Specsavers Championship, Thursday, June 29, 2017

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3rd & 7 37yd

WICKET: Hampshire 24/1 (12.2 ov, lead by 88 - 2nd inns) v Somerset
JHK Adams run out 9 (42) Partnership: 24 (12.2 ov)
LA Dawson 15* (32)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/29/2017 2:20:18 PM
Seems a bit mean to catapult young Sanga into such a stressful situation so early in his career...

by StaggerBreaths 6/29/2017 2:18:43 PM
It should be an exciting final, I'm looking forward to seeing how a resurgent Roy and a young lad everyone's talking about, Sangakkara I think I heard, cope against a fit again Broad and Pattinson

by Courtney Nangle 6/29/2017 2:17:43 PM
Compton got to 31 against a reincartanted Warne and Waqar. Get him in the England side

by nickcricket 6/29/2017 2:07:19 PM
Jon Culley at Notts v Kent 214-7

I still can’t get my head around these intervals. The next one here is due at ten past three and is being described as an ‘early’ lunch. Happily the rain has stopped, the clouds are pale and unthreatening for the moment and the covers are coming off rapidly. This should get finished.

by jonculley 6/29/2017 2:05:06 PM
TEAM 100: Leicestershire 102/2 (31.2 ov, target: 394) v Northants
MJ Cosgrove 27* (32) CN Ackermann 8* (29)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/29/2017 2:04:59 PM
Not this time... Hoping Surrey can make it 3rd time lucky though.

by dez dezzy 6/29/2017 2:00:12 PM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (No play before Tea, rain), Lancashire 178/4 (70 ov, lead by 130 - 2nd inns) v Warwickshire

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/29/2017 1:45:32 PM
Would really appreciate it if county batsmen would stop making Harmer look like Warne.

by SDHoneymonster 6/29/2017 1:33:00 PM
DAMIT Malan, you were my last fantasy hope

by nickcricket 6/29/2017 1:32:54 PM
Pretty damning for Somerset, that. At least Gregory can hold his head up and be proud that he's not lost any of the mediocrity he displayed last season.

by Brendan Mulcahy 6/29/2017 1:32:47 PM
Adam Lyth would fit in well, his avg is 23 and that is after scoring a hundred. Alex Lees is up at 28.63 with some of the softest second innings runs of all time.

by nickcricket 6/29/2017 1:32:19 PM
Those are really quite astonishing Somerset figures. Collective failures. Something dodgy must have happened between the end of last season and the arrival of Elgar.

by Haystack_Jnr 6/29/2017 1:32:07 PM
WICKET: Middlesex 51/3 (21.2 ov, trail by 245 - 2nd inns) v Essex
DJ Malan b Harmer 1 (4) Partnership: 2 (1.3 ov)
SR Harmer 6.2-1-16-3 NRD Compton 17* (50)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/29/2017 1:32:05 PM
Really feels like this is Essex's year. Win today would be massive if they pull it off seeing as other games look like being draws

by JoeTheRef 6/29/2017 1:30:54 PM
by Will 6/29/2017 1:29:18 PM
@DuluthK.Archaeopteryx - in that case why don't they have more then! Strange field

by dez dezzy 6/29/2017 1:08:01 PM
@dezdezzy too leave space in the field?

by jlcis 6/29/2017 1:07:32 PM
@dezdezzy You don't want the fielders standing where the ball's actually going to go!

by Duluth K. Archaeopteryx 6/29/2017 1:07:16 PM
@jlcis Looking like he had one good season and is now falling back into the pack

by nickcricket 6/29/2017 1:06:46 PM
@Will still going to be a draw.

by jlcis 6/29/2017 1:06:45 PM
Glam have scored a run yaaaaay

by Matt_MYano 6/29/2017 1:06:42 PM
Why are Gloucs bothering with 3 slips when this is clearly declaration bowling?!

by dez dezzy 6/29/2017 1:06:27 PM
Somerset wasting absolutely no time in going back to being total dogsh*t

by Will 6/29/2017 1:06:04 PM
I wish the scorecards were still broken looking at that.

by SDHoneymonster 6/29/2017 1:05:57 PM
Gubbins out again. Cant seem him troubling the selectors for a while...

by jlcis 6/29/2017 1:05:19 PM
WICKET: Somerset 135/9 (47.3 ov, trail by 76 - 1st inns) v Hampshire
JH Davey c †McManus b Dawson 5 (10) Partnership: 0 (1.2 ov)
LA Dawson 8.3-2-20-1 TD Groenewald 0* (0) MJ Leach 0* (5)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/29/2017 1:05:07 PM
Gubbo gonzo

by nickcricket 6/29/2017 1:00:13 PM
WICKET: Middlesex 27/1 (13.1 ov, trail by 269 - 2nd inns) v Essex
NRT Gubbins c Cook b Harmer 16 (50) Partnership: 27 (13.1 ov)
SR Harmer 2.1-1-1-1 NRD Compton 6* (29)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/29/2017 12:59:06 PM
Another England Lions player who isn't first choice has his county, get more like a creche every squad

by nickcricket 6/29/2017 12:58:36 PM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (Start delayed due to rain), Worcestershire 367 all out (86.4 ov, lead by 170 - 1st inns) v Durham

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/29/2017 12:57:18 PM
Maybe England should have taken Root and Bairstow as well

by nickcricket 6/29/2017 12:52:04 PM
Hadn't picked up until i saw the squad this morning that the Lions team doesn't have any genuine new ball bowlers in it, and only 4 full time bowlers in the XI

by dez dezzy 6/29/2017 12:51:52 PM
There will be a 2.30pm inspection due to the state of the run-ups from the Kirkstall Lane End.
— Yorkshire CCC (@YorkshireCCC) June 29, 2017

by nickcricket 6/29/2017 12:51:45 PM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (Start delayed due to rain), Kent 214/7 (74 ov, lead by 23 - 2nd inns) v Notts

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/29/2017 12:50:45 PM
Perfectly dry in London. Just saying.

by StaggerBreaths 6/29/2017 12:50:28 PM
UPDATE: Match start delayed (Inspection at 2:30pm), Yorkshire 27/1 (10.5 ov, trail by 489 - 1st inns) v Surrey

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/29/2017 12:50:02 PM
END OF INNINGS: Gloucestershire 150/1 declared (51 ov, trail by 208 - 1st inns) v Sussex
CT Bancroft 69* (145) WA Tavare 43* (100)

by ESPNcricinfo Live 6/29/2017 12:49:27 PM
@dezdezzy Must have come up to work with Saqlain Mushtaq, saw a photo of those two together on twitter

by nickcricket 6/29/2017 12:47:03 PM
by David Hopps 6/29/2017 12:32:29 PM