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Sport LV= County Championship
LV= County Championship
Division One
Essex v Northamptonshire
Chelmsford (second day of four): Essex, with
two first-innings wickets in hand, trail
Northamptonshire by 295 runs
Northamptonshire: First Innings (overnight
233-7)
L A Procter c Walter b Critchley 113
M L Kelly c Critchley b Snater 7
G K Berg c Westley b Critchley 75
B W Sanderson not out 12
Extras (b 9, lb 16, nb 8) 33
Total (141.4 overs) 390
Fall of wickets 1-0, 2-100, 3-115, 4-160, 5-199,
6-222, 7-233, 8-250, 9-355.
Bowling Cook 30-5-61-2; Snater 24-5-56-3;
Steketee 31-9-67-1; Harmer 33-10-81-0;
Critchley 16.4-1-81-3; Walter 7-1-19-1.
Essex: First Innings
N L J Browne c Young b Sanderson 12
A N Cook c McManus b Sanderson 6
*T Westley c Young b Taylor 25
P I Walter c Gay b Sanderson 2
M J J Critchley c Young b Sanderson 7
F I N Khushi c McManus b Procter 9
†A J A Wheater b Kelly 14
S R Harmer lbw b Kelly 0
S Snater not out 8
M T Steketee not out 4
Extras (lb 7, w 1) 8
Total (8 wkts, 49 overs) 95
To bat S J Cook.
Fall of wickets 1-12, 2-45, 3-45, 4-53, 5-55, 6-73,
7-75, 8-83.
Bowling Sanderson 16-7-24-4; Berg 12-5-12-0;
Taylor 9-4-17-1; Kelly 9-3-31-2; Procter 3-1-4-1.
Umpires N J Llong and T Lungley
Gloucestershire v Surrey
Bristol (second day of four): Gloucestershire,
with all first-innings wickets in hand, trail
Surrey by 517 runs
Surrey: First Innings (overnight 294-4)
†J L Smith not out 234
S M Curran c Harris b Higgins 64
C de Grandhomme lbw b M D Taylor 11
W G Jacks c and b Payne 13
J Clark c Harris b van Buuren 137
D J Worrall c Bracey b J M R Taylor 4
R J W Topley c M D Taylor b van Buuren 0
Extras (b 8, lb 13, nb 14) 35
Total (165.4 overs) 603
Fall of wickets 1-16, 2-16, 3-37, 4-188, 5-320,
6-336, 7-349, 8-593, 9-602.
Bowling Higgins 32-10-82-1; Amir 28-7-80-0;
Payne 31-6-99-3; Taylor 29-9-85-3; Taylor
13-0-75-1; van Buuren 23.4-1-94-2; Hammond
9-0-67-0.
Gloucestershire: First Innings
M S Harris not out 30
C D J Dent not out 45
Extras (b 1, lb 8, nb 2) 11
Total (24 overs) 86
To bat †J R Bracey, M A H Hammond, *G L van
Buuren, R F Higgins, T C Lace, J M R Taylor,
M D Taylor, D A Payne and Aamer.
Bowling Topley 8-2-23-0; Worrall 6-3-17-0;
Clark 4-2-17-0; de Grandhomme 3-0-15-0;
Jacks 3-1-5-0.
Umpires M H A Syed and M Burns
Hampshire v Lancashire
The Ageas Bowl (second day of four):
Hampshire, with seven second-innings
wickets in hand, lead Lancashire by 109 runs
Hampshire: First Innings 246 (N R T Gubbins101 not out; J K Fuller 55; H Ali 5 for 45)
Second Innings
J J Weatherley c Jones b Anderson 0
I G Holland lbw b Ali 3
N R T Gubbins not out 40
*J M Vince lbw b Anderson 32
L A Dawson not out 20
Extras (lb 2nb 6) 8
Total (3 wkts, 36 overs) 103
Fall of wickets 1-0, 2-12, 3-70.
Bowling Anderson 12-7-17-2; Bailey 11-3-27-0;
Ali 8-1-36-1; Balderson 5-2-21-0.
Lancashire: First Innings (overnight 37-1)
G P Balderson c Brown b Abbott 15
D J Lamb c Weatherley b Abbas 3
J J Bohannon c Weatherley b Barker 33
S J Croft c Vince b Abbas 11
*D J Vilas c Brown b Barker 6
†P D Salt b Barker 55
R P Jones c Brown b Fuller 3
T E Bailey c Dawson b Abbas 59
H Ali c Dawson b Barker 19
J M Anderson not out 5
Extras (lb 3nb 10) 13
Total (71.4 overs) 240
Fall of wickets 1-36, 2-39, 3-76, 4-76, 5-83,
6-100, 7-105, 8-199, 9-225.
Bowling Barker 20.4-5-67-5; Abbas 20-3-59-3;
Abbott 17-6-54-1; Fuller 12-0-49-1; Holland
2-0-8-0.
Umpires N G B Cook and R WhiteSomerset v Warwickshire
Taunton (second day of four): Warwickshire,
with one first-innings wicket in hand, trail
Somerset by 261 runs
Somerset: First Innings (overnight 351-4)
T Banton b Miles 57†S M Davies run out 19
L Gregory b Hannon-Dalby 3
C Overton b Miles 0
J H Davey c Burgess b Briggs 18
M J Leach not out 34
J A Brooks c Sibley b Hannon-Dalby 32
Extras (b 10, lb 5, nb 2) 17
Total (128.4 overs) 458
Fall of wickets 1-137, 2-249, 3-277, 4-325,
5-366, 6-373, 7-373, 8-373, 9-417.
Bowling Hannon-Dalby 31.4-5-89-5; McAndrew
25-0-100-0; Rhodes 18-5-56-0; Miles
29-3-104-2; Briggs 23-6-90-1; Yates 2-0-4-1.
Warwickshire: First Innings
A L Davies c Overton b Brooks 20
D P Sibley lbw b Davey 12
R M Yates c Overton b Davey 9
S R Hain c Davies b Abell 54
*W M H Rhodes c Lammonby b Gregory 5
M J Lamb c Renshaw b Gregory 4
†M G K Burgess c Davies b Overton 13
D R Briggs lbw b Leach 13
N J McAndrew c Gregory b Overton 47
C N Miles not out 2
O J Hannon-Dalby not out 1
Extras (b 1, lb 12, nb 4) 17
Total (9 wkts, 63 overs) 197
Fall of wickets 1-25, 2-36, 3-51, 4-64, 5-70,
6-92, 7-113, 8-189, 9-196.
Bowling Overton 14-8-12-2; Brooks 12-0-57-1;
Davey 8-1-19-2; Gregory 15-5-50-2; Leach
10-2-32-1; Abell 4-1-14-1.
Umpires R J Bailey and A G WharfYorkshire v Kent
Emerald Headingley (second day of four):
Yorkshire, with five first innings-wickets in
hand, lead Kent by 35 runsKent: First Innings (overnight 270-6)
G F Linde not out 27
G Stewart c Duke b Rauf 1
M E Milnes lbw b Thompson 7
N N Gilchrist b Rauf 0
M R Quinn b Thompson 4
Extras (lb 8nb 2) 10
Total (86.4 overs) 291
Fall of wickets 1-11, 2-16, 3-20, 4-153, 5-227,
6-266, 7-272, 8-281, 9-286.
Bowling Thompson 19.4-7-61-2; Rauf
14-1-65-5; Revis 12-3-51-1; Patterson 18-5-31-1;
Hill 5-0-23-0; Brook 1-0-2-0; Bess 17-1-50-1.
Yorkshire: First Innings
A Lyth c Robinson b Milnes 7
F D M Karunaratne c Robinson b Gilchrist 4
G C H Hill lbw b Gilchrist 8
D J Malan c Robinson b Quinn 152
H C Brook not out 131
†H G Duke lbw b Quinn 8
D M Bess not out 10
Extras (lb 4nb 2) 6
Total (5 wkts, 86 overs) 326
To bat J A Thompson, M L Revis,
*S A Patterson and H Rauf
Fall of wickets 1-9, 2-19, 3-23, 4-292, 5-314.
Bowling Stewart 18-6-63-0; Milnes 14-5-45-1;
Gilchrist 15-3-66-2; Quinn 16-2-60-2; Linde
19-2-76-0; Leaning 4-0-12-0.
Umpires S J O’Shaughnessy and G D LloydDivision Two
Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire
Trent Bridge (second day of four):
Worcestershire, with five second-innings
wickets in hand, lead Nottinghamshire by 118
runsWorcestershire: First Innings 159 (D
Paterson 8 for 52)
Second Innings
E J Pollock b Fletcher 0
J D Libby c Patterson-White b Fletcher 3
A Ali c Patterson-White b Broad 5
J A Haynes c Duckett b Broad 49
*B L D’Oliveira c Hameed b Paterson 5
E G Barnard not out 101
†O B Cox not out 51
Extras (b 3, lb 5, w 1, nb 2) 11
Total (5 wkts, 84 overs) 225
Fall of wickets 1-0, 2-6, 3-18, 4-32, 5-99.
Bowling Fletcher 18-4-44-2; Broad 18-3-49-2;
Paterson 19-5-50-1; Patterson-White
14-2-35-0; James 15-2-39-0.
Nottinghamshire: First Innings (overnight
203-7)
†T J Moores c Libby b Morris 19
S C J Broad not out 45
L J Fletcher c D’Oliveira b Finch 18
D Paterson c D’Oliveira b Finch 2
Extras (lb 5nb 6) 11
Total (59.5 overs) 266
Fall of wickets 1-70, 2-93, 3-144, 4-161, 5-178,
6-182, 7-184, 8-207, 9-264.
Bowling Morris 16-4-72-2; Pennington
13-1-67-1; Barnard 18-6-58-2; Finch 11.5-2-59-3;
Baker 1-0-5-0.
Umpires N L Bainton and P J Hartley
Derbyshire v Glamorgan
Derby (second day of four): Glamorgan, with
six first-innings wickets in hand, trail
Derbyshire by 128 runs
Derbyshire: First Innings (overnight 282-5)
J L du Plooy lbw b Salter 32
M H McKiernan c Cooke b Neser 1
A Dal c Lloyd b Hogan 24YESTERDAY’S CRICKET AND RACING RESULTS
Before the start of play, a small, now
slightly shrunken figure in a trench coat
and mask, did the rounds on the out-
field. He chatted to players, from Harry
Duke, the diminutive young wicket-
keeper, to Matt Revis, the beanpole
seamer who towered above him.
At one point, he tapped on a pitch at
the Kirkstall Lane End as if in remem-
brance of times past.
With a young staffer also on
manoeuvres capturing social media
content, it was an incongruous sight.
Dickie Bird, 89 years old, doesn’t do
technology and first played on this
ground 64 years ago. That was York-
shire’s heyday, in a team including
Brian Close, Ray Illingworth and Fred
Trueman that won four County Cham-
pionship titles in the next five years.
You can imagine Bird, the last of his
generation, sitting high in the pavilion,
giving a thumbs-up or thumbs-down at
the end of each day’s play, putting a pre-
vious era’s imprimatur on the present.
His verdict yesterday would have
been resoundingly positive, Haris
Rauf’s maiden five-wicket haul for the
club being followed by glorious hun-
dreds for two fine batsmen at the oppo-
site end of their careers.
When 23-year-old Harry Brook
joined the veteran Dawid Malan at the
crease, Yorkshire were being slowly
strangled into submission by Kent’s
patchwork seam attack (imported as it
is from various parts of the globe), the
score 23 for three from 21 overs. Not
that you would have guessed at the
gravity of the situation given the confi-
dence and optimism with which both
batsmen approached it and the fluency
that came from the outset.
They transformed the day complete-
ly and by the final hour any hint of
danger had long since passed.
Malan, in particular, played with
commanding, almost brutal, authority.
When he was dismissed ten overs
before the close, strangled down the leg
side, it ended a partnership worth 269
(in only 54 overs), a record for York-
shire for any wicket against Kent. A
career-best for Brook followed soon
afterwards, with more to come.
Brook, the Cricket Writers’ Club
young cricketer of the year in 2021, has
made an excellent start to this cam-
paign, with three half-centuries and a
hundred in four innings before this
game and he looks a highly promising
young player.
His good form was immediately
apparent, as he peeled off eight bound-Essex board
members
stand down
Elizabeth AmmonFive members of Essex’s executive
board have resigned after the club
admitted bringing the game into disre-
pute by failing to investigate an allega-
tion that their former chairman had
used racially offensive language.
The club are expected to receive a
fine of about £50,000 after a hearing ofthe Cricket Discipline Commission for
failing to look into a claim from a
whistleblower that John Faragher, the
former chairman, used the phrase
“n***er in the woodpile” during an
Essex board meeting in 2017. Faragher
disputes the allegation. The disciplina-
ry committee will take into account the
guilty plea in deciding the sanction.
However, an investigation by Kath-
erine Newton QC found that the whole
board was responsible for the failure to
investigate the allegation, a conclusion
that has led to the resignations. Eight of
the nine positions on Essex’s executive
board are now vacant.
Nigel Hilliard, Ian Patterson and
Mike Smith have all agreed to stand
down at the annual meeting, which
follows the resignations of Wasim Haq
and Paul Harvey last week. The club’sBrook and Malan
advance Test claims
with classy centuries
aries in a 73-ball half-century, the best
of them a peachy on-drive off Matt
Milnes, always a sign that footwork and
balance are in good working order.
He stands tall, bat high off the
ground, moves deep into his crease
initially but manages to transfer his
weight into his shots.
He can be a little impetuous outside
off stump, and no doubt the next level
will demand more discipline there, but
he has a commanding presence. A love-
ly straight six off the South African left-
arm spinner, George Linde, demon-
strated his willingness to leave his
ground to attack and allowed him to
keep pace in the race to three figures,
which Malan won in a photo-finish.
Already capped at T20 international
level, Brook will be looking to push his
credentials across all formats this sum-
mer. What the future holds in Tests for
Malan is uncertain; with an average be-
low 30 at 34 years of age, he may find
England look elsewhere now, but this
was a reminder of his class at this level.
As ever, his off-side play was espe-
cially strong and his cutting and driving
was a delight. Batting looked to come
very easily to him on this evidence, the
woes of the winter a world away.
The morning belonged to Rauf, who
completed his first five-wicket haul for
the club when he yorked Nathan
Gilchrist in classic Pakistan style,
Gilchrist keener on protecting his toes
rather than his stumps. With pace and
penetration, Rauf looked a cut above
the rest of Yorkshire’s attack, and walk-
ed off to a standing ovation from the
crowd, who enjoyed warmer conditions
on the second day.
One of those to appreciate the feat
and also on the ground before the start
of play alongside Bird, was someone
who would lay claim to a place in any
all-time Yorkshire XI. Dressed in bob-
ble hat and gloves, Joe Root had the
gentlest of nets to get back into the
swing of things and will, no doubt, carry
word of the form of Brook and Malan to
his successor.Mike
Atherton
Chief Cricket
Correspondent
Yorkshire v Kent
Emerald Headingley (second day of four):
Yorkshire, with five first-innings wickets in
hand, are 35 runs ahead
Stuart Broad hit an unbeaten 45 and
then took two wickets before
Worcestershire fought back at Trent
Bridge. Nottinghamshire reduced
Worcestershire to 32 for four in their
second innings, still 75 behind,
before Ed Barnard’s unbeaten
century led an impressive fightback.
Despite facing some hostile
bowling in short, sharp bursts as
Broad sought to build his case for a
Test recall this summer,
Worcestershire battled through to
the close for the loss of only one
more wicket to take a lead of 118.
Elsewhere, Jamie Smith, the 21-
year-old Surrey wicketkeeper-
batsman struck an unbeaten 234 as
his side compiled a mammoth 603
at Bristol with Jordan Clark also
making a century.Broad states his case