County cricket: Middlesex beat Yorkshire, Essex thrash Lancashire and more – as it happened
by The Guardian
The Guardian— Yorkshire were narrowly beaten at Lord’s while Lancashire succumbed to Essex by an innings and 124 runsOnly one of Dan Lawrence and Dom Sibley has hit a six at Canterbury, and it isn’t the one you think. Sibley hovering on 99, Lawrence, getting his eye in, 39. Surrey 213-1.Yorkshire inching up into tricky target territory at Lord’s. George Hill still there, on 63, but has lost Ben Coad to Ethan Bamber. Continue reading
The Guardian—County cricket: Surrey v Hampshire, Gloucs v Middlesex and more – as it happened. Surrey closed in on what would be a second win of the season with Ollie Pope’s fielding to the foreThere’s justice in there somewhere. Worcestershire get onto the green first.To sum up: play abandoned for the day at Grace Road, no play anywhere now, no play before lunch at The Oval, but, like a snowdrop in January, a pitch inspection at 11.30 at Bristol. Continue reading
The Guardian—County cricket: Durham v Essex, Surrey v Hampshire – as it happened. Joe Root and Harry Brook helped Yorkshire to maximum batting points at Headingley to leave Derbyshire in a tricky spotBen Raine giving Dean Elgar a thorough working over from the Lumley end. But he survives. Essex 33-0.Gets there with a single, what riches after a run of lowish scores. High praise for Duckett yesterday from both his teammate (Ben Slater) “Ben batted really well. We know how good he is. I think he has been a bit annoyed to miss out in the first couple of games, but he has had a...
The Independent—Essex beat Lancashire to claim their second win of County Championship season. Jamie Porter picked up the first of nine wickets to fall in the session.