Hampshire V Somerset, Warwickshire V Essex, And More: County Cricket – Live

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Somerset’s James Rew was a changeable of ginger connected a rainy Championship day. He purred nan past shot of nan evening to nan statement pinch a cleanable precocious elbow, to decorativeness unbeaten connected 77. With innings of 64, 122 and 48 already this season, Rew’s mean is 100 – numbers to lighten an England selector’s step. Thirteen wickets fell astir him, pinch Jake Lehmann (76), who has stepped into James Vince’s boots, again top-scoring for Hampshire. There were 3 wickets each for Lewis Gregory and Craig Overton.

Essex had clip earlier nan deluge to trim Warwickshire to 113 for 7 – nan pinpoint Jamie Porter starring nan measurement pinch 4 for 36. Sam Hain, pinch 44, was nan stone astir which nan different Warwickshire players grounded to stick. There was a first Essex wicket for Zaman Akhter, a Saca (South Asian Cricket Academy) postgraduate who moved to Chelmsford from Bristol successful nan awesome wintertime ambush connected Gloucestershire’s bowling stocks.

Akhter’s aged nine suffered a mid-order malfunction against Lancashire. Ben Charlesworth and Ollie Price had lifted Gloucestershire to a respectable 80 for one, aft Cameron Bancroft was dopily tally retired for six. But George Balderson (four for 27) past took 3 for 5 earlier and aft lunch, and erstwhile Graeme van Buuren was caught for a three-ball duck, nan innings was successful disarray. Lancashire had their ain problems erstwhile Ajeet Singh Dale limped disconnected nan section pinch a hamstring wounded and was replaced by Ollie Sutton, summoned from a 2nd XI lucifer successful Leicestershire.

Middlesex made a plucky betterment against Northamptonshire connected a bouncy Wantage Road transportation from nan depths of 20 for 3 aft winning nan flip and choosing to bat. Half-centuries from Leus Du Plooy and Ben Geddes and an unbeaten seventh-wicket guidelines of 120 betwixt Zafar Gohar and Joe Cracknell brightened nan scoreboard, earlier bad ray stopped play.

Scores connected nan doors

DIVISION ONE

Southampton: Hampshire 238 v Somerset 154-3

Edgbaston: Warwickshire 113-7 v Essex

DIVISION TWO

Bristol: Gloucestershire 124-6 v Lancashire

Northampton: Northants v Middlesex 284-6

Preamble

Hello! Happy Saturday morning, whitethorn your parkland tally person been fruitful and your java tasty. Four games successful advancement this round, pinch James Rew’s selectorial nudge nan item of time one. Play starts astatine 11am, do propulsion up a seat.