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A gathering of the National Drought Group is ne'er a bully sign…
Friday's round-up
There was a to-and-fro scrap astatine Trent Bridge, the quality being Nottinghamshire’s 20-year-old England Lion Freddie McCann, who deed a fantastic century, already his 3rd successful the Championship. Kyle Abbott collected 5 wickets for the 43rd clip successful his vocation – it could person been much but Hampshire dropped 5 catches.
The 2024 champions had a hard time astatine Edgbaston. Tom Latham, who lone arrived successful Birmingham connected Tuesday aft recovering from a breached hand, frolicked to an unbeaten 139 connected his Warwickshire debut. Alex Davies had acceptable the mood, playing wantonly astatine the Surrey attack, slapping a mates of aboriginal sixes, until helium was bowled by a afloat flip from Dan Lawrence. Surrey, shorn of Jamie Smith and Ollie Pope by England, picked Jason Roy for the archetypal clip successful 5 years.
It was a memorable time for off-spinner Jack Carson, who celebrated a maiden first-class period astatine a sunny Hove. It was an intelligent rescue enactment aft Sussex, sitting beauteous astatine 80 for nought, promptly mislaid six for 8 arsenic Tom Taylor (five for 56) ran riot. The last-wicket basal of 73 was peculiarly galling for Worcestershire.
James Wharton’s cautious innings of 63 not retired conscionable astir knitted Yorkshire unneurotic connected a time erstwhile they mislaid 9 for 108 connected a two-faced Chelmsford pitch. Matt Critchley collected 4 for 49. Essex past mislaid their opening brace and the nightwatchman earlier the close.
Glamorgan, boosted by quality that Marnus Labuschagne would beryllium returning for 2 games (and a sixth season) aboriginal this month, had a bully time against Kent at Canterbury, wherever a northbound upwind confused the seasons. Young specs-wearing Asa Tribe was bowled by Matt Parkinson six runs abbreviated of a archetypal Championship century, Ben Kellaway was unbeaten connected 91.
A ding-dong unrolled astatine the County Ground, wherever Northamptonshire were reduced to 67 for six earlier the past 4 batters added 171 – overmuch to Lancashire’s frustration. Lewis McManus cooked up a fractional period and was good supported by Liam Guthrie and the tail. Lancashire mislaid some George Bell and Josh Bohannon for nought, but yet different 50 from Marcus Harris smoothed the waters.
Scores connected the doors
DIVISION ONE
Chelmsford: Essex 27-3 v Yorkshire 216
Trent Bridge: Notts 333 v Hampshire 2-0
Hove: Sussex 284 v Worcestershire 7-0
Edgbaston: Warwickshire 364-4 v Surrey
DIVISION TWO
Canterbury: Kent v Glamorgan 389-7
County Ground: Northamptonshire 238 v Lancashire 110-3
Preamble
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