Northamptonshire 290 for 6 (Keogh 102, Curran 69) Leicestershire 261 for 9 (Mike 41, Buck 3-44) by 29 runs

A century from Rob Keogh was the highlight as Northamptonshire defeated Midlands rivals Leicestershire more comfortably than the winning margin suggested in the battle to avoid the wooden spoon in the North Group of the Royal London Cup.

Keogh's fifth-wicket partnership of 156 with Ben Curran saw his team recover from 104 for 4 off 25.2 overs to post a record score for the Steelbacks against the Foxes in List A cricket.

Leicestershire struggled throughout their reply, and there was no way back for the Foxes after Nathan Buck, a former Leicestershire player, picked up the wickets of Lewis Hill and Colin Ackermann, who had added 47 for the Foxes' fourth wicket, in the same over, though the tail fought bravely to bring respectability to the scoreboard in the final 20 overs.

Alex Wakely's decision to bat first after winning the toss looked questionable after Northants lost two early wickets, openers Ricardo Vasconcelos bowled by a quick in-swinging delivery from left-arm seamer Dieter Klein, and Richard Levi caught at mid-off after attempting to drive a length delivery from Mohammad Abbas.

It could and should have been worse for the visitors, Josh Cobb being badly dropped by Harry Dearden, on 1, and then by Ben Mike, on 2, in both cases off the bowling of the unfortunate Klein. The allrounder, formerly of Leicestershire, might also have been run out on 16, but Harry Swindells missed the stumps with Cobb well out of his ground.

Wakely, by contrast, played fluently in going to 36, but missed a sweep at left-arm spinner Callum Parkinson and was given out lbw before Cobb's luck ran out when he was on 43, Foxes triallist George Munsey taking a smart one-handed catch above his head.

At 104 for 4 the innings was very much in the balance, but Keogh and Curran batted intelligently in compiling a partnership of 156 for the fifth wicket. Avoiding unnecessary risks, they worked the ball into gaps in the field and ran hard, with Keogh hitting only two fours in reaching his half-century off 56 balls, Curran four boundaries in reaching his, off 55 deliveries.

Thereafter they accelerated impressively and although Curran was eventually run out for 69, Keogh's second 50 took just 28 balls before he holed out to long-off off Abbas the ball after reaching the second List A century of his career.

Leicestershire's reply began badly. Vasconcelos took a fine catch behind the wicket, diving to his right as Dearden inside edged an inswinger from Ben Sanderson, and the Yorkshirman struck again when another full inswinger saw Munsey dismissed leg before.

Mark Cosgrove, on 11, shuffled down the wicket, swung across the line at a straight delivery from Luke Procter, missed and was bowled, but Hill and Ackermann had begun to look threatening when Hill pulled a short ball from Buck straight into the hands of Brett Hutton at deep square leg.

Two balls later Ackermann contrived to glove a slow leg-side bouncer from Buck, Vasconcelos diving forward to hold the catch, and though there were good late efforts from Tom Taylor, Mike and Parkinson, the Foxes never really looked capable of chasing down their target.

Warwickshire 256 for 5 (Hain 84*, Banks 61, Anderson 3-21) beat Lancashire 277 for 7 (Vilas 83, Thomson 3-27) by five wickets (DLS method)

Lancashire missed out on a chance to secure qualification from the Royal London Cup group stage following a five-wicket Duckworth-Lewis-Stern defeat to Warwickshire. The Red Rose, having finished their campaign, need other results to go their way on Monday after the home side chased down a DLS target of 255 in 45 overs with two balls to spare.

Lancashire amassed 277 for 7 thanks to skipper Dane Vilas's 83 from 79 ball, supported by a series of small contributions. Alex Thomson continued his fine tournament with List A-best figures of 10-1-27-3, including a burst of three wickets in 12 balls.

The home side then recovered from a superb opening spell of 8-2-15-3 from James Anderson to time their pursuit to perfection to the delight of a bumper Community Fun Day crowd at Edgbaston. Liam Banks struck 61 before Sam Hain saw the job through with consummate skill, his unbeaten 84, raising further his remarkable List A career-average of 58.

Put in, Lancashire lost Haseeb Hameed to the eighth ball of the innings, lbw to an Olly Hannon-Dalby inswinger. But after a slow start, just six runs from the first five overs, they accelerated through a succession of solid partnerships.

Keaton Jennings and Steven Croft added 56 in 12 overs and, after Jennings was bowled by Jeetan Patel, Croft and Vilas added 40 in seven before Croft played on to George Panayi.

Vilas and Jake Lehmann kept the scoreboard ticking over with 80 in 15 overs but Thomson applied a brake with two wickets in three balls. Lehmann drove to mid-off and Rob Jones reverse-swept his second ball to gully. When Vilas missed a cut at Thomson and was bowled, Lancashire were 192 for 6 and in danger of coming in short, but Josh Bohannon and Saqib Mahmood added 83 in 12 overs to get the total up around par.

Warwickshire's reply started briskly but was pegged back by a high-class spell from Anderson. He bowled Dominic Sibley off an inside edge then produced perfect offcutters to force fatal edges to wicketkeeper Vilas from Ed Pollock and Will Rhodes.

Hain and Banks retrenched with a stand, twice interrupted by rain, of 111 in 22 overs. They posted their half-centuries from successive deliveries, from 73 and 59 balls respectively, Hain achieving the unusual feat of reaching 50 without hitting a four.

After another rain break altered the target again, Warwickshire resumed needing 96 from 11 overs and soon lost Banks who lifted Graham Onions to deep extra cover. But Hain, now batting with a runner after hurting a knee scrambling for a single, added 40 in five overs with Woakes and then Alex Mellor arrived to inject the required impetus with two sixes in a Matt Parkinson over.

Chris Gayle will return to Jamaica Tallawahs in the CPL after a gap of two seasons. Tallawahs announced Gayle as their marquee player on Saturday for the upcoming season in September-October, with the draft scheduled to take place on May 22.

"We are delighted to have Chris playing for his home team for the 2019 season," Tallawahs COO Jefferson Miller said in a release. "There is no bigger name in Twenty20 cricket, and we can't wait for him to arrive and make the Jamaican fans proud. We are looking forward to Chris being a big part of our push for a third CPL title."

Gayle previously led Tallawahs to their two titles in 2013 and 2016, and also top-scored in both those finals against Guyana Amazon Warriors. He left them after the 2016 season to join St Kitts and Nevis Patriots and led them to the final in 2017 and the playoffs in 2018. Returning to his home team now, he will be one of the captaincy options for Tallawahs.

Gayle is the leading run-scorer in CPL with a tally of 2111 and has three centuries in the league, all for Tallawahs. They will be playing five home games at Sabina Park this time, once the tournament starts on September 4.

Gayle will be playing the World Cup - after which he is expected to retire from ODIs - having ended the IPL in good form this year. He scored 462 runs in 12 innings at a strike rate of 158.76 and average of 42, with four half-centuries, for Kings XI Punjab.

LAS VEGAS -- Daniel Jacobs badly missed weight at a contractually agreed-upon weight check on Saturday morning ahead of his mega fight with Canelo Alvarez at T-Mobile Arena.

The fight to unify their three middleweight title belts is still on for later Saturday (DAZN, 9 p.m. ET). Jacobs, while still eligible to win the titles, will take a financial hit and has angered Alvarez.

Jacobs was 173.6 pounds, well over the 170-pound rehydration limit they had in their contract. Alvarez was 169 pounds, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya told ESPN.

Both sides initially told ESPN that there was a confidentiality clause in the contract that prevented either side from publicly disclosing the weigh-check weights, but De La Hoya later went on the record about it.

"Jacobs came in heavy. It is what it is," De La Hoya said. "We spoke to Canelo and his attitude is, 'I don't care. I'm still gonna kick his ass.' Canelo is pissed off and he wants to kick his ass. Canelo was 169, solid and feeling stronger than ever. But the fact that Jacobs came in heavy tells you a lot. It tells you how unsure he is in himself."

They both made the 160-pound middleweight division limit Friday afternoon with Alvarez weighing 159.5 pounds and Jacobs at 160, but they were subject to a weight check at 8 a.m. PT in their respective hotel suites with a member of the other camp on hand to observe -- a contractual clause demanded by Alvarez's team because of Jacobs' size advantage.

But Jacobs either could not or did not want to hold his weight down and put himself at a physical disadvantage by being weak for the fight, so he was not even close to 170.

De La Hoya declined to discuss the financial penalty specifics, but a source with knowledge of the deal told ESPN that because Jacobs was over, he is subject to a $250,000 fine per pound plus the fraction thereof that he was over 170 pounds. That means Jacobs would be fined $1 million from his guarantee of more than $10 million, although his promoter, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing, said Wednesday he might pay the fine if Jacobs was over.

De La Hoya said he understood Alvarez's anger but that he was not too upset over it.

"My thought is as long as both guys made 160 and Canelo looked the stronger fighter during the weigh-in [Friday], that's all that matters," De La Hoya said. "We have a fight."

The Jacobs camp declined to comment immediately following the weight check, citing the confidentiality clause, and then could not be reached following De La Hoya's public disclosure.

It was not the first time Jacobs has had issues with a weight check on the morning of a fight. When he met then-unified world champion Gennady Golovkin in a 2017 middleweight title fight, Jacobs blew off the IBF's mandated weight check entirely and was not eligible to win that specific belt later that night in what turned out to be a close decision loss.

British number one Johanna Konta missed out on her first WTA clay-court title after Greece's Maria Sakkari fought back to win the Morocco Open.

Konta led by a set and a break before Sakkari won 10 of the final 11 games to seal a 2-6 6-4 6-1 victory in Rabat.

Britain's two-time Grand Slam semi-finalist served strongly in the opening set before unforced errors crept in.

Sakkari sealed her first WTA title with a forehand winner on her second championship point.

The 23-year-old fell on her back on the red clay before kissing the surface in celebration after being congratulated at the net by Konta.

Clay-court encouragement for Konta despite defeat

Konta, 27, climbed to fourth in the world after her run to the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2017, having reached the last four at the Australian Open the previous year, but has not replicated her grass and hard-court success on the clay.

She has a lower winning percentage on the red dirt and has lost all four of her main-draw matches at the French Open, which is the only Grand Slam on the surface.

However, an encouraging week in Rabat showed the world number 47 does possess the game to improve that record when the French Open begins on 26 May.

After surviving three match points in her opening match, seventh seed Konta also came through three-set matches in the next two rounds before beating semi-final opponent Ajla Tomljanovic in straight sets.

Those exertions earlier in the week meant Konta had spent three hours longer on court than Sakkari, the Briton seeming to tire in the deciding set as a result.

Konta's first-service percentage dropped from 81% in the first set to 46% in the third, with Sakkari not mustering a single break point until she took her first opportunity when Konta led 4-3 in the second set.

That shifted the momentum to the Greek sixth seed, who had not dropped a set on the way to her second WTA final and first showpiece on clay.

Konta began to make more unforced errors and, after levelling the match and then breaking in the fourth game of the decider, world number 51 Sakkari cruised towards victory.

Nevertheless, Konta will be positives about her performances in Rabat before heading to the Madrid Open on Monday and will rise up to 41st in the world as a result of her run.

Analysis

Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent

Possibly fatigue was a factor, but this time - unlike in Easter weekend's Fed Cup tie and in her previous matches in Rabat - Konta was unable to close out a winning position.

It was a hugely encouraging week up until that point, and five clay-court matches should come in very handy for the tougher challenges ahead in Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros.

Konta is back on the cusp of the world's top 40, but success comes with strings attached.

The British number one must now play Alison Riske in Madrid on early Sunday evening, with French Open champion Simona Halep likely to await the winner in the second round.