Summary

  • Seven County Championship games on final day

  • Division One leaders Surrey beat Essex by six wickets

  • Second-placed Hants beat Gloucestershire by six wickets

  • Lancashire beat Northants and Kent beat Warwickshire in Div One

  • Somerset v Yorkshire ends in draw

  • Derbys v Notts & Middlesex v Sussex finish in draws

  • Leics v Glamorgan on day three - Northeast passes 300 for Glamorgan

  1. Postpublished at 15:00 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 337 v Hampshire 457 & 64-2

    With a few threatening clouds and rain heading over to Cheltenham from Gloucester, James Fuller smashed his first ball for six!

    Four more singles and that's ten off the over. Only 18 to win.

  2. wicket

    WICKET Vince c Gohar b Higgins 24published at 14:55 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 337 v Hampshire 457 & 54-2

    James Vince sets himself to try and launch Ryan Higgins over midwicket, but he can't clear Zafar Gohar on the rope.

    The big-hitting James Fuller is the new batter, with 28 more runs required.

  3. 6 runs

    Postpublished at 14:53 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Middlesex 485 v Sussex 523 & 118-7

    This is just what Sussex needed.

    Debutant Aristides Karvelas has come in at nine on the charge.

    The Greece international hits Tim Murtagh for a maximum after biffing a couple of fours in the Irishman's previous over.

    The lead is now 156.

  4. Hants in T20 modepublished at 14:53 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 337 v Hampshire 457 & 54-1

    Hampshire are the T20 Champions and they are approaching this like a T20 innings.

    We have had only six overs here and it would be a big surprise if they need more than 10 to reach their target of 82.

  5. 6 runs

    Postpublished at 14:46 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 337 v Hampshire 457 & 43-1

    James Vince has taken aim and absolutely launched Ryan Higgins over the picket fence for a massive six.

    When the ball returns, he sends another one to the boundary.

    The Hampshire captain and his team are in a hurry.

  6. wicket

    WICKET Organ c van Buuren b Higgins 17published at 14:38 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 337 v Hampshire 457 & 28-1

    Felix Organ hits a fourth boundary off Ryan Higgins, but he has to go when he picks out Graeme van Buuren at mid-off.

    17 in nine balls for Organ as he has got the chase off to a rapid start.

  7. wicket

    WICKET Ibrahim b Murtagh 13published at 14:38 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Middlesex 485 v Sussex 523 & 96-7

    Sussex are seven down!

    Tim Murtagh bowls Danial Ibrahim to claim his first wicket of the innings.

    Sussex's lead is only 135 and they're in danger of letting this game get away from them.

  8. Vince gets in on the actpublished at 14:35 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 337 v Hampshire 457 & 23-0

    Hampshire skipper James Vince has moved himself up the order in place of the more circumspect Ian Holland.

    And he is not going to hang about as he clubs successive fours off Zafar Gohar.

    11 off that over, 23 off the first two and only 59 more required.

    Hampshire are not going to let the threat of rain prevent them from getting this victory.

  9. rain stops play

    Rain delays resumptionpublished at 14:34 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Somerset 424 & 225-6 v Yorkshire 276

    They were due to get started at 14:35 BST at Taunton - but the rain is back.

    It doesn't look like it'll last for long, but it's just taking more time out of the game.

  10. Flying startpublished at 14:30 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 337 v Hampshire 457 & 12-0

    Here we go, Hampshire to bat.

    Ryan Higgins bowling to Felix Organ. And what a start to the chase as Organ cracks three boundaries in the over. Three extra-cover drives, lovely!

    The target is already down to 70.

  11. Division Two latestpublished at 14:20 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Middlesex have picked up another Sussex wicket since lunch - Delray Rawlins the man to go to Tom Helm.

    Helm now has 4-27 with Sussex on 94-6 and leading by 132.

    Derbyshire openers Harry Came and Luis Reece have both passed fifty with their side on 121-0 against Notts. They still trail by 175 but a draw is on the cards there.

    Glamorgan pair Sam Northeast and Colin Ingram have now put on 287 for the third wicket at Leicestershire. Glamorgan are 296-2 in reply to the host's first-innings 584. That game is only on day three.

    Leicestershire v GlamorganImage source, Rex Features
  12. wicket

    WICKET Shaw c Gubbins b Abbott 6published at 14:16 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 337 v Hampshire 457

    Kyle Abbott has polished off Gloucestershire!

    A sixth wicket for Abbott as last man Josh Shaw clubs one straight to Nick Gubbins at midwicket. His final figures are 19.2-5-76-6.

    Abbott has taken the last five wickets as Glos have subsided from 316-5 to 337 all out.

    Hampshire will have to score 82 for victory.

  13. 2nd Hampshire hat-trick for Abbottpublished at 14:13 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 333-9 v Hampshire 457

    Kyle Abbott took a hat-trick for Hampshire in 2018 against Worcestershire.

    That set up victory in a low-scoring match as Hants avoided relegation.

    This treble looks like laying a platform for a victory to keep up their Championship challenge with Surrey.

  14. Play to resume at 14:35 BSTpublished at 14:11 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Somerset 424 & 225-6 v Yorkshire 276

    Good news - play will start at Taunton in about 25 minutes.

    There will be 50 overs to bowl.

    Somerset will surely declare with a lead of 373 and try to bowl Yorkshire out.

  15. Five-wicket haul for Kyle Abbottpublished at 14:08 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 325-9 v Hampshire 457

    Kyle Abbott has five and he has blown Gloucestershire away since lunch.

    Ryan Higgins tries to take on a short ball from the burly South African but it is right down James Fuller's throat at deep square leg.

    5-70 in this innings for Abbott.

  16. Postpublished at 14:03 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 317-8 v Hampshire 457

    Zak Chappell is hit on the pads first ball and scampers a leg bye to prevent it being four in four.

    What an over from Kyle Abbott, removing Miles Hammond before lunch and then Gohar and Price.

    His figures are now 4-68 from 18 overs and he is pushing his team towards victory.

  17. wicket

    WICKET T Price lbw b Abbott 0published at 13:58 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 316-8 v Hampshire 457

    HAT-TRICK!!!!!

    Wonderful stuff from Kyle Abbott. Full and on the money as it raps Tom Price on the pads. Excellent delivery to a tailender.

    Three wickets in three balls have shifted this match right back in Hampshire's favour. Their attack is unrelenting by county standards.

    Kyle AbbottImage source, Rex Features
  18. wicket

    WICKET Gohar c Brown b Abbott 0published at 13:57 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 316-7 v Hampshire 457

    First ball after lunch!! Kyle Abbott on a hat-trick!

    Terrific one straight up after the interval and Zafar Gohar gets a golden duck, edging it behind to Ben Brown.

    What a start to the session for Hampshire!

  19. rain stops play

    No play at Tauntonpublished at 13:46 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Somerset 424 & 225-6 v Yorkshire 276

    Still no news of any inspection at Taunton where the showers keep on rolling in.

    Meanwhile they're playing in all three matches in Division Two.

    We'll be keeping a closer eye on the game at Lord's where Sussex are 69-5 and only 107 in front.

  20. wicket

    WICKET Hammond c Vince b Abbott 169published at 13:17 British Summer Time 22 July 2022

    Gloucestershire 201 & 316-6 v Hampshire 457

    A crucial breakthrough for Hampshire right on the stroke of lunch.

    Miles Hammond nicks one from Kyle Abbott to Hampshire captain James Vince at first slip and it's the end of a brilliant knock.

    A career best 169 off 278 balls and a sixth-wicket partnership of 115 with Ryan Higgins, who remains on 62 not out.

    With Surrey and Lancashire winning this morning, Hampshire really need to match that.

    Gloucestershire lead by 60, with only four wickets remaining.