Summary

  • Day two of nine Championship matches

  • Ben Stokes takes two wickets after earlier making 53 for Division Two leaders Durham away to Derbyshire

  • Leaders Notts trying to build lead in third innings after Olly Stone's 6-44 v Surrey

  • Second-placed Somerset enforce follow-on at home to Essex

  • Low scoring affairs between Warwicks and Sussex, Hants v Yorkshire and Leics' game with Glamorgan

  • Division Two: Glos-Worcs; Lancashire-Northants; Middlesex-Kent

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  1. ouch!

    Leics 151 v Glamorgan 65-6

    Glamorgan batter Mason Crane requires treatment for a hand injury.

    With the variable bounce on this pitch a number of players have taken blows on their digits.

    Crane carries on and next ball comes off his pads for four precious leg byes.

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    Barnard c Simpson b Hunt 1 (Warks 81-5 v Sussex 156)

    Sussex are getting themselves right back in this as batting is proving very tricky at Edgbaston.

    But regardless of the surface, this will do the trick as Sean Hunt finds the perfect delivery across the right-handed Ed Barnard and grazes his outside edge behind.

  3. Somerset 469 v Essex 56-3

    Essex have managed to settle after that madcap start to their reply when they slumped to 2-3.

    The fourth wicket went past fifty in only 52 balls with Matt Critchley, 34, and Paul Walter, 16, desperately trying to battle back.

    Critchley has taken six boundaries, including back-to-back thumping drives off Jake Ball.

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    WICKET

    Hose lbw b Williams 2 (Glos 150 v Worcs 69-3)

    Wickets in consecutive overs for Will Williams as Gloucestershire go 'bang-bang'.

    Very much wicket-to-wicket from the medium pacer and that is a deserved LBW call against Adam Hose.

  5. The joy of Cheltenham cricket

    Glos 150 v Worcs 69-2

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    Cheltenham College

    Ah, the Cheltenham Festival. One of the finest sights in English cricket.

    Scarborough has its backers - indeed, Wisden called it the Queen of the Festivals in this year's Almanack - but there is nothing to beat the splendour of the College Ground.

    The fixture list has made the festival a trickier affair this year - only one Championship match and a nine-day gap between men's matches - but Gloucestershire do all they can to keep this show running.

    Unfortunately, it doesn't matter when or where they've played this season, Gloucestershire have struggled badly in the Championship and they're under pressure again after a very poor first innings.

    But a good crowd is here for the pure joy of watching cricket on this wonderful ground, with the College Chapel at one end and Cleeve Hill rising in the distance.

  6. Injury to Bairstow

    Hants 150-7 v Yorks 173

    Jonny Bairstow is going off with a bang on the hand and Yorks are going to have to have a new gloveman. The perils of standing up to the stumps.

    The former England man has done really well to keep the shackles on Hants batters standing up to the stumps for George Hill and Ben Coad.

    Revis does not bowl any quicker but that has evidently caught YJB in a bony place, Bairstow throwing his glove down in pain and walking to square leg.

    Finlay Bean is on as a replacement but he is not standing up to the stumps.

  7. 50 runs

    50 partnership

    Lancashire v Northants 184-6

    We have news of two batters resisting this post-lunch bowling onslaught!

    George Bartlett and Lewis McManus are on a counter-attack for Northants.

    Bartlett is on 42 and McManus has 27, with six boundaries, and together they have put on 51 from the dangerous position of 134-6 to one where they can think of pushing past 250.

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    Libby c Bracey b Williams 20 (Glos 150 v Worcs 63-2)

    Persistence from Will Williams wins the day over the patience of Jake Libby.

    The Pears opener nibbles and it's easy for James Bracey.

    The way Libby immediately throws his bat up shows that he's been undone on the 70th ball of his innings.

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    Cooke c Tattersall b Holland 2 (Glam 55-6 v Leics 151)

    Glamorgan have now lost their last three for five runs.

    We think Chris Cooke is caught behind off Ian Holland.

    The ball diverted sharply. It might have come off the pads in which case Cooke would be plumb LBW

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    Brown b Chohan 23 (Hants 144-7 v Yorks 173)

    Jafer Chohan sends a regulation leg spinner down, shortish though. Ben Brown goes down on one knee trying to pull it lustily through to the mid-wicket boundary, misses and loses his stumps.

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    WICKET

    Yates c Simpson b Hunt 25 (Warks 75-4 v Sussex 156)

    Now then. A Sussex fightback?

    Rob Yates was steady for the Bears but he too falls.

    Sean Hunt, left-arm over, gets a fraction of movement into the left-hander and finds a scratch of his inside edge.

  12. Get Involved

    #bbccricket

    What have all the bowlers had for lunch up and down the country??

    Adam, Bristol

    A lot of low scoring matches being contested. Is this a symptom a possible symptom of the break between shorter formats or something else?

    Tom Lissenden, Maidstone

    Some of the bowlers may be relishing the chance to bowl a long spell with close catchers in and the batters in defensive mode after all the white-ball cricket in recent weeks.

    And batters may have got out of the habit of blocking and leaving successfully.

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    Young c Clark b Crocombe 6 (Warks 73-3 v Sussex 156)

    That loose stroke from Dan Mousley has opened up an end for Sussex and they take advantage.

    Henry Crocombe is on a good area around off-stump and draws an edge from Will Young to second slip.

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    Clark c Jewell b Aitchison 64 (Derbys v Durham 260-6)

    And that luck then runs out as Graham Clark departs, caught low at second slip by Caleb Jewell off the bowling of Ben Aitchison.

    Clark has given plenty of oomph to the Durham innings but he rode his luck a moment ago with a leading edge over the wicketkeeper and he is riding it back to the pavilion now.

    A second Derbys bowling point, too.

  15. Derbys v Durham 260-5

    Graham Clark rides his luck with a big leading edge that spews up and over the wicketkeeper to the third man area and kicks on to the rope.

    That was a 'catch it' moment until everyone realised Clark could not have walked up and put it any further away from everyone.

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    Foakes c McCann b Pennington 12 (Surrey 122-7 v Notts 184)

    Nottinghamshire will have hopes of a first innings lead as Dillon Pennington gets into the act.

    Ben Foakes prods at one and Freddie McCann atones for his earlier drop by taking the stomach high catch at second slip.

    Surrey have lost their last three wickets for nine.

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    Du Plooy c Benjamin b Milnes 7 (Middlesex 63-5 v Kent 350)

    Middlesex's innings now reaches crisis point.

    Captain Leus du Plooy thinks attack is the best form of defence as he launches into a big attempted drive.

    But perhaps not quite back in Championship mode after short-form exercise, it takes the edge and the skipper is walking off as Matt Milnes has a third wicket.

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    Geddes c Benjamin b Quinn 8 (Middlesex 63-4 v Kent 350)

    No doubt which side is on top now.

    Ben Geddes is the third Middlesex man to fall since lunch as he goes, attempting a hook off Matt Quinn that goes through to the wicketkeeper.

    Geddes is not happy and replays suggest the noise was not that of bat, but of his helmet on the way through.

    There is no reprieve, just a hard luck story and Middlesex trail by 287 with six wickets left.

  19. Batting point for Durham

    Derbys v Durham 250-5

    A first batting point for Durham as Graham Clark slaps Shoaib Bashir into the onside for a single.

    Derbys will be looking to respond with a second bowling point and Clark would not be a bad place to focus given he looks in a bumptious mood.

  20. Stone starring for Notts

    Surrey 117-6 v Nottinghamshire 184

    It's almost two years since Olly Stone played the last of his five Test matches so far.

    But if he can stay fit the 32-year-old will surely come under consideration again.

    It's been an excellent five-wicket exhibition from Stone who's twice taken two wickets in an over to put Notts on top.