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Durham completed a 10-wicket win over Gloucestershire to cement their place at the top of Division Two
In a round for bowlers, Clarke has stood tall. Notts 321-7 and searching for batting points.
Ha, I missed that Gloucestershire opened with Ollie Price’s loopy loops. Silly season a month early.
Continue reading...George Hill and Ben Cliff brought fireworks to Scarborough while Dean Elgar’s four-hour stand turned up the heat on Surrey
There is play at last at the big beast bash at Edgbaston, but it isn’t going so well for Notts, who are 19 for 2 after losing Hameed and McCann for ducks.
As that man Ben Sanderson spoils the dream with a nipbacker into the pads. Kent 170 for one.
Continue reading...Brydon Carse took two early wickets as Durham took the upper hand against Gloucestershire while Sam Cook led the way for Essex against Surrey
Shackles Gloucestershire’s Joe Phillips with his sixth ball.
An early wicket at Scarborough on the mottled outfield grass, Adam Lyth obligingly nudging behind. Yorks 5-1.
Continue reading...Nottinghamshire are in pole position but Somerset and Warwickshire are breathing down the champions’ necks
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Bohannon, averaging 19.52 this season, pushes forward defensively but it’s a zinger from Luke Procter who, along with James Anderson, is only remaining player from Lancashire’s 2011 Championship winning side still on the pitch.
Fact of the day from Paul Edwards: Procter, who was a qualified electrician, considering a plumbing career, and training as a hairdresser when at OT, has just signed a new two-year contract with Northants which will take him to 40.
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Headbanded Randell to Stokes. A healthy crowd watch from the white bucket seats in the permanent-temporary stand. Stokes leaves one that slides across his stumps.
An edge from Stokes…skews through the slips.
Continue reading...Cricket fans were treated to a few thrills this week. It’s just a shame the season is now on pause until late August
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Continue reading...Essex have are top at the halfway mark, but another seven counties are within striking distance
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Continue reading...Meanwhile there was high drama at Wantage Road, where Calvin Harrison blazed 92 from 100 balls to give Northamptonshire a seven-wicket victory over Gloucestershire with just 13 balls to spare
Mostly positive, with sunny spells, though there are some showers moving north and east. At Wantage Road, they’re starting to mop up.
A huge wicket! Joe Clarke is bowled by Jake Ball, who was substituted in half way through the game because of Gregory’s hamstring. Delight for Somerset, despair for Clarke who was done for pace. Notts 51-4,
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Time to go round the grounds on this sleepy Sunday, Lancashire making a better fist of things this morning at Stanley Park, 31-1. The sun is even straining to come out from net curtain clouds. Matt Milnes has swapped to the north end.
Harry Singh, slip catcher extraordinaire, is caught by his Kent counterpart, Ben Dawkins, off Hasan Mahmud’s first over of the day. Lancashire 19-1.
Continue reading...Essex’s Jordan Cox scores 184 at Grace Road while Lancashire’s Liam Livingstone grabs five wickets against Kent
Delays at Grace Road, Trent Bridge and Blackpool, but all up and running otherwise.
Shoaib Bashir though is playing for Derbyshire up at CLS, and ex Derbyshire bowler Duanne Olivier for Durham, but no sign yet of Ben Stokes.
Continue reading... Updates from the final day’s play at the Oval
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With dancing feet, Lawrence pushes into the offside to reach another fifty – off just 35 balls. He’s averaging an incredible 80.88 at the moment, with four hundreds. And every time he has reached fifty this season, he’s gone on to three figures. Hampshire might just have to grin and bear it.
Sibley and Lawrence are very eager between the wickets now – the 50 partnership comes up in a rapid 53 balls and, with another quick single, there’s another fifty for Sibley – his second of the season, to go with his two centuries.
Continue reading...The visitors reduced Surrey to 57 for two by the end of play at the Oval and they trail by by 145 runs
Lehmann and Prest in the middle; Topley, leaping up and down at the top of his mark, to finish his over. And the sun is out.
Just realised I’ve been watching the covers on day two on the stream. No wonder it all looked so familiar. Play is actually about to start at The Oval!
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Will Jacks is batting at No. 3 for Surrey in his first Championship outing this summer after a period with Mumbai Indians in the IPL. In England’s winter Ashes stumble down the stairs, Jacks collected 363 runs and took six wickets in his four games.
Burns prods obediently forward and the ball skits through the gate and sends the off stump tumbling
Continue reading...Some unexpected teams lead the way as the group stage of the T20 Blast approaches its halfway point
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