Surrey v Essex, Yorkshire v Notts, and extra: county cricket day one – stay | County Championship
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Key occasions
Essex aren’t going to win the title this 12 months, are they. Presently 142-5 – faltering towards the firepower of Curran S, Clark, Smith and Lawes – and Jamie Overton has dropped two catches. Pepper (31) joined by Thain for the rebuild.
The tea and desserts cabin is open over on the Meet and as an altruistic gesture, for the advantage of all CCLive readers, I’ll examine additional shortly.
Not content material with sending Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal over with India A, the India U-19 squad consists of Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the 14 12 months outdated who scored an IPL century earlier this month.
And success for Ben Inexperienced! Marcus Harris, ex of Leicestershire 2021 and first seven months of 2024, loses his bails. Lancs 94-3.
A sixth half-century of the season for Caleb Jewell as Derbyshire race alongside towards Kent. The one wicket to Gilchrist, David Lloyd lbw for 50. Now 142 for one.
Some Sam Prepare dinner love:
I additionally acquired to satisfy Mike Daniels from the scorebox – declare to fame!
Elsewhere, Durham have additionally had post-prandial bother, shedding Bedingham, lbw to Pretorius for 17. Durham 109-4.
I’m nonetheless digesting my scrumptious lunchtime quiche and strolling again when Logan van Beek removes Luke Wells with the very first ball of the afternoon. An enormous fan of the Leicester eating expertise. The gamers eat on lengthy tables in the identical room as anybody else who desires to order a scorching dinner –it feels very relaxed and wholesome. Hopefully interplay with followers helps gamers realise that idiots who ship them abuse on social media are simply that and never consultant of membership supporters.
However probably the gamers hate it!
Lunchtime scores
Division One
Chester-le-Road: Durham 96-3 v Somerset
Southampton: Hampshire 93-4 v Sussex
The Oval: Surrey v Essex 103-4
New Street: Worcestershire v Warwickshire 65-2
Headingley: Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire 67-2
Division Two
Derby: Derbyshire 106-1 v Kent
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 71-3 v Middlesex
Grace Street: Leicestershire v Lancashire 77-1
County Floor: Northamptonshire 71-4 v Gloucestershire
Hampshire lose two with 70 on the board – Gubbins and Prest – and, along with Northants, oh and Essex – are 4 down by the brink of lunch.
Glamorgan have misplaced simply three, however one in all them is Marnus Labuschagne for 23, caught off Higgins. No stomach-settling runs but for Australia’s best cheese and ham toastie eater.
Keaton Jennings glances behind him as he walks off, in a really un Keaton Jennings like method, however the finger was raised and van Beek has made the breakthrough. Lancs 74-1.
I really like the random-ness of Grace Street – as if designed by a toddler with lego who has misplaced focus half method by and wandered off to select at bits of carpet on the steps. Significantly keen on the stand perched on prime of the Charles Palmer suite. Wells and Jennings are urgent on properly right here: 71-0.
The forecast rain seems as if it will likely be showers at greatest (or worst) over the weekend, so loads of laborious yards to run on laborious floor for the bowlers. The batters have the higher hand across the grounds within the first hour and a half of play – oh, aside from at Northampton the place Procter and Miller have adopted Vasconcelos again into the pavilion – each wickets to teenage fast Archie Bailey. Disgrace that their outdated boy Ben Curran has been out cheaply at The Oval, however congratulations to Sam Prepare dinner for his first Check wicket.
Josh Hull – eight wickets at 27 – rolls in, a trudge again to his crease turning right into a 16 tempo energy run. . Lengthy arms, longer legs, child face, some sudden chew from a pleasant pitch. Wells is watchful. Lancashire 46-0
Wells will get a life, as he’s dropped, on 10, at first slip off native large Josh Hull. Cracking supply.
I can see the long-lasting Attenborough tower of my outdated college within the distance, however sadly not the scorebox the place Mike Daniels usually lurks.
Elgar and Walter are making good progress at The Oval, 49-0. Alex Lees misplaced his stumps to Somerset’s Matt Henry first ball. Durham 25-1. Stoneman additionally began his day in disappointment, caught for 0 off McAndrew, Hants 20-1.
Rob Yates was the early wicket at Edgbaston, Warwicks 22-1, and HH’s chase of 1000 runs earlier than the tip of Might seems forlorn, caught off White for six. Notts 12-1.
A fast-silver outfield at Grace Street, and Keaton Jennings taking advantage of it: Lancs 25-0.
Elsewhere in Division Two, Derbyshire (34-0) and Glamorgan (15-0) have additionally acquired off to a brisk begin, whereas Northants have misplaced Vasconcelos for 4, lbw Tom Worth. Northants 11-1.
Good morning Tim Maitland!
“Salutations Tanya, could your journey to Grace Street carry you pleasure. It brings again reminiscences of a really younger model of me losing tape and the time of 1 David Gower esq. for the sheer delight of listening to him communicate.
“Nonetheless my thoughts is dawdling over Headingley, one other of my outdated haunts. The place if Yorkshire are going to have any towards Nottinghamshire, it’s about time somebody apart from Adam Lyth stepped up, isn’t it? They’re simply not getting the sort of match successful, and even innings successful performances with the bat.
“Lyth, who made 106 towards Hampshire in early April and what ought to have been a victory defining 185 at Essex earlier this month, and Dom Bess, with 107 within the win over Worcestershire, are their solely centurions. Lyth, with 682 runs to his title sits behind solely Nottinghamshire skipper Haseeb Hameed within the Division One run scoring desk. Subsequent greatest? Dawid Malan’s 98 (additionally towards Worcestershire) and the even-lesser noticed Joe Root’s 90 in his solely look this 12 months.
“However what strikes me as fascinating, contemplating Younger Jonny Bairstow’s function as captain and jilted lover (within the England sense), is how slowly they’re scoring once you’d count on a Bairstow aspect to be Bazballesque of their strategy. Aside from YJB’s 79 at a strike fee of 106 when he was pushing for the declaration at Chelmsford, and his contributions at Surrey (89 at 78 and 77 at 74) many of the knocks of any be aware this season have been nearer to 50.00 than.
“Maybe that’s a sign that more often than not they’ve been struggling to carry innings collectively fairly than grabbing video games by the throat?”
I feel you’re proper. The Yorkshire younger weapons haven’t actually pushed on to date this season – virtually the alternative of Bazball’s hit your self out of bother mentality.
England and Zimbabwe are about to get underway at Trent Bridge, you possibly can comply with its’ bish-bash-bosh progress with Jim Wallace and Daniel Gallan.
We’ve began a minute earlier than eleven, three slips standing boot in addition, as Holland costs in.
Around the grounds, some ins and outs. Ben Kellaway has exams so misses Glamorgan’s recreation, however Matt Kuhnemmann performs. No Jimmy as Lancs “handle his return to aggressive cricket’. Surrey add Sam Curran (torn away from watching brother Ben at Trent Bridge), Jamie Overton and Dan Worrall, Paul Walter returns for Essex, David Bedingham for Durham.
No Jimmy Anderson for Lancs
Each groups are warming up on the dry Leicestershire grass. Heat sunshine, a number of fluffy clouds, a lot of pretty locations to take a seat beneath a tree and skim a e-book. Within the center, Peter Handscomb is sporting his leaf inexperienced Leicestershire blazer and has received the toss and having a bowl. No Jimmy at the moment for Lancs – a administration of workload factor.
Division Two desk
1 Leicestershire 115
2 Derbyshire 85
3 Glamorgan 75
4 Gloucestershire 75
5 Middlesex 68
6 Kent 63
7 Lancashire 63
8 Northants 59
Division One desk
1 Notts 96
2 Surrey 93
3 Warwickshire 82
4 Durham 80
5 Hampshire 79
6 Sussex 75
7 Somerset 73
8 Essex 64
9 Yorkshire 56
10 Worcestershire 43
Fixtures
Division One
Chester-le-Road: Durham v Somerset
Southampton: Hampshire v Sussex
The Oval: Surrey v Essex
New Street: Worcestershire v Warwickshire
Headingley: Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire
Division Two
Derby: Derbyshire v Kent
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan v Middlesex
Grace Street: Leicestershire v Lancashire
County Floor: Northamptonshire v Gloucestershire
Preamble
Good morning from Cross Nation trains, chugging by excessive spring, the Midlands countryside all elderflower and ash saplings, and inexperienced, inexperienced, inexperienced throughout.
I’m on my approach to Grace Street to see the runaway leaders of Division Two play feeling-a-little-less -queasy-than-they-did-last-week Lancashire. Masses extra to look ahead to around the grounds. Play begins at 11am, do be a part of us!
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