CLOSE OF PLAY
Division One
Worcestershire 247 & 484-7 dec, Lancashire 130 & 399 (Jennings 177, Barnard 4-95. Worcestershire win by 202 runs.
Essex 206 & 139 (Bopara 3; Milnes 4-44), Nottinghamshire 380 & 266. Notts win by 301 runs
(DAY/NIGHT between Hampshire and, Yorkshire still in play, with Yorks leading by 144 runs with 5 wickets remaining)
Division Two
Leicestershire 427 & 186, Middlesex 233 & 383/9. Middlesex win by one wicket
Kent 197 & 446-8 dec Warwickshire 125 and 445. Kent win by 73 runs
Glamorgan 283 & 403-7dec (Khawaja 126, Carlson 152, Lloyd 43 not out) Derbyshire 362 & 147-8. Match drawn.
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And they shake hands at Swansea. Another absolute cracker. Congratulation to Derbyshire for holding on at the last. And well done Glamorgan, flying off the bottom of the Champo table. That’s it from me while I write up, I’m calling the Ageas Bowl a draw. Shout at me on Monday at OT if I’m wrong. Thanks for your lovely company, I’ll share that jinx recipe with you some day.
Congratulations Middlesex! Victory by one wicket - man of the match to James Harris - 58 not out and nerves of steel.
Nooooo! Middx 9 down, 7 to win. Finn for 9. It’s down to Murtagh and Harris.
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And Derby are 8 down! Come on Glamorgan - you deserve it after that fight-back and fair declaration.
Bravo James Harris - 52 off just 85 balls. 9 fours - that’s brave.
Crikey, Middlesex need just ten!
Middlesex Noooo! Another wicket down - 38 to win. I’m going to leave you all to it for a bit while I write up. Will check again in half an hour...
Imagine this writing is really tiny: Middlesex only need 45
And it is all over at Tunbridge Wells. Warwickshire fall short by just 73 runs, 445 all out. Denly, the devil at the last, 3-24. What a match! Huge congratulations to everyone involved. To Kent, the spoils.
Arghghg, two quick wickets at Tunbridge Wells to Denly. Hose out for a steadfast 65. 441/9
Hose and Wright toughing it out at Tunbridge Wells - 80 needed, three wickets left...
Middlesex, Middlesex... target down to 65. Cartwright 69 not out...
Derbyshire 97/6. Critchley lbw Hogan for a duck. This is the F of old.
Why oh why oh why are they scoring so slowly at the Ageas. Anyone there?
Derby are in the stink. Madsen gone now for 55, another for Sisodiya. 89 for 5
I’ve got a bit distracted, but also this (from last week)
Sit back, relax, and feast your eyes on this.
— County Championship (@CountyChamp) June 14, 2018
Every one of @Ian_Bell's Cover Drives that went for 4️⃣ against Glamorgan 😍 pic.twitter.com/fEO4lqp7n7
Sniff.
Rejuvenated Ian Bell has come to terms with his international career being over https://t.co/9F2ovVTsFC pic.twitter.com/c15jLdWv4B
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) June 15, 2018
Both Warwicks and Middlesex now need less than a hundred. Middlesex have lost another though, John Simpson for a sturdy 39. I sniff valiant failure.
Another wicket at Swansea. First of the innings for our Prem Sisodiya , Godleman for a duck .Derbys 79/4.
This is what Sisodiya said yesterday: ““It was an amazing feeling (to claim a first wicket), there was a bit of stress going to bed without a wicket and it was a massive relief with hopefully more to come.”
TEA-TIME SCORES
Division One
Worcestershire 247 & 484-7 dec, Lancashire 130 & 399 (Jennings 177, Barnard 4-95. Worcestershire win by 202 runs.
Essex 206 & 139 (Bopara 3; Milnes 4-44), Nottinghamshire 380 & 266. Notts win by 301 runs
DAY/NIGHT: Hampshire 443, Yorkshire 350 & 141-4. still in play
Division Two
Leicestershire 427 & 186, Middlesex 233 & 276-6 (Eskinazi 97, Cartwright 59 not out). Middlesex need 105 runs to win
Kent 197 & 446-8 dec Warwickshire 125 and 414-7 (Sibley 104, Bell 172, Hose 50 not out; Podmore 4-70). Warwicks need 105 to win
Glamorgan 283 & 403-7dec (Khawaja 126, Carlson 152, Lloyd 43 not out) Derbyshire 362 & 77-3 (Madsen 51 not out) . Derbyshire need 248 runs to win.
Gosh, three cracking div-2 games go into the final session. Tea scores to follow.
And at Grace Road, Hilton Cartwright passes fifty...106 to win
And another one out at Swansea - Hughes for 9. Madsen now 50 (well played!) - 249 needed. Glamorgan - I’m calling it for you.
Oh Warwickshire. 410 for 7- 109 to win. Against all odds, Middlesex are looking the most likely.
I see Sam Hain got a century for the Lions - his second in four innings for them. He’s got a super list a record, 8 hundreds, averaging around 65. Quite Trottish, apparently
WICKET at Tunbridge Wells. Barker for 16. Enter Patel. The equation reads thus: 47 overs, 127 runs, 4 wickets needed..
What are the Yorkies doing losing early wickets at the Ageas?
Poor Somerset. I see Matt Renshaw is heading home with a broken finger sustained in the match at Guildford. This sleuth failed to spot it - hmmm, scratching my head, must have been second innings I suppose - he only faced 25 balls before being lbw for Morkel for 2.
Renshaw made 513 Championship runs in six games, including three hundreds, and 180 in six One-Day Cup innings.
Jack Leach, remember, is also out for Somerset’s next match against Essex.
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Gosh and a second wicket down at Swansea, Slater for 15.
And Hose stubbornly ignores his average at Tunbridge Wells. 135 needed.
And a little bravo for Danny Lamb -19 not out in an hour and 20 minute vigil.
Just a little break for a strawberries-and-meringue-nest mash-up and Barnard has done the business again. A brave fight-back Lankies, a brave fight-back. Barnard 4-95, nine wickets in the match. Worcestershire win by 202 runs.
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Ambrose, belying his average, b Henry for 9.
Apologies, Eskinazi run out for 97. Middx 198 for 6. Perhaps we don’t need to worry about the whispering bit now.
And while our attention was elsewhere Middlesex have been, whisper it, creeping, whisper it, creeping , forward. Five wickets down, 184 to win. Eskinazi 97 not out
gjh;foijadlkjg: Derbyshire 8 for 1, Hosein b Hogan for a duck.
Ambrose 48.86. Hose 14.50
Don’t fall in a heap now Warwickshire, keep it alive.. just looking up Hose and Ambrose’s averages this year.
Bell, tolled. lbw for 172 runs of magnificent fortitude. An inducker, apparently.
5.16 an over
So Derbyshire need 325 in 63 overs. That’s errr...
Danny Lamb has just hit his first boundary in first-class cricket. All hail the concussion substitute. He’s had a better go than dear old Max Waller: a three ball duck before being Morkeled.
Glamorgan have declared! Well, now. Derbyshire need 324 to win. Where’s our money?
Ah, no wonder nobody reported seeing any caps... Ali Martin’s got the answer. He emails from Old Trafford to say that “elfnsafety rules in place since the 2016 season means all batsmen in English professional cricket must wear a helmet these days.” Thanks Ali.
He really didn’t want to leave...
Lancashire 359/6: Jennings b Brown 177 pic.twitter.com/6rz9LrkEEB
— Worcestershire CCC (@WorcsCCC) June 23, 2018
LUNCHTIME SCORES
Division One
Worcestershire 247 & 484-7 dec, Lancashire130 & 360-6 (Jennings 177, Clark not out 19). Lancs need 242 to win.
Essex 206 & 139 (Bopara 3; Milnes 4-44), Nottinghamshire 380 & 266. Notts win by 301 runs
DAY/NIGHT: Hampshire 443, Yorkshire 350 & 91-2. Yorkshire trail by 2 runs
Division Two
Leicestershire 427 & 186, Middlesex 233 & 169-5 (Eskinazi 85 not out). Middlesex need 212 runs to win
Kent 197 & 446-8 dec Warwickshire 125 and 322-3 (Sibley 104, Bell 160 not out; Podmore 3-41). Warwicks need 197 to win
Glamorgan 283 & 375-6 (Khawaja 126, Carlson 152, Lloyd 22 not out) Derbyshire 362. Glamorgan lead by 296 runs
Jennings gone. Bowled Brown 177. A cracking innings that kept the dream alive, for a morning. Lunch scores to follow.
The end of Essex: Notts’ first win at Chelmsford since 1984
REPLAY | A sharp catch from @RossLTaylor hands Notts their first win at Chelmsford since 1984 👏👏 #EssvNotts pic.twitter.com/FdTW0VmiJT
— Nottinghamshire CCC (@TrentBridge) June 23, 2018
And on Jennings goes... 27 fours so far in his 177, but not a six to be seen. And that, BTL-ers, is discipline!
First result of the day: Nottinghamshire have won by 301 runs. Essex all out 139 - six wickets lost this morning. Milnes 4 for 44. Bopara top scorer with 39.
And it is goodbye from Khawaja too - 126 from 167 balls. 354 for 5, the Glamorgan lead 275.
Nooooo! Trott out for a five-ball duck!
And Sibley’s out too, a second for Podmore. Down to you now Trotty. And Bell, 154 not out. 211 needed.
Wow! That’s 150 now for Carlson - 50 runs, 42 minutes. Comfortably outscoring Khawaja. Ah, I see he’s out now - 152 off 182 balls. What a super knock. Glamorgan 338/4, lead of 259.
https://twitter.com/GlamCricket/status/1010483110436327424
1⃣5⃣0⃣// Carlson brings up another milestone adding 5⃣0⃣ runs on top of his century in just 4⃣2⃣ minutes 👀
— Glamorgan Cricket 🏏 (@GlamCricket) June 23, 2018
Glamorgan 325/3 with the lead now 246 #GLAvDER #GoGlam pic.twitter.com/MAPLHp2ZQO
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Tumble-time: Vilas b Barnard for 33 at New Road (Jennings not out 164); and a couple at Grace Road, Patel for 20, Stirling for 4. The unlikely seeming impossible now for Middlesex -149 for 5, need another 232.
Essex crumbling, nine down now.
Khawaja and Carlson’s partnership passes 250 at St Helen’s. Not sure quite what’s going on there - since getting his hundred just after Khawaja, Carlson has hit the accelerator. He’s currently on 142, Khawaja 112.
And with a spiffing off-drive, Dom Sibley makes his first century for Warwickshire. Bravo young Dom, who, in case people had forgotten, was the youngest player to make a double century in County Championship history, against Yorkshire in 2013 in only his third first-class match.
Takes off anorak.
150 for JJJJJJennings and 50 for Eskinazi. Manly back-pats for plucky Patel too, 20 not out . Incidentally Kudos to the Hackney Gazette, which I stumbled upon online and who are reporting on Middlesex’s travails.
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I see there are only 200 tickets left for the women’s double-header at Taunton - wonderful stuff. If you’d like to read up on Amelia Kerr, New Zealand’s teenage superstar, have a quick look at Raf Nicholson’s piece.
Ahead of Day 2 of the T20 Tri-Series, have a read of my interview with teenage record-breaker Amelia Kerr for @ESPNcricinfo: https://t.co/Yx1R1AEsoq
— Raf Nicholson (@RafNicholson) June 23, 2018
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A Khawaja-stat: he is the first Glamorgan batsman to score a century in his first two CC games for the county
Dom Sibley seems to have got a bit stuck this morning, watchful on 95.
And Lancashire pass 300 - only another 300 to win. Jennings not out a remarkable 149.
Another man down at Chelmsford - Simon Harmer a first wicket for Harry Gurney.
And a hundred for 20-year-old Kiran Carlson too - who, cricinfo tells me, was Glamorgan’s youngest ever first-class century maker when he made a hundred against Essex in 2016
What a lovely badge Glamorgan’s is. Apropros of nothing at all, has anyone seen a player batting in a cap this year in the CC?
That’s his hundred! Off 132 balls, 12 fours.
Did everyone see Khawaja’s comments on not being picked for the ODI side over here at the moment:
“I was extremely disappointed, in all honesty,” Khawja told RSN when asked about being overlooked for the Qantas tour of England.
“I’ve had a lot of chats to the selectors and a couple with ‘JL’ (Langer) about it. I was a bit disappointed but some things you can’t control.
“Hopefully I’ll get a chance over the next year.
“I scored a lot of runs in one-day cricket for the last five or six years, especially in domestic cricket.
“Even when I’ve been away and played in a couple of (Australia A) tours. I’m not sure there’s a lot more I can do other than just keep trying to score runs and hopefully I get a chance.
“That’s part of cricket, selections. You’ve got to figure out a way to move past and try to score runs.”
Woah, Khawaja and Carlson easing along this morning - both nearly there on 96.
Not really the start Essex were after - two wickets down already -Bopara for 39 and Porter for a duck.
And not sure what Dave Vilas thinks he’s up to...
https://twitter.com/lancscricket/status/1010466961959084032
SIX! @DaneVilas hits the first maximum in the @lancscricket innings #WORvLAN pic.twitter.com/RRHGnGQFxM
— Lancashire Cricket (@lancscricket) June 23, 2018
At New Road, Ed Barnard comes into the attack.
The scene at Tunbridge Wells
Here we go. Bears about to resume on 229/1 in pursuit of 519. Existing record championship run-chase: 502 - achieved 93 years ago today! pic.twitter.com/7bdkGDXGUI
— Warwickshire CCC 🏏 (@WarwickshireCCC) June 23, 2018
Good morning and welcome back to everyone with a liking for CC Live on a gorgeous Saturday morning. Have a marinated vegetable kebab on me.
Three games finished yesterday: Surrey bulldozed Somerset to go top of the table, Durham had a very bad day at the Arundel office against Sussex and Northants won their first game of the season in the pink-baller against Gloucestershire at the County Ground.
Which leaves us with a few nailbiters – can Keaton Jennings, reborn this season for Lancashire, build on his unbeaten century yesterday – his third CC hundred of the season. More to the point, can anyone stay with him?
Will Warwickshire’s Dom Sibley and Ian Bell do the extraordinary and chase up 519 to win - record breaking if they did it, the existing largest total made to win a County Championship match is 472 by Middlesex against Yorkshire at Lord’s in 2014. They’ve already knocked up 185 on a sublime pitch, Bell’s third Championship hundred in four innings adding a gilded tinge to the autumn of his career.
It looks unlikely that Essex will escape at Chelmsford: 353 needed, just six wickets left. But Bopara is still there, 33 not out. Similarly, Middlesex’s hopes lie with Stevie Eskinazi.
Unless something extraordinary happens, it will be a draw at the snoozefest at the Ageas. And keep your eye on Swansea – if Khawaja and Carlson push on…
Good morning from sunny Tunbridge Wells. This is how the day will begin - how will it conclude?! #youbears pic.twitter.com/slAZtIXNJV
— Warwickshire CCC 🏏 (@WarwickshireCCC) June 23, 2018
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