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It was a curiosity of the second round of Championship games that some of the best individual performances came in a losing cause.

Craig Overton took 13 wickets for Somerset, Ben Compton made a hundred in each innings for Kent and James Bracey hit 177 for Gloucestershire, but in each case their side was beaten.

Meanwhile, there were two double centuries on the final day at Derby as Tom Haines and Cheteshwar Pujara made the most of a flat pitch to secure a draw for Sussex after they had to follow on.

There will be a full set of nine matches in round three, all of them starting on Thursday and we will be here to provide the usual comprehensive coverage. See you then.

Surrey are leading the way In Division One following the second round of matches. They have 35 points from two games following their win over Hampshire on Saturday, four points clear of Essex.

Lancashire and Yorkshire are fourth and fifth, having won their opening games of the season today.

In Division Two, Glamorgan have moved to the top of the table after their first win at Trent Bridge since 1998, with Durham four points behind them in second despite drawing their opening two games.

Division One

Gloucestershire 227 & 359 v Yorkshire 376 & 213-4

Yorkshire won by 6 wickets

Kent 260 & 279 v Lancashire 506 & 36-0

Lancashire won by 10 wickets

Division Two

Derbyshire 505-8 dec v Sussex 174 & 513-3

Match drawn

Durham 428 & 239-2 dec v Leicestershire 273 & 183-2

Match drawn

Nottinghamshire 302 & 242 v Glamorgan 379 & 166-3

Glamorgan won by 7 wickets

There were four boundaries in that last Zafar Gohar for Harry Brook - but it is Harry Duke who wins the game for Yorkshire with a ramp shot off Gloucestershire skipper Graeme van Buuren.

It's tough for James Bracey, who earlier made 177 for the home side, who left Yorkshire a target of 211.

They were 30-2, but Dawid Malan settled things down for 65 before first-innings centurion Brook careried Yorkshire to the brink of victory with an unbeaten 56 off 48 balls.

The Tykes take 22 points and Gloucestershire three.

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Glos 227 & 359 v Yorks 376 & 205-4

Zafar Gohar takes up the attack for Gloucestershire and Harry Brook cuts his first ball for four to post a 50 partnership with Harry Duke.

Two more boundaries fro9m the next two deliveries follow as Brook reaches 50 off only 46 balls.

Just a couple of singles from that over by Graeme van Buuren - but what his side need now is a dramatic flurry of wickets. Harry Brook is 40 not out and Harry Duke has 13.

Glorious. Harry Brook drives Ryan Higgins through the covers for his sixth boundary. Only 20 more needed now by Yorkshire.

Harry Brook looks like a man in a hurry.

He takes three boundaries off Josh Shaw's next over - two of them classy shots on either side of the wicket, the other a slash through the now rather exposed slip area.

Brook is 33 not out and Yorkshire are on the home straight now, with just 26 more needed...

Not long to wait for more County Championship cricket. Here's a list of games that begin on Thursday.

Division One

Canterbury: Kent v Hampshire

Old Trafford: Lancashire v Gloucestershire

Northampton: Northamptonshire v Yorkshire

The Oval: Surrey v Somerset

Edgbaston: Warwickshire v Essex

Division Two

Chester-le-Street: Durham v Nottinghamshire

Cardiff: Glamorgan v Middlesex

Leicester: Leicestershire v Derbyshire

Worcester: Worcestershire v Sussex

Yorkshire continue to chip away at this target, with Harry Duke taking advantage of a Ryan Higgins ball on leg stump to whip away a boundary to midwicket.

That takes Duke (12*) into double figures and he and Brook (20*) have now added 26 since Malan's departure. Yorkshire need 39 more...

Gloucestershire haven't given up on this just yet - Graeme van Buuren is frantically rotating his bowlers to try and break through this middle order while he still has runs to play with.

Josh Shaw is back on now, restricting Yorkshire to just a single for Harry Brook. But only wickets can tilt this in the home side's favour - Yorkshire have 16 more overs, if needed, to score 44 more runs.

It's down to Harry and Harry - Brook and Duke, namely, to settle Yorkshire nerves now and steer their side to victory at Bristol.

Brook has just hit Matt Taylor for a boundary to bring the target below 50 and Duke followed it up with a scoop shot that bears a very white-ball flavour - but results in four more runs.

Remember, Yorkshire have plenty of overs left to overhaul this target of 211. It's just a question of whether they can keep enough wickets intact.

Cheteshwar Pujara flicks Matty Potts away for two runs to reach 200 off 387 balls, an innings featuring 23 fours, and the game is immediately ended as a draw.

The Indian finished on 201 not out, having shared a third-wicket stand of 351 with skipper Tom Haines, who made 243.

In the end, the pitch is the only winner, with the Derbyshire attack toiling all day with only Haines' belated wicket to show for their efforts.

Both teams are away in the next round of matches, Derbyshire at Leicestershire and Sussex taking on Worcestershire.

Luke Wells clips Hamidullah Qadri away to mid-wicket for four as Lancashire wrap up a far harder victory than expe3cted at Canterbury.

It took them until the final session because of the astonishing resistance with the bat by Ben Compton and Qadri.

Compton made his second hundred of the match before being the last Kent batsman dismissed for 115, his second century of the match, while Qadri's 77 was a career-best score.

Wells was 13 not out at the end for Lancashire with opening partner George Balderson on 23.

All over at Chester-le-Street as Durham and Leicestershire shake hands on a draw.

Sam Evans finished unbeaten on 77 and Colin Ackermann 40, with the Foxes reaching 183-2.

They collect 12 points from the game, with Durham pocketing 15.

Hamidullah Qadri is short of a length and Luke Wells is able to thump it away square for four. He has five and George Balderson is 13 not out - Lancashire need another 16.

Following the Ben Compton marathon, how long will it take Lancashire to knock off these runs?

George Balderson flicks the first ball of the innings from Matt Milnes for four and there's another boundary for him at the start of the Kent paceman's next over.

The Red Rose county need 22 more.

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Glos 227 & 359 v Yorks 376 & 128-3

Dawid Malan is really into his rhythm now and he's just completed his half-century at exactly a run a ball.

Malan has accelerated since tea and hooked Ajeet Singh-Dale for four to bring up his 50, with victory now firmly in sight for Yorkshire.

They need 83 more and have 26 overs in which to get them, with Harry Brook now alongside Malan at the crease.