50 for Madsenpublished at 14:03 British Summer Time 26 June 2022

14:03 BST 26 June 2022

Derbyshire 122-4 v Sussex

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Derbyshire are in the promotion mix in Division Two - and two of the big reasons behind that are opener Shan Masood and veteran batter Wayne Madsen.

Masood fell just short of his half-century this morning, departing for 46 as he became the first player this season to pass 1,000 County Championship runs.

Madsen gets no such jitters, with his 50 coming off 80 deliveries. He's averaging 81.11 this season, Masood 86.41 - how are Derbyshire are only fourth in the table?

Surrey begin as they left off against Kent at The Oval, with a boundary over the afternoon's first over, via Hashim Amla.

It was the 22nd four of Surrey's innings - 88 of their 142 runs thus far have come off boundaries. That's some pretty confident batting.

Lunch has been devoured - and we are back under way in our seven games across the county.

Where's the first wicket of the afternoon coming from?

Nick Webb
BBC Radio Wales

Glamorgan made the most of winning the toss and putting Worcestershire in on a green-topped pitch as all their seamers have had a successful morning session.

Michael Neser set the tone by ripping out the middle stump of the returning Ed Pollock first ball before Jake Libby nicked Michael Hogan to Tom Cullen, who is keeping wicket in the absence of the injured Chris Cooke.

Cullen went on to claim two more catches down the leg side off David Lloyd, first the vital dismissal of Azhar Ali for 21 and then an even better effort to get rid of rookie Taylor Cornall for 25.

Cornall, playing onlyt his second match, had already survived a blow on the helmet from Neser in a battling performance.

But with Brett D’Oliveira trapped palpably lbw by James Harris at the other end, the home side now face a fight for respectability this afternoon

Nick Gledhill
BBC Essex

Only 69 wickets fell in the first three championship games of the season at Chelmsford but this wicket has offered enough for a strong Hampshire seam attack to capitalize.

The visitors soon had Essex 16-3 as Nick Browne, Alastair Cook and Dan Lawrence all fell cheaply.

Tom Westley has since held the hosts together with an unbeaten 33 but Hampshire’s ascendancy was re-enforced when Ian Holland then took two wickets in three balls leaving Essex with much to do after lunch.

One positive sign for Essex was that Liam Dawson found some assistance in two exploratory overs before lunch. Simon Harmer took 12 wickets when these sides last met here and he will surely have a big say later.

Division One

Chelmsford: Essex 72-5 v Hampshire

Bristol: Gloucestershire 30-0 v Lancashire

Wantage Road: Northamptonshire 124-3 v Warwickshire

The Oval: Surrey 137-2 v Kent

Division Two

Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 120-2 v Middlesex

Hove: Derbyshire 99-4 v Sussex

New Road: Worcestershire 84-5 v Glamorgan

Scott Read
Radio Lancashire

Only 14 overs possible in the morning session, so not a great deal to report.

George Scott and Chris Dent were asked to come out and bat for a 20-minute spell before lunch and did well.

Dent had one play and miss to a good ball from Will Williams and Scott edged a Tom Bailey ball short of Keaton Jennings at second slip.

Sadly the covers are coming back on but hopefully not for long.

Nottinghamshire opener Haseeb Hameed goes to lunch on 42 after a fairly productive morning sessioon for the leaders in the meeting of Division Two's top two with Middlesex.

Joe Clarke also looks well set on 23.

An entertaining morning session at Northampton.

124 runs and three wickets.

Dominated by Emilio Gay's 70 - but honours just about even.

The Division One leaders march on.

There was a slight blip when openers Rory Burns and Ryan Patel fell within five balls of each other as Surrey slipped from a rapidly-made 64-0 to 70-2.

But Hashim Amla (38no) and Ben Geddes (27no) have put on 67 and counting.

Debutant loanee Toby Pettman's dismissal of Burns was the highlight for Kent, whose bowlers have toiled with little reward.

No argument over whose morning it's been at Chelmsford.

Five Essex wickets have fallen, with Ian Holland (2-8) the pick of the Hampshire bowlers with two wickets in the space of three balls.

Tom Westley remains unbeaten on 33 for the hosts and his continuing contribution will be vitally important in determining whether Essex get anything out of this match.

A rain-shortened session at Nevil Road, Bristol.

But Gloucestershire will be the happier, George Scott (19) and Chris Dent (11) having negotiated separate rain breaks to see their side safly to lunch.

Those aforementioned 19,000-plus first-class runs Hashim Amla has accumulated during his career will have not included many easier than the boundary he's just played off compatriot George Linde.

The spinner's delivery was so wide it had its own postcode but Amla still reaches out to get a bat on it and guide it away for four.

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Surrey have recovered from losing those two quickfire wickets.

Helps when you have Hashim Amla in at number three, I suppose.

He's just taken a nice three - and that puts the South African veteran past 19,000 career first-class runs.