Worcestershire V Nottinghamshire, Surrey V Warwickshire And More: County Cricket, Day Four – Live

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Wednesday's round-up

Rain and bad light stalked nan Championship but nan skies cleared conscionable capable for Nottinghamshire to move towards triumph astatine New Road and group up a tantalising lucifer pinch nan leaders, Surrey, adjacent week.

Lyndon James (five for 35) and Josh Tongue (four for 52) whistled done Worcestershire. Tom Taylor past bowled Haseeb Hameed for nought for nan 2nd time, but Ben Slater and Freddie McCann reduced Notts’ target to 96.

Surrey, meanwhile, utilized their patches of clear entity wisely. Ollie Pope, Ben Foakes and Dan Lawrence added 95, to compile a lead of 274 complete Warwickshire.

Matthew Potts, pulled retired of nan Ireland white-ball bid by England to get immoderate red-ball overs, picked up 3 wickets for Durham on a docile transportation against Essex at Chelmsford. “I deliberation it is cleanable to person a small tally of reddish ball. I felt successful bully hit location and felt a spot much for illustration myself and bowled nicely.”

Another charming period from Saif Zaib made him nan first Northants batsman to deed six hundreds successful a play since Lance Klusener successful 2006. He shimmied 22 fours and 2 sixes to frustrate Glamorgan, earlier he was tally retired to a fumble-turned-direct-hit for 145.

Ekansh Singh’s 30 not retired held nan Kent innings together arsenic they inched towards a defendable total. There were 2 much wickets for Lancashire’s Mitch Stanley.

Shan Masood duly eased to an elegant 100 connected Championship debut astatine Grace Road, connected an eventful time betwixt nan showers, which included a Leicestershire collapse of six for 22 and a blotter spraying debris each complete Gloucestershire’s believe equipment. Leicestershire will corroborate promotion pinch a tie connected Thursday, if location is besides a tie astatine Lord’s – which tin only beryllium avoided pinch immoderate innovative number-crunching by Middlesex and Derbyshire. Just 10 overs were imaginable successful northbound London, capable for Caleb Jewell to walk 1,000 Championship runs for nan play and get out.

During nan very little spell of clear upwind astatine Taunton, Somerset hurried towards a declaration against Yorkshire.

Scores connected nan doors

DIVISION ONE

Chelmsford: Essex 457-8 v Durham 333

Taunton: Somerset 441-6dec v Yorkshire

The Oval: Surrey 246 and 276-2 v Warwickshire 248

Hove: Sussex 122 and 37-1 Hampshire 226 and 173

New Road: Worcestershire 182 and 160 v Nottinghamshire 207 AND 40-1 Notts request 96 to win

DIVISION TWO

Canterbury: Kent 293 and 206-5 v Lancashire 284

Grace Road: Leicestershire 342 v Gloucestershire 482 and 10-0

Lord’s: Middlesex 298 v Derbyshire 283 and 33-1

Northampton: Northants 413-9 v Glamorgan 467

Preamble

Good morning! Another agleam September greeting to clasp onto and ne'er fto go. Day 4 astir nan grounds, pinch eyes peculiarly connected New Road, The Oval and Lord’s (if they tin manufacture a result). Do subordinate us, play starts astatine 10.30am.