Summary

  • Penultimate round of 2026 County Championship

  • Somerset & Notts both lose, Glamorgan beat Surrey in Div One

  • Warwickshire lead Somerset by 11 points & Notts by 15 points in title race

  • Leics win by five wickets to relegate Hampshire

  • Middlesex and Northants denied chance of win by rain

  • Durham draw with Worcestershire

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Live Reporting

Ben Ashton, Ben Pheazey, Clive Eakin and Gary Smee

  1. Northants 326-6 - chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire

    Dave Fletcher
    BBC Radio Derby Sport

    Cries of "get on with it". Dear oh dear.

    Well, this is absolutely astonishing.

    It's a very bad look for cricket, this I'm afraid.

  2. Northants 321-6 chasing 349 to win

    Oh my days ... the umpires are consulting about the light.

  3. Northants 322-6 - chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire

    Andrew Radd
    BBC Radio Northampton

    I'm sure it's totally immaterial but that gives George Bartlett 4,000 first-class runs.

    Nice way to get there.

  4. 6 runs

    from Bartlett

    Northants 322-6 chasing 349 to beat Derby

    Martin Andersson comes into the bowling and George Bartlett hits him over mid wicket for six.

    The next ball is a wide and 27 are needed.

  5. Northants 315-6 chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire

    Five singles from that over from Nick Potts.

    34 more needed.

    George Bartlett and Lewis McManus trying to steer Northants home.

  6. rain stops play

    Rain stops play in Bristol

    Gloucs 145-9 (target 392) v Middlesex

    The rain has arrived at the Seat Unique Stadium once again and the players are taken off.

    Middlesex still need one wicket, but Matt Taylor and JT Langridge have frustrated them with some gutsy batting.

  7. Northants 310-6 - chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire

    Andrew Radd
    BBC Radio Northampton

    What a game of cricket this is.

    39 to win.

  8. Northants 310-6 - chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire

    Dave Fletcher
    BBC Radio Derby Sport

    This is interesting now.

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Sales b Abbas 22 (Northants 310-6 chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire)

    The extra ball gets the wicket.

    James Sales is deceived by the lack of bounce and is bowled possibly off a bottom edge.

    39 needed by Northants, 4 wickets by Derbyshire

  10. Northants racing towards the line

    Northants 312-5 chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire

    Brilliant over from Northants. James Sales drives the scheduled last ball of the Mohammad Abbas over for four,

    14 have come off the over and the last delivery is a no ball....

  11. Northants 302-5 - chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire

    Dave Fletcher
    BBC Radio Derby Sport

    They're not trying to take wickets here, Derbyshire - and if they don't take wickets, they will lose this game.

  12. 300 runs

    300 up for Northants

    Northants 302 chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire

    A short delivery from Mohammad Abbas is easily hit to the boundary by James Sales.

    Just 47 more needed by the home side.

  13. Northants 296-5 chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire

    Nick Potts keeps Northants down to four in the next over.

    There's a well run two at the end and Northants need 53 to win.

  14. Northants 296-5 - chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire

    Andrew Radd
    BBC Radio Northampton

    Whatever happens now we've had four really good days of cricket. There's been some outstanding performances from both sides.

  15. wicket

    GLAMORGAN BEAT SURREY BY 184 RUNS
    Breaking

    Taylor b van der Gugten 15 (Surrey 115 & 427 v Glamorgan 132 & 594)

    Timm van der Gugten clean bowls James Taylor and that seals the victory for Glamorgan, who do the double over Surrey!

    A bizarre match with very low first innings scores and massive second innings totals.

    Surrey gave a record run chase of 612 a decent go but they were never realistically going to get close and it was just a case of whether or not Glamorgan could take 10 wickets. And they could.

    Glamorgan move up to sixth, six points above Surrey.

  16. Northants 292-5 chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire

    Nine taken off the Mohammad Abbas over as James Sales gets away with a mis cued pull.

    57 needed to win, 26 overs scheduled but it is getting gloomy in Northampton.

  17. Surrey 426-9 - target 612 to beat Glamorgan

    That was almost it.

    Dan Worrall smashes into his own boot from Mason Crane and it loops up in front of him.

    Chris Cooke dives forward from behind the stumps to try and take the catch but it's just out of reach.

    That would've been a bizarre way to end the match.

  18. Northants 288-5 - target 349 to beat Derbyshire

    Dave Fletcher
    BBC Radio Derby Sport

    That is an enormous shot.

    I don't think Abbas would've taken kindly to that.

  19. Northants 288-5 - chasing 349 to beat Derbyshire

    The crowd are really getting into it at Northampton now as George Bartlett belts a powerful shot off Mohammad Abbas for four.

    61 needed.

  20. Rain ruins exciting finale

    Result: Durham drew with Worcestershire

    Martin Emmerson
    BBC Radio Newcastle

    For once we are too far north to guarantee the weather. This one looked like it was going to reach a cracking conclusion this afternoon, but lots of rain has bubbled up since lunch and the umpires have called it a day, with the radar showing more on the way.

    Worcestershire were 32-1 when they players went off. The target was 253. So the sides have shaken hands on a draw.

    Durham remain unbeaten and have 245 points. Their best season was 2013 when they took 245.5. That was also their only season with 10 wins. They have nine this year.

    Next up - the trophy presentation in CLS for the Division Two champions. Next week it's the final game of the season, with a match at Old Trafford starting on Thursday.