Summary

  • Nine games in final round of group stage games in County Championship

  • Keaton Jennings makes a century for Lancashire in the Roses match in Leeds

  • Pieter Malan hits 141 and England's Dom Sibley makes 80 for Warwickshire at Worcester

  • Delayed start at Canterbury as Kent have to make big changes following a positive Covid test

  • Group Two leaders Somerset in control against Surrey knowing a draw will be enough to progress

  • Group One leaders Notts go past 20 against third-placed Durham at Chester-le-Street

  • Reigning champions Essex bowl out Derbyshire for 146

  • Rain stops play in Cardiff and Cheltenham

  • Get involved at #bbccricket

Live Reporting

Ged Scott and Michael Beardmore

  1. Final round fixtures

    Here's what's in store over the next four days, beginning at 11:00 BST.

    Group One:

    Derbyshire v Essex, Derby

    Durham v Nottinghamshire, Chester-le-Street

    Worcestershire v Warwickshire, Worcester

    Group Two:

    Gloucestershire v Hampshire, Cheltenham

    Middlesex v Leicestershire, Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood

    Surrey v Somerset, Kia Oval

    Group Three:

    Glamorgan v Northamptonshire, Cardiff

    Kent v Sussex, Canterbury

    Yorkshire v Lancashire, Emerald Headingley

  2. Good morning and welcome

    Hello and welcome to the final round of fixtures to close the second segment of this fragmented 2021 County Championship season.

    After an uninterrupted run of Championship cricket from April 8th to early June, red-ball cricket took a back seat to the T20 Blast for a month.

    But, at a time when the T20 is boiling up nicely, there's lot to play for too in the bread and butter stuff as a host of counties fight over the four remaining places still to be filled in the top flight in this inaugural first season of a Championship split.

    Yorkshire and Lancashire - who meet each other today in Leeds - have already secured the two places in Group Three. And Notts look fairly sure to join them from Group One.

    Bur we shall be all round the country at the other grounds - Derby, Chester-le-Street and Worcester, Cheltenham, Cardiff and Canterbury, and at the two London venues, Merchant Taylors' School and the Kennington Oval - to try and keep up with all that's going on.

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