Gareth Roderick’s excellent century secures 85-run win towards former membership
Worcestershire 375 for 7 (Roderick 137, Libby 86) beat Gloucestershire 290 (Taylor 121, van Beek 4-58) by 85 runs
Worcestershire Rapids keeper-batter Gareth Roderick marked his return from sickness with an outstanding century towards his former membership to assist safe an 85-run success within the Metro Bank One-Day Cup at New Road.
Roderick had missed the opening three video games within the event however continued the superb type he has been demonstrating within the LV=Insurance County Championship together with his List A greatest rating of 137.
He confirmed his battling qualities in preventing via a testing time with the brand new ball in seaming circumstances after the Rapids had been put in to bat.
But Roderick, who spent eight seasons with Gloucestershire, then accelerated to such an extent that he confronted solely 114 balls and hit 4 sixes and 12 fours.
Rapids captain Jake Libby, additionally having fun with a prolific season, gave him glorious help throughout a partnership of 193 in 23.2 overs, a Worcestershire document for the third wicket towards their native rivals.
With Kashif Ali and new signing Logan van Beek offering late impetus, Worcestershire’s complete of 375 for 7 was their second-highest in 50-over cricket.
Gloucestershire then misplaced wickets at common intervals towards the seamers together with 4 for van Beek.
Jack Taylor, who has scored 4 Championship a whole lot towards Worcestershire, supplied some late leisure for the Gloucestershire supporters within the 4,000-plus crowd with a 94-ball century.
But it solely served to carry some respectability to the end result as Worcestershire sealed a 3rd win in 4 matches.
Worcestershire made 5 adjustments from the facet crushed by Somerset at Taunton on Sunday with Brett D’Oliveira, Azhar Ali and Cameron Jones injured and Joe Leach and Dillon Pennington rested.
Netherlands worldwide van Beek was handed his debut and there have been recollects for Matthew Waite and Ed Pollock, Roderick and Brown.
Pollock and Roderick got an examination by Zaman Akhter and Tom Price, who had taken a hat-trick and scored a century on the identical day within the corresponding LV=Insurance County Championship match between the edges.
Tom Price made the primary breakthrough when Pollock edged to first slip and the powerplay solely yielded 24 runs.
Roderick and new batter Rob Jones fought via this difficult interval and steadily upped the tempo.
Jones, initially on mortgage from Lancashire earlier than beginning a three-year contract subsequent summer season, gloved Anwar Ali via to keeper James Bracey.
But from this juncture bat dominated ball for the rest of the innings with Roderick in prime type and given excellent help by Libby in surpassing the 159 by Tom Fell and Alexei Kervezee at New Road 9 years in the past.
A single off Paul van Meekeren enabled Roderick to maneuver to 3 figures and was the cue for a standing ovation.
A straight six by Roderick of Anwar Ali established the third-wicket partnership document towards the guests and it got here out of the blue when Libby (86) was pouched low down at gulley off Zaman Akhtar.
Roderick produced the shot of the innings with a reverse scoop for six off Tom Smith however in the identical over he sliced the spinner into the arms of quick third.
Smith additionally held onto a return catch from Ben Cox however the innings momentum was sustained by Kashif Ali and new signing van Beek.
Kashif Ali raced to 39 from 22 balls earlier than he pulled Graeme van Buuren to backward sq. leg however van Beek struck Tom Price for 2 sixes over lengthy off in making an unbeaten 41 from 19 balls.
When Gloucestershire batted, Matthew Waite bowled a superb opening spell, beating the bat on a number of events and deserving higher figures than 6-1-12-0.
It was van Beek who made the primary breakthrough when Bracey holed out to Kashif Ali at extensive mid on.
Ollie Price, a century-maker within the current Championship match at Cheltenham, fell to Ben Gibbon by way of a pointy catch by Rob Jones at backward level.
Pat Brown got here into the assault and three wickets went down inside his first three overs as Gloucestershire subsided to 80 for five.
Harry Tector was run out after being despatched again when he turned Brown to cowl and didn’t beat Kashif Ali’s throw to Ben Cox.
Van Buuren went lbw and Chris Dent supplied a easy caught-and-bowled.
Sub fielder Rehaan Edavalath bought into the thick of the motion with a superb diving catch at midwicket to dismiss Tom Price off van Beek.
Libby introduced himself into the assault and had Anwar Ali taken at deep cowl earlier than Tom Smith was neatly caught down the leg facet off Baker.
But Taylor illuminated the dying embers of the sport with some massive hitting and his century included 5 sixes and 5 fours earlier than he and van Meereken had been dismissed in successive balls from van Beek.