Key events
Feels like Lord’s could do with a rain shower – Middlesex seven runs short of parity to make it over 1100 runs in the match so far.
And Shane Snater makes the breakthrough at Canterbury – 83-6.
Kent’s progress rather smoother after lunch, Denly and Evison digging their heels in. Kent 79-5, 118 behind.
No other Division One cricket happening. This looks worth a read
Rain news -raining against at New Road – time to pack up and call it a day there I think. Rain at The County Ground, just after the dangerous Emilio Gay was dismissed for two.
With a thud, lands another threat to the English cricketing summer.
And the 1.30 start at OT is duly delayed by rain…
Play delayed till 1.30 at OT, but I can report skies darkening again.
Lunchtime scores
DIVISION ONE
Chester-le-Street: Durham 265 BEAT Somerset 171 and 88 BY AN INNINGS AND SIX RUNS
Southampton: Hampshire 608-6dec BEAT Surrey 127 and 203 BY AN INNINGS AND 278 RUNS
Canterbury: Kent 394 and 64-5 v Essex 591-7dec
Old Trafford: Lancashire 149 v Warwickshire 284 and 96-3 no play before lunch
New Road: Worcestershire 80 v Nottinghamshire 234-3
no play before lunch
DIVISION TWO
Bristol: Gloucestershire 530 v Derbyshire 526
Grace Road: Leicestershire 343-9dec v Glamorgan 387 and 84-3
Lord’s: Middlesex 508-8 v Sussex 554-9dec
County Ground: Northamptonshire 301 and 13-0 v Yorkshire 362 and 264-6dec Northants need 313 to win
And to complete the set, Gloucestershire have passed 500, Webster not out 62 (Chappell 5-52) in another high-scoring stalemate; and a game bubbling at Grace Road where Glamorgan lead Leics by 120 in their second innings, seven wickets in hand.
Oh, and Finch unwisely opts for a reverse-sweep against Harmer. The inevitable finger rises. Kent 58-5, still 139 behind.
Harmer pulls out one of his one-kneed pleas of desperation against Finch.
In Division Two: Yorkshire have declared after Masood took 17 from Rob Keogh’s over. The lead 325. Can Yorkshire claim a win in the fist half of the season?
And a high-scoring game drifting to a close at Lord’s, where Fernandes is unbeaten on 82 and Carson has 4-137. Middx still trail Sussex by 61.
The wicket at Canterbury suddenly looking mischievous. Harmer hurrying through each ball on a endless loop, three close fielders crouch and mutter. Denly isn’t having it and breaks the circuit by sweeping Harmer for four.
Double strike for Essex – first Harmer gets O’Riordan, then Critchley traps DBD lbw with a low scutter . Kent 45-4.
Leading run scorers
Division One’s leading run scorers in this 8-match clump: Bedingham – 795 at 88.33, Jordan Cox 731 at 73.10, Alex Davies 672 at 67.20, Keaton Jennings 649 at 59, Joe Clarke 629 at 69.89, DBD 618 at 56.18
Division Two: Colin Ingram 697 at 99.57, Northeast 586 at 73, Emilio Gay 541 at 67.63, Higgins 530 at 106, du Plooy 522 at 74.57
At Bristol, Gloucestershire have bagged maximum batting points, but motor onwards. Yesterday’s power couple – Bracey and van Buuren – both out now, Bracey for 144 and van Buuren for 187 – three sixes and 23 fours. Currently 484-7, 40 behind Derbyshire, three wickets for Chappell.
At Canterbury, which doesn’t look at its sunny best, the physio is checking that O’Riordan is ok after being hit on the helmet. Kent 36-2, time for another DBD special.
Lunch has now been pushed forward to 12.30 at Old Trafford, with a start at 1.10 – weather permitting!
An early lunch at New Road, alongside an inspection at half past 12.
In the one Division One game in play, Simon Harmer has just got Mr reliable Ben Compton lbw for 12! Kent are 2 down following on.
100 for Shan Masood
Comes up with four through third man, his second century of the season. Yorkshire now have a lead of 262 – presume they’ll get a bit of a move on now if they can.
Hosing it down here in Manchester – though play is due to start at 12.15. All depends whether OT can dodge the showers. Roses, honeysuckle, cricket pitch, all sad and soggy.
Hello Nick Richards. “Sorry to bother you but do you know why Hants got 23 points?
“The win is 16, 3 bowling points and 2 batting points makes 21. (Between 300 and 350 at 110 overs).I can’t find an explanation anywhere.”
Hmmm, I make it 16 for a win, three bowling points, two batting points too. Mea culpa, I just copied 23 points from the report and didn’t do the maths.Ah, have just checked with the tables: Hants had 64 points before this game and now have 85, so 21 it is.
Chris Jordan on his good friend Jofra Archer:
It’s raining at Grace Road
In Div 2 the leading wicket-takers are: Seales (23), Coad (21), Sanderson and de Lange (18)
It is a bad sort of Zak Crawley day, lbw for one to Shane Snater. Not the start Kent were looking for.
Just looked up Simon Harmer’s stats – I know he’s a slow starter but this season has been unfruitful ( by his lofty standards) so far = 14 wickets at 45. By comparison, Liam Dawson has 27 at 25.
In Division One the leading wicket takers are Cook and Porter (29), Worrall (28), Dawson (27) and Pennington (24).
Kent are following on, it’ll be a Zak Crawley day one way or another.
Apologies for the late start, the dog’s 30 min walk took much longer than intended when she ran away and hid in the long grass. Anyway, it’s raining at Old Trafford, raining at NewRoad.
Sunday’s round-up
Surrey suffered a calamitous tumble down the staircase of fortune as the locked-in Championship favourites were beaten by an innings and 278 runs by Hampshire, their largest hiding in a Championship match. Felix Organ (five for 104) and Liam Dawson (four for 45) ripped through the Surrey card with feisty forties from Dans Worrall and Lawrence the only real resistance, save for a stoical 19 not out off 107 balls from Ben Foakes, who’d spent the last two days on the physio’s table. “I hope this is a one-off,” said Surrey head coach Gareth Batty afterwards, “I would be very disappointed if it is not.”
Warwickshire slowly clenched the glove at Old Trafford as Lancashire collapsed to 149 all out, losing six for 36 either side of lunch – including Keaton Jennings, lbw for a limpet-like 36. The unlikely destroyers were spinners Jacob Bethell (a career-best four for 20) and Jake Lintott (a career best three for 10). It was the third time Lancashire had been dismissed for less than 150 in their first innings this season. Warwickshire then built a lead of 231 with some flowing panache from Ed Barnard and Dan Mousley, before thunder, lighting and rain brought the players off.
Kent battered down the hatches till the last over of the day at Canterbury, keeping Essex at bay with eighties from Joe Denly and Harry Finch and a career-best 48 from nightwatchman Matt Parkinson. There were five wickets for Matt Critchley, but Essex were hamstrung by the absence of the injured Sam Cook. Essex lead by 197 going into the final day. Runs continued to flow at Lord’s, Sam Robson and Ryan Higgins both made centuries as Middlesex eyed up Sussex’s 554-9dec.
Rain truncated play at Bristol, where James Bracey (137) and Graeme van Buuren (156) added 156 in 21 overs with a smash and grab attack on the Derbyshire new ball before the rain fell. Their stand of 268 overhauled the previous Gloucestershire record for the fifth wicket, held by WG Grace and William Moberly.
Rotten weather also at The County Ground where Yorkshire captain Shan Masood picked up a wrist injury but bombasted a boundary heavy 82 not out to give Yorkshire a lead of 217 over Northamptonshire. At Grace Road, Leicestershire declared 44 in arrears after a puzzling period of play when their scoring rate almost ground to a halt. There was time for Glamorgan’s Billy Root to be bowled by Matt Salisbury before the umbrellas opened. There was no play at all at New Road.
Scores on the doors
DIVISION ONE
Chester-le-Street: Durham 265 BEAT Somerset 171 and 88 BY AN INNINGS AND SIX RUNS
Southampton: Hampshire 608-6dec BEAT Surrey 127 and 203 BY AN INNINGS AND 278 RUNS
Canterbury: Kent 394 v Essex 591-7dec
Old Trafford: Lancashire 149 v Warwickshire 284 and 96-3
New Road: Worcestershire 80 v Nottinghamshire 234-3
No play today.
DIVISION TWO
Bristol: Gloucestershire 399-4 v Derbyshire 526
Grace Road: Leicestershire 343-9dec v Glamorgan 387 and 14-1
Lord’s: Middlesex 403-6 v Sussex 554-9dec
County Ground: Northamptonshire 301 v Yorkshire 362 and 156-5
Preamble
Good morning! It’s the final day of CCLive! for a while, so pull up your chair and join the throng. Yesterday, Surrey had a most surprising fall from grace, a exultant towelling by Hampshire, by an innings and 278 runs. They’re still top of the table mind and Essex have some work to do today – minus Sam Cook – if they’re to get close.