The Cricketer wraps up the best of the action from the latest round of matches in the 2024 Metro Bank One-Day Cup
Southampton: Hampshire 285-8, Northamptonshire 214 - Hampshire win by 71 runs
Ben Brown celebrated his century of List A appearances with an exception hundred as Hampshire got their Metro Bank One Day Cup campaign off to a winning start against Northamptonshire Steelbacks.
Wicketkeeper Brown had only scored one previous white-ball century – for Sussex in 2021 – in his first 99 games but picked up a career-best 139 not out.
Hampshire had been left on 25 for 3 after Jack White's opening spell but Brown, with help from Felix Organ's 59, got the hosts to 285.
Eddie Jack and Tom Prest both picked up their professional best figures of 4 for 29 and 3 for 41 as the Steelbacks only reached 214 to lose by 71 runs.
Taunton: Kent 267, Somerset 270-7 - Somerset win by three wickets
Andy Umeed continued his love affair with the Metro Bank One-Day Cup as Somerset launched their Group A campaign with a three-wicket victory over Kent Spitfires at the Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton.
The opener, who averaged 87.57 in last season's competition, hit an unbeaten 114 off 121 balls to help his side chase down a target of 268 with 3.3 overs to spare. James Rew contributed 71 off 69 balls.
The Spitfires had posted 267 all out off 49 overs after winning the toss, Joey Evison and Grant Stewart making half centuries, while Hamidullah Qadri contributed a rapid 43.
Left-armer spinner Lewis Goldsworthy, back from a loan spell with Leicestershire, claimed career-best List A figures of 4 for 44 and seamer Alfie Ogborne 3 for 58.
James Rew was in the runs for Somerset (Harry Trump/Getty Images)
Welbeck: Sussex 216, Nottinghamshire 217-2 - Nottinghamshire win by eight wickets
Ben Slater and Haseeb Hameed made unbeaten centuries as Nottinghamshire Outlaws bounced back from defeat at Leicester in their opening match with an eight-wicket victory over Sussex Sharks in their Metro Bank One-Day Cup match at the picturesque home of Welbeck Cricket Club in the north of the county.
Opener Slater, who averages more than 53 in the List A format, again demonstrated his penchant for 50-over cricket by scoring 107 with Outlaws skipper Hameed making 101 not out as they shared a county List A third-wicket record partnership of 209 to inflict a heavy opening-match defeat on their Group B opponents, who managed only one win in the competition last season.
Sussex were bowled out in the 48th over for 216 despite Fynn Hudson-Prentice's 90 from 109 balls.
The allrounder hit nine fours and a six but found himself ploughing almost a lone furrow in an under-par performance by his side, who have up to now enjoyed a successful season, booking a home quarter-final in the Vitality Blast and building a healthy lead in Division Two of the Vitality County Championship.
Leicester: Leicestershire 88, Warwickshire 92-2 - Warwickshire win by eight wickets
Warwickshire made it two wins out of two in the Metrobank One Day Cup with an emphatic eight wicket victory over Leicestershire at the Uptonsteel County Ground, Grace Road.
Bears' skipper Ed Barnard, who made a big century and took two wickets in his side's first game against Essex at Chelmsford, continued his outstanding form in the competition by taking four quick wickets, including that of India Test star Ajinkya Rahane, after putting the Foxes in to bat, reducing the home side to 40 for 4.
Craig Miles picked up three wickets, and Oliver Hannon-Dalby, Will Rhodes and Jake Lintott one apiece as Leicestershire subsided to 88 all out in just 25.4 overs.
Although former Warwickshire player Chris Wright then took two quick wickets when the visitors began their reply, Rhodes and teenager Hamza Shaikh put together an unbeaten partnership of 85 to steer their side home with 32.4 overs in hand.
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