Other. Get the latest County Cricket news, including live scores, fixures, results, tables, transfers, competitions, tours and more, on Sky Sports. The first round of the Bob Willis Trophy began this weekend as first-class cricket made it’s long-awaited and highly anticipated return in the UK. The Bob Willis Trophy is this year’s replacement for the County Championship. Joe Root's 64 from 40 balls underpinned Yorkshire's 99-run Vitality Blast win over Derbyshire at Headingley.England have released Pat Brown and Reece Topley from the bubble to allow them to play for their counties in the Vitality Blast.The latest scorecards from the Vitality Blast, the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the Caribbean Premier League.Darren Stevens has signed a one-year contract extension at Kent which will take him beyond his 45th birthday.An extraordinary final over from Tom Helm enabled Middlesex to salvage a tie against Kent after a high-scoring Vitality Blast game.Somerset have announced Pakistan batsman Babar Azam will return to Taunton for this year's revamped Vitality Blast.Rain ruined a promising-looking match between Sussex and Surrey, while Birmingham's game against Somerset was abandoned.England off-spinner Dom Bess will leave Somerset at the end of the 2020 season, the county have announced.The shortest form of the game is shorter than usual this year but the Vitality Blast will not be lacking in quality.Craig Overton finished with figures of 5-26 as Somerset completed a dominant 314-run Bob Willis Trophy win over Gloucestershire in Taunton.Keaton Jennings hit his first T20 hundred as Lancashire beat his former club Durham by 27 runs in the Vitality Blast.John Simpson and Martin Andersson led Middlesex to a thrilling five-wicket Bob Willis Trophy victory over Sussex inside three days at Radlett.Ben Foakes provided a timely reminder of his quality with an unbeaten 88 for Surrey against Kent at the Oval in the Bob Willis Trophy.Will Rhodes hit a career-best 142 not out as Warwickshire made a strong start in their Bob Willis Trophy match at Worcestershire.Yorkshire have revealed that their former England batsman Gary Ballance is out of action as he battles "anxiety and stress".James Fuller took a hat-trick as Hampshire sealed a thumping innings win over struggling Surrey in the Bob Willis Trophy.The minimum wage for full-time county cricketers is to be temporarily lowered to keep more players employed amid coronavirus.Jamie Overton's explosive century for Somerset put them on the verge of staying perfect in the Bob Willis Trophy with Warwickshire on the ropes.Hampshire all-rounder Ian Holland returned career-best figures of 6-39 to stem the Surrey fightback at Arundel before rain.Nottinghamshire's Ben Slater put Lancashire's bowling to the sword for the second time this season in the Bob Willis Trophy. General. International Cricket. Non Cricket Conversation.
Ashwin should be thoroughly ashamedI've removed the autocorrect for ECB. point of view.Mankading is a c***ish thing to do in any form of cricket. A first hundred of the competition from South African Heino Kuhn couldn’t prevent Kent slipping to a two-wicket defeat.
County Cricket Live. Natwest T20 Blast. General. Foreign Domestic Leagues. It broke a link a while ago, and I feel we're all mentally making that substitution anyway.Off to Paris for a week, may or may not be around here. County cricket: Watch a live stream of the Bob Willis Trophy South Group clash between Kent and Sussex. Live scores. I've been drawn more over to the 'if the batsmen are going to take the mickey, why shouldn't the bowlers?' All the Cricket fixtures, latest results & live scores for all leagues and competitions on BBC Sport.