{"id":47384,"date":"2026-09-21T04:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/one-day-cup-final-middlesex-beat-leicestershire-by-31-runs\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T04:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:48:45","slug":"one-day-cup-final-middlesex-beat-leicestershire-by-31-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/one-day-cup-final-middlesex-beat-leicestershire-by-31-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Day Cup final: Middlesex beat Leicestershire by 31 runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Metro Bank Men&#8217;s One-Day Cup final, Trent Bridge<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Middlesex 231 (49.5 overs): <\/b>Higgins 100, Duke 55; Holland 5-36<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Leicestershire 200 (44.2 overs): <\/b>Kelly 103; Roland-Jones 3-27, Helm 3-32<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Middlesex win by 31 runs<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233665\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Match scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Middlesex claimed their first silverware in a decade as they fought back from a tricky start to beat Leicestershire in a thrilling One-Day Cup final at Trent Bridge.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having been put into bat by Leicestershire captain Stephen Eskinazi, Ryan Higgins&#8217; magnificent hundred dug Middlesex out of a hole and helped them reach 231 before being bowled out in the final over of their innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Higgins, 31, struck nine fours in his 115-ball knock after his team had slumped to 71-5 in the 22nd over, putting on 135 with on-loan Yorkshire wicketkeeper Harry Duke (55) for the sixth wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ian Holland returned his second-best List-A figures of 5-36 for the Foxes, while England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed took 3-55.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In reply, Leicestershire too lost early wickets as former England seamer Toby Roland-Jones bowled 10 overs straight through in a fine opening spell of 3-27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire were indebted to the efforts of New Zealand international Nick Kelly, who reached a glorious century of his own off 103 deliveries and appeared to be taking his side to victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the game swung again in the over after Kelly reached his hundred as the left-hander heaved Tom Helm to Higgins on the mid-wicket fence to leave Leicestershire eight down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And that proved the decisive moment as Helm dismissed Ajaz Patel and Tom Scriven skied Naavya Sharma straight up, with captain Ben Geddes taking the winning catch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middlesex&#8217;s most recent success was the County Championship in 2016, and they had not won a white-ball trophy since lifting the T20 Blast in 2008. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c3vgylgqz8p8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Bank Men&#8217;s One-Day Cup final, Trent Bridge Middlesex 231 (49.5 overs): Higgins 100, Duke 55; Holland 5-36 Leicestershire 200 (44.2 overs): Kelly 103; Roland-Jones 3-27, Helm 3-32 Middlesex win by 31 runs Match scorecard Middlesex claimed their first silverware in a decade as they fought back from a tricky start to beat Leicestershire in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47386,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47384\/revisions\/47386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}