team from paternity leave to take the gloves off county colleague Pope. Bethell is away at the Indian Premier League (IPL) and thus unavailable for the four-day match.
