At a glance
- Other contenders include Kiran Carlson and Dom Sibley
- Adam Thomas century on debut
- Ben Slater with big hundred for Nottinghamshire
This week’s choice for Player of the week was made more difficult as there were some outstanding performances across the fixtures. For instance, Glamorgan’s captain Kiran Carlson scored 209 off 232 balls in their only innings against Hampshire. Nottinghamshire Ben Slater also scored big, registering 178 against Leicestershire.
There were four notable innings at the Oval. For Surrey, Dom Sibley scored 187, bringing up 10,000 first-class runs in the process. The other Surrey innings, arguably even more impressive, came from 19-year-old Adam Thomas, who made 120 on debut against Sussex.
In Sussex’s first innings, with the side struggling at 167-8, Jack Carson, who made 105 from number 9, and captain Ollie Robinson, who finished on 100 not out from number 10, combined to lift the total past 350.
Ben Sanderson
However, the ReadCricket Player of the Week goes to Ben Sanderson of Northamptonshire. In their game against Worcestershire, he took match figures of 11-109, a career best.
In the first innings, Sanderson took 4-78, as Northamptonshire bowled Worcestershire out for 306. Northamptonshire declared their first innings on 597-7, a lead of 291.
Sanderson then tore through the Worcestershire batting lineup with figures of 7-31 off 17 overs, including six wickets in 29 balls, as Worcestershire collapsed to 114 all out, losing by an innings and 177 runs.
With the 11 wickets he took, Sanderson is now the leading wicket taker in the country, with 25 wickets at 15.92. Ben Raine is second with 24 wickets at 14.5, with James Anderson in third with 23 wickets at 15.65.
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