Ben Gardner
Ben Gardner: Half full or half empty for the Vitality Blast?
Ben Gardner on why less could be more for Blast The contrast was depressing and impossible to ignore, and quickly pointed out across social media. As...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 1 week agoT20 Blast analysis: Northants maintain 100% start; England’s Zak Crawley on form
The Vitality Blast is in full swing as the North and South group begin to take shape. Week two of the...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 1 week agoVitality Blast Roundup: Hasan Ali takes hat-trick and James Anderson also among wickets
Hasan Ali claimed a hat-trick – and six wickets in just 3.1 overs – as Birmingham Bears wrapped up a 58-run...
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Features and Columns
/ 2 weeks agoVitality Blast analysis: Holders off to slow start; Lancashire sparked by change of format
The Vitality Blast returned last week as all 18 counties began their quest to reach Finals Day at Edgbaston on September...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 2 weeks agoHaving a Blast: Runs galore to start the 2025 Vitality Blast
Runs galore as new edition hits the spot Easy peasy: Moises Henriques helped the Outlaws chase down 226 on Friday before...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 2 weeks agoThe Vitality Blast is back: A look at how the counties are shaping up
Our look at how the counties are shaping up as the Twenty20 Blast takes centre stage NORTH GROUP BEARS Captain: Alex...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 2 weeks agoJames Vince is home from home as Hampshire Hawks chase Vitality Blast title
This T20 Blast season will be different in every sense for Hampshire captain James Vince. But whatever happens, he insists one...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 3 weeks agoT20 Blast: Keaton Jennings helps Lancashire to first victory of season
Lancashire finally registered their first win of a torrid season, kicking off this year’s Vitality Blast with a seven-run victory over...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 3 weeks agoSpin bowling all-rounder Bjorn Fortuin joins Hampshire Hawks for three matches
South African spin-bowling all-rounder Bjorn Fortuin has signed for Hampshire Hawks for three matches. The 30-year-old will be available from 5-8...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 3 weeks agoVitality Blast 2025 preview: Surrey and Somerset well-fancied to go all the way
The highly anticipated return of the T20 Blast gets underway on Thursday as Lancashire Lightning take on Worcestershire Rapids in the...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 3 weeks agoVitality Blast 2025: County-by-County preview of the South Group
Essex Previewed by Martin Smith – ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay Captain: Simon Harmer Overseas players: Simon Harmer (South Africa, full competition),...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 3 weeks agoVitality Blast 2025: County-by-County preview of the North Group
Birmingham Bears Captain: Alex Davies Overseas players: Tom Latham (New Zealand, full competition), Hasan Ali (Pakistan, availability tbc) Finals Day appearances: Four (2003, 2014,...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 3 weeks agoVitality Blast 2025: Five young overseas players to watch
The Vitality Blast returns this week as all 18 sides embark on a campaign which they hope will end with an...
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County Championships
/ 2 months agoJonny Bairstow full of fight ahead of huge season
AS JONNY Bairstow, Yorkshire’s new red-ball captain, leads the county for the first time-against Hampshire at Southampton, this next phase in...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 3 months agoProteas Star Dewald Brevis joins Hampshire Hawks for Vitality Blast
Young South African batting star Dewald Brevis has joined Hampshire Hawks for the entire duration of the 2025 men’s Vitality Blast....
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Club Cricket
/ 9 months agoMark Butcher: Gloucestershire show T20 Blast retains magic
Gloucestershire went into Finals Day as the rank outsiders but delivered a stunning performance to win their first T20 trophy.
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Club Cricket
/ 9 months agoDarren Stevens: Gloucestershire deserving T20 Blast champions
After Gloucestershire’s heroics a week ago, I can’t hide my pleasure at seeing a smaller county triumph on domestic cricket’s biggest...
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Club Cricket
/ 9 months agoGloucestershire crowned 2024 T20 Blast champions
Matt Taylor swung this year’s T20 Blast final decisively in Gloucestershire’s favour, kicking the door open with a three-wicket burst.
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Club Cricket
/ 9 months agoGloucestershire defeat Somerset at Edgbaston to win T20 Blast
Gloucestershire ripped up the scripts and form-books to write their own joyous story on a day of high drama and deep...
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Club Cricket
/ 9 months agoGloucestershire trounce Sussex in T20 Blast semi
Underdogs Gloucestershire flattened much-fancied Sussex for just 106 on the way to an eight-wicket victory in the second semi at Edgbaston.
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Club Cricket
/ 9 months agoSomerset edge past Surrey in T20 Blast semi
Surrey's hopes of a domestic double were dashed in the first T20 Blast semi-final against a rampant Somerset side.
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Club Cricket
/ 9 months agoRichard Clarke: T20 Blast finals day is magical, unique
It is 10am on September 4, 1993 and I am shouting at cricket fans as they shuffle into Lord’s. To a...
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Latest News
/ 10 months agoReady for Blast off: Eight T20 teams in fight to make Finals Day
A look ahead to this week’s T20 quarter-final clashes as eight teams bid to make Finals Day
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County News/The Hundred
/ 1 year agoSurrey dismantle Sussex to go top of South group
By Bruce Talbot June 15, County Ground, Hove Surrey 184-8 (Smith 45, Evans 41, Lamb 3-36, Robinson 2-25, Mills 2-21) Sussex...
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T20
/ 2 years agoCidermen finally bask in T20 glory
By Sam Dalling Tom Banton said it first. Sat in a makeshift Edgbaston dressing room, a dropped pin would have raised...
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