The Royal London One Day Cup 2024 season featured a five-match extravaganza on Friday, August 9, with matches spread across five different English venues. Kent, Durham and Somerset registered emphatic wins over Derbyshire, Hampshire and Worcestershire respectively in the Group A segment of the day.
Additionally, Gloucestershire and Surrey prevailed over Nottinghamshire and Essex respectively to earn crucial points on the Group B table.
After defeating Worcestershire by five wickets, Somerset retained their top spot on the Group A ladder, having accumulated 10 points so far from just seven games. Equated by points and differentiated by NRR, they are followed by Worcestershire, Hampshire and Derbyshire with eight points each.
Durham and Middlesex are ranked fifth and sixth on the table, with the former holding an NRR superiority. Kent, with six points, takes seventh position and are tailed by Northamptonshire at eighth. Winless Lancashire continues to languish at the bottom of the points table with six successive losses.
Here's the updated Group A standings:
Regardless of the events of August 9, Group B remains dominated by unbeaten Glamorgan and Warwickshire. With eight points each, Gloucestershire and Leicestershire take the next two slots on the table. They are followed by Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire at fifth and sixth.
Surrey, with four points and Essex, with two points are ranked seventh and eighth respectively. Sussex, yet to secure a single win this season, remains at the bottom of the table after six games.
Here's the updated Group B standings:
Durham, Surrey reap big rewards on action-packed day
In the first Group A match of the day, Kent chased down Derbyshire’s 206-run total with three wickets and 28 balls intact. Captain Jack Leaning top-scored in the chase with 81* after Matt Parkinson bagged figures of 3/23. In Gosforth, Durham walloped Hampshire by 144 runs despite posing just 257 upfront.
Colin Ackermann unfurled the innings of the match through his 96-run knock, while Paul Coughlin (3/41) and Neil Wagner (2/18) hogged the limelight with the ball.
Meanwhile, Somerset devoured Worcestershire’s 263-run total with relative ease at the expense of just five wickets in Taunton. Ben Green’s three-wicket haul signalled Somerset’s dominance before half-centurions Lewis Goldsworthy and James Rew aced the chase for the hosts.
In Group B, Nottinghamshire and Gloucestershire put up a high-scoring thriller at Nottingham. After captain Haseeb Hameed’s 105 powered Nottinghamshire’s 332-run total upfront, Miles Hammond pounded a career-best 157. Meanwhile, Cameron Bancroft and Oliver Price smacked rapid half-centuries to take Gloucestershire home in 46.4 overs.
In Chelmsford, Surrey (306/4) held off Essex with an 89-run margin, courtesy of Josh Blake’s sensational unbeaten ton and Cameron Steel's four-wicket haul.
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