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Dry, dry, adust – but successful the southbound west wherever determination volition beryllium sporadic showers and a hazard of thunderstorms. The northwest whitethorn (please) get a fewer spots of rainfall aboriginal on.

Some bittersweet quality from Australia overnight, the decease of Bob Cowper – the archetypal antheral to people a triple period against England astatine home, a feat that belonged to him unsocial for 37 years until Matthew Hayden’s triple against Zimbabwe. Rest successful peace.

DIVISION ONE

Chelmsford: Essex 123 v Yorkshire 216 and 114-1

Trent Bridge: Notts 333 and 171-6 v Hampshire 196

Hove: Sussex 284 and 66-3 v Worcestershire 180

Edgbaston: Warwickshire 665-5 v Surrey 98-1

DIVISION TWO

Canterbury: Kent 156-8 v Glamorgan 549-9dec

County Ground: Northamptonshire 238 and 140-6 v Lancashire 276

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Saturday's round-up

Three batters shone successful Warwickshire’s mammoth 665 for 5 declared against Surrey connected a baked Edgbaston pitch. New Zealand’s Tom Latham deed the highest people connected debut for Warwicks, with 184; Ed Barnard flamed a career-best 177, but it is Zen Malik who is successful information of becoming a motivational message. Malik came to Birmingham via six years of touting himself astir the counties, SACA, Staffordshire and Glamorgan’s 2nd XI – wherever helium made 2 centuries against Warwickshire past twelvemonth and was rapidly hoovered up by show manager Gavin Larsen who called him “the champion uncontracted subordinate he’d seen”. And present successful his 2nd first-class game, aged 27, helium lofted Dan Lawrence backmost implicit his caput for an effortless, twinkle-toed, maiden hundred. Barnard continued his blessed time by trapping Rory Burns lbw for 27 earlier stumps, but different brutal time for the bowlers seems inevitable connected Sunday.

Mohammad Abbas, arsenic slippery and arsenic flimsy arsenic ever, showed his aged region Hampshire conscionable what they were missing, with 5 wickets connected his Nottinghamshire debut. The prime of his wickets was a gleaming marble that kissed the apical of Ben Brown’s disconnected stump and sent it dancing into the dust. Kyle Abbott’s brisk 67 kept Nottinghamshire’s pb to 137 earlier helium pulled connected his bowling boots, took the caller shot and rapidly removed some Notts openers. Just to support it interesting, Notts past mislaid 3 for nine, earlier Liam Patterson-White and Jack Haynes steadied the ship. A pb of 308 should beryllium much than capable with Abbas acceptable erstwhile much to prowl astatine the apical of his mark.

A disciplined George Hill undressed Essex astatine Chelmsford, zipped retired for 123 connected a moody transportation that furrowed brows. There had been a resurgence of sorts from 59 for six, erstwhile Michael Pepper and Noah Thain added 46, but the extremity came rapidly – Hill’s six for 51 his second-best Championship figures. Adam Lyth past deed his 2nd 50 of the lucifer arsenic Yorkshire eased into an highly comfy lead. There was conscionable clip for Wharton to slam a six onto the property container earlier stumps.

Five wickets for Fynn Hudson-Prentice, and six catches for John Simpson, enactment Sussex connected apical against Worcestershire astatine Hove. Tom Taylor continued his bully crippled with the associated top-scorer with 32, aft taking five-wickets connected Friday. Sussex had built a pb of 170 by stumps, contempt losing some Tom Haines and Daniel Hughes without a tally connected the board.

Run-machine Marcus Harris added a 3rd Championship 100 to his Lancashire tally for the summer. His 121 against Northamptonshire took his full for the twelvemonth to 706 – leaving a 1000 runs earlier the extremity of May a tempting anticipation with 2 rounds left. Northants bowlers were not helped by their soapy-fingered fielders. A Lancashire first-innings pb of 38 was not imposing, but Northants 2nd innings besides failed to thrive.

Ben Kellaway duly picked up the 9 runs helium needed for his maiden first-class century, but kept going with expanding confidence, flaying Matt Parkinson for 3 successive sixes to decorativeness 181 not retired erstwhile the declaration came. At 549 for nine, it was Glamorgan’s highest people against Kent. Then came the Kentish collapse, though from 23 for five, 156 for 8 astatine stumps was a tablecloth of plenty. Chris Benjamin’s 68 not retired was his highest people for Kent. “Theoretically, you meant to enactment the scoreboard retired of your mind,” said a phlegmatic Adam Hollioake, the Kent caput coach, “but we’re each quality beings, and unfortunately, scoreboard unit does exist.”

Preamble

Good morning! A canine locomotion with a beauteous friend, excessively overmuch java successful the garden, and present immoderate region cricket. Do articulation america to spot if Northants, Kent, Hampshire, Essex and Worcestershire tin flight their fates. And bully luck to the Warwickshire bowlers, it could beryllium a agelong day. Play starts astatine 11am.