Brydon Carse scored his second first-class hundred in the County Championship today (August 31), playing his first match since serving his ban for betting offences.
Carse returned to Durham's side for their fixture against Somerset after missing three months of action due to the ban. He was handed a 16-month suspension by the Cricket Discipline Commission in June, with 13 of those months suspended for two years, after he was found to have placed bets on hundreds of cricket matches between 2017 and 2019. There was no suggestion Carse ever placed bets on matches he had been involved in.
Eligible to play again from August 28, Carse was selected in Durham's side days after he was recalled to England's white-ball set-up. He was picked in both the ODI and T20I squads to face Australia in September, having last played an international match on England's tour of the Caribbean in December last year.
BRYDON CARSE!!! 1HUNDRED!!!
— Durham Cricket (@DurhamCricket) August 31, 2024
OUTSTANDING 🤩#ForTheNorth pic.twitter.com/zxdVGrt73p
Batting in Durham's first innings after they bowled Somerset out for 492, Carse came in with his side in trouble at 151-5. In partnership with Ben Raine, Carse brought Durham up past the 300 mark and reached his century off 161 balls. On 98, he came down the wicket to a short ball from Kasey Aldridge and hoiked the ball down to the wide mid-on boundary for a four to get to three figures.
It was Carse's second first-class century, his first coming last year against Derbyshire. He finished on 104 not out when Durham were bowled out for 336, 156 runs behind Somerset's first innings score.
Carse holds an England central contract and has been viewed as a potential option in all three formats. He was part of England Lions' tour to India earlier this year, in which he took seven wickets across two red-ball games, and recorded a top score of 38.
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