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LV= Insurance County Championship
Division One: Lancashire v Essex
Emirates Old Trafford (final day of four):
Essex (22pts) beat Lancashire (2) by an
innings and 56 runs
Essex First Innings 391 (D W Lawrence 120,
S Snater 72, N L J Browne 71)
Lancashire First Innings 103 (S J Cook
4 for 18)
Second Innings (overnight 213-9)
L Wood c Rossington b Porter 27
J M Anderson not out 5
Extras (b 4, lb 8, nb 2) 14
Total (92.3 overs) 232
Fall of wickets 1-2, 2-35, 3-43, 4-121, 5-176,
6-182, 7-187, 8-202, 9-209.
Bowling S J Cook 17-5-44-2; Porter 11.3-4-27-2;
Harmer 41-19-89-5; Snater 10-2-25-0;
Critchley 13-1-35-1.
Umpires S J O’Shaughnessy and P J Hartley.
Northamptonshire v Kent
Northampton (final day of four):
Northamptonshire (12pts) drew with Kent (13)
Kent First Innings 519-9 dec (B G Compton
140, D J Bell-Drummond 83, Z Crawley 62,
J A Leaning 62, G Stewart 61)
Second Innings
Z Crawley c Kelly b Curran 84
B G Compton not out 68
D J Bell-Drummond not out 4
Extras (b 8, nb 6) 14
Total (1 wkt dec, 48 overs) 170
Fall of wicket 1-149.
Bowling Sanderson 4-0-15-0; Kelly 5-3-2-0;
Taylor 4-0-19-0; Keogh 11-1-37-0; Procter
4-0-14-0; Gay 7-0-22-0; Curran 8-1-31-1; Cobb
3-0-10-0; Vasconcelos 2-0-12-0.
Northamptonshire First Innings
(overnight 347-7)
†L D McManus not out 58
T A I Taylor c Crawley b Quinn 20
G K Berg b Stewart 16
B W Sanderson b Bell-Drummond 33
Extras (b 5, lb 6, w 8, nb 20) 39
Total (149.1 overs) 430
Fall of wickets 1-7, 2-20, 3-81, 4-134, 5-230,
6-265, 7-317, 8-347, 9-376.
Bowling Stewart 26-2-85-3; Stevens 30-13-54-
2; Quinn 27-9-82-3; Singh 19-4-64-1; Linde
37-9-99-0; Leaning 10-0-35-0; Bell-
Drummond 0.1-0-0-1.
Umpires T Lungley and B V Taylor.
Yorkshire v Warwickshire
Headingley (final day of four): Yorkshire
(14pts) drew with Warwickshire (11)
Warwickshire First Innings 244 (M G K
Burgess 96)
Second Innings (overnight 57-3)
S R Hain not out 109
*W M H Rhodes not out 111
Extras (b 5, w 2, nb 2) 9
Total (3 wkts, 116 overs) 252Fall of wickets 1-8, 2-20, 3-25.
Bowling Thompson 20-4-54-3; Patterson
22-8-50-0; Revis 17-4-50-0; Loten 14-6-25-0;
Bess 24-13-40-0; Root 8-2-17-0; Hill 8-5-7-0;
Brook 3-1-4-0.
Yorkshire First Innings 449 (A Lyth 145,
H C Brook 82, M L Revis 53 not out;
N J McAndrew 4 for 111)
Umpires N G B Cook and N Pratt.
Finished Saturday
Taunton Somerset 211 and 69 (K H D Barker
6 for 27); Hampshire 280 (A H T Donald 57; P
M Siddle 4 for 80, C Overton 4 for 57) and 1-0.
Hampshire (21pts) beat Somerset (4) by ten
wickets.
P W L D Bat Bowl Ded Pts
Surrey 6 3 0 3 20 13 0 105
Hampshire6 4 1 1 16 16 2 102
Yorkshire 6 1 0 5 20 14 0 90
Lancashire6 2 1 3 15 16 0 87
Essex 62 13 8 12 0 76
Warks 61 1 4 14 12 1 73
Northants 6 0 1 5 13 13 066
Somerset 6 2 4 0 12 16 0 60
Kent 6 0 2 4 14 7 0 53
Gloucs 60 4 2 9 12 2 35
Division Two: Middlesex v Durham
Lord’s (final day of four): Middlesex (23pts)
beat Durham (5) by six wickets
Durham First Innings 350 (L Trevaskis 80
not out, E J H Eckersley 58; T S Roland-Jones
4 for 72)Second Innings (overnight 25-3)
*S G Borthwick b Roland-Jones 60
M E T Salisbury c Simpson b Bamber 45
B A Stokes c Robson b Roland-Jones 0
†E J H Eckersley c Robson b Bamber 2
L Trevaskis c Simpson b Bamber 8
B A Raine not out 39
B A Carse c Simpson b Roland-Jones 19
C Rushworth c Roland-Jones b Murtagh 0
Extras (lb 2, nb 6) 8
Total (63 overs) 188
Fall of wickets 1-2, 2-3, 3-18, 4-111, 5-111, 6-116,
7-127, 8-136, 9-177.
Bowling Murtagh 15-3-57-1; Roland-Jones
18-4-35-6; Bamber 15-5-18-3; Andersson
6-0-44-0; Hollman 9-3-32-0.
Middlesex First Innings 422 (S D Robson 84,
M D E Holden 71, M K Andersson 62;
B A Stokes 4 for 72)
Second Innings
M D Stoneman c Eckersley b Trevaskis 29
S D Robson c Eckersley b Raine 2
J M De Caires b Borthwick 12
*P S P Handscomb not out 39
M D E Holden c Borthwick b Trevaskis 9
†J A Simpson not out 21
Extras (lb 1, nb 6) 7
Total (4 wkts, 26.3 overs) 119
Fall of wickets 1-15, 2-47, 3-69, 4-88.
Bowling Raine 6-1-16-1; Carse 4-0-31-0;
Trevaskis 9-1-28-2; Borthwick 7.3-0-43-1.
Umpires N J Llong and M J Saggers.Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire
Trent Bridge (final day of four):
Nottinghamshire (23pts) beat Derbyshire (5)
by ten wickets
Derbyshire First Innings 260 (J L du Plooy 57,
B D Guest 51)
Second Innings 262 (W L Madsen 52)
Nottinghamshire First Innings 358 (B M
Duckett 86; S Conners 4 for 93, N J Potts 4 for
50)
Second Innings (overnight 3-0)
B T Slater not out 64
H Hameed not out 93
Extras (lb 1, w 1, nb 8) 10
Total (no wkt, 36.3 overs) 167
Bowling Conners 5-0-16-0; Thomson 12-4-48-
0; Hurt 6-0-34-0; Madsen 6-2-16-0; Potts
7-0-43-0; Du Plooy 0.3-0-9-0.
Umpires N A Mallender and D J Millns.
Finished Saturday
Worcester Leicestershire 148 and 170 (L J Hill
50; M J Waite 4 for 35); Worcestershire 577-6
dec (Azhar Ali 225, J A Haynes 127, B L
D’Oliveira 54, O B Cox 52 not out; P W A Mulder
4 for 125). Worcestershire (24pts) beat
Leicestershire (1) by an innings and 259 runs.
P W L D Bat Bowl DedPts
Middlesex6 4 0 2 20 16 0116
Notts 6 41 1 22 17 4 107
Worcs 6 21 3 19 15 090
Derbyshire 61 1 4 20 16 0 84
Durham 7 1 2 4 21 16 1 84Glamorgan6 2 2 2 17 16 0 81
Sussex 6 0 3 3 17 13 1 53
Leics 7043 8 14 0 46
Tour match
Hove: Third day of four New Zealand 342-3
(T W M Latham 65, W A Young 55, T A Blundell
51, M G Bracewell 51) and 40-0; Sussex 247
(A G H Orr 59).
Cycling
Giro d’Italia
Leading positions: 15th stage (Rivarolo
Canavese to Cogne, 177km): 1, G Ciccone (It,
Trek-Segafredo) 4hr 37min 41sec; 2, S
Buitrago (Col, Bahrain Victorious) at 1min
31sec behind; 3, A Pedrero (Sp, Movistar
Team) 2:19; 4, H Carthy (GB, EF Education-
EasyPost) 3:09; 5, M Tusveld (Neth, Team
DSM) 4:36; 6, L Covili Bardiani (It, CSF Faizane)
5:08; 7, N Tesfazion Drone (Erit, Hopper-
Androni Giocattoli) 5:27; 8, B Mollema (Neth,
Trek-Segafredo) 5:27; 9, G Leemreize (Neth,
Jumbo-Visma) 5:27; 10, G Martin (Fr, Cofidis)
6:06. Overall 1, R Carapaz (Ec, INEOS
Grenadiers) 63:06:57; 2, J Hindley (Aus, BORA-
hansgrohe) at 7sec; 3, J Almeida (Por, UAE
Team Emirates) 30; 4, M Landa (Spa, Bahrain
Victorious) 59; 5, D Pozzovivo (It,
Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert) 1:01; 6, P Bahrain
(Sp, Victorious) 1:52; 7, E Buchmann BORA-
hansgrohe) 1:58; 8, V Nibali (It, Astana
Qazaqstan Team) 2:58; 9, J P López (Sp, Trek-
Segafredo) 4:04; 10, G Martin (Fr, Cofidis) 8:02.As the County Championship moves
into its summer white-ball hiatus,
Surrey and Hampshire are setting the
pace at the top of Division One.
Lancashire would have hoped to be hot
on their heels but an abject capitulation
against Essex at Old Trafford leaves
them lagging in fourth.
Essex needed only 21 balls to wrap up
victory by an innings and 56 runs
yesterday. The final wicket, in the
fourth over of the morning, came when
Luke Wood was caught behind off
Jamie Porter. This was only the fifthLancashire blown away
time this century that Lancashire have
lost by an innings, and their first such
defeat since they were hammered by
Yorkshire in August 2014.
Yorkshire’s draw with Warwick-
shire at Headingley moved them into
third, three points above their Roses
rivals. This was their fifth draw of the
season, and Warwickshire’s fourth, but
it provided some decent time in the
middle for Harry Brook, who will join
up with England this week. The 23-
year-old added 82 to his already
impressive season tally. Will Rhodes
and Sam Hain, meanwhile, made excel-
lent rearguard centuries for Warwick-Elizabeth AmmonResults and scoreboards
Toby Roland-Jones has a Test bowling
average of 19.64 and has never been
dropped by England. At 34, however,
and with an injury record over the past
five years unenviable even in the
context of the national team’s present
fast-bowling injury crisis, it would be a
huge surprise if he were to feature in
Ben Stokes’s new Test era.
Yesterday, then, when he dismissed
Stokes for a second-ball duck and when
his superlative six for 35 set up a
six-wicket victory that strengthens
Middlesex’s position at the top of
Division Two, it was for Roland-Jones
much more of a personal reward for
coming successfully through all those
hard yards than any cry for an inter-
national recall.
Roland-Jones played four Tests in
2017, memorably removing South
Africa’s top four with his first 33 balls at
that level. His 17 wickets that summer
made him a certainty for the 2017-18
Ashes tour to Australia but his career
trajectory turned on the moment he
sustained a stress fracture
of the back just weeks
from the end of the
season.
The stress fracture
reappeared after on-
ly one completed
comeback match in
2018, writing off the rest of
that summer, and although
he took 33 championship wick-
ets in 2019 the pandemic-short-
ened 2020 season passed him
by because of a shoulder injury.
Then, last year, knee surgery
ruled him out for the four prime
months of the domestic season.
He still managed 25 wickets
from six appearances at 18.40
runs apiece, though, and in
five matches so far in this
campaign Roland-Jones
has now grabbed
Livingstone finished this
year’s IPL with 437 runs
at a strike rate of 182Stokes scalp is just
reward for forgotten
man Roland-Jones
another 30 wickets at 17.30 to underline
his continuing class as a fast-medium
bowler of unrelenting line and length.
Clearly, too, he is still refusing to let in-
juries define him.
Stokes fell edging to second slip as he
pushed defensively forward, and scores
of 15 and 0 here are not ideal less than
two weeks before he is due to return to
Lord’s to lead England’s Test team for
the first time, against New Zealand. His
four for 72, however, in Middlesex’s first
innings of 422, represented a welcome
display of form with the ball — even if
he then chose not to bowl as Durham’s
defeat was confirmed in the game’s final
session.
Roland-Jones, who originally put the
skids under the Durham second
innings with a five-over new-ball burst
of three for seven on Saturday evening,
bowled Scott Borthwick, the Durham
captain, for 60 two balls before claim-
ing the prize scalp of Stokes, an under-
edged pull ending a stubborn fourth-
wicket partnership of 93 between
Borthwick and Matt Salisbury, the
nightwatchman.
Durham’s overnight 25 for three, a
deficit of 47 at the start of play, then
became 116 for six on the stroke of lunch
as Sam Robson dived low to his left to
scoop up a wonderful second slip catch
when Ned Eckersley nicked the prob-
ing Ethan Bamber. Salisbury, for a
gallant career-best 45, and Liam
Trevaskis, also fell to Bamber, both
caught at the wicket.
John Simpson’s ninth catch of the
game, removing Brydon Carse for 19 off
the returning Roland-Jones, equalled a
Middlesex record at Lord’s he already
jointly held, and despite some defiant
hitting from Ben Raine — who swung
Tim Murtagh for six — Durham were
all out for 188 by 3.15pm when Chris
Rushworth mis-hit Murtagh straight to
mid-off.
That left Middlesex 44 overs in
which to knock off the 117 required for
a fourth championship win from six
games and Peter Handscomb steered
them home with 39 not out in his final
innings for the county, having been
selected for Australia A’s series against
Sri Lanka A, while Simpson completed
a sometimes nervy chase by pulling
Borthwick for a second six.Lord’s (final day of four): Middlesex
(23pts) beat Durham (5) by six wicketsMark Baldwin
Middlesex
v DurhamLivingstone’s landmark six
The England all-rounder Liam
Livingstone smashed the 1,000th six
of this year’s Indian Premier League
on his way to an unbeaten 49, which
sealed a five-wicket victory for
Punjab Kings over Sunrisers
Hyderabad yesterday.
With both sides having already
missed out on the play-offs, the
teams were playing for pride — with
Punjab coming out on top to take
sixth spot in the ten-team table.
Chasing 158 for victory,
Livingstone’s 22-ball knock included
five sixes as they reached their
target with nearly five overs to
spare at Mumbai’s Wankhede
Stadium. Livingstone, who became
the most expensive overseas player
in the IPL auction when Punjab
bought the 28-year-old for
$1.52 million (about £1.2 million),
survived two dropped catches on
six and 25 to take his team home.
He smashed Romario Shepherd
over the rope at wide long-off for
the 1,000th six of this edition and
smashed one more in the over.
“I felt like I was hitting the ball
well throughout the tournament,”
Livingstone said after his blitz. “The
way we played today was perfect —
attacking as well as being smart.”
Livingstone amassed 437 runs
in 14 matches at this year’s IPL, at
a strike rate of 182.
Today is a rest day before the
play-offs start with the first
qualifier between the table-
toppers, Gujarat Titans, and second-
placed Rajasthan Royals tomorrow
in Kolkata. Lucknow Super Giants,
one of the two new teams
alongside Gujarat in this year’s
expanded ten-team IPL, will
play Royal Challengers
Bangalore in the eliminator
on Wednesday.
The final will be played on
Sunday in Ahmedabad.