Penultimate round of 2026 County Championship, with nine games
Leaders Somerset struggle to 68-5 after bowling out Yorkshire
Third-placed Warwickshire bowl out Essex for 134; Ethan Bamber takes 6-26
Brett Hutton hits unbeaten 59 to boost Notts total against Sussex
Twenty wickets fall between Surrey and Glamorgan including England's Dan Lawrence for nine
Leicestershire's Ian Holland takes 6-38 against Hampshire
Ben Stokes out for 50 for Durham against Worcestershire; Mayank Agarwal hits 177
Kent bowl out Lancashire for 161 at Canterbury; Khaled Ahmed 5-42
Wayne Madsen and Ben Aitchison hit centuries against Northants
Leicestershire 93-5 v Hampshire 214
Hamza Shaikh works Scott Currie into the leg side but there's no run.
Manny Lumsden now bowls to Ian Holland, who cuts to backward point for a single.
Hamza Shaikh gets a leading edge to backward point but survives.
Hamza Shaikh defends up the pitch on the back foot. He'll get a run this time, cutting late behind square to keep the strike.
Foakes b van der Gugten 19 (Surrey 103-8 v Glamorgan 132)
How do you play that delivery?
Timm van der Gugten angles one in at Ben Foakes, which straightens on pitching and hits the top of off stump.
Surrey struggling to match Glamorgan's meagre first-innings total here.
Northants v Derbyshire 356-7
Wayne Madsen is on 143 not out which is his highest score of the season.
Brett Randell has carried on where Ben Aitchison left off with a run-a-ball 34 as Derbyshire continue to pile on the runs.
Sussex v Notts 169-8
Brett Hutton picks up two and then a single to end the over from Ari Karvelas and once again stays on strike.
Kent 79-3 v Lancashire 161
Daniel Bell-Drummond pushes nicely through the off-side from George Balderson for three, before Zak Crawley plays an almost identical back-foot drive for another two the very next ball.
Crawley moves onto 37*, while Bell-Drummond is 9*.
Sussex v Notts 166-8
Notts keep turning down singles to keep Brett Hutton on strike with Tom Giles at the other end.
The plan is clearly for Hutton to try and deal in boundaries from here on out.
Yorkshire 212 v Somerset 30-4
James Rew sees out the George Hill over with a single off the last ball.
Here comes Ben Cliff on a hat trick.
It's a good delivery, full, targeting the base of the stumps - but just squeezed past the slip cordon via an edge for four.
Kent 72-3 v Lancashire 161
Big appeal as Mitch Stanley catches Zak Crawley above the knee roll. The umpire is unmoved.
It's straight but they're both pretty tall fellas... looks like it would have been going over the top.
Essex 134 v Warwickshire 119-6
Image source, ShutterstockAn over there quite out of keeping with just how difficult it has been to score runs today.
Chris Woakes hits four fours from it - incredible! He has 16 in total and they've all come from that Zaman Akhter over.
Sam Hain meanwhile is on 45 and his side need him to stay in for as long as possible.
That flurry of runs by the way means that out of nowhere, the Bears only trail by 15.
What a difference an over makes.
Lawes c Cooke b Hamza 17 (Surrey 103-7 v Glamorgan 132)
Mir Hamza manages to straighten one from round the wicket and Tom Lawes gets the nick to the keeper.
Auqib Nabi - who took four wickets earlier in the day - comes out to bat for Surrey at number nine.
Glos v Middx 294-8
The frustration continues for Gloucestershire as Seb Morgan leg glances for four. The home side must have thought they'd be batting by now when Middlesex were 222-8 at tea but Morgan and Toby Roland-Jones had other ideas.
Surrey 103-6 v Glamorgan 132
Surrey's total passes 100 as Ben Foakes drives down the ground for four.
Bowler Timm van der Gugten got both hands to it but couldn't stop it and is clearly in a bit of pain.
Fortunately any swear words will be in Dutch.
Sussex v Notts 165-8
Back-to-back boundaries for Brett Hutton as he hammers Sean Hunt down the ground for another four.
But Hunt replies with three dots before Hutton picks up a single from the last ball of the over. Nine from it and Hutton keeps the strike.
Abell c Bairstow b Cliff 0 - Yorkshire 212 v Somerset 24-4
First ball!
Tom Abell is stuck on the crease as he edges behind to keeper-captain Jonny Bairstow.
Ben Cliff on a hat trick in his next over.
That was the final ball of this over - and Somerset are reeling.
James Rew in to replace Tom Abell.
Durham 400-6 v Worcs
Mayank Agarwal's superb innings is over, caught behind off Tom Taylor for 177. But Durham now have a fourth batting point as Ollie Robinson collects a single to cover off Ben Allison.
Agarwal's innings - if you want all the info - lasted four hours and 16 minutes, he faced 220 balls and hit one six and 31 fours.
Vaughan b Cliff 12 - Yorkshire 212 v Somerset 24-3
He's gone this time after nearly popping a catch deep into the leg side.
Archie Vaughan misses a drive off Ben Cliff and the ball canons into middle and off.
Here comes Tom Abell to bat.
Sussex v Notts 160-8
Effortless from Brett Hutton.
He barely seems to move as he crunches a drive straight back down the ground for four off Sean Hunt.
Notts need Hutton to get some runs this evening. He's onto 21.
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It seems to be that groundsmen have done their best to prepare results wickets!
Richard, Torrox
Will the pitch inspectors will be going to Essex v Warwickshire? A lot of wickets there ...
Jason, Cambridge
The same is also true for other grounds...
Wickets everywhere - not a sniff of a batting point in Div 1. Are we playing these games so late in the season it's almost become a bowling competition .? Or are the batters just not up to it..?
Ian, Doncaster
Safe to say that batting bonus points are at a premium. A few going to be left in the hutch.
Bonnie, Brighton
Kent 71-3 v Lancashire 161
A rare bad ball by Jimmy Anderson with a half-volley outside off and Daniel Bell-Drummond makes the most of it with a lovely cover drive for four.
The Kent skipper then picks up a single off the last ball of the over to reduce the deficit to 90 runs with seven wickets in hand.
Yorkshire 212 v Somerset 24-2
Henry Nicholls is behind the line, defending Ben Coad into the off side.
Archie Vaughan is forward to Ben Cliff, driving the bowler through the off side for two.
Leg side and clipped in the air leg side... for four, dissecting two fielders going for the catch. Nervous moments for Somerset.