News about Ashton Turner

RICHARD GIBSON: The 2023 Vitality Blast takes place in Edgbaston on Saturday with the first Blast Off, where Lancashire and Derbyshire will meet the Birmingham Bears. Following two years of Hundred-Hundred vision, the ECB is treating Twenty20's oldest domestic competition with greater concern, according to its new-look launch in Birmingham on July 15, while the quality of players participating over the next two months, culminating in finals day at the Birmingham venue shows that it maintains both global prominence and relevance. Here's a look at how the 18 squads stack up.

Durham re-signed Ashton Turner as one of their overseas players for the forthcoming Vitality Blast. Turner has led Perth Scorchers to consecutive Big Bash League titles and has also led Durham in eight Blast matches in 2022. Turner dislocated his shoulder in his second appearance in his second appearance, and Durham did not win any of their six games after returning to the north group, finishing second last.

Western Australia may have just won back-to-back Marsh Cups, but it was skipper Ashton Turner's daughter Billie who stole the show on Wednesday night that stole the show. When daughter Billie decided enough was enough, Turner, the leader of a golden generation of home-grown Western Australian cricketers, was speaking out on the hallowed WACA grounds. Turner had to rely on a brutal parenting technique to ensure she didn't upstage the presentations.

The Scorchers were expected to win the competition on a resurgent Brisbane Heat team that was aiming to make history. Two quickfire wickets late on swung the game's momentum in the underdogs' favour, but young Cooper Connolly retained his cool to win and set off raucous scenes at Optus.

With a 101-run stand with Phil Salt, opening batter Evans, who had replaced injured Jos Buttler as the originals' captain, fired his side off to a flier in reaction to Spirit's 150. However, Mason Crane (two for 35) and Nathan Ellis (two for 31) gave Eoin Morgan's guys hope until Ashton Turner and Tom Lammonby returned Originals with 11 balls to spare. In Saturday's final, the originals will meet Trent Rockets at Lord's. After Adam Rossington's death to the second game, Ben McDermott and Zak Crawley kept the wicket rolling with a 69-run standoff after Spirit chose to bat first. McDermott was enthralled from ball two, as he thrashed the square boundary before crashing through cover next ball.