Summary

  • Lancashire beat Yorkshire in the Roses Match at Old Trafford by an innings & 79 runs

  • Warwickshire beat Nottinghamshire by 170 runs at Edgbaston

  • Leicestershire beat Middlesex by five wickets at Grace Road

  • Worcestershire beat Derbyshire by an innings and 23 runs at New Road

  • Gloucestershire lose to Surrey by an innings and 47 runs

  • Northants beat Sussex by seven wickets at Hove

Live Reporting

Ged Scott and Josef Rindl

  1. The end of a dramatic final day

    There's nothing as exciting in sport as the end of any tense cricket match. And when it's a tense match that has already gone on for four days, that somehow just adds to the tension.

    It's why, even in this one-day age, County Championship (and of course Test Match cricket) still has a big role to play in the modern game - especially now we have crowds back to fully appreciate it all.

    So what a treat it was to report on this day of drama.

    Lancashire left it late to beat Yorkshire and win the Roses MatchRex Features

    Worcestershire, Surrey and Northants all obligingly got their respective jobs done early to leave the stage clear. But it was approaching six o'clock before Lancashire, Warwickshire and Leicestershire followed suit.

    Some fabulous cricket, three limited but deliriously happy home crowds - and two tired reporters signing off for the night.

    But we'll be back to do it all again at 10:45 on Thursday morning. Join us then . . .

  2. Leicestershire beat Middlesex by five wickets
    Breaking

    Leicestershire 136 & 378-5 v Middlesex 295 & 218

    What a game!

    Who saw this chase coming? Skipper Colin Ackermann gets the winning runs, finishing on 126.

    What an innings from him and what a knock from Australian Marcus Harris who fell for 185 earlier today.

    Remember, Leicestershire were 83-2 seven balls into this morning's session.

    The lucky home supporters inside Grace Road go wild.

  3. Leicestershire 375-5 (target 378)

    Ben Mike launches one over the top. One bounce, four.

    Three required for a first Leicestershire win of the season.

  4. Leicestershire 371-5 (target 378)

    Another over. Another two singles. Seven needed with five overs to go.

  5. Leicestershire 369-5 (target 378)

    This will be Leicestershire's third highest successful run chase in their history.

    Only nine needed from 36 deliveries.

  6. Leicestershire 367-5 (target 378)

    So, so nearly for Luke Hollman who finds Ackermann's edge but keeper John Simpson can only bat the ball down. No run, but that needed to stick.

  7. Leicestershire 367-5 (target 378)

    Just one game remaining then. Leicestershire need another 11 from seven overs to complete an incredible run chase.

    Colin Ackermann is 121 not out. Ben Mike is unbeaten on three.

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    Jason: Who needs T20 or 50 over ? Can't beat the climax of a 4 day game with a team 9 down having to bat out 1/2 an hour for a draw!

    Well said Jason!

  9. wicket

    Notts all out - Warwickshire win

    Fletcher b Briggs 1 (138 al out)

    Luke Fletcher is bowled by Danny Briggs.

    The spinner takes the final wicket to finish with 4-36 as the Bears complete a 170-run win.

    It's the second breathless finish in the space of five minutes - and as rapturously received in Birmingham by 2,000 cricket-starved supporters as Lancashire's Roses Match win was at Old Trafford.

    Warwickshire leapfrog Worcestershire to go third in Group One, two points behind second-placed Notts - and just seven behind leaders Essex.

    Both sides are away from home when they play again on Thursday in the last round of Championship fixtures before the T20 Blast break..

    Notts got to Chelmsford to meet Essex, while the Bears face winless bottom side Derbyshire.

  10. Leicestershire 366-5 (target 378)

    Back to Grace Road and a few singles bring the required runs down to 12.

    Just two shots will do it.

  11. wicket

    Yorkshire all out - Lancashire win Roses Match

    Bess c Livingstone b Parkinson 46 (Yorkshire 271 all out)

    Dom Bess is last man out for 46 at Old Trafford as Matt Parkinson finishes it off - and the limited 2,000 Manchester crowd go up in triumph.

    Lancashire have won by an innings and 79 runs - and It's astonishingly their first Roses Match victory at Old Trafford in 21 years.

    It's also, say the historians, their first innings win in a Roses Match since August 1972 (the days of Wood, Lloyd D, Pilling, Lloyd C, Hayes, Engineer, Bond, Hughes, Simmons, Shuttleworth and Lee).

    From a more modern perspective, it puts the Red Rose 24 points clear at the top of Group Three - with seven games gone.

    Both teams are back in action on Thursday in the last round of Championship fixtures before the T20 Blast break, when Lancashire face Glamorgan at Sophia Gardens, while Yorkshire host Sussex at Headingley.

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  12. Leicestershire 361-5 (target 378)

    Too much width and Colin Ackermann cuts Thilan Walallawita for four.

    The Leicestershire skipper moves on to 117. Middlesex have to get him out if they're to win this game.

    16 to win. 60 balls left.

  13. wicket

    Yorkshire lose ninth wicket

    Coad c Vilas b Mahmood 14 (Yorkshire 159 & 271-8, Lancashire 509-9 dec)

    Ben Coad is gone. Another tight call which this time goes Lancashire's way. Five wickets for Saqib Mahmood - his first..

    This one does say 'caught behind' in the scorebook.

    Half an hour's playing time left. Seven overs officially.

    New man in is Duanne Olivier.

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  14. Big call at Old Trafford

    Yorkshire 159 & 271-8, Lancashire 509-9 dec

    Big shout for a catch. Lancashire think they have got Dom Bess.

    Bess doesn't think so.

    More importantly, umpire Steve O'Shaughnessy doesn't think so either.

  15. wicket

    Notts nine down in Birmingham

    Patterson-White b Miles 11 ( (Warwickshire 341 & 264, Notts 297 &136-9)

    Warwickshire are just one wicket away from victory as Craig Miles returns to remove Liam Patterson-White.

    Last man in is Dane Paterson.

  16. wicket

    WICKET

    Swindells b Bamber 12 (Leicestershire 355-5)

    This is not over yet.

    Beautiful delivery from Ethan Bamber. Clean bowled and Harry Swindells can't quite believe it.

    Leicestershire need 23 runs. Middlesex need five wickets.

    Ben Mike is on a king-pair.

  17. wicket

    Mahmood strikes in Manchester

    Thompson c Vilas b Mahmood 14 (Yorkshire 159 & 271-8, Lancashire 509-9 dec)

    Yorkshire lose an eighth wicket as Saqib Mahmood returns to the attack and tempts Jordan Thompson to playing at one he maybe needn't have.

    Two more scalps needed. Ben Coad sees out the final ball of the over.

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  18. 350 up for Leicestershire

    Leicestershire 351-4 (target 378)

    Only 27 more runs needed now for the Foxes as Harry Swindells pushes one down the ground for four, taking his own total up to 12.

    11.4 overs remain.

  19. wicket

    Another wicket at Edgbaston

    Chappell c Hain b Briggs 1 (Warwickshire 341 & 264, Notts 297 &135-8)

    Danny Briggs strikes again to remove Zak Chappell for 1, off 34 balls.

    Luke Fletcher comes to the crease.

    Liam Patterson-White is on 11.

    Just two more wickets needed.

  20. Near miss in Manchester?

    Yorkshire 159 & 264-7, Lancashire 509-9 dec

    Still no further breakthrough at Old Trafford but the anguished home shouts are getting louder and more frequent.

    Jordan Thompson may or may not have just survived a sharp legside chance. Inconclusive proof on the video replay.