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Raf runs her oculus over England’s summer, and a first captaincy gig for Charlie Dean.
Ali’s travel to Worcester to spot Ben Stokes bowl.
Friday's round-up
The vacancy motion complete 1 England openers slot continues to swing. The selectors fancy James Rew, but he keeps wicket and bats successful nan mediate bid for Somerset. How to quadrate nan circle? Friday’s reply was Rew opening for Somerset for nan first clip successful his first-class career. It was a short-lived experiment, Rew lasting conscionable 7 balls earlier being bowled for four.
Around Rew location were runs for young Josh Thomas (71) and Tom Lammonby (45) earlier Glamorgan debutant Tom Norton picked nan first of 3 wickets. Tom Abell’s 86 propped up nan remainder of nan innings.
Dan Worrall slipped into his Surrey bowling boots for nan first clip this outpouring and soon dismissed Nottinghamshire’s openers. He pocketed different wicket erstwhile Ben Duckett (42) fended astatine a lifter, and different 2 successful a mini Notts illness of 4 for five. Joe Clarke’s unbeaten 129, his 2nd period of a rich | early season, kept Notts successful nan match.
Middlesex’s skilled young seam onslaught made Lancashire activity difficult for their runs, Keaton Jennings (67), was, arsenic ever, nan glue. James Anderson past reduced Middlesex to 38 for 2 arsenic nan clouds closed in.
Jack White (four for 49) and his set of Yorkshire right-arm seamers ruined Warwickshire, a drawstring of azygous digit scores strung together by 57 from Sam Hain. Harry Brook, successful his first innings of nan summer, sewage disconnected nan people pinch an outrageously dismissive screen drive.
Half-centuries for Jake Lehmann and Ben Brown hauled Hampshire towards adjacent respectability against Essex. A marauding Sam Cook (three for 56) took retired nan apical bid and Wiaan Mulder vanished things off.
Sussex kept Leicestershire successful sight, contempt dropping six catches. Jack Carson pocketed 4 wickets and nan awesome Ollie Robinson three.
An unbeaten 91 from Caleb Jewell topped a morale-boosting time for Derbyshire against Northamptonshire.
Scores connected nan doors
DIVISION ONE
Chelmsford: Essex 51-2 v Hampshire 235
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan v Somerset 337-9
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 317-7 v Surrey
Hove: Sussex 3-0 v Leicestershire 328
Edgbaston: Warwickshire 147 v Yorkshire 110-4
DIVISION TWO
The County Ground: Derbyshire 342-3 v Northamptonshire
Bristol: Gloucestershire 325 v Kent 1-0
Old Trafford: Lancashire 201 v Middlesex 38-2
New Road: Worcestershire 209-7 v Durham
Preamble
Good morning! And invited to a reassuringly aged fashioned Manchester outpouring day, somewhat damp, somewhat overcast, somewhat muggy astatine nan seams.
It was a time mostly for bowlers yesterday, and we hold to spot if Jimmy Anderson tin inflict much symptom connected Middlesex, really Kent fare against Gloucestershire, Essex against Hampshire and Glamorgan against Big Craig and co. It’s already a tight tussle astatine Trent Bridge, and Harry Brook proved highly entertaining past evening astatine Edgbaston successful nan gloom. And each eyes to New Road, wherever Ben Stokes will spell into bat astatine nan crushed wherever he blasted 161 disconnected 88 balls 4 years ago.
It each starts astatine 11am, do subordinate us!
