Summary

  • Day two of nine matches in the last round of the 2024 County Championship season

  • Play only possible at Somerset, Notts, Glamorgan & Yorkshire

  • Play abandoned at Essex, Leicestershire, Durham, Sussex & Worcestershire

  • One of Lancashire, Notts or Warwickshire will be relegated from Div One

  • Notts need 10 points to guarantee safety, Bears five

  • Yorkshire & Middlesex going for promotion from Div Two

  • Yorkshire need 10 points to seal promotion

  1. Postpublished at 16:11 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Notts 223-4 v Warwickshire

    Ed Barnard induces a rare false stroke from Freddie McCann who chips it over midwicket for a single. Not what he was intending.

    And the bat is beaten as an Oliver Hannon-Dalby delivery keeps alarmingly low.

    McCann then slashes a little wildly at a wide ball which slices wide of the two slips down to the third man boundary, in front of the Trent Bridge pavilion to go to 114.

    OHD can barely disguise his frustration and his mood won't be improved as the luckless bowler beats the edge once again.

  2. Postpublished at 16:10 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Yorks v Northants 34-1

    Ben Coad continues from the Kirkstall Lane End and Luke Procter taps the ball away for one to move to five.

    Krish Patel gets a thick edge off a forward defensive shot which squirts the ball wide of the slips for a single.

    Two more to Procter, running the ball to deep third. The fifth ball is pushed through backward point for four.

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    WICKET Tribe LBW b Taylor 70published at 16:08 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Glamorgan 198-2 v Gloucestershire

    Breakthrough.

    Asa Tribe is stuck in the crease and squared up by Matt Taylor, who gets the ball to jag in and strike the pad in front of middle and leg.

    Given!

    Now it's time for Kiran Carlson to have a bat.

  4. Play resumes at Cardiffpublished at 16:07 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Glamorgan 195-1 v Gloucestershire

    Gloucestershire need early wickets in this session and left-arm spinner Zafar Gohar will bowl first up to Asa Tribe.

    36 overs remaining.

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    WICKET Vaughan lbw b Abbott 25published at 16:03 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Somerset 136 & 34-2 v Hants 196

    Archie Vaughan gets stuck on the crease and is given lbw when really he should have stepped forward and pushed that into extra cover with a defensive bat.

    It's another Somerset wicket for Kyle Abbott.

    Vaughan had looked really in control with a quarter of a century of very eye-catching runs before that mistake.

  6. Postpublished at 16:02 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Notts 215-4 v Warwickshire

    A quiet start to the session with Freddie McCann starved of the strike for much of the first 20 minutes.

    Ed Barnard beats Kyle Verreynne's outside edge as the Bears bowlers continue to cause problems. Single from the over.

    Oliver Hannon-Dalby finding a super nagging line and length outside off stump as he beats McCann's bat with successive deliveries.

    The 19-year-old drives a fuller ball through the offside for a single. Four runs after tea.

  7. Postpublished at 16:02 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Yorks v Northants 25-1

    Matt Fisher is into his fourth over and Krish Patel drives a full ball wide of the off stump through point for four. Four boundaries to reach 16!

    Fisher draws Patel forward to defend and beats him outside off stump with his fourth delivery.

    Shot! Full and driven through cover for four.

    He has 20 runs on debut - all of which have come in fours.

  8. Postpublished at 15:57 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Yorks v Northants 17-1

    Luke Procter survives another LBW shout and defends his next delivery down the ground.

    He'll get two runs, glanced to square leg on the front foot.

    The Northants captain defends down the ground and sees out the seventh over.

  9. Postpublished at 15:56 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Notts 213-4 v Warwickshire

    Ed Barnard bowlingImage source, Rex Features

    Ed Barnard starts well after the break, sliding his fourth ball past Freddie McCann's outside edge. Two singles from the over.

    Oliver Hannon-Dalby angles one high up into Kyle Verreynne's front pad.

    A big appeal and it looked close. But the umpire says no.

    Back-to-back maidens for OHD, but he'll have to wait a little longer for his 50th championship wicket of the season.

  10. Postpublished at 15:56 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Somerset 136 & 32-1 v Hants 196

    Bizarre three minute delay at Taunton where James Middlebrook and Peter Hartley take the players from the field for the smallest of showers whilst blue sky and sunshine continue and thus of course a rainbow appears.

    Most players don't even make it past the dugouts before being called back.

    Archie Vaughan resumes with another 4 and another 2 beautifully timed, very few dot balls to the young opener so far.

  11. Postpublished at 15:53 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Yorks v Northants 15-1

    Another appeal for LBW against Luke Procter, who again misses with a flick to leg but that ball might have been swinging past leg stump.

    The Northants captain runs a leg bye.

    Krish Patel edges wide of fourth slip off Matt Fisher for his third four to reach 12 runs in his innings.

    A play and miss defending follows. Absolutely superb delivery seaming away a fraction on a good length.

  12. Postpublished at 15:49 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Yorks v Northants 10-1

    Luke Procter misses with an attempted flick to leg and is hit on the pad by Matt Fisher but the LBW shout is turned down.

    We're reliably informed by Northants commentator Andrew Radd speaking on BBC Radio Leeds that Northants last won at Headingley way back in 1990.

    Well, it's early days in this game.

    Successive fours for Krish Patel in his first Championship game for Northants, driving through cover point and clipping through square leg.

  13. Postpublished at 15:47 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Somerset 136 & 25-1 v Hants 196

    Liam Dawson bowls the sixth over of the second innings at Taunton.

    Andy Umeed got off the mark with one off seam bowling, but this poses a different challenge for him facing spin so early.

  14. Evening session begins at Trent Bridgepublished at 15:46 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Notts 211-4 v Warwickshire

    Oliver Hannon-Dalby opens up after the tea break to Kyle Verreynne.

    The South African is happy to defend the first five balls before driving back at the tall bowler who shows nifty footwork to prevent any runs. Maiden.

    Notts need 39 more runs to notch a first batting point.

  15. Tea at Cardiffpublished at 15:46 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Glamorgan 195-1 v Gloucestershire

    A dominant session of play for Glamorgan with Colin Ingram and Asa Tribe both on unbeaten half centuries.

    There was movement off the seam and a bit of turn for the Gloucestershire attack but they were unable to sustain enough pressure on the top order.

    Tribe is 69 not out with Ingram on 74.

  16. Glorious Vaughanpublished at 15:44 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Somerset 136 & 24-1 v Hants 196

    Archie Vaughan is timing the ball as well as he has at any point in his young Somerset career.

    One off the back foot through the covers off Mo Abbas is perhaps the greatest of the lot.

    Already three wonderful drives for four as the Somerset livestream chat now turns again to who can open with him next year if Matt Renshaw is not signed again.

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    WICKET Miller c Hill b Coad 0published at 15:41 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Yorks v Northants 2-1

    A theoretical 38 overs left. That feels optimistic.

    Gus Miller tries to work a ball from Ben Coad to leg and ends up pushing the ball down the ground.

    Four slips in place at the moment and batting looks very tricky.

    Edged to George Hill at first slip and taken at knee height.

    An 11-ball duck for Gus Miller.

    Krish Patel is in next on first team debut for Northants.

  18. Postpublished at 15:36 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Yorks v Northants 1-0

    Maiden over from Ben Coad.

    Luke Procter scores the first runs of the day, working Matt Fisher to long leg for one.

    Gus Miller is squared up, edging just short of the slip cordon.

    Another appeal for caught behind, a keeper's catch this time, is turned down to end a testing over.

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    WICKET Lammonby c Brown b Abbas 5published at 15:35 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Somerset 136 & 11-1 v Hants 196

    Tom Lammonby got past the dreaded pair in the last game of the season, but has only managed five runs in two innings to close the summer.

    Andy Umeed protected down a spot at number three after his recent tricky run of red ball batting (4, 0, 28, 0, 38, 0), is again in early, just as Lammonby has been at three for most of the season.

    Just the third over sees the third Somerset batter in, as Archie Vaughan plays positively at one end.

  20. Play begins at Headingleypublished at 15:33 British Summer Time 27 September 2024

    Yorks v Northants 0-0

    Yorkshire make two changes from the penultimate round with Jordan Thompson and Ben Coad coming in for Will Luxton and Dan Moriarty.

    Northants bring in Fateh Patel and Kris Singh for the injured Rob Keogh and the recently departed overseas player Yuzvendra Chahal.

    Gus Miller will face Ben Coad to get us started.

    He's opening the innings with Northants captain Luke Procter.