Worcestershire keeper-batter Gareth Roderick has set a record with the most dismissals in this year's Metro Bank One Day Cup.

Staving off a late challenge by Glamorgan's Will Smale in this week's final against Somerset, Roderick wrapped up the 50-over tournament with 23 victims – 19 catches and four stumpings in eight matches.

Just before the final match at Trent Bridge, 33-year-old Roderick was three dismissals ahead of Smale.


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Although Smale managed two early catches in the final, he couldn't close the gap.

But he got the last laugh as Glamorgan did go on to lift the trophy with a 15-run win in a match reduced to 20 overs per side.

Next in line for most dismissals in the tournament was Joshua Blake of Surrey and Ben Brown of Hampshire, who both had 14 apiece to their names.

Roderick's success is just a continuation of his current form, having claimed the second most dismissals so far in Division One of the Vitality County Championship, being for 45 dismissals, all caught, second only to Surrey's Ben Foakes with 52.

Roderick was not the only Pear grabbing headlines either, as Worcestershire opener Jake Libby finished the One Day Cup as the second-highest run scorer in the 2024 tournament with 526 runs.

Libby's memorable campaign included a century and five fifties, surpassed only by Leicestershire's Peter Handscomb who scored only 13 more with 539 to his name.