Metro Bank One Day Cup 2024 – Live Cricket Streaming, Live Scores, Match Reports and Reactions – All Matches – July 24th

Here are the Metro Bank One Day Cup 2024 – Live Cricket Streaming, Live Scores, Match Reports and Reactions for every match on July 24th

Metro Bank One Day Cup  Wednesday 24th July

Lancashire vs Durham, Group A, Sedbergh School, Sedbergh.

Captain Alex Lees starred with a superb 111 added to impressive all-round contributions from Dutch internationals Bas de Leede and Colin Ackermann as Durham claimed an opening day Metro Bank One-Day Cup win over Lancashire at Sedbergh School.

Opener Lees cleanly struck eight fours and a six in a 126-ball innings which underpinned 344 for four - Durham’s sixth highest List A total. De Leede contributed 72 off 63 and Ackermann 59 off 33.

In ideal batting conditions, and in front of approximately 2,000 spectators, Lancashire’s task of chasing was tall. Josh Bohannon top-scored with an excellent career best 147 off 119 balls, an even better innings than Lees’s. But Ackermann and de Leede equally shared six wickets in 287 all out - a Durham win by 57 runs.

Lees made the most of his decision to bat first, hitting all of his boundaries on the leg-side and driving George Balderson’s seam over long-off for his only six.

Every Durham batter contributed. Fellow Under 19s international Ben McKinney opened with a pleasing 43 - he shared 87 with Lees - before Scotland international Michael Jones added a late 41 off 21 against his birth county.

Durham paced their innings beautifully against a Red Rose attack who failed to gain control. Only Balderson - one for 57 from 10 overs - went at less than six in over in a six-man attack.

Lees and de Leede shared 129 inside 20 overs for the second wicket, advancing from 87 for one in the 20th. It was a Durham partnership record for the second wicket in List A matches against Lancashire. 

Lees reached a 117-ball century but didn’t last much longer. 

He followed de Leede’s departure, the skipper caught at long-off against Harry Singh’s off-spin - 250 for three in the 44th over.

After that, 81 came from the last six overs as Ackermann and Jones set about a thrilling acceleration. 

New ball seamer Tom Bailey conceded 27 off the 47th - 308 for three. Jones hit a six and four and Ackermann two sixes and a four. 

Lancashire’s reply started well despite George Bell’s early departure. He cut Paul Coughlin to backward point. 

At 91 for one in the 16th over, their hopes would have been high as captain Keaton Jennings and Bohannon both approached fifties. 

But their second-wicket partnership was cut short at 72 when the former was run out for 44 at the non-striker’s end going for a third to deep midwicket, sparking a match-defining collapse of four wickets for 46 - Lancashire now 137 for five in the 23rd. 

Ackermann’s off-spin (three for 37 from six overs) accounted for three of them, bowling Balderson and Tom Bruce added to George Lavelle caught at backward point. The latter two fell in as many deliveries in the 23rd over.

Bohannon shared a calming 61 for the sixth wicket with Singh, but the latter was one of two wickets to fall in the 34th to de Leede’s seam, leaving the hosts 202 for seven.

Singh pulled to deep midwicket for 25 and Tom Aspinwall was bowled.

De Leede (three for 33 from eight) bowled Bailey shortly afterwards before Bohannon reached a second List A century off 93 balls. 

But a win was the prize he craved. Unfortunately for him, that ship had long sailed as no team-mate could support him until it was too late. 

He also shared 62 for the ninth wicket with Will Williams, who fell to Jonathan Bushnell’s seam. 

The same man completed the visiting success when he bowled Bohannon in the 45th over after the England Lions captain had struck 13 fours and half a dozen sixes. 

Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Derbyshire, Group A, County Ground, Northampton.

Zak Chappell smashed a List A career best unbeaten 94 to propel Derbyshire to an unlikely two wicket victory over Northamptonshire in this Metro Bank One-Day Cup clash at Wantage Road.

Chappell came together with his skipper Ross Whiteley with Derbyshire in tatters at 79 for seven chasing 236 to win, but they turned the game on its head with a record eighth wicket partnership of 131 (23.4 overs) for the visitors against any opposition and the 22^nd highest in the history of List A cricket worldwide.

Despite Northamptonshire’s teenage pacer Raphy Weatherall sparking the initial collapse and finishing with figures of four for 50 on his List A debut, the momentum was all with Derbyshire as Chappell and Whiteley made hay.

Earlier Emilio Gay (59) and George Bartlett (50) each struck half-centuries in a partnership of 79 in 15 overs. Saif Zaib and Lewis McManus then picked up the mantle and looked set to propel Northamptonshire towards a competitive total during a stand of 69 in exactly 11 overs.

But their departure precipitated a Steelbacks collapse, five wickets falling for 22 in 33 balls. On a day to remember for Chappell, the quick bowler finished with career best bowling figures of 4-39 while veteran all-rounder Samit Patel took 3-41 as the hosts were bowled out for 235 in 47 overs, which looked well below par.

Northamptonshire rued losing two early wickets to poor shots as Chappell made a double breakthrough. He first removed last season’s prolific run scorer Prithvi Shaw, caught in the deep by David Lloyd after he top edged an attempted hook. In Chappell’s next over Ricardo Vasconcelos flashed at one outside off-stump and was caught at cover without scoring.

Gay though was enjoying himself, tucking into the bowling of Sam Conners, stroking five boundaries as he drove down the ground and swung hard through midwicket.

While an inswinging yorker from Luis Reece accounted for Rob Keogh’s leg stump, Bartlett was soon into his work. Fresh from a ton against Norfolk, he opened his account with a textbook cover drive, followed by another boundary through midwicket before powering Patel over his head.

Gay brought up his half-century by smiting Reece over mid-off (68 balls), but when he came down the wicket to Patel, he was smartly stumped by keeper Brooke Guest.

Next over Bartlett, who had posted his own half-century (57 deliveries), pulled Harry Moore straight to Lloyd who took another well-judged boundary catch.

McManus showed early intent, muscling a short ball from Conners through midwicket but gained a reprieve when Lloyd failed to hold onto a more straightforward boundary catch.

Zaib announced himself by going down on one knee to flick Reece over fine leg for six. He put away a slow ball beamer from Reece for four and then swept the free hit for another maximum before gaining a life when Patel put down a chance at fine leg.

Derbyshire broke through when McManus was bowled playing back to Patel for 25 and Zaib was caught behind off Chappell, attempting to run the ball down to third.

Wickets tumbled as Patel trapped Ben Sanderson lbw and Gus Miller was brilliantly run out by Mitch Wagstaff attempting a risky single. Chappell then comprehensively bowled Jack White to wrap up the innings.

In Derbyshire’s run chase, Harry Came made 21, but his stay was soon ended by Sanderson, bowled off the inside edge.

Reece greeted Weatherall by pulling him behind square for four, but Northamptonshire built pressure and after nine dot balls, Guest prodded at one from Weatherall, Shaw taking an excellent diving catch at first slip.

Weatherall struck again in his next over, this time having Reece caught off the leading edge by Miller at backward point.

Next over White, who was finding significant movement, was into the action having Matt Lamb caught behind. Weatherall struck again three balls later when Patel pulled him straight to Gay at fine leg.

Lloyd carved Miller square for four as he and Whiteley sought to rebuild. The pair put on 33 for the sixth wicket before spinner Keogh found some drift to trap Lloyd lbw for a run-a-ball 21, Derbyshire ending the 20^th over in disarray on 78 for six. Three balls later they were seven wickets down when Wagstaff edged Sanderson to Shaw at slip.

That though brought Whiteley and Chappell together, who profited when Northamptonshire introduced the slower bowlers, despite the seamers extracting plenty of movement and Derbyshire started the final 10 overs needing a comfortable 53 to win.

Whiteley hit Keogh through extra cover before taking a boundary off Zaib to reach his 50 off 78 deliveries.

In a display of power hitting, Chappell punched Weatherall through the onside and pulled him high over midwicket. He smashed Zaib down the ground and went to 50 off 48 balls before crunching Keogh through midwicket to pass his previous highest score. When White was unable to hang onto a diving catch in the deep off Weatherall, Chappell responded by smashing the teenager down the ground for consecutive boundaries.

Weatherall finally broke the partnership, Whiteley playing an unnecessary big shot and Gay taking a well-judged catch on the boundary. But with only 26 still needed in six overs and Chappell still there, Derbyshire sealed the win with eight balls to spare.

Worcestershire Rapids v Middlesex, Group A, County Ground, New Road, Worcester

Centurions Ed Pollock and Gareth Roderick rewrote the record books in spectacular style for Worcestershire during their 183 run Metro Bank One Day Cup triumph over Middlesex at Visit Worcestershire New Road.

The opening pair smashed 259 off just 35.2 overs – Worcestershire’s highest first wicket List A partnership against all opposition in a total of 371-3 from 48 overs.

A three wicket burst with the new ball by Harry Darley, one of six Worcestershire One Day Cup debutants, pressed home his side’s advantage.

Another in Jack Home then chipped in with three wickets and, Middlesex who lost half of their side for 118 despite Mark Stoneman’s powerful 75 off 37 balls, were bowled out in just 25.4 overs.

The Pollock-Roderick stand surpassed the 243 by Club Captain Brett D’Oliveira and Jack Haynes against Essex at Chelmsford three years ago.

Pollock went onto amass 180 from 138 balls with five sixes and 21 fours, his second century in four days after his 120 not out against Wales.

It was the second joint highest individual score for Worcestershire in List A cricket alongside Tom Moody with only Callum Ferguson (192) ahead of  Pollock.

Roderick was the perfect foil to Pollock during the initial phase of his innings but then accelerated to such an extent that he scored his 115 off only 104 balls and also with five sixes in addition to 10 other boundaries.

Worcestershire fielded arguably the most inexperienced attack in their history after being decimated by injury and illness and absent were Joe Leach, Adam Finch, overseas signing Nathan Smith, Ben Gibbon, Matthew Waite, Yadvinder Singh, Josh Cobb, Kashif Ali and Club Captain Brett D’Oliveira.

Six players made their One-Day Cup debut in Home and Darley, Rehaan Edavalath and new short term signings from National Counties cricket in Tom Hinley (Oxfordshire), Hishaam Khan (Staffordshire) and Tommy Sturgess (Berkshire).

Middlesex had five players absent due to the Hundred in Stephen Eskinazi, Max Holden, Leus du Plooy, Ryan Higgins and Tom Helm and handed first One Day Cup starts to Nathan Fernandes and Noah Cornwell.

Worcestershire were put into bat and Pollock and Roderick gave them a flying start with a century stand in 16.3 overs.

Pollock was the dominant partner initially and raced to his half century off 45 balls.

But Roderick gradually stepped on the accelerator in supporting the left hander as boundaries flowed constantly and he completed a 62 ball fifty.

Pollock moved into the 90s with a six backward of square off Blake Cullen and then a steer to third man off the same bowler enabled him to complete a superb hundred.

Roderick swept Nathan Fernandes for another maximum – his fourth - in completing a 92 ball hundred which also contained nine fours.

The stand was worth 259 in 35.2 overs when Roderick attempted a similar shot against Fernandes and was bowled.

But then Jones provided staunch support in adding 93 in just 10.2 overs with Pollock..

His memorable effort finally ended when he went for another big hit against spinner Nathan Fernandes and was caught at long on.

Darley, who made his senior debut with four appearances in the Vitality Blast, struck a trio of early blows with the new ball when Middlesex launched their reply.

His second legitimate delivery nipped back and bowled Sam Robson and then a similar ball hit the top of Joe Cracknell’s off stump.

There was more joy for Darley when Fernandes aimed a leg side blow and popped up a catch to captain Jake Libby at cover.

Home came into the attack and struck when Jack Davies top edged a skier to fellow keeper Roderick.

He then had Stoneman caught behind when driving and Martin Andersson holed out to third man and the innings quickly subsided after that.

Leicestershire vs Nottinghamshire, Group B, Grace Road, Leicester.

Leicestershire Foxes began their defence of the Metro Bank One-Day Cup with a victory over Group B rivals Notts Outlaws, albeit one achieved in unexpected fashion after India Test star Ajinkya Rahane had excited his latest home crowd with a debut innings of 71 - the match coming down to the visitors trying in vain to score 55 runs from 23 balls.

The Foxes had been set to defend 370 after an impressive showing with the bat in which captain Lewis Hill top scored with 80, a pivotal knock that saw him share partnerships of 79 with Sol Budinger, who made 75, and 82 with Rahane as Leicestershire totalled 369 for six from their 50 overs, having been put in on a green-tinged pitch, their score bolstered by some big hitting from Ben Cox and Ben Mike at the death.

Chasing 370 would have been a tall task for an inexperienced Outlaws side had rain not left their reply stranded on 50 without loss from 10.1 overs.

That would have consigned them to a five-run DLS defeat had no further play been possible. But after conditions improved following a two-and-half-hour stoppage, umpires Simon Widdup and Neil Pratt ruled that there was time enough for Notts to face another 3.5 overs, with a revised target of 105.

Needing 55 from 23 balls, the visitors added to the drama by retiring both Ben Slater and debutant Freddie McCann, the not out batters, in favour of big-hitters Jack Haynes and Tom Moores only to lose Haynes first ball - leg before to Tom Scriven - immediately followed by new batter Lyndon James, caught on the mid-wicket boundary.

Liam Patterson-White hammered Ben Mike to the midwicket boundary but immediately miscued back to the bowler for a simple return catch, then Matt Montgomery sliced Scriven in the air to be caught brilliantly by Mike as the ball swirled between him and Chris Wright at short third.

Moores then hammered four boundaries in four balls off Mike but the Outlaws were still 16 runs short of their target when the overs ran out. Scriven finished with three for 20.

Outlaws included three debutants - newly-signed all-rounder Rob Lord plus academy products McCann, 19, and off-spinner Farhan Ahmed - the brother of Leicestershire’s Rehan - who at 16 years 153 days is the second youngest player to appear in senior cricket for Nottinghamshire, behind Paul Johnson, who was 32 days younger when he made his John Player League debut against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in 1981.

If there was frustration for the Outlaws, the Foxes will have been more than happy with the standard set by their batters.

Budinger, who faced 74 balls, delivered an impressively measured performance containing 10 fours and a six, although he was expensively dropped 15 by wicketkeeper Tom Moores off Luke Fletcher.

Harry Swindells, who did not figure for the Foxes last season before his sensational match-winning century in the final, made 35 in an opening stand of 95 before mistiming to mid-on off Patterson-White.

A diving McCann eventually snared Budinger at long off, giving Notts a second breakthrough and Farhan - who conceded two sixes in his second over but recovered well - his maiden senior wicket.

That brought Rahane to the middle at 174 for two with Hill looking well set at the other end, and they advanced the score to 256 in not much more than 10 overs before Hill, who hit nine fours and a six, dragged one on from outside off stump to be bowled.

Rahane, wasting no time in giving his latest home crowd a glimpse of his quality, completed a 38-ball fifty shortly afterwards. He and Peter Handscomb added 48 before the Australian, having just cleared the long-on boundary, was athletically caught by Patterson-White at mid-off for 29 off 21 balls to give Lord his maiden scalp.

Rahane raised his boundary count to nine in a manner that suggested plenty more to come, so it came as a surprise to see him undone by a wide full toss from James, inelegantly hoicked into the busy hands of McCann at long-on.

The Outlaws might have hoped they could contain the Foxes at 350 or fewer with Rahane gone but five sixes in the last three overs - three from Cox (29 off 20) before he holed out to deep extra cover and two from Mike - one after he was dropped - provided a storming finish.

All-rounder James took three wickets for Outlaws, albeit at a cost of 105 runs.

Chris Wright, having completed his preparations in Monday’s warm-up match against Buckinghamshire, bowled his first five competitive overs of the season following his suspension for an anti-doping offence as the Outlaws began their chase. 

Essex vs Warwickshire, Group B, County Ground, Chelmsford.

Ed Barnard continued his summer love affair with the Cloud County Ground, Chelmsford, by hammering his highest score in List A cricket.

Warwickshire’s Metro Bank One-Day Cup captain followed up his personal-best 165 in the Vitality Championship reverse in May by carrying his bat with a 140-ball 173 to underpin a seven-wicket victory over Essex. Barnard, whose previous best was 161, was ably assisted in match-defining stands by Rob Yates, Will Rhodes and Michael Burgess as last year’s semi-finalists eased home with 14 balls to spare.

Essex, who won just one game in the 2023 campaign, were again on the receiving end after being put in a green-tinged wicket in front of a crowd of 2,462. And that despite Nick Browne claiming his fourth List A career half-century with seven fours, one of them all run, in an innings of 75 from 90 balls. 

The left-handed opener shared stands of 51 with Feroze Khushi, 71 with Robin Das and 55 with Charlie Allison, who went on to contribute a 72-ball 69 and engage in a swashbuckling partnership of 70 with Luc Benkenstein. Olly Hannon-Dalby, meanwhile, chipped in with three wickets in nine balls to finish with 3-69.

Chasing a target of six and a half an over to record their highest successful List A run chase, Warwickshire had 97 on the board inside 16 overs when Yates played across one from Tom Westley and was lbw for 42. Both he and Barnard clubbed Noah Thain for sixes with Barnard pulling Ben Allison for another over square leg.

Barnard reached fifty from 39 balls, three figures from a further 50 and 120 balls in t4otla for his 150. He was not finished there, adding a third maximum over long-off against the luckless Thain, and then bringing up the century partnership with Will Rhodes in a further 16 overs. A fourth six marked his 150.

The stand had moved on to 107 when Rhodes, on 41, skied one from Jamal Richards so high that three players converged before debutant wicketkeeper Simon Fernandes put his name to the catch.

Hamza Shaikh did not trouble the scorers, but Burgess was quickly into the groove by sweeping the wicket-taker Benkenstein for six in an over that eventually went for 18 runs. He repeated the dose with an enormous drive off Aaron Beard over long-on and another from a Ben Allison free-hit to bring up the century partnership for the fourth wicket. His own half-century took just 34 balls as he finished on 59 not out from 42 balls.

Earlier in the day, Khushi had bought up Essex’s opening fifty by pulling Barnard for four and six off successive balls before he fell next ball to one that nipped back and bowled him.

Barnard had a second when Tom Westley was beaten by a slower delivery and went lbw. Das hung around for 14 overs until he tried to swing Rhodes over midwicket for what would have been only a third four in his 52-ball 35 and was bowled.

Browne reached his half-century from 60 balls and celebrated by executing an uncharacteristic reverse sweep for four. He was finally fourth man out with the score on 199 when he picked out midwicket halfway back to the boundary to give Rhodes a second wicket.

Of the young guns who took over in the middle, Allison was particularly strong through extra cover where the majority of his seven fours came, while Benkenstein launched sixes over extra cover and long-off.

Benkenstein had reached 44 from 27 balls when he wafted at Hannon-Dalby and didn’t wait for the umpire before turning on his heels and walking off. That was the first of the Warwickshire pace bowler’s quickfire treble with Thain and Allison perishing in the deep.

 

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