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A statement for your diary. Although nan adjacent afloat information doesn’t commencement until June 15, we will beryllium covering Surrey’s one-off lucifer against Hampshire June 8-11, truthful do driblet by for cricket-coffee-chat.
Scores connected nan doors
Chelmsford: Essex 293 and 104-3 BEAT Leicestershire 333 and 60 by 7 wickets
Southampton: Hampshire 214 and 82-4 v Nottinghamshire 229
Taunton: Somerset 526-8dec v Sussex 236-8
Edgbaston: Warwickshire 252 v Glamorgan 360 and 192-5
Headingley: Yorkshire 486 v Surrey 204 and 83-5
Division Two
Bristol: Gloucestershire 154 and 221 v Northamptonshire 127 and 144-5 Northants request 105 to win
Beckenham: Kent 523 v Durham 173-5 no play today
Southport: Lancashire 281-8 v Worcestershire 270
Lord’s: Middlesex 177 and 278-8 v Derbyshire 376
Sunday's round-up
Under knotted Leeds skies and hi-fi floodlights, Yorkshire’s Harry Brook threw connected his bowling cloak and destroyed Surrey’s apical order, already nether aggravated unit aft pursuing on.
Bouncing successful from nan Howard Stand end, and sending down accelerated nip-abouters, Brook first dismissed first Ryan Patel – slapping to cover, past bowled his England teammate Jamie Smith, earlier Adam Thomas happy-slappied 1 to point. There would person been a 4th if Jonny Bairstow hadn’t fto Josh Blake gaffe done his gloves. In 15 minutes, Brook (three for 11) had doubled his first-class wicket tally astatine Headingley.
In between, Rory Burns fenced a snorter from White down and Dan Lawrence played Matthew Revis into his boots only to watch nan shot bounce into limb stump. When nan rainfall came, Dom Sibley was nan awesome subsister connected 33, contempt being knocked to nan ungraded by Jhye Richardson. Surrey, filleted by George Hill successful their first innings, request 200 to make Yorkshire bat again.
Essex won nan first crippled of nan round, aft a scattergun of wickets astatine Chelmsford. On a transportation made spicy by overnight rain, Leicestershire were rumbled by Sam Cook (four for 19) and Shane Snater (four for 12), each retired for 60, 8 of them extras. Essex had a fewer scares connected nan measurement to a triumph target of 101, but Matt Critchley and Charlie Allison took them home.
At Lord’s, Derbyshire’s triumph against Middlesex was postponed by Leus du Plooy’s 95; Sonny Baker’s 5 wickets against Nottinghamshire kept Hampshire successful nan game; Paul Coughlin’s accelerated 50 for Lancashire against Worcestershire enlivened events astatine Southport; Sussex’s Daniel Hughes’ 100 against Somerset was nan item of an on-off time astatine Taunton; and Ethan Bamber’s 46 and 3 for nought successful 17 balls gave Warwickshire dream aft nan Glamorgan teenager Tom Norton grabbed different 4 wickets.
Water leaking nether nan covers astatine Beckenham meant Ben Stokes having a agelong nett was nan champion nan spectators got.
Preamble
Good morning! Wickets, wickets everyplace yesterday, and from nan astir unexpected directions – here’s looking astatine nan Keighley definitive Harry Brook. Lots to support an oculus connected today, nan past lucifer of this Championship block. Do subordinate us, play starts astatine 11am.
