Summary

  • Rocky Flintoff is out first ball as Surrey beat Lancashire by an innings and 63 runs

  • Worcestershire beat bottom-of-the-table Kent by eight wickets

  • Daniel Hogg takes 7-66 as Durham beat Nottinghamshire by an innings and 17 runs

  • Alex Davies makes 131 as Warwickshire draw with Somerset

  • Tom Prest & Toby Albert score hundreds in Hants v Essex draw

  • Middlesex stay second in Division Two with final-session victory over Northants

  • Jonny Bairstow out for nought but Yorkshire beat Sussex by four wickets

  • Derbyshire defeat Glamorgan by 10 wickets - first home Championship win since 2019

  • Gloucestershire draw with Leicestershire when rain ends play early

  1. WICKET Sheat lbw Reece 10published at 12:14 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Derbys 429 v Glamorgan 168 & 286-9

    Fraser Sheat is not happy with this leg-before decision.

    Did he hit it? Was it going down leg? Probably the latter but he has to go and Luis Reece has the wicket to his name.

    Glamorgan's lead is just 25. A finish pre-lunch is very likely now.

  2. 250 runs

    250 up for Nottspublished at 12:13 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Durham 531-7 dec v Notts 229 & 252-8 (f-o)

    Olly Stone breaks a string of 18 dot balls as he picks up his third four of the morning, this time off Callum Parkinson.

    It takes the visitors past 250 and brings the deficit down to exactly fifty.

  3. 50 runs

    for Rishi Patelpublished at 12:11 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Glos 544-4 dec v Leics 402 & 108-0

    Ian Holland and Rishi PatelImage source, Rex Features

    Rishi Patel pulls Zaman Akhter powerfully for four and reaches 50 off 79 balls.

    The next ball is fuller of length and he guides it back past mid-on for another boundary.

  4. Postpublished at 12:09 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Hants 101-2 v Essex 438-8d

    Tom Prest gets nowhere near to the pitch of a Matt Critchley floater.

    As such, Prest times it abysmally is has turned towards the dressing room with the ball heading towards Tom Westley at long-on.

    But a rogue zephyr or divine intervention takes the ball tantalisingly out of the reach of Westley's hands.

    A lucky escape, which he makes up for by middling through midwicket to bring up 100 for Hampshire.

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    WICKET Roderick c and b Jordan 9published at 12:08 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Worcs 13-1 v Kent - target 101

    Now then....surely not.

    Kent needed early wickets - perhaps a miracle - and a super Akeem Jordan return catch makes the breakthrough.

    Gareth Roderick looked to push a full ball back past the bowler, but Jordan takes a super sharp catch.

    Kashif Ali joins Jake Libby with Worcs needing 87 more to back-to-back wins.

  6. Postpublished at 12:07 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Durham 531-7 dec v Notts 229 & 248-8 (f-o)

    Something of history repeating itself at Chester-le-Street as the runs dry up.

    Ben Raine bowls his ninth maiden over of the innings.

    Just two runs have come off the last six overs as Notts crawl towards 250.

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    WICKET: Rae b Leach 0published at 12:05 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Warwickshire 337 & 243-8 v Somerset 238

    A third of the morning for the left arm spinner.

    An attempted slog sweep from Michael Rae misses and Leach doesn't, the ball staying straight and hitting middle stump.

    Talk of a declaration, Warwickshire setting a target for Somerset, might be irrelevant now with two in three balls for Leach and three down this morning.

    The lead is up to 341 now which probably is already enough.

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    WICKET: Mousley st Rew b Leach 37published at 12:03 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Warwickshire 337 & 243-7 v Somerset 238

    Neat work from bowler and wicketkeeper.

    Leach was crunched through extra cover two balls previous but sends one down wide when he shapes to go again.

    Mousley misses and Rew follows the ball nicely before whipping off the bails.

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    WICKET Bohannon b Clark 29published at 12:02 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Surrey 444-9 dec v Lancs 204 & 66-4

    Magnificent delivery by Jordan Clark.

    It cuts back of the seam as Josh Bohannon flails and thin air and knocks back middle stump.

    Surrey just six wickets away from another Championship win now.

  10. Postpublished at 12:00 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Worcs 9-0 v Kent - target 101

    Jake Libby cuts Akeem Jordan to get off the mark with a second-ball single as Ben Compton prevents a boundary at backward point.

    Two more are chipped off the meagre target as Gareth Roderick cuts Jordan to third man.

    He follows it with a lovely drive through extra cover for four. This could be done by lunch.

  11. YORKSHIRE BEAT SUSSEX BY 4 WICKETSpublished at 12:00 British Summer Time 25 August 2024
    Breaking

    Yorkshire 326 & 103-6 v Sussex 189 & 239

    Jonny TattersallImage source, Rex Features

    Jonny Tattersall nudges two runs past slip off Jack Carson and Yorkshire make it three successive County Championship wins by beating the Division Two leaders.

    It took them just over an hour to knock off the 75 runs they needed this morning but lost four wickets in the process.

    That won't matter to Ottis Gibson and his team, though, who have cut the points gap between them and Sussex to nine as they look to regain a place in Division One next season.

    Carson finished with 4-37, giving him match figures of 9-120.

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    WICKET Bairstow c Hudson-Prentice b Carson 0published at 11:58 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Yorks 101-6 - target 103

    James Coles to bowl again - a slog sweep by Will Luxton disappears for six.

    Jonny Bairstow to hit the winning runs? No - he carves a catch to mid-wicket and is gone second ball.

  13. Worcs begin chase of 101 for victorypublished at 11:56 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Worcs 2-0 v Kent - target 101

    Gareth Roderick takes guard as he faces the first ball of the Pears second knock.

    Grant Stewart runs in over the wicket from the Diglis End in need of quick wickets, just to put a smidge of pressure on the hosts.

    The Worcs wicketkeeper is knocked to his feet as Stewart thuds one into the top of his front pad. It's going down leg. Not out.

    Stewart goes a little too straight and Roderick tucks it off his hip for two to quickly take the runs required down into double figures.

    Akeem Jordan opens against Jake Libby.

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    WICKET: Vasconcelos lbw b Roland-Jones 2published at 11:55 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Middlesex 264 Northamptonshire 207 & 5-1

    Jack Davies and Toby Roland-JonesImage source, Rex Features

    A fourth wicket of the morning and Northants lose a first in the second innings, opener Ricardo Vasconcelos, in here at the top on account of an injury to Prithvi Shaw.

    Northants still trail by 52.

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    WICKET Wharton lbw Carson 18published at 11:54 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Yorks 95-5 - target 103

    Another one gone at Scarborough but it's surely too late for Sussex.

    James Wharton sweeps, makes no contact and the umpire sends him on his way.

    A very handy batter called Jonny Bairstow is new to the crease at number seven for Yorkshire - remember they used two nightwatchers last evening.

  16. Postpublished at 11:54 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Surrey 444-9 dec v Lancs 204 & 60-3

    Another streaky four for Lancashire as Matty Hurst tries to drive Tom Lawes at The Oval.

    The Surrey paceman is maintaining a fullish length in the hope of tempting the batsmen to do exactly that.

  17. WICKET Crane lbw Lloyd 28published at 11:54 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Derbys 429 v Glamorgan 168 & 273-8

    David Lloyd enters the attack against his former side...and finds the breakthrough with his first ball.

    Absolutely zero chance of Mason Crane dealing with this. The ball almost burrows underground before cannoning into his pads.

    Mason Crane had frustrated Glamorgan with 28 in a 47-run partnership in 136 balls with Dan Douthwaite.

    But the bells are starting to toll for the Welsh side.

  18. Postpublished at 11:52 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Yorks 95-4 - target 103

    Almost there.

    James Wharton drives Jack Carson past mid-off for four before putting a short one from the off-spinner.

    Next over, Will Luxton sweeps James Coles to the square leg boundary.

  19. WICKET Gubbins c Walter b Cook 30published at 11:52 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Hants 81-2 v Essex 438-8d

    Essex don't have to wait long to send Nick Gubbins back!

    It is a rather tame dismissal. Gubbins doesn't get keep a nothing shot down into the leg side and it is a simple catch for Paul Walter.

    Tom Prest at four for Hampshire, as James Vince can't bat until No.7 due to his time off the field earlier in the match.

  20. Postpublished at 11:51 British Summer Time 25 August 2024

    Durham 531-7 dec v Notts 229 & 246-8 (f-o)

    Bas de Leede completes his eighth maiden from 19 overs - this time to Olly Stone - but is still searching for his first wicket.

    Notts have shown admirable resistance since collapsing to 99-4 yesterday staring a big innings defeat in the face.

    It looks unlikely to be enough, but Lyndon James continues the theme by playing out a maiden to Ben Raine.