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A round-up of all the Ranji Trophy Group A matches on October 3, 2015

ESPNcricinfo staff03-Oct-2015
ScorecardRailways lost 15 wickets on the third day in Mohali, and were in serious danger of an innings defeat after being asked to follow on. While Punjab’s seam-bowling pair of Brainder Sran and Siddarth Kaul accounted for all the batsmen in the first innings, left-arm spinner Varun Khanna picked up each of the five wickets to fall in the second.Resuming the day on 14 for 0, Railways didn’t lose a wicket until the 37th over of the day, as Ashish Singh and Saurabh Wakaskar raised 150 runs for the opening wicket. The visitors’ slide began when left-armer Sran had Wakaskar and Rohan Bhosale trapped lbw in successive deliveries. Two overs later, Sran dismissed captain Mahesh Rawat and Arindam Ghosh in the space of two deliveries to reduce Railways to 153 for 4. Kaul then had Ashish lbw, and thereon Railways lost their last five wickets for 29 runs in 6.3 overs.Following on, Railways lost Wakaskar in the seventh over after Khanna had him caught behind. Having slid to 54 for 3, the visitors were partially revived by a 62-run alliance between Prashant Awasthi and Arindam Ghosh before Khanna had Awasthi and Rawat caught behind off successive deliveries.
ScorecardHalf-centuries from opener Aditya Shrivastava and Naman Ojha helped Madhya Pradesh muster a solid response in Moradabad after Uttar Pradesh declared their first innings on 684.The visitors, though, were dealt with a blow early on, as seamer Ankit Rajpoot bowled Jalaj Saxena in the sixth over. Udit Birla (32) and Shrivastava attempted to patiently rebuild the innings, putting on 65 in 32 overs. Rajput, however, trapped Birla lbw to end his 82-ball effort. Shrivastava and Naman Ojha then joined hands to raise 157 runs in 44 overs before Ojha, whose innings included eight fours and three sixes, was dismissed by Kuldeep Yadav off what eventually turned out to be the last ball of the day. Shrivastava remained unbeaten on 99 off 254 balls.In the morning, Uttar Pradesh declared after 5.1 overs, adding 30 runs to their overnight total.
ScorecardSiddhesh Lad’s unbeaten half-century held Mumbai’s reply together after seamer Balwinder Sandhu’s five-for triggered Andhra Pradesh’s collapse in their first innings in Vizianagaram.Coming in at 61 for 4, Lad, whose innings included 10 fours and a six, added 97 runs with Nikhil Patil, who knuckled down for a 110-ball 27. Patil, however, was bowled by CV Stepen, who had earlier dismissed captain Aditya Tare for a duck, with 14 balls to go for stumps.In the morning, Andhra Pradesh, resuming on 213 for 4, scored only 31 more runs before folding up. Captain Mohammad Kaif added one run to his overnight score of 89 before being dismissed by Sandhu off the seventh ball of the day. During the course of the next five overs they slipped from 214 for 4 to 218 for 8, before B Ayyappa and KV Harish put on 22 runs for the ninth wicket. Seamer Shardul Thakur supported Sandhu’s efforts with three wickets.Tamil Nadu v Baroda in Chennai – Rahil Shah seals thrilling win for TN

Michael Clarke has not given up hope of Shane Watson returning to India for the fourth Test in Delhi, despite the vice-captain’s indications that he is considering his cricket future

Brydon Coverdale13-Mar-2013Michael Clarke has not given up hope of Shane Watson returning to India for the fourth Test in Delhi, despite the vice-captain’s indications that he is considering his cricket future. Watson arrived in Sydney on Tuesday night for the birth of his first child, although his departure from Chandigarh also coincided with him being one of four players stood down from the Australia team for this week’s third Test due to their failure to complete a task set by the coach Mickey Arthur.When he left India, Watson said he would use his time at home to weigh up his cricket future, which given his new family commitments was taken as a suggestion that long Test tours might no longer be on his radar. However, Clarke and Watson spoke on the phone after Watson landed in Sydney and Clarke said the best-case scenario for Australia was that Watson could still return to India in time for the final Test in Delhi, which starts on Friday next week.”I think Watto has made it clear to everybody that that’s something he’s thinking about while he’s home,” Clarke said of Watson’s cricket future. “From my point of view he’s vice-captain of this team and he’s a big part of this team, there’s no doubt about that. From the conversation Watto and I have had, 100% he has gone home for the birth of his first child, which is very exciting for him. I know he’s really excited about that.”Hopefully all goes to plan there, Lee has the baby in the next few days and Watto is back here playing the fourth Test as our vice-captain. That’s the best-case scenario from my point of view and from the team’s point of view. The rest is really up to Shane.”The Watson situation was complicated by a press conference in which Cricket Australia’s general manager of team performance, Pat Howard, said that Watson was a team player “sometimes” and alluded to issues between Watson and Clarke. Watson responded by saying that Howard did not know him well and that his relationship with Clarke had its ups and downs but that things were going well between them at the moment.Clarke was careful not to be drawn too far into the debate on the eve of the Mohali Test, but he said he was sure Watson and Howard would be in communication while Watson was at home. Clarke was doing his best to focus firmly on the third Test against India, which Australia could enter with as few as 12 available players due to Watson, James Pattinson, Mitchell Johnson and Usman Khawaja being suspended, and Matthew Wade battling an ankle injury.”I’m not going to get into that,” Clarke said. “I don’t think it’s fair to Watto and I don’t think it’s fair to Pat that I get involved in that. Watto has been around for a long time. Pat has been around sport for a very long time. I know those two will be in communication. For me the focus is this team and trying to have success in these two Test matches.”I think the most important thing is that this group looks forward. The decision has been made. The players have accepted and respect the decision that has been made, and now we’re trying to do what the most important thing is and have success in this Test match. I think it would be very stupid of me to look backwards. I don’t think right now, a day out before the Test, I can afford to do that.”Watto made it clear yesterday that me and him have known each other for such a long period of time. The players respect the position I’m in as captain and that this decision isn’t personal. We made the decision irrelevant to the four players’ names. It was because we thought it was best for the team that we made that decision.”

ESPNcricinfo previews the opening Twenty20 between Pakistan and England at the start of a three-match series

The Preview by David Hopps22-Feb-2012

Match facts

Thursday February 23, Dubai
Start time 2000 (1600 GMT)Jos Buttler will hope for more chances in the Twenty20 series after his duck on ODI debut•Getty Images

Big Picture

It would be a mistake to dismiss the three-match Twenty20 series at the end of this unpredictable tour involving Pakistan and England as inconsequential. It is nothing of the sort. Twenty20 might be anathema to some but the size of its audience is undeniable. There is a World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka in September to plan for and these matches will be vital preparation for both sides.There has been little logic in what we have seen so far in the other two formats. England, ranked as the No. 1 Test side in the world, were trounced 3-0 in the Test series; with little reputation in the 50-over game they responded by returning the favour with a whitewash in the ODIs. Add the fact that T20, if not the lottery many claim, is more unpredictable to call, and only a fool would be confident of the outcome.England turn to their third captain of the tour with Stuart Broad stepping up for T20. It is testimony to their unity that they can make the transition between captains with no sense of discord. Pakistan will soon be considering a replacement for Misbah-ul-Haq and a young T20 captain would be one way to begin their rebuilding process, but the captaincy triumvirate might be one English export that never takes hold.

Form guide (most recent first)

Pakistan: WWWWL
England: WLWWL

Players to watch …

Awais Zia, a dashing left-hander, gets an opportunity as Younis Khan and Azhar Ali return home. Zia, 25, from Chakwal in the Punjab, has even been called “the new Boom Boom.” No pressure there then.The player the English media wants to watch is Alastair Cook, whose flowering as an ODI batsman has been followed by his addition to the T20 squad. “Injury cover only,” insist England nervously, whether because they are frightened of undermining Broad, have no intention of playing Cook, or are being strangely playful, who can tell?

Team news

Team news is patchy. Broad admitted that England had injuries and then refused to say what injuries they were, encouraging more Cook Fever. Ravi Bopara’s bad back may rule him out although he trained on Wednesday. Pakistan will play Awais Zia but the presence of Hammad Azam, overlooked for the ODIs, ahead of Imran Farhat is less certain especially as Misbah has expressed the wish for those who failed in the one-day series to make amends.Pakistan (possible) 1 Mohammad Hafeez, 2 Hammad Azam, 3 Asad Shafiq, 4 Umar Akmal (wk), 5 Awais Zia, 6 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Shoaib Malik, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Saeed Ajmal, 11 Aizaz CheemaEngland (possible) 1 Alex Hales, 2 Craig Kieswetter (wk) 3 Kevin Pietersen, 4 Eoin Morgan, 5 Samit Patel 6 Jonny Bairstow, 7 Jos Buttler, 8 Tim Bresnan, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Graeme Swann, 10 Steven Finn

Pitch and conditions

Pitches in Dubai have offered enough pace to encourage strokeplay so the odds are on a high-scoring match.

Stats and trivia

• Temperatures in parts of the UAE fell as low as 9C in mountainous areas, 12C on the coast, on Tuesday with storm-force winds, sandstorms and rough seas.
• Awais Zia is uncapped and the only new face in Pakistan’s T20 squad.
• Broad has missed three of the six Twenty20 matches since he was named captain due to injury.
• Mushtaq Mohammad, the former Pakistan captain, has called for Pakistan’s one-day side to be dismantled.

Quotes

“No reassurances needed to be given. We’ve worked closely as three captains, as we have done for nearly a year now, and that doesn’t change overnight.”
“Sometime you feel home sickness. It is not that I’m giving an excuse on this matter but it happens when you are not playing at home.”
Edited by Andrew McGlashan

Zimbabwe bowler Ed Rainsford has been ruled out of the World Cup due to an ankle injury and Tinashe Panyangara has been named as his replacement

ESPNcricinfo staff17-Feb-2011Zimbabwe bowler Ed Rainsford has been ruled out of the World Cup due to an ankle injury and Tinashe Panyangara has been named as his replacement. Rainsford, who has played 39 ODIs and two Twenty20 games, is the third Zimbabwe player to be ruled out of the World Cup after batsman Tino Mawoyo and allrounder Sean Ervine.Panyangara, who is yet to play a World Cup game, bowled the Zimbabwe Under-19 side to victory over Australia at the 2003-04 World Cup with 6 for 31 and soon after, was fast-tracked into the national side during the rebel crisis. He made his international debut in 2004 and after initial success, suffered a stress fracture of the back, missed a year of cricket and drifted out of contention before moving to England to play club cricket.Panyangara last played for the national side in 2005 but returned to Zimbabwe cricket late last year after he was signed up by domestic franchise Mountaineers for the 2010-11 season. He has played three Tests and 23 ODIs for Zimbabwe.Rainsford is the eighth player to be replaced in the tournament after Mawoyo, Ervine, Australia’s Nathan Hauritz and Michael Hussey, Praveen Kumar from India, England’s Eoin Morgan and Sohail Tanvir of Pakistan.

Steven Smith and Peter Forrest steadied New South Wales on a two-paced first day as they finished at 4 for 326 in Hobart

Cricinfo staff03-Mar-2010New South Wales 4 for 326 (Jaques 88, Smith 71, Forrest 62, Hughes 58) v Tasmania

ScorecardSteven Smith’s 71 took the Blues safely to stumps•Getty Images

Steven Smith and Peter Forrest steadied New South Wales on a two-paced first day as they finished at 4 for 326 in Hobart. The Blues sped through Phil Jaques and Phillip Hughes to register 140 in the first session before being held back in the second and easing away in the third.Smith and Forrest overcame some tight bowling from Tasmania during a stand of 119 for the fourth wicket that regained the momentum. However, Forrest gave Tim Paine his third catch late in the day to depart with 62, but Smith made it to stumps unbeaten on 71.Jaques and Hughes opened with 118 in 25.1 overs – about the rate expected in a one-day game – before Hughes (58) was caught behind off Adam Griffith, who had 2 for 72. Jaques moved confidently towards a century but fell for 88 trying to sweep Xavier Doherty.The loss of Usman Khawaja (22) three overs later left the visitors at 3 for 175, but Smith and Forrest steered the side away from danger. New South Wales are almost certainly out of contention for the final while Tasmania are currently third.

Scotland opener finds the humour in run-rate rumpus ahead of Australia showdown

ESPNcricinfo staff13-Jun-2024Michael Jones has given an indication of Scotland’s relaxed state of mind as they prepare for their crucial Group B showdown in Antigua on Sunday, as he welcomed Josh Hazlewood’s suggestion that Australia might go easy on his team in a bid to engineer an early elimination for their arch-rivals England.Speaking after Australia’s emphatic victory over Namibia on Tuesday – a result that secured their progression to the Super Eights – Hazlewood had indicated that his team might be willing to “drag it out” if they got into a winning position against Scotland, in order to preserve their opponents’ net run-rate – albeit such a tactic could run the risk of a suspension for their captain, Mitchell Marsh, if Australia were deemed to have contravened Article 2.11 of the ICC’s code of conduct.Matthew Mott, England’s coach, subsequently dismissed Hazlewood’s suggestion as an example of his “very good sense of humour”, and Jones also saw the funny side of the remarks, as he joked he’d like to see David Warner open the bowling at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium on Sunday.”I was watching it live actually, laughing to myself,” Jones told the Press Association, adding that he had also enjoyed the view of Tim Paine, Australia’s former Test captain, who told ESPNcricinfo’s Around The Wicket show that Australia’s players should “go on holiday … and England can pack their bags”.”I watched that interview and I watched Tim Paine when he was saying they should field half a side. I’m not particularly close to them, I don’t know any of the Australian players, but it would be good if we could have a little word and sort something out.”The rivalry between England and Australia is massive. If they want to play that way then happy days. We won’t be complaining. If they want to let David Warner open the bowling or something like that it would be pretty funny.”More realistically, however, Jones is braced for the full Australia experience when the two teams meet on Sunday, and after two impressive victories over Oman and Namibia, to go alongside a spirited display in the washout against England, he admitted he and his team-mates were relishing the prospect of testing themselves against one of the best sides in the tournament.Related

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“At the end of the day our team wants the best result we can get, but on a personal level you want to challenge yourself against the best,” he said.”To have the opportunity to bat against Jofra Archer and Mark Wood, then Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc, that’s the best in the world. Those are the opportunities we crave as Scotland teams. You want to challenge yourself and see how far you go against those guys.”The Australians are renowned for being extremely diligent and extremely professional. I’m absolutely certain they will come out all guns blazing like they do for every game at every tournament.”I almost hope they do go full strength on Saturday and we can show the cricket world we’re up to the challenge. I’m absolutely certain they will come out all guns blazing like they do for every game at every tournament.”

Superstar captains. Interesting sub-plots. A sold-out crowd. There is all to play for at the Brabourne Stadium

Sruthi Ravindranath04-Mar-2023

Big Picture

Smriti Mandhana vs Jemimah Rodrigues. Ellyse Perry vs Meg Lanning. Dane van Niekerk vs Marizanne Kapp. Brace yourselves. And it will all happen in front of a sold-out crowd at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai as Royal Challengers Bangalore take on Delhi Capitals on Sunday.Both sides have superstar captains. Mandhana, the most expensive player at the inaugural auction at INR 3.4 crore, will be leading Royal Challengers, who look the most balanced side in the tournament. In Lanning, Capitals have a brilliant captain, who comes into the tournament a week after leading Australia to their sixth T20 World Cup title. Ahead of the WPL, she said she’s looking to inculcate that winning culture in this Capitals side.A number of international names linked up with their respective teams just a few days before the tournament following the T20 World Cup in South Africa. While Mandhana is looking to make use of her knowledge of the Indian domestic players to put a solid XI together, Lanning said she would be leaning on her team-mates Rodrigues and Shafali Varma to handle the younger and unknown players.Related

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Players to Watch

Both teams have an enviable mix of overseas and Indian talent. Royal Challengers have Richa Ghosh and Renuka Singh, the two high-profile India internationals. Capitals, meanwhile, have the likes of Shafali, Poonam Yadav and Radha Yadav.Perry, van Niekerk, Heather Knight, Sophie Devine, Erin Burns and Megan Schutt are the overseas options in the Royal Challengers side, which means the team management will have some head-scratching to do over picking just four from this star-studded list. They have captain Mandhana to do the heavy lifting from the top, while Devine, Perry, Ghosh and van Niekerk will be expected to provide the firepower in the middle order. While Royal Challengers’ pace-bowling unit looks solid with Schutt, Renuka and Perry, they do not have an experienced Indian spinner in their ranks.Capitals’ strong top order has Shafali, Rodrigues and Lanning, with Kapp and Taniya Bhatia to follow. They will, however, be left to choose from a largely inexperienced pace-bowling unit, barring Shikha Pandey and Kapp. However, they have the option to bring in USA left-arm pacer Tara Norris, an Associate player who can be included as the fifth overseas player in the XI. Among the spin-bowling options, Capitals have Radha Yadav, Jess Jonassen and Poonam Yadav.

Playing XIs

Delhi Capitals (possible): 1 Shafali Verma, 2 Jemimah Rodrigues, 3 Meg Lanning (capt), 4 Marizanne Kapp, 5 Laura Harris, 6 Jasia Akhter, 7 Taniya Bhatia (wk), 8 Jess Jonassen, 9 Radha Yadav, 10 Shikha Pandey, 11 Tara NorrisRoyal Challengers Bangalore (possible): 1 Smriti Mandhana (capt), 2 Disha Kasat, 3 Sophie Devine, 4 Ellyse Perry, 5 Dane van Niekerk, 6 Richa Ghosh (wk), 7 Komal Zanzad/Asha Shobhana, 8 Preeti Bose, 9 Megan Schutt, 10 Renuka Singh, 10 Kanika Ahuja/Shreyanka Patil

Stats and trivia

• Perry had finished as the second-highest run-scorer during Australia’s T20I series tour of India in December 2022
• Mandhana has scored 831 runs, the most in women’s T20Is since January 2022
• This game will have three key players who were part of India’s U-19 winning World Cup squad: Shafali, Titas Sadhu and Ghosh.

Quotes

“I love winning, I’m very competitive and I’m coming here to try and help Delhi win as many games as possible. It would be great [to win], every team is probably thinking the same thing but we’re doing our best, and the biggest challenge is to bring everybody together and making sure we’re working as a team.”
“I just don’t like the kind of comparison because what he has achieved is amazing, and I hope that I can reach that level. But I’m nowhere near him. What he has achieved for this franchise, I’d like to try and do that.”
Royal Challengers captain Smriti Mandhana wants to emulate Virat Kohli’s success with the franchise

Rain allows only 4.1 overs in the second Ashes T20I in Adelaide, and the forecast for the third T20I on Sunday isn’t great either

Andrew McGlashan22-Jan-2022The points were shared in the second T20I at Adelaide Oval as rain swept through on a day where Australia were given cause for concern over the fitness of quick bowler Tayla Vlaeminck.Vlaeminck was replaced in the XI by Darcie Brown because of a right foot injury – it’s the same foot in which she had suffered the stress fracture that ruled her out of 2020 T20 World Cup. She will be assessed over the coming days, but given her history, there may be concern over her participation not only in the ongoing Ashes series but also the upcoming ODI World Cup in New Zealand.Vlaeminck bowled quickly in the opening match of the series and struck Tammy Beaumont on the side of helmet with a bouncer. Australia have been very careful about managing her workload throughout her career with her pace often being referred to as a point of difference. Since making her debut in 2018 she has so far been limited to 24 international appearances across the three formats.”[It] was out of the first game. We are still looking into it and how it is and what’s going on,” captain Meg Lanning said. “We’ll know a little bit more over the next few days. Obviously not ideal, but we’ll see where we end up. She puts on a pretty brave face. I’ve just had a quick chat with her today and she seems okay.”In a more positive injury-related development, Beth Mooney has already returned to training after surgery for the fractured jaw she suffered two days before the series began.”She’s going really well,” Lanning, who has opened in Mooney’s absence, said. “Has had a couple of hits which is really exciting for her. She’s taken the whole situation really well. It’s nice to see her back. There’s no rushing her return, it’s whenever she feels comfortable and ready. Hopefully it’s sooner rather than later but we’ll see how it pans out.”There was precious little action in the middle with England able to face 4.1 overs either side of heavy rain and the forecast is not promising for the third game on Sunday.Danni Wyatt went along at better than a-run-a-ball but Beaumont struggled to get going as she made 6 off 14 balls before the rain returned. Australia had used one-over spells during the powerplay, opening the attack with Ashleigh Gardner’s offspin, while Brown went for just three in her single over.England had handed a T20I debut to offspinner Charlie Dean, who impressed in her first ODI series last year against New Zealand. She replaced Maia Bouchier as England altered the balance of the side to play an extra bowler. That was after England went down by nine wickets in the first T20I of the all-format series. Bouchier injured her knee in the opening match when she slid near the boundary but was deemed available for selection.

Former Indian seamer Raj Ghai has also bought a stake in one of the franchise of the 24-team competition

Peter Della Penna17-Aug-2020Krish Persaud and Manish Patel, the American-based owners of Jamaica Tallawahs and Barbados Tridents respectively, have become franchise owners in the 24-team Minor League Cricket T20 franchise competition in the USA. A list of the franchise owners was released by USA Cricket over the weekend and also featured former USA and India internationals among other franchise owners, for a league whose proposed launch has been pushed back to 2021 due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.Persaud, whose cricket business operations are based at the Broward County Stadium in Lauderhill, Florida which has hosted numerous T20Is since 2010, was named as the owner of the Fort Lauderdale Lions franchise. Patel, who is based in Dallas, Texas, and previously owned Jamaica Tallawahs when they won the CPL in 2016 in addition to his current ownership of the reigning CPL champion Tridents franchise, was revealed as the owner of the Austin Athletics in the Texas state capital.Former India pace bowler Raj Ghai who played six ODIs from 1984 to 1986 before relocating to San Diego, California, has been named as part of the ownership group of the San Diego Surf Riders. Another notable entry is former USA offspinner Abhimanyu Rajp, who last played for USA in 2013 and is listed as co-owner of the Los Angeles-based SoCal Lashings franchise.There are also several former USA Cricket Association administrators who have purchased a stake in various franchises. Nabeel Ahmed, the former vice president and interim chief executive of USACA – prior to USACA’s expulsion by the ICC in 2017 – has been announced as the owner of the Michigan Cricket Stars. Former USACA Central East regional chairman Khurram Syed is a co-owner of the Chicago Blasters. Gangaram Singh, former South West regional representative on the USACA board, is a co-owner along with Ghai for the Surf Riders. Lovkesh Kalia, former Central West board member at USACA, is the owner of the Irving Mustangs in suburban Dallas.The 24-team Minor League Cricket competition was due to launch in June this year, but USA Cricket recently announced that it has been pushed back to next spring. However, tournament organisers have stated that they will conduct a player draft on Saturday, August 22 with the intention of staging exhibition matches during September and October in various zones.

West Indies captain scores unbeaten half-century and takes three wickets to help side to first win of season

ECB Reporters Network21-Apr-2019Jason Holder galvanised an impressive Northamptonshire performance as they overwhelmed Warwickshire for their first win in this season’s Royal London Cup.Holder hammered an unbeaten 60 from 31 balls as Northants made 358 for 6, having been sent in, and then took 3 for 26 as Warwickshire were bowled out for 164 – slumping to their heaviest List A defeat.Holder strode out to bat at 252 for 5 in the 40th over. He helped add 106 in the final 10 overs as Northants made their third-highest List A total.The West Indies captain then struck with his fifth ball before claiming the key wicket of Ed Pollock, caught at third man, as the target was defended with ease.Moved down to No. 7 here, Northants set the innings up perfectly for their overseas star. Alex Wakely, Adam Rossington and Rob Keogh all passed fifty before Holder’s late blast capped an impressive batting display on a good wicket.Holder lifted George Panayi over mid-off, pulled Craig Miles backward of square and drove Henry Brookes wide of deep cover before striking the final two balls of the innings bowled by Jeetan Patel for two sixes over long-on.The scoring rate was healthy throughout the innings. Richard Levi set the tone by racing to 48 with three sixes – the biggest of them heaved over square leg in Panayi’s first over – before becoming Brookes’ third victim, edging a drive to Tim Ambrose.Brookes, only 19 but leading the attack, had earlier bowled Josh Cobb first ball and got Ricardo Vasconcelos to chop into his stumps for 19.At 76 for 3 in the 11th over, Northants were in familiar territory but Wakely and Keogh steered their side through 14 overs in a stand of 86 for the fourth wicket.Wakely fell for a run-a-ball 50, missing Patel trying to flick to leg, and Keogh likewise for 69 from 87 balls – passing 1,000 List A runs along the way – but both efforts were key in facilitating more attractive progress at the other end.For the first time in three matches, Northants had a platform for the end of the innings. Rossington reached fifty in 47 balls. He advanced at Panayi to pull him past midwicket but fell for 68 in 58 balls – caught at extra-cover trying to lift Alex Thomson’s off-spin.Holder and Blessing Muzarabani then ruined the chase, sharing four wickets in quick opening spells. Dom Sibley, for 1, and Ambrose, for a 13-ball duck, edged Muzarabani behind the wicket and Holder pinned Sam Hain for 7 and ended Pollock’s 27-ball 36 when he sliced a cut to third man.Nathan Buck took out Liam Banks’ middle stump before Ben Sanderson took three wickets – two in two balls as Will Rhodes was caught at deep square and Brookes taken at point via the shoulder of the bat, before Miles skied a catch to mid-on. Holder then had Thomson caught at midwicket, miscuing a pull for 36, before Muzarabani cleaned up Panayi.Holder said the result was welcome following Northants’ 53-run defeat at the hands of Derbyshire last Friday.”It was a very good team performance, everyone pulled their weight,” Holder said. “We had a disappointing performance in Derby so it’s great to see the guys bounce back. The platform was laid with the bat and it was a great effort to score 350.”The pitch had good carry and bounce and we exploited that really well. Blessing was outstanding with the new ball, he set the tone and everyone followed on nicely.”