Henry Crocombe and John Turner demonstrated their winter work with Dale Steyn with whirlwind spells as 15 wickets fell on the first day at Utilita Bowl in the County Championship. Fast bowlers Crocombe and Turner were part of the England Lions squad mentored by South Africa legend Steyn, and coached by Andrew Flintoff, over the...
Once again, Lamb was the star performer with the bat for Lancashire as she passed 50 for the fourth game in a row before being bowled by spinner Katie Levick in the 30th over at Blackpool. Phoebe Turner and Mady Villiers took three wickets each as the Red Rose were bowled out for 239 and...
Hampshire hit back from last week’s thrashing by Nottinghamshire in emphatic style with an 89-run County Championship win over Warwickshire inside three days at Edgbaston. Set a target of 310, Warwickshire were all out for 220, unpicked by seamers James Fuller (5-56) and Kyle Abbott (3-44 and 8-91 in the match). Alex Davies (66) and...
Hampshire’s second innings began in the day’s first sunshine but the ball continued to move around and while Middleton settled, partners came and went. None of the other top six batters passed 15 as Mark Stoneman edged Hannon-Dalby to first slip, Bamber drew edges from Nick Gubbins and Tom Prest and Webster removed Brown, lbw,...
Hampshire elected to bat but lost Fletcha Middleton in the fourth over of the day when he edged Hannon-Dalby to second slip and Rob Yates took his 147th catch for Warwickshire. Mark Stoneman and Nick Gubbins gritted out 62 from 24 overs but, with the lunch interval beckoning, that fragility kicked in. Gubbins edged an...
Overseas star Charli Knott undermined Somerset with bat and ball as Hampshire won an absorbing Metro Bank Women’s One-Day Cup contest by 31 runs on the DLS method at the Cooper Associates Ground in Taunton. The Australian all-rounder scored 64 from 102 balls, and staged stands of 46, 40 and 42 with Maia Bouchier, skipper...
Lancashire completed a Metro Bank Women’s One-Day Cup double over leaders The Blaze at Emirates Old Trafford. Their win means Hampshire take over top spot in the table after Georgia Adams’ century helped them beat Essex, while there were also wins for Durham and Surrey. Grace Potts’ 4-37 led an excellent bowling effort by the...
Hampshire collapsed to defeat after centuries from Jack Haynes and Liam Patterson-White had batted them out of the game as Division One leaders Nottinghamshire romped to a third victory in their opening five matches of the County Championship season, winning by a massive 366-run margin. All-rounder Patterson-White struck a magnificent career-best 135 containing 21 fours...
Mohammad Abbas took five wickets on his Nottinghamshire debut to put the Division One leaders in a strong position against his former county after 16 wickets fell on day two of their County Championship clash with Hampshire at Trent Bridge. The 34-year-old Pakistan seamer, who took 180 first-class wickets in four summers at the Utilita...
Nottinghamshire batting prodigy Freddie McCann gave more evidence of his considerable potential by posting the third century of his fledgling first-class career to defy Hampshire on day one of their Rothesay County Championship match at Trent Bridge. In only his 13th innings in the Championship so far, the 20-year-old England Lions left-hander made 138 as...
Surrey decided to bat first at the Trafalgar Road ground, but Kate Cross took wickets in her first two overs to leave them 10-2. Danni Wyatt-Hodge was then out for 21, bringing Paige Scholfield and Davidson-Richards together. They put on an impressive 143 for the fourth wicket before Scholfield was out for 87 off 82...
Ben Brown reached his third-highest County Championship score as Hampshire and Durham’s match inevitably ended in a draw. Brown ended up on 162, three shy of his first-class best, as Matthew Potts and Codi Yusuf shared seven wickets to bowl Hampshire out with a deficit of 41. Alex Lees and Emilio Gay put on 61...
Ben Brown scored his first century as Hampshire captain to eliminate fears of an innings defeat by Durham in the County Championship. Hampshire were still 92 runs away from avoiding the follow-on when Toby Albert was the sixth man to depart, but Brown and Felix Organ ticked through the required runs with a 164 stand....
Graham Clark scored a career-best 160 as Durham made 511 on a Utilita Bowl batting paradise in the County Championship. Batter Clark continued Durham’s heavy run-scoring in the sun, with George Drissell scoring 69 and Codi Yusuf 44 not out. Wisden Cricketer of the Year Liam Dawson toiled away for 48 overs and was rewarded...
Graham Clark celebrated his fifth County Championship century with a pristine innings to put Durham in charge against Hampshire. Batter Clark led Durham’s run surge from a perilous 82-4 with partnerships of 124 with Ollie Robinson (76) and an unbroken 124 with George Drissell – who reached the close on 58 not out. Clark –...