Key events
Itâs 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 Harmerâs stats â I know heâs 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, itâll be a Zak Crawley day one way or another.
Apologies for the late start, the dogâs 30 min walk took much longer than intended when she ran away and hid in the long grass. Anyway, itâs 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, whoâd spent the last two days on the physioâs table. âI hope this is a one-off,â said Surrey head coach Gareth Batty afterwards, âI would be very disappointed if it is not.â
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 Lordâs, Sam Robson and Ryan Higgins both made centuries as Middlesex eyed up Sussexâs 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 Glamorganâs 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
Lordâs: Middlesex 403-6 v Sussex 554-9dec
County Ground: Northamptonshire 301 v Yorkshire 362 and 156-5
Preamble
Good morning! Itâs 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. Theyâre still top of the table mind and Essex have some work to do today â minus Sam Cook â if theyâre to get close.
