Metro Bank One Day Cup 2024 – Live Cricket Streaming, Live Scores, Match Reports and Reactions – All Matches – July 25th

Here are the Metro Bank One Day Cup 2024 – Live Cricket Streaming, Live Scores, Match Reports and Reactions for every match on July 25th

Metro Bank One Day Cup  Thursday 25th July

Glamorgan vs Gloucestershire, Group B

Glamorgan opened their account in the Metro Bank One Day Cup with a nail-biting derby win over Gloucestershire.

In a 33-over rain-affected game, Glamorgan set 187 for eight with 20-year-old Ben Kellaway hitting a rescuing 65 not out preventing the hosts from collapsing at 27 for three.

Dan Douthwaite shined with the ball with four for 25 including the crucial wicket of James Bracey whose solo magnificence was in vain after striking a 79-ball 86.

The visitors looked set to win yet another Severnside derby before Douthwaite and Andy Gorvin combined to collapse Gloucestershire from 157 for five to 160 all out.

Gloucestershire won the toss and put the hosts into bat after the near three-hour delay. Jack Taylor’s decision proved to be a smart one initially with openers Josh Shaw and Ajeet Singh Dale making the most of early seam movement to get into the Glamorgan middle-order.

Will Smale unable to continue his fine form from Friday’s record-breaking Vitality Blast game, bowled for a duck with Eddie Byrom dismissed for five just an over later to give the Gloucestershire openers a wicket apiece.

Captain Kiran Carlson and Billy Root managed to add some stability in the middle, forming a partnership of 49 from 41 balls, pouncing on some loose deliveries from Goodman and Zaman Akhter.

More wickets at bad times for the hosts had a par score looking far off once again when Carlson’s attempted fine cut found the edge and subsequently, Bracey’s gloves with a similar story for Root off Akhter, debutant Asa Tribe and his 20-year-old teammate Kellaway were forced to rebuild from 99 for five with only 14 overs to bat.

A catalogue of aesthetically pleasing drives through and over extra cover and straight past Akhter the highlights of the crucial Kellaway knock.

While it was Kellaway who starred, his partnerships with Tribe, Dan Douthwaite and Timm van der Gugten were just as important to ensure the hosts batted the full allocation of overs despite slow periods towards the back end of the innings.

Gloucestershire’s pursuit started in almost identical fashion to the hosts’ innings.

Timm van der Gugten and Jamie McIlroy extracted the same movement as their Gloucestershire counterparts did in the early overs, claiming the wickets of Australian international Cameron Bancroft, Ollie Price and Miles Hammond for just 44.

It came down to Bracey’s excellence to keep the visitors in the contest. As Kellaway did for Glamorgan, the former England ‘keeper’s solo brilliance looked to take the game away from Glamorgan.

Glamorgan thought they would’ve not had luck on their side as a matter of millimetres separated a Bracey skier off Douthwaite and Tribe at deep square leg while on 61 and the score 99 for four.

When Charlesworth and Taylor both departed for supportive innings’ of 14 each, Graeme van Buuren attacked as the required run rate creeped above seven before three fours and a six took the pressure off Bracey in their quickfire 41-run partnership, leaving just 31 to get from the final six overs.

As the pendulum swung in the space of 11 balls from Douthwaite and Gorvin, the match slipped away from Gloucestershire to take them to the wrong side of a Severnside derby thriller after moments of brilliance saved the game in both County Championship and Blast affairs in 2024.

Surrey vs Yorkshire Vikings, Group B

Yorkshire Vikings 240/6 (33 overs) beat Surrey 222/9 (33 overs) by 25 runs (DLS Method)

Will Luxton’s 79-ball 83, George Hill’s 51 off 38 balls and four dramatic late sixes by Matt Revis propelled Yorkshire Vikings to 240 for six from 33 overs and an eventual 25-run win against Surrey in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup at the Kia Oval.

Luxton, 21 and making just his 15th List A appearance, hit 12 fours and played the innings of a rain-shortened Group B match, while 23-year-old Hill also took three for 41 with his medium pace as he and Revis, 22, added wickets to their earlier run-scoring exploits. Surrey, set 248 from their 33 overs after Duckworth Lewis Stern calculations, were restricted to 222 for nine in reply.

 And a fourth homegrown Yorkshire young gun, 23-year-old James Wharton, followed up a quickfire 22 by pulling off two memorable boundary catches – the first of them a quite astonishing one-handed over-the-shoulder effort – to remove Ben Geddes and Rory Burns.

 With Ben Coad producing a beauty to bowl Ryan Patel for 40 towards the end of a superb seven-over new ball spell of 7-1-25-1, it was an eye-catching all-round performance by the Vikings – who failed to qualify for the knock-out stages in last year’s 50-over competition but, on this evidence, could be contenders 12 months on.

Yorkshire’s innings was interrupted by three separate rain delays of various lengths. The first came at 31 for one, after six overs, and lasted just 14 minutes, but the second was of almost two hours’s duration and was quickly followed by the third, lopping a further 35 minutes’ play from the day’s schedule.

The upshot of it all was a final seven-over sprint, from an already strong position of 158 for three after 26 overs, and a DLS adjusted target for Surrey to chase that most onlookers had expected to be higher.

Surrey lost Dom Sibley for one in the second over, lofting a drive at Dom Leech straight to cover, but left-hander Patel briefly flourished – despite being dropped on 27 at deep mid wicket off Leech – until Coad angled one through his defences from around the wicket.

That came soon after Geddes, on 13, had slashed Hill high to deep cover where Wharton plucked the ball out of the air right-handed as he leapt backwards just yards inside the rope.

And Hill was again the bowler when Wharton, at deep square leg, cleverly threw the ball up just as his momentum took him over the boundary before stepping back inside the ropes to complete a catch from a well-struck sweep by Burns (7).

Ben Foakes slog-swept Dan Moriarty’s left arm spin for six and added 68 with Cam Steel, whose 37 was ended by a top-edged hoick at Hill to short fine leg.

Surrey needed 121 from their last 10 overs and that became 77 from five after Foakes (40) was caught in the deep, leaving Josh Blake (26) and Conor McKerr (25) to plunder what they could in a losing cause.

Finlay Bean fell early on for three after Yorkshire had been put in, brilliantly caught by keeper Blake who dived to his right to clutch a fast-travelling inside-edge when the left-hander was beaten off the pitch by a fine ball from James Taylor.

Luxton, however, was soon into his stride with regal offside fours off both Matt Dunn and Taylor, and the young opener dominated a second wicket stand of 97 in 13 overs with Shan Masood until the Pakistan Test captain gloved a hook at a McKerr bouncer to Blake to go for 24.

Wharton advanced to loft Steel’s leg-spin over mid off for four and, next ball, carved him wide of long on for six, but on 22 he connected well enough with a scooped sweep at left-arm spinner Yousef Majid only to see Steel pull off a stunning one-handed catch at short fine leg, quickly back-pedalling and diving away to his right.

Then came the second rain break at 139 for three, with Luxton already on 76 from 67 balls, but he sacrificed the chance of a maiden List A hundred when, soon after resuming again on 81 following the final weather interruption, he skied a catch swinging hard at Dunn.

Hill had by then launched a six over long on off Majid and it was not long before he completed a fine fifty by pulling McKerr for his eighth four.

Steel removed both Hill and Dom Bess in the 31^st over, convincing Surrey captain Burns to keep him on for the final over of the innings.

It backfired badly with Revis pulling the first ball high over the mid-wicket ropes before finishing the over with three successive sixes – a full toss smoked over long on, a length ball hit straight and another short one also pulled dismissively into the stands.

Yorkshire opener and top-scorer Will Luxton said: “We spoke before the game about the importance of making a good start in this competition, especially coming up against Surrey at the Oval, and it was great to get the win.

“It was an excellent all-round team performance with everyone chipping in and we’re very happy.

“Hopefully this will set the tone for the rest of the competition and, personally, it is nice to get the opportunity to open the innings. I am grateful for that chance to show what I can do.

“George (Hill) also played very well and then Matt (Revis) hit those sixes in the final over to make sure we got to a challenging total.”

Surrey’s Ryan Patel said: “We could have been better in the power plays and we have spoken after the game about what we need to do better.

“But it is always small margins in games that get reduced in overs and they took advantage of coming back out for the last seven overs of their innings, having had it reduced to 33, with seven wickets still left.

“We did well in the end to get to 222 ourselves so it’s not all doom and gloom and we look forward to the next game.”

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