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s pretty much what bell drummond delivered 133 not out opening leaving his team to dream of a late run to the quarters and leicestershire to bring out the calculators as results and run rates filter through online ball five leach dries up surrey s new blood surrey one of the four teams on 16 points just behind leicestershire all of whom losing their last match were pummelled at taunton as somerset spied an unlikely route to the knockouts the home side hit 46 boundaries as tom lammonby notched a ton up top with skipper lewis goldsworthy joining him in a stand of 152 for the second wicket archie vaughan led the lower order fun with 52 off 36 balls as rory burns inexperienced attack learned some hard lessons the londoners were then shown how it was done as jack leach in his 15th season as a pro took 3 29 the mismatch done in the 39th over ball six orr shows his mettle though hampshire won the match much credit again goes to the players of sussex for not simply rolling over especially after toby albert had hit six sixes off six deliveries one can only imagine how jack carson s men felt when ali orr biting the hand that once fed him and ben mayes were still together on 225 in the 36th over not a wicket taken and albert s pyrotechnics were still to come the bowlers fought back to restrict hampshire to 383 9 off their 50 overs and then the batters gave the hove faithful something to cheer with a century for charlie tear and good knocks from jack leaning and danial ibrahim but they still fell 52 runs short it s enough to make you want 80 fewer overs to suffer in a day but that s another story 3 comments posted in county cricket cricket the tooting trumpet posted by tootingtrumpet august 4 2026 the final over of the week in county cricket 3 august 2026 one day cup group stage has 15 of 18 counties in the hunt at halfway the structure of england s domestic cricket is flawed but most fans still have a dog in the fight deep into its tournaments ball one foxes on a run cricket does not quite have the games in hand issue that can creep into longer league formats in other sports but dividing the counties into two groups for the one day cup means that two teams will always be a match ahead or behind their competitors leicestershire knew going into last week that they would have played six matches one more than their opponents by its end so two wins from three was a minimum outcome to retain a strong position having lost at trent bridge two crushing wins over northamptonshire and somerset delivered the eight points they required to go top of group a rishi patel crashed his second century of the competition in making 115 at wantage road out in the 19th over but with 101 needed off 31 overs the game was pretty much done his scores of four one and four around those tons show the risk of the pinch hitter strategy but when it comes off it makes you wonder why more teams don t invest one wicket in it had patel been caught instead of dropped before getting off the mark we wouldn t be having that conversation but that s the game and despite ben stokes valedictory test innings probably valedictory fortune usually favours the brave ball two hey joe where you going with that bat in your hand professional sport seldom has much truck with sentiment a matter that provoked a lively discussion between me and my brother on the drive to birmingham last thursday i have mellowed from my old absolutism and i now believe the team mates of a long serving player and the fans deserve the chance to mark a career with something more than social media posts and handing over of the best spot in the car park joe denly who first played for kent 22 years ago contrived the best of both worlds having announced that the match at canterbury against somerset would be the last of his career over 3000 fans turned up a guard of honour was formed and he was given a legside half volley to get off the mark okay not the last bit but it was still a fine match denly snaring a couple of wickets then making a handy 20 after his captain daniel bell drummond had made a round 100 before ekansh singh and grant stewart applied the long handle to get the home side over the line denly won t have bought a drink that evening and might not for a while yet in the city of his birth ball three albert clears the table this time last year ralphie albert was making news at the oval partly as a result of being jimmy white s grandson since then his surrey career has been er somewhat snookered but he has captained england s under 19 side against south africa he may have scored a century in his last match representing his country but it was his slow left arm spin that choked off gloucestershire s late rally dismissing top scorer graeme van buuren and a hard charging will williams having been introduced as the seventh bowler with the top three in each group to progress to the knockout stage the winners going straight into the semi final second and third playing off for the right to take them on surrey are one of four clubs nestled on 12 points tucked in behind leicestershire so get the abacuses ready for net run rate calculations other clichés are available ball four gohar s go slow pays off though one fears a little for its condition in this summer especially lord s hosted middlesex vs yorkshire to decide the leadership of group b the match showed the value of all rounders in 50 overs cricket a format that requires teams to evaluate their progress continually and find different rhythms as a target is built or chased the value of an experienced pro in the middle in such circumstances is critical after middlesex had flown to 70 0 in the powerplay yorkshire got amongst them and five wickets went down for 51 in the next 15 overs as ben cliff got to work sights recalibrated from setting 350 to about 270 zafar gohar 101 list a appearances joined jack nelson one list a appearance for the kind of partnership that delights this competition s fans they put on 94 for the sixth wicket the teenager playing with freedom while zafar kept one end safe at roughly half the kid s strike rate neither could play in their chosen way without the other doing their bit dom bess tried the same thing for the tykes in the chase but couldn t find a partner and zafar back in the day job took 4 24 in his full allocation to send middlesex top ball five rhodes gets durham home durham are sitting pretty level with middlesex with a game in hand after a match won by an extraordinary innings by a 30 something all rounder just not the one you expect the crowd might have wanted ben stokes to do a wg grace and replace the bails after his golden duck telling dan douthwaite that they had come to see him bat and not douthwaite bowl but there s been enough controversy about cheating up durham way recently for that at 41 3 that soon became 97 6 chasing 327 durham needed something quite a lot actually not that it phased will rhodes who has seen most things that domestic cricket can throw at a player and he rolled up his sleeves and got on with it at the other end his captain kasey aldridge a big talent drifting when it should be fulfilling its promise got his head down too in a partnership of 145 for the seventh wicket the tide turned but not decisively james minto another highly promising player gaining vital experience in this competition joined rhodes to see durham home rhodes 148 not out stokesian ball six all the best to sussex s players in a tough season a word for sussex whose players have shown such grit and heart labouring under points penalties and with their continued employment at minimum in question they have a huge september coming up in the championship but they can take heart from their first win in the one day cup after essex s noah thain the form batter in the tournament had notched a ton sussex set off in pursuit of 317 on a summer s day at arundel i wonder if the players realised what heritage sat behind them for all the changes in colours of kit and ball a chase like that usually needs a big partnership as its centerpiece but led off by four young batters chipped away at it scotsman charlie tear top scoring with 73 but no player sold his wicket cheaply they got up in the 50th over sussex s staff face a tough winter and they ll need that never say die attitude to get through it and beyond sports clubs don t always survive financial problems but they usually do let s hope there s more joy at the seaside come 2027 5 comments posted in county cricket cricket the tooting trumpet posted by tootingtrumpet july 28 2026 the final over of the week in county cricket 28 july 2026 the one day cup is back with its mix of old pros and young thrusters middlesex and nottinghamshire set the pace but there s a big fish looming at durham ball one you can go to the ball the appeal of the english cricket s cinderella competition was captured in a very rare positive message i received from a lancashire fan joe moores and rocky flintoff playing great innings at 17 and 18 their 72 partnership in the last five overs against leicestershire proved the difference as the visitors got home by 21 runs at grace road earlier keaton jennings had scored his first century of a lacklustre season by his standards before handing over to another old stager tom bailey to lead the successful defence of 384 everyone watching knows that the star names are elsewhere that even 18 isn t that young in vaibhav sooryavanshi s world and that the media isn t too bothered any more with what was once the gillette cup but it doesn t matter to fans we delight in seeing the grizzled old faces alongside the smooth skinned youngsters watching old pros use their wiles to find a bit of form as the kids try that bit too hard to impress and we enjoy the opportunity to visit grounds less corporate more relaxed than the behemoths so many hqs have become you can see rocky and co take on kent at farington cricket ground near preston today general admission tickets are available for 20 terrace 15 general admission for adults 12 for over 65 and 5 for under 18s if only more people knew they might come along ball two go west ley it s 19 years since tom westley first played for essex on sunday he played for the 500th time and made a match winning century as derbyshire fell ten runs short of their target at chelmsford matt critchley playing against his former club kept him company in a stand of 72 the all rounder now as much of a local favourite as his captain in his fifth season off the a12 the two also fall into a category of player you see in this competition neither are likely to be called upon by england westley had five tests in 2017 and both lack the kind of explosive game that can win a big payday at the hundred nevertheless both are fine cricketers and can delight home crowds and neutrals wherever they play ball three hibernating bears need to wake up four teams lead the nascent group a table on eight points with nottinghamshire sitting prettiest with the only 100 record that looked unlikely when two more names that have been out of the headlines made unexpected news with the bat george garton and ethan bamber haven t played much first team cricket for warwickshire this season through injury and loss of form respectively though both firmly in the bowlers who bat category they rescued the bears innings from 121 6 to get up to 282 all out garton notching a maiden ton in any form of the game but notts are the form team in the country and once openers ben slater and freddie mccann had raised three figures at about a run a ball another half century down the order would prove enough kyle verreynne last seen in test cricket as part of the south african team who beat india 2 0 in november provided that and notts cruised home warwickshire after failing to get out of the group stage in the blast need to make something happen very soon ball four on the goldsworthy standard somerset are obliged to reach deep into their squad with many players unavailable in such circumstances more experienced players must accept additional responsibility that may be new to them certainly at this level lewis goldsworthy is an important cog in somerset s t20 side and comes in and out of the championship xi to do a job in the one day cup he is captain all rounder and at 25 a senior pro so what he does matters more with both opening fixtures at taunton getting off to a good start was critical goldsworthy delivered his full allocation taking 2 50 in the win over gloucestershire as his team squeezed for what turned out to be a comfortable victory bat in hand he made a century in the easy win the snoozing bears his victims in the next match at the top of english cricket there is something of a vacuum where there should be credible captains and though goldsworthy is hardly the first name to come to mind leadership opportunities are few and far between so far he is taking his ball five de caires not careworn for once middlesex have flown out of the blocks in group b with a couple of huge wins contributing to a three out of three start it was as a friend of mine remarked quite the day out for josh de caires at the utilita bowl at 24 now he really must start turning promise into performance and resist finding a fielder on 20 something and bowling two four balls in an over no such problems in the match against hampshire where he made a career best 75 as an opener which is clearly where he should bat and backed it up with 6 35 both career bests his team needs those kinds of outputs through the back end of the season and he has always had it in him classy at the crease and giving the ball as big a rip as any fingerspinner some might say that he is a finally emerging cricketer ball six singh on song for champions durham who have a handy all rounder in their xi stokes his name and worcestershire also enjoy spotless records albeit from two rather than three matches both worcestershire s wins were quite close in a competition that hasn t delivered its fair share of nailbiters just yet the champions opened their defence with the kind of bumsqueakingly tight match that low scoring affairs so often produce jake libby asked derbyshire to bat and the visitors will have been happy with their progress 84 1 in the 21st over that s when third change fateh singh a slow left armer who has a happy knack of taking wickets got amongst them and 84 1 became 138 all out six of those wickets his derbyshire will have told themselves that if they can be bowled out for a low score they can do the same to their hosts it s a cliche but also a delight that you never know a pitch s true character until both teams have batted on it at 113 7 with 26 still needed and the crowd nervous derbyshire were favourites but gareth roderick was old schooling at number three anchoring the chase and not partying like it s 1999 he needed a partner and eventually found one in another south african raised cricketer beyers swanepoel who bashed a few 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