Metro Bank One Day Cup 2024 – Live Cricket Streaming, Live Scores, Match Reports and Reactions – All Matches – July 31st

Here are the Metro Bank One Day Cup 2024 – Live Cricket Streaming, Live Scores, Match Reports and Reactions for every match on July 31st.

Metro Bank One Day Cup Sunday 31st July

Derbyshire v Lancashire, Group A, Incora County Ground, Derby

Pat Brown recorded his best one-day figures as Derbyshire thrashed Lancashire by nine wickets in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup match at Derby.

Brown took 5 for 37 in six overs to bowl the visitors out for 99 in 20 overs while Zak Chappell and Harry Moore each claimed two wickets.

The highest score for Lancashire was extras at 19 with only three players, one of them Andrew Flintoff’s 16-year-old son Rocky, making double figures.

Derbyshire easily reached their target, ending on 100 for 1 in the 20th over with Luis Reece 52 not out to celebrate a third victory in Group A which boosts their chances of making the knock-out stages while Lancashire suffered a third defeat.

Lancashire had no answer to Derbyshire’s pace attack and never recovered from losing three wickets in the first seven overs.

Sam Conners trapped Harry Singh lbw before Chappell struck twice in his fourth over to leave the visitors on 27 for 3.

Josh Bohannon was defeated by one that came back to clip the top of off stump and George Bell was lbw half forward to a full ball for 18.

Flintoff played one dismissive pull to the ropes but was hit on the helmet trying to take on a short ball from Chappell in the 9th over.

Although he was able to continue, he fell to another short delivery as Lancashire lost two wickets in Brown’s first over.

Indian all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer marked his debut with two glorious drives for four off Moore but then pulled Brown into the hands of deep mid-wicket.

Given Lancashire’s position, it was a poor decision by an international player and Flintoff fell into the same trap when he skied another Brown short ball to reduce his side to 55 for 5.

The procession continued with Chris Green missing a big drive at Moore and Tom Aspinwall caught behind off Brown.who bowled Jack Blatherwick with a full ball in his next over.

After Moore had George Balderson caught behind, Brown bowled Charlie Barnard to complete the rout.

It was now a question of how quickly Derbyshire would wrap up victory and Reece pressed the accelerator with two sixes off Blatherwick in the fourth over.

Reece and Harry Came shared a double century opening stand against Middlesex on Saturday but this time they were parted in the 8th over when Singh took a smart one-handed catch at second slip off Blatherwick to send back Came.

But there was little else for Lancashire to enjoy on a chastening day as Reece and Brooke Guest with an unbeaten 37 added 65 to put the seal on an impressive Derbyshire display.

Derbyshire fast bowler Pat Brown said: "The victory is the most important thing. We were ruthless today and that's how we want to be.

"On a personal note, it's great to get five but I thought Sam (Conners) and Chappy (Zak Chappell) set it up beautifully. They really bowled well up top and when the rate is under control and we've got a few wickets it makes it easier for me.

"I've been away (at The Hundred) for a week without a game  so to come back and get some rhythm was nice. I think I've forgotten how tiring match overs are because I was blowing a bit but hopefully the boys won't have too much taken out of them today and should be fresh for Friday to go again

"We've got a dressing room full of confidence, three from three here. we feel like  we're not the team to beat so to speak but we feel like we've got people's numbers if we turn up."

Lancashire assistant head coach Will Porterfield said: "There were a few good balls knocking around, there was a bit of movement there but we never got any kind of a partnership going.

"Even after we were a few down we were thinking if we get up to anything like 180 plus is a potential score out there, it may still not have been enough but we maybe could have scraped to that but we just never got a partnership going.

"They bowled well, credit to them, the four seamers ran in and asked questions and in this competition the first 12 overs with two new balls you can find yourself a few wickets down but we never kicked on from that."

Durham v Somerset, Group A, Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

England might not need Jack Leach but Somerset certainly do. The England slow left-armer took six for 26 to lead his county to a 133-run victory over Durham in Wednesday’s Metro-Bank One-Day Cup victory at the Riverside.

No-one played Leach with any comfort on a pitch that was receptive to spin throughout the match and his bowling ensured that Somerset defended 241 in some comfort to collect their second win in this season’s competition. It also threw into sharp relief the value of Lewis Goldsworthy’s 93 in the visitors’ innings.

Durham were eventually dismissed for 108 with Scott Borthwick’s 35 providing home spectators with scant comfort    

Somerset’s innings began poorly when Andy Umeed was caught behind off Bas de Leede for nought in the second over and things would have been worse had Paul Coughlin not overstepped when he had George Thomas caught at slip for seven.

But Thomas and Lewis Goldsworthy then brought some stability to the innings and then began to milk the home bowling very efficiently. Indeed, the second-wicket pair had put on 119 in 27 overs when Colin Ackermann struck twice in two balls.

The off-spinner bowled Thomas for 48 when the 21-year-old attempted an uncharacteristically inelegant hoick to leg and he then bowled James Rew with a magnificent delivery that drifted in before straightening sharply to hit the left-hander’s off stump.

Ackermann completed his ten-over spell with figures of two for 35, meaning that he and George Drissell had delivered their twenty overs of spin for only 79 runs. However, Sean Dickson joined Goldsworthy in a 65-run stand in a shade above 12 overs before Coughlin became the second home bowler to take wickets with successive deliveries.

Having made 37, Dickson chopped the ball on to his stumps and then Josh Thomas’s waft outside the off stump gave Mustard his second catch. Two overs later Coughlin took his third wicket when Goldsworthy pulled the seamer to Jonathan Bushnell at deep midwicket and the last six overs of the innings saw the usual trading of quick runs for wickets.

Kacey Aldridge and Jack Davey both made twenties and Bushnell picked up two cheap wickets in the final over. Coughlin finished with three for 47, de Leede took two for 53 and Daniel Hogg bowled five overs for 19 runs on debut.

Durham’s pursuit of 242 for victory began well when Alex Lees and Ben McKinney put on 40 in under eight overs but the loss of four wickets for eight runs ruined the good work. Having made 17, McKinney lofted Alfie Ogborne to Jack Leach at mid-on and a few moments later Lees was lbw to Davey for 18.

Then Leach struck twice in his first over, first by having Ackermann caught behind for 4 and then bowling Michael Jones for a fourth-ball duck. A score of 48 for four allowed Dickson to give Charlie Cassell his first bowl for Somerset and the debutant send down three tidy overs for nine runs before giving way to Goldsworthy’s left-arm spinners.   

Next over the wheels finally became detached  from Durham’s innings when de Leede was bowled by Leach for 12 and Bushnell was lbw for nought. At that stage, Leach’s figures were four for 11 from 3.3 overs and Durham were 70 for six.

The home side’s last realistic hope of victory disappeared with the score on a hundred when Borthwick smacked a short ball from the leg-spinner Andy Umeed straight to Leach at midwicket and departed for 35. Leach completed his five-wicket haul when he had Coughlin caught by Rew for a single  and took his sixth wicket when Haydon Mustard was dismissed for 12 in similar fashion.

The game ended in the next over when Drissell was caught behind off Goldsworthy for a single.

Essex v Leicestershire Foxes, Group B, County Ground, Chelmsford

Kent Spitfires v Hampshires, Group A, The Kent County Cricket Ground, Beckenham

Harry Finch played an innings of Boycott-like obstinacy to see the Kent Spitfires home by four wickets in their Metro Bank Cup Group game with Hampshire at Beckenham.

Chasing 169 to win, Kent lurched to 69 for six before Finch and Charlie Stobo (32 not out) responded with an unbeaten partnership of 74.

Beyers Swanepoel had taken three for 28 as Hampshire were bowled out for 168 in 41 overs and they’d needed 37 from number 10 Kyle Abbott to give them a defensible total. Dom Kelly and Nick Gubbins were their next highest scorers with 32 each.

Abbott then bowled 10 overs for just 16 runs, taking three wickets, but as the visitors began to tire Finch, who at point had strike rate of just five, started to accelerate, finishing on 53 not out from 94 balls.

Hampshire chose to bat on what looked like a typically benign Beckenham wicket, but turned into anything but. A combination of poor shot selection and a smothering display in the field by Kent saw them post a target that looked well below par at halfway.

They lost Fletcha Middleton in the second over for four when he edged Swanepoel to Jack Leaning at second slip.

Swanepoel was swinging it both ways and he took two wickets in five balls during the eighth over, bowling Tom Prest for seven before getting Ben Brown for a duck at the end of the over.

When Grant Stewart had Toby Albert caught behind for a duck Hampshire were reduced to 24 for four. Joe Eckland joined Gubbins for a partial rebuild, but after making 21 he was deceived by a short ball from Charlie Stobo and caught at deep square leg by Stewart.

Felix Organ came in and hit the first six of the match off Matt Parkinson in the 22nd over but he tried to repeat the feat two balls later and was caught on the boundary by Marcus O’Riordan.

Gubbins then fell to an ugly swipe off Stobo that was caught by Joey Evison and Eddie Jack was bowled by Gilchrist for 14, before the innings came to a premature end when Gilchrist ran out Abbott.

The chase got off to a rocky start when O’Riordan edged Abbott behind for nought and Joey Evison went for one to the same combination in Abbott’s next over.

Swanepoel was dropped by Albert on 27 when he miscued Jack but he’d added just three more to his score when he drove Abbott to Eckland to leave Kent on 42 for three.

Jack Leaning played on to Jack and was bowled for 14 and Kelly had Jaydn Denly caught behind for 19.

When Ekansh Singh drove Jack to Gubbins for six Kent were on 96 for six, but with the run rate seldom rising above three an over Finch was able to play it like an old-fashioned four day run chase. He hit his first boundary from the 60th ball he faced and put on the first 50 partnership of the entire match with Stobo to tilt the equation back in Kent’s favour.

Stobo smashed Gubbins for a six to take Kent to within three of victory but there was nearly late drama when Finch charged at Organ and Brown missed a simple chance for a stumping, allowing Finch pulled the next delivery for four to complete the win with 9.3 overs remaining.

Glamorgan v Notts Outlaws, Group B, The Gnoll, Neath

Career best performances from Andy Gorvin and Eddie Byrom helped Glamorgan maintain their 100% record in this year’s Metro Bank One Day Cup as they beat Notts Outlaws by eight wickets at the Gnoll in Neath. 

Glamorgan’s seamers did a fantastic job at keeping the Outlaws’ batting line up under control with Gorvin’s five for 56 the star performance with Jamie McIlroy and Dan Douthwaite picking up two wickets each

The Outlaws finished on 274 for nine and Glamorgan chased that down with relative ease with Byrom finishing on 123 and Colin Ingram making 103.  

This victory means Glamorgan sit at the top of Group B ahead of Warwickshire on net run rate. 

Notts Outlaws made a slow start in the face of some excellent new ball bowling from Timm van der Gugten and Jamie McIlroy as they scored 23 runs for the loss of two wickets inside the PowerPlay. Six of the first 10 overs were maidens and van der Gugten was perhaps a little unlucky to finish wicketless after regularly beating the bat. 

McIlroy picked up both wickets inside the fielding restrictions with Ben Slater going for 1 and Jack Haynes falling for his fourth consecutive duck in this competition. From there a stand of 86 from Freddie McCann and Haseeb Hameed brought the Outlaws back into the match. 

McCann fell for a career best 48 when he inside edged the ball onto his foot and he was caught by Will Smale off the bowling of Gorvin. 

Wickets fell regularly throughout the Outlaws’ innings, and it was Hameed who held things together. He did well to survive the early movement from the Glamorgan seamers and he was in a position to counter attack against the leg spin of Colin Ingram which went for 22 runs in his two overs. Hameed was dismissed for 89 when he looked to accelerate towards the back end go the innings. 

The Outlaws went past 200 thanks to contributions from Tom Moores and Liam Patterson-White who both made scores in the thirties. The tail added some important runs to take Notts to a total that they could hope to defend. 

It was a completely different start to the Glamorgan innings as Byrom and Will Smale put on 103 for the first wicket to break the back of this chase. 

Smale had made 37 when he was by Lyndon James in the covers and Kiran Carlson fell in the next over when he nicked James through to wicket-keeper Moores to leave Glamorgan 108 for two and to give Notts Outlaws some hope. 

From there it was all about Byrom and Ingram who look Glamorgan to victory thanks to a brilliant stand of 170 that made the Outlaws’ total look a long way short of par on this Neath pitch. . 

Both batters were brutal on anything short and the small boundaries at the Gnoll presented no real challenge for the two set batters as the pair hit 27 fours and six sixes between them. Ingram went to his 10th List A hundred when he struck the winning runs.  

Yorkshire Vikings v Sussex Sharks, Group B, Yorkshire Cricket Ground

Yorkshire Vikings won a highly competitive and enthralling Metro Bank One-Day Cup clash with Sussex Sharks at York - by 49 runs - with a number of valuable contributions led by captain Shan Masood and spin-bowling all-rounder Dom Bess.

Both sides contributed significantly to this sun-kissed Group B fixture played out in front of a 3,417 crowd at the Minster City’s Clifton Park.

Masood underpinned Yorkshire’s 261 all out with a measured 63 off 79 balls, while seamer Henry Crocombe impressed for the Sharks with four for 47 from 9.4 overs.

The Vikings then sealed their second win in three matches as Bess, who earlier hit 37 with the bat, struck twice with his off-spinners in Sussex’s 212 all out in 44 overs.

Their stand-in captain Tom Clark top-scored with 55 off 66 balls, but he couldn’t prevent a third straight defeat.  

The Vikings looked well set at various points on a pitch offering something for everyone having been inserted, only to lose wickets when acceleration looked likely.

New ball seamer Ari Karvelas struck after only six balls when he bowled Will Luxton, who played around one angled into the him - two for one.

Masood and Fin Bean shared a steadying 51 for the second wicket, while the captain later added 60 for the third with James Wharton, who contributed 38.  

But the cases of Bean and Masood best summed up Yorkshire’s progress. 

Bean was dropped on nought at deep backward point in the second over, but he couldn’t take full advantage - caught behind off Karvelas for 37, leaving the score at 53 for two in the ninth over. 

Masood, having reached a 68-ball fifty, was later run out coming back for two to deep backward square-leg - 170 for five in the 36th. 

Harry Duke and Bess both batted positively for 38 and 37, taking their side up to 250 with a seventh-wicket 61.

While Karvelas struck twice, fellow seamer Danial Ibrahim was excellent for one for 29 from his 10 overs. But Crocombe was the pick.  

He had Matthew Revis caught at deep midwicket in the 40th over before adding his other three in the 48th and 50th, bowling Duke and getting Dan Moriarty and Ben Coad caught. Bess was also run out as one of three final-over wickets.

Yorkshire started their defence with two wickets in the opening seven overs - 23 for two.

Tom Haines was run out at the striker’s end by a direct hit from backward point having initially turned for a single before aborting mission, and talismanic seamer Coad bowled Henry Rogers for a duck.

But Sussex hit back, and with gusto as Clark and wicketkeeper-batter Charlie Tear added a dynamic 95 stand inside 17 overs for the third wicket.

Both were strong through the off-side, and Clark reached his fifty off 58 balls with a six over deep square-leg off Bess on his competitive captaincy debut in place of rested John Simpson.

However, Bess would gain revenge not too long afterwards.

In successive overs from the Ctity End, he had a sweeping Tear caught at deep backward square-leg for 43 and then Clark caught at cover as Sussex slipped to 123 for four in the 25th over.

From here, Yorkshire put the squeeze on an inexperienced Sussex middle and lower order.

Coad had Zach Lion-Cachet caught behind and left-arm spinner Dan Moriarty trapped Ibrahim lbw in successive overs - 161 for six after 33.

Oli Carter played nicely for 43, but he couldn’t provide the dynamism the Sharks required. And when he tried, he holed out to deep square-leg off Moriarty, leaving the score at 198 for seven in the 42nd.

Revis, Hill and another run out followed as Yorkshire triumphed.

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