Last-ball woe for Originals men as Rockets clinch see-saw thriller

Manchester Originals’ Wayne Madsen is bowled by Rashid Khan
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This is what the Hundred was supposed to be about – evenly matched sides playing a closely-fought game to a thrilling conclusion. 

A lively crowd at Emirates Old Trafford certainly lapped it up, right until the final ball.

Manchester Originals needed two to win, one to tie with Trent Rockets, but Max Holden’s weak pull off Jordan Thompson only found the hands of Sam Hain at backward square leg.

It was an outcome that had seemed unthinkable until the final stages. 

Paul Walter’s long levers had whacked three of his 15 balls for six. Even when he became Rashid Khan’s 600th T20 victim, the equation of 28 from 22 balls – with six wickets in hand – was still in the hosts’ favour.

Imad Wasim then bamboozled both Jamie Overton and Tom Hartley in the space of three balls to induce a few jitters. 

Still, when Sikandar Raza found an orthodox pull for six followed by an outrageous improvised flick for four off Sam Cook, six from the last five seemed gettable – even more so when Raza and Holden scampered a pair of twos off the first two balls.

With two needed from three, they could have got them in singles. But some truths are older than cricket, let alone the Hundred, and pressure makes strange things happen.

A swing and a miss was followed by a desperate attempt at a single to mid-wicket; Raza was well short, and Holden had to try to win it on his own.

For Originals debutant Matty Hurst, it was a frustrating experience. 

“It’s been bittersweet, it’s not sunk in yet,” he said. “It was great to get out there but the result is the main thing.

“They had no right to win that game, we almost had it in the bag – but it didn’t come through in the end.”

Leigh’s Hurst was one of two victims of Cook’s first over, along with captain Phil Salt. But chasing a below-par 145, Holden played the anchor role as first Wayne Madsen and then Walter played spanker.

Madsen reverse-swept Rashid for two fours, then was rewarded with a death-glare send-off on becoming the Afghan’s victim number 599. 

The presence of a genuine great of the modern game, in a tournament which has lacked a bit of stardust, was welcome, and Rashid gleefully played pantomime villain for the crowd.

Hurst is looking forward to future chances to establish himself in the side, and believes they have the quality to go deep in the competition.

He added: “The aim is to come back on Wednesday at Southampton and beat Southern Brave. 

“We’ve got the team to go all the way, but in these close games you’ve got to get over the line.”

There was plenty of encouragement for the Originals in the first half, even in the continued absence of Jos Buttler. 

Tom Banton made a fluent 45 off 22 balls, but nobody else got going thanks to the Originals’ attack – in particular Hartley, who took 3/25.

After Jamie Overton and Walter made a mess of a steepler from Rovman Powell, the Ormskirk man had Hain caught off an ill-judged reverse sweep the very next ball.

Both fielders redeemed themselves as Hartley made it three wickets in six balls across two spells – Walter with a decisive call under another high one to remove Powell, Overton with a fine forward dive to hold Imad Wasim.

Rashid ruined his figures with a six off his last ball – the only boundary he conceded. But this was still Hartley at his best, in full control of his pace and length, and outthinking some of the smartest cookies on the circuit.

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Originals’ women edge last-ball thriller as Ecclestone hails team spirit

Manchester Originals players celebrate after their win
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Manchester Originals’ women held their nerve to overcome Trent Rockets by one run in a dramatic Hundred clash.

Ash Gardner, having shared a stand of 78 with the peerless Nat Sciver-Brunt, found the boundary off the first two balls of Kathryn Bryce’s last set, reducing the deficit to four.

But the third found the safe hands of fellow Aussie Beth Mooney in the deep, and Heather Graham took a single off the fourth, leaving Sciver-Brunt needing a boundary off the last.

She managed the power but not the placement, and Fi Morris was able to keep them to two.

It was less than Sciver-Brunt deserved for her 56, comfortably the highest score of the day, but a hard-earned win for the Originals after a vast improvement from last Thursday’s defeat to Welsh Fire.

With Sciver-Brunt’s innings coming after Sophia Dunkley’s 69 made the difference in the opener, captain Sophie Ecclestone admitted she preferred cheering on her England teammates to bowling at them.

But she was delighted with the way her side held their nerve under pressure.

She said: “We’re quite a close-knit group already, and I feel like we fight to the end. 

“The game’s never over, and it changes so fast. To take it to the last ball was not ideal, but we were buzzing to get over the line.”

The pitch at Emirates Old Trafford was the same as that for last Thursday’s game, but Originals’ use of it after Sciver-Brunt won the toss was night and day. 

Nobody made more than Eve Jones’ 34, but everyone except Emma Lamb scored at more than a run a ball.

Mooney barbecued her opening partner, Laura Wolvaardt, then made up for it by whacking Gardner over long-on, the first of six sixes in the innings. 

Bryce combined with Jones for a stand of 52 in 47 balls, before Ecclestone launched the first and fourth balls she faced over cow corner.

From the beginning of the power play, the hosts only let the Rockets bowlers rack up successive dot balls on one occasion. 

By contrast, the Originals strung together seven such sequences. 

Ecclestone came off worst in her personal battle with Sciver-Brunt, yielding three boundaries, but kept Gardner quiet during the middle overs, having had Grace Scrivens stumped by Ellie Threlkeld.

Alice Monaghan hared around the boundary to great effect, and pulled off a superb diving catch at deep third to remove Nat Wraith off the bowling of Lauren Filer, who was given the player of the match award for her 2/26.

Ecclestone added: “We were buzzing to get on the board, it was a strong performance from the girls. 

“Eve Jones batted unbelievably, it was great to see her come out and play to her strengths. And I was proud of Brycey at the end.”

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Originals blown away by Fire as southpaw seamers wreak havoc

Tom Hartley trudges off after his dismissal, as Originals crumbled for just 86
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Welsh Fire needed just 57 balls to overhaul Manchester Originals’ 86 as their men’s Hundred campaign got off to a dreadful start at Emirates Old Trafford.

An evening that started with the confirmation that Jos Buttler would not be playing due to a calf strain somehow got even worse, straight away.

Stand-in skipper Phil Salt slapped the game’s second ball straight to cover, and the total was barely in single figures when David Willey struck twice more in two balls, having Max Holden held on the boundary then pinning Paul Walter. 

Josh Little trimmed Sikander Raza’s bails, then had Wayne Masden caught behind on review – Tom Hartley found himself facing the 44th ball, with just 26 on the board.

“I usually like to come in a bit later,” said Hartley afterwards. 

“I like to be a bit more single-minded with the bat, but unfortunately that’s the way it went.” 

It got worse again. Hartley chipped Jake Ball to cover and Usama Mir overbalanced to Mason Crane, leaving the hosts 37/7 after 54 balls.

A stand of 36 between Jamie Overton and Scott Currie made the card a bit more respectable, but Overton holed out off David Payne just after striking the innings’ only six. 

In Willey, Little and Payne, most of the damage was done by left-armers – when added to the Originals’ Josh Hull, Walter and Fazalhaq Farooqi, 60% of tonight’s balls were delivered by southpaw seamers.

Hartley doesn’t think it’s a trend as such, but he has noticed tough conditions for the batters early on.

He said: “These balls are a bit more lively up top, whoever is bowling. It’s been pretty tricky for the openers.”

Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Johnny Bairstow and Joe Clarke didn’t seem to have too many problems, thanks to whatever is the opposite of scoreboard pressure.

Clarke played the shot of the match, a lofted on-drive for six off Hull, before a misfield allowed skipper Tom Abell to scamper the winning run.

Hartley added: “It was a very tough night. 

“They bowled really well, caught us a bit off-guard, and it’s always tough to defend a small total like that. 

“You’ve just got to take your opportunities and we couldn’t, myself and a few others – but I’m sure we’ll be better for the experience.”

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Originals get Dunked as England star keeps her head in run chase

Ellie Threlkeld can only watch as Sophia Dunkley makes her match-winning knock
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Manchester Originals’ women were left to rue the fine margins as their Hundred campaign got off to a losing start against Welsh Fire at Emirates Old Trafford.

Sophia Dunkley’s unbeaten 69 was the winning hand in a low-scoring game, with the England star putting her foot down after a middle-overs wobble in pursuit of 114.

The first half of the game had followed a similar pattern – a bright start for overseas stars Laura Wolvaardt and Beth Mooney, followed by the bowlers getting on top.

Jess Jonassen’s left-arm spin claimed 3/17 before Ecclestone’s late flurry, including successive sixes off Hayley Matthews, pushed the total into three figures.

Originals keeper Ellie Threlkeld, who began her career at Rainford, says the mood was fairly confident in the interval, adding: “It’s quite a big ground and a slow outfield.

“They got off to a good start but we knew we were just a couple of wickets away. 

“We pulled it back pretty well, but credit to the way Sophia played and held their innings together.”

After 75 balls, Fire still needed 41 to win, following a mini-collapse of 8/3 in 20 balls.

But Dunkley kept her head, launching Kim Garth’s last ball over the straight boundary then sweeping Kathryn Bryce for four to bring up her 50. 

Another six off Bryce, then two fours off Ecclestone, brought Fire to the brink before Jonassen carved Lauren Filer for four to seal the win with four balls to spare.

Ecclestone, once of Chester Boughton Hall, also paid tribute to Dunkley’s innings – but took some positives from her side’s performance.

She said: “It’s really nice having Laura and Beth at the top of the order – it’s quite nice for me not having to bowl at Beth as well. 

“We all know what we need to do – we can definitely rotate the strike a bit more in the middle and another 15 runs in this game would have been crucial.

“I feel like we got stuck in the middle part, and needed a few more runs on the board.”

Trent Rockets are the next visitors for the Originals, on Monday, and Threlkeld has seen enough from the side to suggest they have what it takes to win games.

She added: “There’s a fine line in this game between trying to build pressure and defending the boundary, so it’s something we can learn. 

“It’s our first run out in the field as a team, and the first game in the competition, and we’ve played some pretty good cricket. 

“So now it’s about bouncing back and going again. 

“Our bowling attack did well defending a low score, so that’s encouraging. 

“It was nice to keep to some nasty fasties, with Filer and Garth – I think we’ve got one of the best bowling attacks in the competition.”

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James Anderson’s final Test warm-up and the all-important sourcing of provisions for that game (a match report)

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Send your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.)

Ged Ladd writes…

I was at Lord’s when Jimmy Anderson played his first match there, in 2003, for Lancashire against Middlesex; about 10 days before his first Test. Now I was to be at Lord’s for Jimmy Anderson’s last match too.

This is a King Cricket report, so I cannot talk about the cricket itself. But Jimmy warming up before the match is not really “the cricket,” so I have submitted a picture of that.

I thought I had all the ingredients I needed to make a great picnic for Daisy on day two, but the more I mused during a guestless day one, the more I felt short of some essential ingredients for day two. Worse yet, I realised that my flat was wicked short of provisions generally – not least wine.

A cunning plan formed in my mind. England were to play a major football match the evening of day one. While most of the male population would be “having a semi” I’d nip into the local supermarket and clean up in there.

It was a great plan. The only shoppers were me and a handful of young women, presumably also avoiding the footie. Several were eyeing me with evident curiosity. No sign even of Noel Gallagher, who is one of my nodding acquaintances in that branch of Waitrose. (Other posh supermarket chains are available). Might the gawpy-eyed young women have mistaken me for Noel?

The resulting day two picnic comprised hot-smoked salmon with lime mayonnaise in poppy-seed bagels, ham and gherkin sandwiches, plus some biscuits and grapes. Modest, but to Daisy’s taste – Daisy looks suitably pleased in this picture.

On day three I went to Lord’s on my own again.

This is a King Cricket report, so I cannot talk about the cricket itself. But Jimmy milling about after the match is not really “the cricket,” so I have submitted a picture of that.

This last picture might also initiate a new King Cricket category: Cricketers displaying conspicuous indifference to interviewers.

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Shaneil Patel happy with Firwood Bootle’s progress as they target top flight return

Top of the table, unbeaten in the league and showing no signs of slowing down – no wonder Firwood Bootle skipper Shaneil Patel is enjoying life at the moment.

Last Saturday’s quickfire win over Spring View was their eighth from nine playable games in Division One so far.

There’s a chasing pack of five sides within 50 points, but Bootle are out in front by 17 going into this weekend’s fixtures.

Patel said: “We just need to keep plugging away. 

“It’s a weird league because there’s four or five contenders so that normal marker of 12 or 13 wins might be in question.

“It’s just a case of sticking to what we’re doing and getting results.”

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Patel’s new-look side is gelling nicely, with Steve Rimmer and Alastair Andrady adding top-order stability.

They have set a platform for the more explosive talents of South African Hermann Rolfes, currently averaging a shade under 90, and Sagar Trivedi.

The Indian has been a revelation, scoring runs at 8.5 an over and taking a wicket less than every 19 balls.

It was his 60, from just 28 balls, which gave Patel time to declare and force a win over Spring View on Saturday, despite the weather. He followed it up with 4/23.

Patel added: “Sagar has been brilliant with bat and ball, he adds a different dimension. 

“We have five seamers so it’s been a bit of a battle for the new ball – Sagar has been really successful with it.”

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Left-arm spinner Patel has only bowled 19.5 overs in the league so far this season – reflective of both the conditions, and the quality of Bootle’s seam attack.

With Trivedi, Rolfes, Jhangir Liaqat, Kieron New and Jaden Rose to call on, he’s not been needed.

“I’ve not played in a side with a bowling attack as strong as this in a long time,” he said.

“There’s a lot we can do with our squad – we haven’t bowled many spin overs this year, which is crazy when you think about the league we’re in, and I think there’s a lot more to our squad than meets the eye. 

“I’m really happy with the depth we’ve got.”

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Patel is, of course, taking things one game at a time, starting with tomorrow’s trip to struggling St Helens Town.

And he’s philosophical about what comes next, and confident the rebuilding project is working.

He added: “A lot of the time when you add new players to the squad, it can take them time to settle in. 

“We’ve added a lot of players to the squad but I think now we’ve got to the point where additions aren’t necessary, and we can keep the unit together and play as a team.

“As long as we keep winning games, we’re going to be up there, so we just concentrate on ourselves.

“If we’re looking at other results every week, I think that’s a dangerous game to get into – you can get a bit engrossed in it. 

“We’ll just play the best cricket we can and see where we are at the end of the season; obviously, if we go up then that’s great and if we don’t then we need to improve. 

“We don’t want to be one of those sides who go up and then struggle in the Prem, so we know if we don’t go up, it’s because we wouldn’t have been able to compete in the Prem.”

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Did you see… Ben Duckett digging in?

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Ollie Pope made a jaunty hundred, so you’re supposed to talk about that. It’s just that Ollie Pope doesn’t open the batting the way Ben Duckett opens the batting.

Ben Duckett at times talks such A-grade bollocks that it can be easy to forget that opening the batting like an insane person is absolutely 100% working out for him.

Today England lost Zak Crawley in the very first over of the match. As Crawley’s opening partner, what Duckett is supposed to do when that happens is dig in, be watchful, weigh up conditions and see off the new ball.

Digging in for Ben Duckett means hitting the second, third, fourth and fifth balls you face for four.

When an opening batter gets to 16 off five balls, the obvious question is, “Why didn’t you leather the other one to the fence as well?”

The answer is that it was out of reach. Ben Duckett is quite possibly the most ball-hitful opener in the history of Test cricket (the stats say he leaves only around 1% of deliveries), so the ball being literally out of his reach is pretty much the only scenario where he won’t hit it.

Further reading: In Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley England finally have an opening partnership that doesn’t play each ball on its merits

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Spraying, inactivity, bouncebackability + more – 5 things to watch out for when England play the West Indies this week

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There was a maudlin quality to the closing stages of the first Test between England and the West Indies, but the sun is out, another Test is about to begin and there is much to look forward to.

1. England absolutely pissing away the new ball

This is quite unlikely to happen – Chris Woakes isn’t known for spraying it about – but at some point soon, England will once again absolutely piss away the new ball. This is very exciting.

England absolutely pissing away the new ball was such a formative cricket experience for us, it feels bizarre that we have gone so long without it. Sure, there have been sub-par opening spells and James Anderson frequently started off a little wide before inching towards the stumps, but it has many a year since we have heard Special Correspondent Dad shout “Make them play!” as both opening bowlers absolutely pissed away the new ball.

If you are young enough that you never saw Anderson top 90mph and at times wang it way down leg, brace yourself for some very strong emotions when England’s bowling attack eventually reverts to what it used to do best.

2. A warmer Windies

It’s so sad to see the West Indies struggling to compete with mighty England. They’re so unutterably terrible at Test cricket these days, they may not even manage to retain the Botham-Richards Trophy that they currently hold.

A decent warm-up or actually playing any kind of volume of first-class cricket since January might have helped them, of course. But the first Test will have warmed them a degree or two and the Nottingham weather also promises to be be a step up from the cold air and dank skies of Lord’s last week.

Plus…

3. Shamar Joseph (or not)

To uncover evidence of the West Indies’ bouncebackability, we have to go all the way back to the historic year of 2024, when Shamar Joseph delivered an almost-perfect cricket moment when securing the team’s first Test victory in Australia since 1997.

On that occasion, they’d lost the first Test by 10 wickets – but they’d been written off long before then, having picked seven uncapped players in their squad.

One of those was Joseph, who promptly dismissed Steve Smith with his first ball in Test cricket. Joseph is only ‘probably fine’ at the time of writing, having experienced a few hamstring issues in the first Test.

4. Shoaib Bashir possibly doing something

With no overs, no runs and no catches in the first Test, Shoaib Bashir is, as they say, “due”.

Alternatively, is it possible he could he play an entire Test summer without contributing anything other fielding – a sort of 11th man role, if you will?

5. Mark Wood

With no shortage of pace, England’s exciting young quick (Wood will still only be in his mid-30s for the next Ashes) is always worth watching.

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Jimmy Week: a recap

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How do you cope with loss? You take it one step at a time, of course. What does that mean in practical terms? Why not pretend that James Anderson’s got a bit of a niggle this week? And then for the next Test, just do the same again. Jimmy’s not gone. He’s just got a bit of a hip flexor thing at the minute.

In no way undermining that strategy, here are links to all the various James Anderson pieces that went up on this site last week (and in the past), in case you missed any.

Longevity

First up, four pieces that either directly or indirectly acknowledge the sheer length of his Test lifespan. You hang around this long and you accumulate all sorts of quirky stats and associations.

• How many ‘big’ England Test careers can you cram into the span of James Anderson’s?
• The James Anderson Rubbish Team-Mates XI
• James Anderson: A graphical tribute to an almost spotless career of tailendery
• What James Anderson bowling in a bobble hat tells us about ourselves

Attitude and ability

That last one – the bobble hat one – could just as easily go in here. These next two pieces focus more on the qualities that defined and sustained him throughout that time.

• All we ask of James Anderson in his final Test match is that he loses his temper at some point
• James Anderson: Lord Megachief of Gold 2017

Moving on

These last two are more of a personal perspective on a player we followed very closely from before his first-class debut. The first one explains how much we invested in him as a cricketer. The second one explains why we’re nevertheless looking forward to the next Test and the next series and the next tour.

• The Realm’s England XI – 10. James Anderson
• James Anderson’s retirement: Why England will become more watchable without their most watchable bowler

Next

Anderson surely played Test cricket on more Wednesdays than any other player in history. The second Test starts, correctly, on Thursday.

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Gus Atkinson: first look in Test cricket

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We don’t believe you can draw meaningful conclusions from players’ debuts – but we report on them anyway.

Much to admire, but can Gus Atkinson play the reverse sweep? And how grumpy will he be when England’s fielders revert to shelling one chance in three, rather than velcroing-in everything remotely within reach? These are surely the more important questions.

Bowling

In terms of plain old bowling, Gus Atkinson did okay.

A wicket with your second ball can, technically, be improved upon. But not by much.

Similarly, 7-45 could have been 7-35 or 8-45 or whatever. He also had a chance to take a hat trick, but didn’t.

We’d be firmly in the realms of nit-picking if we were to take issue with these elements however – and those aren’t realms we wish to visit. The nit-picking realms are heavily populated with the kinds of sports fans you do not want to engage in conversation.

Never go there.

Celebrating

If there is an area where there would seem to be room for improvement, it is high-fiving.

Monty Panesar remains the high-fiving benchmark for England. Sure, they didn’t all come off, but Panesar delivered a surprisingly large percentage of clean, accurate, percussive hits – particularly when you consider that he invariably attempted to execute them while airborne.

There was no such ambition on display from Gus Atkinson and it was easy to see why.

Just look at this travesty of a wicket celebration.

And that’s executed from a grounded position.

Atkinson’s left hand has made reasonable contact with Stokes’ right. You’re not getting a satisfying palm-to-palm slapping sound with that sort of interaction, but it is at least hand-on-hand.

But his right? Man alive! He hasn’t even hit wrist there. That’s pure forearm, slipping towards elbow upon contact.

You see a horror show like that and you think, “I hope this bowler never takes another Test wicket.”

Alas, Gus Atkinson took six more after this happened – a return that should bring opportunities to attempt a great many more celebrations, what with all the vacancies opening up in the England team at the minute.

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