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Will Macpherson at Chelmsford

Unbeaten Essex sign off by thrashing Yorkshire while Worcs are promoted

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Essex finished the season unbeaten as they clinched the County Championship. Photograph: TGSPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

Essex sign off in style with Yorkshire left embarrassed

Essex, the very worthiest of champions, did as Essex have all summer. By inflicting on Yorkshire their lowest score this century, 74, they secured their first unbeaten season. Division One is supposed to be impenetrable for the little sides, but Essex have swept it away in their first season back after six away – this was their 10th win (and seventh inside three days), and the 10th time they have bowled a side out for 150 or under. This was the fourth time Yorkshire have been the victims; their twin titles seem moons ago.

As his team mingled with fans – the crowd was more than 2,500, including the unrequired Alastair Cook, who donned his full kit (like another sport’s rather more controversial former England captain) for the bottle-popping – in riotous celebration, Ryan ten Doeschate, the captain, said: “This couldn’t be more perfect, here with all these people. Ten wins is mind-blowing, and I can’t believe we have rolled another team. The desire to go unbeaten really impressed me. It would have been easy to coast home after we had won it [against Warwickshire a fortnight ago], but that was never happening.”

The day’s only dampener for Essex – the exclusion from England’s Ashes party of Tom Westley, who, to his credit, celebrated as if he had not yet been told – came before play. From 10.30, everything went to plan. They cruised their way to 334 for seven in their second innings, thanks to 83s from Nick Browne and Dan Lawrence, and punchy half-centuries from Ten Doeschate and Simon Harmer.

With Yorkshire chasing a notional 451, the other Cook, 20-year-old Sam, was immediately into his work, having Adam Lyth caught behind, while Jamie Porter trapped Kraigg Brathwaite lbw. Their batting totem, Gary Ballance, who admitted he was a touch surprised to make the Ashes party, was lbw to Cook for five, taking his season’s tally to 951. Yorkshire soon slipped to 35 for six at tea with Andy Hodd falling to a witless reverse sweep to Harmer, who finishes his first summer in county cricket with 72 wickets. First ball back (and with a fresh contract announced) Porter picked up Steve Patterson, his 75th wicket of a very special season, then Cook – who will return to his course at Loughborough University – completed his second five-wicket haul in two matches, with Jack Brooks caught at slip. Only Matt Fisher, last man out to a brute from Neil Wagner, delayed the humiliation, registering just Yorkshire’s fourth double-figure score of the match.

After Yorkshire’s heaviest defeat by runs ever, the coach, Andrew Gale, was not for mincing his words. “Quite frankly that’s embarrassing for a Yorkshire team,” he said. “It’s one of the worst performances I’ve ever been involved in. That was soft cricket, and Yorkshire at their worst. We’ve got to count ourselves lucky that we are not in Division Two next year.”

Now attention turns to which sides will be joining Essex and Yorkshire in Division One next year. Worcestershire will, having picked up enough bonus points against Durham, while Nottinghamshire look set to escape Hove with the draw they require against Sussex to secure their long-awaited promotion.Northamptonshire need 180 more to beat Leicestershire with all 10 wickets in hand, but look likely to be disappointed, even if they secure their ninth win in 14 games.

Batsmen old, new, and unlikely helped Nottinghamshire recover from 65 for five to make 477, trailing by 88, against Sussex. The retiring Chris Read made a century in his final first-class match, and Billy Root, brother of Joe, made his first in Championship cricket, with the pair sharing 242 for the sixth wicket, before Harry Gurney made the highest score of his decade-long first-class career (eclipsing 27 not out), but was left
agonisingly stranded 58 short of his maiden century. Alas. Eyes will be on Taunton and Edgbaston, where rain hindered progress in both games, as the relegation tussle makes it into the final day.

Somerset, after James Hildreth’s 41st first-class century, asked Middlesex (for whom left-arm spinner Ravi Patel finished with a career-best 12 wickets), to chase 345 to win. By the time the forecast rain came, Middlesex – who survive by avoiding defeat – were 40 for three, with two wickets for Jack Leach. Somerset stay up if they win. But whether they survive or not, the club confirmed that their director of cricket, Matthew Maynard, will leave the club as part of a backroom reshuffle.

If Somerset win and Warwickshire beat Hampshire, they will go down, and the efforts of Ian Bell mean this is possible. He ended a sorry season by making 77 not out, including a 10th-wicket stand of 59 with Ryan Sidebottom, to set Hampshire 259, the highest score of the game by some distance, to win. A draw keeps Hampshire up, and they are 20 for one at stumps.

Kumar Sangakkara signed off his first-class career with 35 not out to take his season’s tally to 1,491 runs at 106.5 in 16 innings, with eight centuries, but he looks likely to end up on the losing side. Lancashire’s Liam Livingstone’s six for 52 (his maiden five-wicket haul) saw Surrey collapse from 154 without loss, with Mark Stoneman making 98, to 242 all out. Livingstone is 51 not out with Lancashire 132 for three, requiring just 44 for victory, and second place. Will Macpherson

Updated

That's all folks!

Time to wrap up the penultimate day of the season on the blog. Thanks for joining me. I’m going to go to Edgbaston tomorrow, for what looks a corker.

Division One:

  • Essex beat Yorkshire by 376 runs
  • Middlesex 142 & 40-3 v Somerset 236 & 250-9d
  • Lancashire 268 & 132-3 v Surrey 201-8d & 242
  • Hampshire 116 & 20-1 v Warwickshire 188 & 186

Division Two:

  • Northants 202 & 17-0 v Leicestershire 128 & 270
  • Nottinghamshire 477 v Sussex 565
  • Worcestershire 335 & 157-3 v Durham 208
  • Glamorgan beat Kent by 5 wickets
  • Gloucestershire 224-2 v Derbyshire 460

Speak in the morning! Thanks, as ever, for the support. One more time!

Matthew Maynard will leave Somerset after this match. Not a surprise, although the timing is a touch awry.

Well I’ve returned from a very enjoyable presentation – quite literally last orders at the bar – and it appears that there’s no more cricket happening!

Courtesy of Paul Frame, here’s the Essex groundsman’s latest masterpiece.

Stumps called at Old Trafford. Lancashire need 44 to win in the morning.

Off to watch the presentation, back shortly...

Off for bad light at Hove...

Northants are chasing 197 to beat Leicestershire and keep the heat up on Notts.

Close at Edgbaston! Warwickshire need nine wickets tomorrow, Hampshire 239 runs (or a draw). I’ll be there.

We think this is Yorkshire’s lowest score since 1999. Since securing their survival on day one, they’ve been humiliated here.

Oh no indeed.

Makes sense.

Essex win by 376 runs and go unbeaten!

Brilliant bouncer from Wagner ends it and Fisher, the only man to reach double figures, could do nothing but glove behind. Essex win by 376 runs. What an effort. Cook the pick of the bowlers, with 5 for 20.

Livingstone’s very fine day continues. He has 42 and with three wickets in hand, Lancashire need 57 to win.

Glamorgan have beaten Kent by five wickets! Sorry end to the season for Kent. Point worth making: look at the difference in their season when they had Jason Gillespie in the camp, and when they didn’t.

Wicket! Harmer has his second, and Carver is gone lbw. Yorkshire are 72 for nine. Stand with Fisher (25*, the only man in double figures) was worth 34.

Notts 477 all out! Bad news ... Gurney unbeaten on 42!

They trail by 88. Should get the draw they need.

Good shout this. He is into the 40s...

Essex shamed as Yorkshire reach 64.

Yorkshire have 50!

Stumps at Taunton! Back they will come tomorrow. Somerset need seven wickets for survival...

The good news!

Good point.

Cosgrove is gone, and Leicestershire are seven down. Lead of 171. Work for Northants still to do.

Notts trail by 98 with Gurney on 36 at tea. What an effort.

Tell you what, rain at Edgbaston and Taunton leaves tomorrow tantalisingly poised in the relegation stakes.

Lancashire 92 for three as first innings centurion Steven Croft goes for duck to Rikki Clarke...

Harry Gurney has 35. Oh my. Notts should surely save this game from here. They are 100 behind.

Lancashire are 88 for two as Batty gets Jones. One last Lancs up incoming?

Eight down. This game is not long in the tooth. Cook has five, and the first ball of his new over does for Brooks, caught at first slip.

Ha!

Silver linings for Yorkshire.

Rain at Edgbaston...

First ball after tea, Patterson nicks Porter behind. That’s his 75th Championship wicket of the season, and Yorkshire are 37 for seven.

Notts have put on 50 for the last wicket...

Jamie Porter has signed a two-year contract extension at Essex. Very popular indeed.

Great sport. Yorkshire have been pathetic.

Wow.

Tea at Edgbaston, Hampshire are 20 for one, needing 239 more. Rain due later today.

Rain sounding quite set in at Taunton.

Tea! Yorkshire are 37 for six. My word. They need 414 to win.

Wicket at Edgbaston! OHD gets Adams. There is some rain forecast there at 5pm.

Tea at Old Trafford and Lancashire are 73 for one, requiring another 103...

Wicket! Hodd goes for the reverse sweep at 35 for five – always wise – and is lbw to Grievous Bodily Harmer. Six down.

Notts have avoided the follow on nine down, although I don’t think Sussex would have enforced anyway.

Good shout this.

Tea is theoretically in 14 minutes here. Could have the extra half-hour.

Wicket! Leaning nicks off to Sam Cook. Four-fer. He got five for 18 against Hampshire. Genuinely might not make tea.

Full batting points for Notts. They are 12 from avoiding the follow on.

Off for bad light at Worcester. Hosts are 140 for three, leading by 267.

Al Davies gone to Clarke at OT! 40 for one.

Ballance gone to Cook as well! 26 for four now.

Chris Jordan has taken a phenomenal caught and bowled to dismiss Brett Hutton at Hove. 380 for eight, 185 behind.

Al Davies going off like a rain for Lancs against Surrey. 36 without loss, and he has 30. 140 more required.

Leicestershire are five down, leading by 107. Northants with plenty to do...

Warwickshire 186 all out! Hampshire need 259 to win. Bell left unbeaten on 77.

Wicket! Com-pre-hen-sive. Cook bowls Lees and it’s 17 for three! One stump left standing.

10th wicket stand of 56 for YouBears at Edgbaston! Hampshire are going to have to chase something big. Bell has 74.

Two down! Brathwaite gone to Porter, leg before. Here comes The Ashes’s Gary Ballance.

Lyth never out, by the way. Hit his back pad on the way through, miles outside the line. Given caught behind.

Wicket! Lyth gone to Sam Cook’s second ball, and he is spewing. Given caught behind, appeal also for lbw. 3 for 1. Essex always strike early.

Absolutely superb stuff from the Wooster twitter.

Strong from the Taunton groundstaff.

Big cheers for Essex as they come out for the final innings of their brilliant season. Yorkshire need 451 to win.

Ian Bell playing his best knock of the season at Edgbaston! He’s been smashing Edwards and has 73, and the lead is 249...

Billy Root gone! Notts 345 for seven.

Lancashire need 176 to win at OT.

Finally a declaration! 54 overs left in the day, and Yorkshire need 451 to win.

So Sangakkara’s final summer ends with 1491 runs at 106.5 in 16 innings across 10 games. 8 tons. What a bloke.

Surrey all out for 242! They lost all 10 wickets for 88. Sanga, rather appropriately, left stranded on 35.

Wickets: Livingstone 6 Parry 4 sounds rather like a Scottish football result.

Updated

Wicket! Wagner caught second slip. Still no declaration. 322 for seven ... lead of 438.

Batty caught and bowled off the top edge by Livingstone for 33! Sanga has 34, and the lead is 174 with two wickets in hand.

And then Meaker gone second. One wicket in hand...

Warwickshire are 127 for nine. Edwards gets OHD. Lead is 199. Bell needs to scramble a few more.

50 for Grievous here, his second of the match and second for Essex. Come on Tendo, now’s time.

Chris Read is out! He made 124 in his final match. Notts are 310 for six. Still 156 from avoiding the follow on, but are in a much better place than when Read and Root came together at 65 for five...

The rain has arrived at Taunton! Middlesex are 40 for three...

Warwickshire eight down after Wright was run out. Bell has 28. Surely time to farm the strike? OHD hits his first ball for four! The lead is 190...

Wicket here! Tendo nicks off for 57 to Fisher with the new ball. Lead is 396.

Middlesex 28 for three! Malan gone to Bess’s second ball.

Ha, that is marvellous.

Abbott got Jeetan first ball after lunch and Warwickshire are 96 for seven! Lead is 168, Bell one of the three remaining wickets.

Yorkshire have taken the new ball. Fisher with it, interestingly.

Middlesex two down! Leach gets Compton!

Well, afternoon session moments away here. No Essex declaration yet...

Lunch! Scores on the doors

Here’s where we are. Things are hotting up. Worcestershire have been promoted.

Division One:

  • Middlesex 142 & 21-1 v Somerset 236 & 250-9d
  • Essex 227 & 274-5 Yorkshire 111
  • Surrey 201-8d & 197-7 v Lancashire 268
  • Warwickshire 188 & 95-6 Hampshire 116

Division Two:

  • Worcestershire 335 & 23-1 v Durham 208
  • Nottinghamshire 285-5 v Sussex 565
  • Leicestershire 128 & 90-3 v Northamptonshire 202
  • Glamorgan 229 & 50-0 v Kent 302 & 115
  • Gloucestershire 172-2 v Derbyshire 460

Enjoy your sarnies!

And lunch here: Tendo has an 81-ball 50 and Essex lead by 390. Surely they won’t bat for more than 30 mins after lunch, if at all?

So Abbott got Thomson on the stroke of lunch and Warwickshire lead by 167 at lunch with four wickets in hand. Bell has 23 and Jeetan in next. Could that be over today?

So Liam Livingstone has his first five-wicket haul! Clarke gone, and at lunch Surrey lead by 130 with five wickets left. Sanga has 23.

Livingstone’s celebration was incredible!

Lunch at Taunton. Middlesex 21 for one, needing some luck, some skill and most importantly some rain.

He’ll have 50 by the game’s end. Beautifully bowled.

A century for Billy Root!

Robson gone to Leach! Middlesex 20 for one...

Leicestershire lead two down against Northants... Notts in charge in promotion race now.

Brilliant from Read!

Essex lead b y 346 but aren’t teeing off at all. Could easily declare at lunch, but not looking like they will.

What a comeback from Lancs at Old Trafford! Scurran gone first ball! He’s bowled by Parry and Surrey are 174 for six, leading by 107. Sanga there...

Surrey 174 for five and Livingstone has four! Sanga still there, Pope gone, and Scurran in.

Durham all out for 208: promoted Worcestershire lead by 127.

Ambrose gone for a duck! Warwickshire 65 for five, leading by 137. Over to you, Ian Bell.

Warwickshire are 65 for four, and making a bit of a hash of things. They lead by 137. Lamb gone, Bell there on 18.

Somerset declare! Middlesex need 345 to win.

Somerset reach 250 nine down. That’s a big old target. Middlesex will want some rain. A draw saves them, as does a win. If they lose, they need Warwickshire to beat Hampshire.

Somerset need 10 wickets to survive.

Surrey are four down and in trouble! Livingstone got Borthwick, Foakes gone for a golden duck! He has taken a hat-trick! Pope in on the hat-trick ball, which he survives.

Over to you, Sanga. Surrey lead by 93 and are four down. They lost their first four wickets for six runs!

So Nottinghamshire have that batting point. A draw will send them up.

Some things never change... Although Middlesex have been done for their over-rate once this season; would be a very bad time to get done again...

Lancashire have given Sanga his second guard of honour of the game!

Burns gone for 45, and he ends with 1,041 runs this season. Just one century (it was 219), but that’s a very fine year. Expect him to be a Lion. Sanga in, leading by 89. Interesting game suddenly...

Warwickshire 51 for three, having lost Trott. The lead is 123. There will be a result in that match.

Somerset nine down, leading by 333. Patel has 12 in the game.

Wicket! Foster lbw to Fisher, defending forward with bat and pad together. 205 for five, Harmer in, lead of 321. Get bowling lads!

Stoneman gone for 98! To Livingstone. He will have to settle for four Championship centuries and 1,156 runs for the season. 154 for one, 87 the lead.

Somerset’s declaration really can’t be far away... Lead is 327.

Paul Kersey writes:

Will, how far is Dan Lawrence away from being good enough for England? I’ve never seen him bat, but he’s young, and has made good runs this year, sometimes in pressure situations. Is he ready, say for next summer?

Good question. He’s been brilliant this year, and his gritty early season tons against Lancashire and Surrey are the reason Essex are unbeaten and Champions. He’s even more legside than Westley, but digs in very well too. He will go with the Lions this winter and while I’d prefer him to have another full Champo season, could be around as soon as next summer. Him and Joe Clarke are the pick of the 20-21 year olds.

The great man emerges.

Patel has 11, Coverton gone, Somerset lead by 320...

Worcestershire are doing it in style! Full bowling points, Durham nine down 157 behind.

Sibley gone, and Hampshire are into the tail! Bell in, off his king pair. Warwickshire 41 for two, leading by 113.

Glamorgan require 189 to beat Kent having bowled them out for 115! Hogan took six, and 10 in the match.

Hildreth out! He goes for 109, bowled by Jimmy Harris. 223 for six, and the lead is 317.

It is a sad time of year! Assuming there is still cricket to watch, I will be at Edgbaston, and Vic will be at Taunton tomorrow to finish off the relegation battle. Exciting.

Patterson comes on, and Browne nick to second slip first ball! This will speed the game along. Very innocuous. He, like Lawrence, made 83, and that also ends a very fine season for him. 188 for four, lead of 304. Foster in, hope they start to tee off.

Somerset are five down after Ravi Patel made Steve Davies his 10th of the match. Middlesex will need more than 300 to win.

100 for James Hildreth! His 41st. Somerset lead by 293. I wonder what they reckon is enough. 350?

50 for Billy Root! He and Read have put on 99, and Notts are 36 away from that vital batting point...

It’s a bit damp outside, so they have the rope out there to dry things out.

Wicket at Taunton! Patel gets Abell, and Somerset lead by 279, four down. Worst thing for Middlesex would be a declaration before the rain today... Hildreth on 97.

Dropped! Browne tried to pull Brooks, got a horrible edge towards gully and running back Lyth overran and it shelled it. Would have been a good catch, but should have taken it. 161 for three.

Warwickshire one down: 87 ahead, Banks gone to Edwards.

Wicket! Coad has 50 Championship wickets this season! Lawrence gone lbw for 83. Ends a brilliant season for him. Essex 145 for three, lead of 261.

Because Northants can now only get 217 points, Worcestershire – who recently took a sixth Durham wicket for a second bonus point – are up!!

Worcestershire have been promoted!

Wahooooooooooo!

Northants all out for 202! That’s a lead of 74, one batting point, but also the loss of all 10 wickets for 112.

Northants have a batting point! So Notts need one of their own in order to draw and go up, should Northants win.

Ah.

Delayed start at Canterbury, but an inspection now.

Here come the players at Chelmsford. Essex’s lead is 250.

Lot of disappointment in Chelmsford this morning...

Robin Hobbs (I presume not the Essex Robin Hobbs!) writes:

Good point made by Simon Mann that Collingwood has a higher average than Vince this season.

I know he retired from tests, but is a fairytale comeback for Brigadier Block/Sergeant Smash completely beyond the realms of possibility if Malan/Vince etc. all fail in the first couple of tests? What odds would you give it?

Could provide a useful bit of seam up too, and he can catch!

My odds would be 100-1, because the Lions are shadowing the Ashes squad. But how good would that be!

An email from the great Mike Selvey, with regard to tannoys:

When I first played for Surrey,” he writes, “they had a club secretary called Colonel Romer (known as Arriverderci to the players) who loved tannoy. Would shoo the pigeons at the Oval. One day at an out game he went on a PA rant about a car blocking an exit. Eventually, halfway through another go, realised it was his.”

Brilliant.

Andrew Cosgrove has sent me an email. There are two parts to it, so I’ll address the two separately.

I thought there was supposed to be an announcement about the Taunton pitch last night, but I can’t see any reports about that. Do you know what happened? Did everyone look at Hildreth and Abell batting a realise that the complaints about a dodgy pitch were just nonsense so people just agreed to quietly forget about it?

A bit of both on this. The CLO, Wayne Noon, was due to talk to the press last evening, but delayed it until the end of the match, as he’d normally do. By the sounds of things he can stand down, and there’s nothing to worry about. When Vic left Taunton yesterday his main concern was that it looked so placid that Somerset may not be able to bowl Middlesex out again. Andrew’s second part:

For the Ashes squad, I assume that at some stage the selectors will realise that picking someone (in this case Vince) who didn’t really excel last time he was in the squad and hasn’t scored any runs in the championship since then, rarely comes off well.

Hard to argue. Vince is a selection hunch, rather than based on his record or history. They obviously reckon that his flaws will be less fatal in Australia, where he will hopefully suit the conditions. He clearly as a high ceiling but this is a huge gamble.

Good point well made.

Today, it’s not headlights but hazard lights that have been left on in the Chelmsford car park.

Updated

Think Crane knows enough about playing in Australia to be fine. He’s got balls of steel, even if the record isn’t there.

In addition to that, Shane Bond will be England’s bowling consultant until the end of the second Test, and Paul Collingwood will coach during the Tests and ODIs.

Ashes squad confirmed!

So, as per Ali Martin’s story yesterday, here’s England’s Ashes squad:

Cook, Stoneman, Vince, Root, Malan, Ballance, Stokes, Bairstow, Moeen, Foakes, Woakes, Broad, Anderson, Ball, Coverton, Crane.

Ben Stokes is still vice-captain...

Morning Stuie! Good side...

So, the Ashes squad will be announced in about five minutes. I think we know who’s in it, don’t we? What do you all reckon? Who’s making you angry? And who’s making you sad?

Morning all it's the morning call!

Hello and welcome to the penultimate day of the County Championship season here on County Cricket – live! I know the cricketing news agenda has at least half an eye elsewhere – a brawling vice-skip, an Ashes squad, even an ODI – but on we charge with plenty to decide. I’m Will Macpherson and I’m here to guide you through all that.

Some things will be decided today, others tomorrow. But there’s certainly lots of things to decide, with three teams in the hunt for promotion to Division One (two will end up happy), and three looking to avoid the drop (two will again end up happy). At Chelmsford, where I am, Essex, the brilliant blighters, can go a whole year unbeaten for the first time in their history, and will lift the County Championship trophy for the first time since 1992 when their victory over Yorkshire – and surely that is what it will be – is completed.

Relegation, then. Hampshire need a seriously good day to erase a stinker yesterday. They had Warwickshire five for three, but closed a 20-wicket day miles behind and needing to buck up their ideas. They need the five points from a draw to survive, should Somerset beat Middlesex. And Somerset look likely to beat Middlesex, all told. There’s rain about this afternoon so play will be curtailed, but their lead is already 253, and they have power to add. They will surely be looking to get along with it this morning and then get a declaration in.

And promotion. Worcestershire need two more points, and they should get them with the ball today against Durham. What a magnificent achievement promotion is. Nottinghamshire have so long looked certainties but, should Northants beat Leicestershire (and again, that looks likely), they need to match Northants’ batting points, and avoid defeat. Neither are guaranteed. Here’s the scores on the doors:

Division One:

  • Essex 227 & 134-2 v Yorkshire 111
  • Somerset 236 & 159-3 v Middlesex 142
  • Warwickshire 188 & 0-0 v Hampshire 116
  • Surrey 201-8d & 79-0 v Lancashire 268

Division Two:

  • Durham 142-5 v Worcestershire 335
  • Northants 199-8 v Leicestershire 128
  • Nottinghamshire 108-5 v Sussex 565
  • Kent 302 & 98-6 v Glamorgan 229
  • Gloucestershire 47-1 v Derbyshire 460

And here’s yesterday’s report about the continued decimation of Durham, a busy day at Lancashire and the roundup of all the action. Please read it, please comment on it.

You can contact me! Here’s how:

I greatly look forward to hearing from you, on county cricket and everything besides. It’s been a great week so far, so let’s the finish the season with a bang. All that leaves me to say, as ever, is enjoy the cricket. There really isn’t much of it left!

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