Following up on his figures of 4/82 in his first innings, Chahal did even better and claimed a 5-wicket haul in the second innings. He finished with a 9-wicket haul in the match and was crucial to his side’s victory.

Thanks to his fifer, Leicestershire were bowled out for 316 and were only able to set a target of 137, which was easily achieved by the Northants in 30.3 overs. Skipper Luke Procter (68 not out) and George Bartlett (54 not out) sealed the chase.

Leicestershire, after resuming the final day on 69/4, recovered through strong batting from Scott Currie and Tom Scriven (48), with Currie reaching a century (120) before being dismissed by Chahal for his fifth wicket.

Chahal also dismissed key players, including skipper Lewis Hill (14) with a well-pitched delivery that turned sharply, and Liam Trevaskis (2) with a catch at short leg.

Despite conceding runs during an aggressive 110-run (141 balls) partnership between Currie and Scriven, including an expensive 19-run over, Chahal’s persistence paid off as he eventually claimed Currie’s wicket to have them reeling at 303/9. Their innings lasted 3 more overs with Saif Zaib (2/61) dismissing Louis Kimber.

In the previous match, Chahal had claimed 5/45 and 4/45 in Northants’ 133-run win over Derbyshire.

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The wiry leg-break bowler, who also claimed five wickets (5/14) against Kent in the One Day Cup last month, has found success in the English Summer thus far.

In the current game, Northants batted first and scored 219 runs in the opening half, with 90 runs coming from Saif Zib. In response, Derbyshire was bowled out for 165 in 61.3 overs by Chahal (5/45 in 16.3 overs) and Rob Keogh 3/65.

Jack Morley, Aneurin Donald, Wayne Madsen, Alex Thomson, and Zak Chappell were among Chahal’s victims.

With contributions of 4 and 2 in each of the two innings, Chahal’s colleague Prithvi Shaw had another disappointing red ball game. Shaw has also failed to score more than 50 in his last three first-class innings.

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An hour before his debut, the 34-year-old’s signing with the Northants was revealed.

As a member of India’s winning T20 World Cup team, Chahal utterly destroyed Kent’s batting lineup, taking five wickets for fourteen in his ten overs and bowling them out for 82 in 35.1 overs.

Jaydn Denly (age 22), Ekansh Singh (10), Grant Stewart (1), Beyers Swanepoel (1), and Nathan Gilchrist (6) were among his victims.

The tourists easily achieved the target, scoring 86 for one in 14 overs.

In the last match of the tournament, the Northants won for the first time this year. They finished eighth in the nine-team Group A table, missing out on a trip to the quarterfinals after losing their previous six games.

Chahal will play in the team’s last five County Championship Division Two games in addition to his One-Day Cup encounter.

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“Prithvi injured his knee while fielding in the fixture against Durham and subsequent scan results received this morning have revealed the injury is worse than initially expected,” Northamptonshire CCC tweeted.

Northamptonshire CCC Informs About Prithvi Shaw’s Injury

“In his short stint Prithvi has made a huge impact on us as a club. It’s a huge shame he won’t be with us for the remainder of this comp.” Head Coach John Sadler said.

“He’s an extremely humble young man, he’s very respectful and had been so grateful for the opportunity to represent Northamptonshire,” he added.

Prithvi Shaw is currently the leading run-scorer in the tournament with 429 runs in four innings. He also smashed a record-breaking 244 against Somerset.

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The 23-year-old, who is playing in his maiden county season, smashed 28 fours and 11 sixes en route to his second List A double century.

The batter said that he is not really thinking what Indian selectors are thinking.

“Definitely experience for sure. Not really thinking what the Indian selectors may be thinking, but I just want to have a good time here, have a good time with the players over here and the support staff. Northamptonshire have given me this opportunity… they’re really looking after me. I’m really enjoying it,” Shaw was quoted as saying.

“The sun was out, it was kind of like Indian weather today so it was really looking good. You know when an inside edge doesn’t get me out, that means this day is for me. You have to be lucky sometimes, so I think this was a day for me. I didn’t look back after that,” Shaw said.

He last played for India on the tour of Sri Lanka in July 2021, and was part of the squad for the T20Is at home against New Zealand earlier this year but was left out for the ongoing series against West Indies.

The talented opener has also had to deal with off field issues recently.

In 56 List A games, Shaw has amassed 2687 runs, at an average of 51.67.

Shaw had scores of 26 and 34 in his first two outings for Northamptonshire.

“The 227 was in my head to be honest. I spoke to Whitey [Whiteman] when he was there and I told him it’s 227, my highest score. But it was a good team effort all around. I always try and win matches for the team and I’m the kind of a player who puts my team first and then myself. If scoring like this can help my team to win, then I should continue this,” he added.

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The batter has joined Northamptonshire and be a part of the Royal London One-Day Cup. However, his debut on Friday did not turn out the way he must have expected as he was dismissed in bizarre fashion en route to his knock of 34 in the match against Gloucestershire in the group-B tie in Cheltenham.

On the last ball of the 16th over, Gloucestershire bowler Paul van Meekeren delivered a shortish ball as Shaw tried to pull hook it over fine leg for a big one, but failed to make a contact. However, in doing so, he lost his balance and fell awkwardly on the ground and then kicked his own stumps, resulting in a hit wicket dismissal.

Shaw’s dismissal video got viral on social sphere, fans are got confused about his dismissal, here is the video:

Shaw On His First English County Season

The batter said that this is a great opportunity for him and thanked Northamptonshire for giving him chance

“It’s a great opportunity for me and I’m really thankful to Northamptonshire for giving me this chance to express myself here,” Shaw said as the statement read. “It’s going to be amazing I think and I’m really looking forward to it.”

Before his debut on Friday, he had played a practice match as well where he scored a thundering 39-ball 65 as the club later shared a v ideo of it with the caption: “Getting straight down to business. A rapid 65 off just 39 balls for Prithvi in the 2XI this morning.”

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The second-string team, similar to the one that took on Ireland, a couple of days back will play Derbyshire on July 1 and Northamptonshire on July 3 with Hardik Pandya to be the lone player not available for selection. Pandya has been reportedly rested for both the warm-up games. The match is set to begin at 11:30pm IST.

Karthik’s IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore took to Twitter to congratulate the wicket-keeper batter.

Mr. Finisher Supreme will be leading #TeamIndia in the ✌️ T20 warm-up games against Derbyshire and Northamptonshire. 👊

The first game starts today at 9:30 PM. Let’s hear it for our very own @DineshKarthik. 🔊 🙌#PlayBold #WeAreChallengers pic.twitter.com/dCrG5Ame4V

— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) July 1, 2022

“Mr. Finisher Supreme will be leading #TeamIndia in the T20 warm-up games against Derbyshire and Northamptonshire. The first game starts today at 9:30 PM. Let’s hear it for our very own @DineshKarthik. #PlayBold #WeAreChallengers,” read the tweet.

India’s squad for T20I & ODI series against England announced

India’s squad for 1st T20I: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishan Kishan, Ruturaj Gaekwad, Sanju Samson, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rahul Tripathi, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Hardik Pandya, Venkatesh Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Umran Malik

India’s squad for 2nd and 3rd T20I: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Umran Malik

India’s squad for 3 ODIs: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, J Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna, Mohd Shami, Mohd Siraj, Arshdeep Singh

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Northamptonshire have re-signed New Zealand allrounder Doug Bracewell for the last three games of the County Championship season. The move was taken after talks with West Indies pacer Kemar Roach went kaput and see Bracewell returns to the side where he played a few games at Wantage Road last summer.

“I got the buzz last week from Rips and I’m really excited to come back and hopefully help the lads get promoted to the top div.” Bracewell told northantscricket.com.

“I’m familiar with the bunch of the lads that are here and I really enjoyed my time here last year even though it was only 3 or 4 games. It always helps being in a familiar team with a little taste last year, I’m ready to hit the ground running.”

Bracewell, who has played 125 first-class games, which include 27 Test matches for New Zealand, has pocketed 376 wickets.

“Initially we’d spoken with Kemar Roach to add some more variety and a bit of express pace to our attack, but once that fell down we were keen to get someone of high all-round quality,” head coach David Ripley said.

“Being able to have Doug around for those three games is something we couldn’t really resist when we got a whiff he was interested in filling that void for us.”

Captain Adam Rossington was happy to welcome Bracewell back. “I think Doug’s a great signing for us for the last 3 games and our promotion push. He brings high quality skill with both bat and ball which we’ve seen from him before in a Northants shirt,” Rossington said.

Northants are currently third in the second division. Three teams will be promoted to Division One after the ongoing season.

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Check Dream11 Team Northamptonshire vs Worcestershire North Group VITALITY T20 BLAST ENGLISH T20 BLAST – Cricket Prediction Tips For Today’s T20 Match NOR vs WOR on August 30: T20 Blast, is a professional Twenty20 cricket competition for English and Welsh first-class counties. The competition was established by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 as the first professional Twenty20 league in the world. It is the top-level Twenty20 competition in England and Wales.

Here is today’s Dream11 pick for NOR vs WOR

My Dream11 Team

Rob Keogh (vice-captain), Adam Rossington, Richard Levi, Ben Cox, Rikkie Wessels, Wayne Parnell, Dwaine Pretorius, Moeen Ali (captain), Ed Barnard, Graeme White, Patrick Brown

The match starts at 11:00 pm IST.

NOR vs WOR Predicted 11

Northamptonshire (Probable XI): Richard Levi, Adam Rossington (wk), Joshua Cobb (captain), Dwaine Pretorius, Alex Wakely, Rob Keogh, Faheem Ashraf, Tom Sole, Graeme White, Nathan Buck, Blessing Muzarabani.

Worcestershire (Probable XI): Rikkie Wessels, Hamish Rutherford, Moeen Ali (captain), Tom Fell, Wayne Parnell, Ben Cox (wk), Daryl Mitchell, Ross Whiteley, Ed Barnard, Patrick Brown, Dillon Pennington

SQUADS

Northamptonshire (From): Richard Levi, Adam Rossington (wk), Joshua Cobb (captain), Dwaine Pretorius, Alex Wakely, Rob Keogh, Faheem Ashraf, Tom Sole, Graeme White, Nathan Buck, Blessing Muzarabani, Ben Sanderson, Brett Hutton

Worcestershire (From): Hamish Rutherford, Riki Wessels, Moeen Ali (captain), Thomas Charles Fell, Ben Cox (wk), Wayne Parnell, Ross Whiteley, Ed Barnard, Daryl Mitchell, Dillon Pennington, Patrick Brown, Joe Leach, George Rhodes

Check Dream11 Prediction / NOR Dream11 Team / Worcestershire Dream11 Team / WOR Dream11 Team / Northamptonshire Dream11 Team / Dream11 Guru Tips / Online Cricket Tips and more

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With his eighth ton, Klinger now sits just second to Chris Gayle in the list of most centuries in T20 cricket. The Australian veteran went past Aaron Finch, David Warner, Luke Wright and Brendon McCullum with his record century.

Klinger and Miles Hammond put up 70 on the board in the first eight overs of Gloucestershire’s innings. The 39-year-old brought up his century on the final delivery with a boundary, but had no idea that he had reached the three-figure mark. Klinger only got to know about it after he was applauded for his effort.

As previously stated…LEGEND.@maxyklinger#GoGlos pic.twitter.com/SW0PLpdjCl

— Gloucestershire Cricket (@Gloscricket) August 29, 2019

Kent, after losing both their openers in the first four overs of their chase, made a comeback with Faf du Plessis (60 off 45) and skipper Sam Billings (55 of 40) adding 122 runs for the third wicket in 11.5 overs. Ryan Higgins jeopardised the chase with the wicket of Billings and followed up with scalps of du Plessis and Alex Blake in the 19th over.

Requiring 12 runs in the final over bowled by David Payne, Kent just managed six to lose by five runs.

Brief scores: Gloucestershire 180/3 in 20 overs (Klinger 102*) beat Kent 175/8 in 20 overs (du Plessis 60, Billings 55; Higgins 3/36) by five runs.

Elsewhere in the Vitality Blast, AB de Villiers‘ 52* off 34 balls was not enough for Middlesex, as riding on half-centuries from openers James Vince and Aneurin Donald, Hampshire chased down 154 in the 19th over with eight wickets in hand.

Middlesex’s batsmen got starts but failed to convert. Paul Stirling (24 off 15), Dawid Malan (23 off 21), Mohammad Hafeez (15 off 15) and Eoin Morgan (13 off 13) could not capitalise.

De Villiers, making his comeback after a break of three weeks, propelled the score past 150 with his half-century but that wasn’t enough as Vince (66* off 55) and Donald (51 off 32) gave Hampshire a brisk start that set them up for a facile win.

Brief scores: Hampshire 155/2 in 18.3 overs (Vince 66*, Donald 51) beat Middlesex (de Villiers 52*, Crane 2/22) by eight wickets.

Half-centuries from Ravi Bopara and Ryan ten Doeschate and a four-wicket haul from James Porter saw Essex defeat Surrey by 19 runs at Kennington Oval. After opting to bat first, Essex were 69/4 after 9.2 overs before the experienced duo of Bopara and Ten Doeschate took the charge and advanced the score to 186/4 in 20 overs.

Porter removed Surrey’s strong top three – Aaron Finch, Mark Stoneman and Sam Curran – in his first two overs to dent their chase. Jordan Clark (60 off 32) stood out for his side but regular wickets meant that Surrey were never really in the hunt.

Brief scores: Essex 186/4 in 20 overs (Bopara 70*, ten Doeschate 55*) beat Surrey 167 in 19.5 overs (Clark 60, Pope 35; Porter 4/38) by 19 runs

David Willey skittled Northamptonshire for 107 with four wickets to lead Yorkshire to an 80-run victory. Chasing 188, Northamptonshire were  rocked early to slip to 43/5 and Tom Sole’s 41 off 35 deliveries was the only takeaway for the losing team.

Earlier, openers Tom Kohler-Cadmore (51 off 41) and Adam Lyth (50 off 28) drove Yorkshire to 88/1 in 9.3 overs. Harry Brook’s 38 off 16 balls saw them cross the 150-run mark and in the end, Yorkshire put up a a big total of 187/7 in 20 overs. Both teams are out of the quarter-finals race.

Brief scores: Yorkshire 187/7 in 20 overs (Kohler-Cadmore 51, Adam Lyth 50) beat Northamptonshire 107 in 18 overs (Sole 41*, Willey 4/18) by 80 runs

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