Key events
Monday
Victory for Yorkshire at last, after waving the tablecloth beneath Gloucestershire, taking 13 wickets in one day at Scarborough. Zaman Akhter made a career-best score of 70 for Gloucestershire, while Conor McKer, recruited from Surreyhad a hat-trick in each innings, taking five wickets, and Adam Lyth took the match-winning dive at second to complete a happy three days at home.
Surrey enforced the follow-up action at New Road, but then met with a brave resistance from the WorcestershireGareth Roderick and Kashif Ali who were trouble-free for 34 overs until Jordan Clarke caught Roderick at slip as three wickets fell in the space of 10 balls. Before the game, Jeeton Patel, England’s bowling coach, was overseeing Surrey’s Dan Lawrence and Shoaib Bashir in the middle.
James Vince and Liam Dawson slightly rocked to their first Championship centuries of the summer as Hampshire piled up the tracks at Edgbaston. Vince was unbeaten at 166 when he announced, betting Warwickshire 498 to win on a flat pitch under the hot sun.
Paul Walter danced to a quick second hundred of the championship at Chelmsford but Durham beaten through the rest, Matthew Potts quickly hammered four for 71. Durham did not enforce the following and Essex 433 were set in the last day.
Lancashire there was Kent on the ropes at Canterbury after Josh Bohannon fired up his previously static car with 205 and Lancashire cruised through Kent’s second innings. Three late wickets from Jack Carlson Sussex in an excellent position against LeicestershireHove’s pitch is beginning to turn and the visitors need another 325 runs with just five wickets remaining.
Haseeb Hameed lost his stumps on 91 as Nottinghamshire fight against Somerset. Michael Pretorius had earlier helped Somerset to a first innings lead with an unbeaten 95, while Dylan Pennington took his first five-fer for Notts. Toby Roland-Jones grabbed five wickets as Derbyshire exploded in the first hour with the Lord. They will need 396 to win Middlesex.
RIP Frank Duckworth.
Door scores
DIVISION ONE
Chelmsford: Essex 339 and 28-1 v Durham 587 and 184-8dec
Canterbury: Kent 244 and 143-6 v Lancashire 549-9 Dec
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 360 and 177-1 against Somerset’s 470
Edgbaston: Warwickshire 254 and 40-1 vs Hampshire 298 and 453-6
New way: Worcestershire 212 and 207-5 v Surrey 490
SECOND DIVISION
Sofia Gardens: Glamorgan 490 v Northamptonshire 279 and 236-4
Lord’s: Middlesex 433 and 302 v Derbyshire 339
Hove: Sussex 442 and 296-6dec v Leicestershire 275 and 139-5
Scarborough: Yorkshire 456 WON Gloucestershire 197 and 237 BY AN INNINGS AND 22 RUNS
Preamble
Good morning! The heat is on, with temperatures reaching 30 degrees in the south. The ground is empty at Scarborough and the clock is ticking at Canterbury and New Road, but enough to keep us busy as we lounge with lime and soda and soft covers under an old oak tree.
