The Cricketer wraps up the best of the action from the latest round of matches in the 2024 Metro Bank One-Day Cup
Cardiff: Glamorgan 187-8, Gloucestershire 160 - Glamorgan won by 27 runs
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 188 for victory with 20-year-old Ben Kellaway hitting a rescuing 65 not out preventing the hosts from collapsing at 27 for 3.
Dan Douthwaite shined with the ball with 4 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 5 to 160 all out.
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Ryan Patel joint top-scored for Surrey in the chase (Ben Hoskins/Getty Images for Surrey CCC)
Kia Oval: Yorkshire 240-6, Surrey 222-9 - Yorkshire won by 25 runs (D/L/S)
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 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 3 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 9 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.
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