Resuming on 111-4 with a lead of 145, Simpson and Ibrahim were tested by Potts and Ben Raine. Sussex continued their plan of taking time out of the game, with the pair rarely letting their rearguard action slip in the first hour. Potts had a couple of lbw shouts against Ibrahim turned down as the...
Glamorgan started the final day on 131-3 after Northeast and Ingram had survived the final session on day three. They serenely added a further 83 in the morning sunshine with few alarms, as Leicestershire were left ruing Rehan Ahmed’s inability to bowl because of a side strain which is set to rule him out of...
Pocketing 12 points for a draw with Yorkshire was enough to keep Nottinghamshire top of the County Championship table with eight of 14 matches played. They now find defending champions Surrey breathing down their necks, though, after the match at Trent Bridge ended in stalemate, the game coming to an end when the home side...
Tom Westley and Michael Pepper combined for a 215-run sixth-wicket partnership that frustrated Hampshire and ultimately saved Essex from suffering their third County Championship defeat of the season. The pair came together at 131-5, still 26 runs short of making Hampshire bat again, and were not parted for nearly three-and-a-half hours. Slowly but surely they...
Centuries by Luke Wells, Josh Bohannon and Ashton Turner on debut have given Lancashire a chance of defeating Kent on the final day of the County Championship match at Blackpool and thereby securing their first red-ball victory of the season. Replying to the visitors’ 374, Lancashire were 639-9 at the close after a day in...
Somerset’s seamers opened up superbly after Warwickshire resumed on the third morning on 158-1. Matt Henry bottled up his fellow Kiwi Latham with a sequence of maidens before, still to add to his overnight score, he drove at one that nipped away and edged to wicketkeeper James Rew. Five overs and just six runs later,...
Leicestershire began day three on 389-3 but the new ball was available in the second over, with James Harris and Timm van der Gugten quickly getting rid of night-watchman Chris Wright for 19 and Lewis Hill for 70, both caught at slip by Colin Ingram. After the pyrotechnics of the Foxes’ batters the previous day,...
Opener Finlay Bean put a difficult start to the season firmly behind him, compiling a superb maiden double hundred spanning more than nine hours as Yorkshire fought back against County Championship leaders Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge. Replying to the home side’s 487, Yorkshire – with only one win so far after winning promotion to Division...
Resuming on 249-5 and still 112 short of Sussex’s 361, Durham had seen Graham Clark go on to a half-century before he gloved behind a short ball from Ollie Robinson to be out for 51. But their chances of taking a first innings lead disappeared thanks to a series of rash strokes from the lower...
The hosts began the day on 62-1, needing a further 149 to avoid an innings defeat. Bancroft and Ollie Price faced a short wait to resume their innings as overnight rain delayed the start until 11.30am. It said much about how little the pitch had offered the seamers that Zak Chappell opened the Derbyshire bowling...
Josh de Caires struck 87, his highest first-class score, following a five-for by Zafar Gohar to put Middlesex in a strong position at the end of day three of their County Championship match against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road. Playing his first game of the season, de Caires, who has batted at seven for the last...
Liam Dawson enjoyed the sort of day all-rounders dream of with a resilient century followed by two key Essex wickets as Hampshire took a firm grip on their County Championship match at Chelmsford. The England white-ball international’s 139 from 235 balls, and a fifth-wicket partnership of 133 with fellow centurion Tilak Varma, underpinned Hampshire’s first-innings...
After surviving the late Surrey barrage on Day Two, Worcestershire pair Adam Hose and Ben Allison started the morning in buoyant fashion, adding 66 for the fifth wicket. But Smith continued his memorable return to the county where he played last year, picking up the wickets of both Allison (27) and Hose (40) in consecutive...
Nottinghamshire piled 155 in the morning session on to their overnight 298-6 for the loss of only two more wickets. Kishan, dropped at mid-wicket off Jack White without addition to his 44 overnight, advanced to 87 from 98 balls before being caught there off Dom Bess, having struck 12 fours and a six down the...
Careless batting and missed opportunities in the field cost Somerset a position of dominance against Warwickshire on the second day of their County Championship match at Edgbaston. On a pitch which is excellent for batting, Somerset were 407-3 but collapsed to 498 all out – a total that insures against defeat but does not apply...