Specsavers Championship, Tuesday, June 27, 2017
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STUMPS: Kent 105/4 (34 ov, trail by 86 - 2nd inns) v Notts
SW Billings 39* (66) WRS Gidman 12* (45) -
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STUMPS: Derbyshire 2/0 (2 ov, lead by 53 - 2nd inns) v Glamorgan
AP Palladino 0* (4) TAI Taylor 1* (8) -
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WICKET: Glamorgan 237/9 (92.1 ov, trail by 51 - 1st inns) v Derbyshire
M de Lange b Taylor 22 (25) Partnership: 39 (10.4 ov)
TAI Taylor 14.1-7-28-1 GG Wagg 20* (54) -
WICKET: Kent 63/4 (19.3 ov, trail by 128 - 2nd inns) v Notts
SR Dickson c Taylor b Gurney 12 (49) Partnership: 17 (6.0 ov)
HF Gurney 4.3-1-7-2 SW Billings 10* (24) -
The problem with Bell at present is that he looks clueless, and you could say that it is the case with most of the lads in the team. Will Rhodes has been signed to inject some fresh blood, it looks increasingly stupid that they left Varun Chopra and Laurie Evans to go. And signing Olly Stone too. -
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TEAM 200: Warwickshire 201/7 (93.1 ov, trail by 72 - 1st inns) v Lancashire
ARI Umeed 80* (290) JS Patel 5* (11) -
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TEAM 200: Glamorgan 202/8 (81.5 ov, trail by 86 - 1st inns) v Derbyshire
M de Lange 4* (2) GG Wagg 3* (15) -
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I feel Jake Ball isn't quite there yet. Not quite there in ODIs, needs to work on reducing his bad balls. Tests? I'm not sure. He was good in India with a nice economy but had a pretty ordinary debut at Lord's. I'd be picking TRJ or Porter ahead of him, injured or not, for the first test. -
George Dobell at Warwickshire (184-7) v Lancashire (273)
Hameed has split the webbing on his hand and gone for stitches. Bailey, meanwhile, has just been denied a hat-trick having bowled Rikki Clarke and trapped Keith Barker leg before with the new, swinging ball. -
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UPDATE: Match delayed by rain, Northamptonshire 60/3 (16 ov, lead by 164 - 2nd inns) v Leics
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WICKET: Glamorgan 170/6 (68.4 ov, trail by 118 - 1st inns) v Derbyshire
NJ Selman lbw b Mendis 50 (159) Partnership: 19 (10.2 ov)
BMAJ Mendis 13.4-2-31-2 AG Salter 2* (35) -
STUMPS: Worcestershire 367 all out (86.4 ov, lead by 170 - 1st inns) v Durham
OB Cox 32* (54) -
Yorkshire 27-1 trail Surrey 517-7 by 490 runsKumar Sangakkara became the first batsman in the Specsavers County Championship this summer to pass 1,000 runs, achieving the milestone in some style on day two against Yorkshire at Headingley.Sangakkara advanced from 82 overnight to 180 not out in the first 75 minutes of play after rain had delayed the start until 5pm.The Sri Lanka legend was at the heart of a remarkable passage of play as the visitors advanced their first innings from 374 for six overnight to 517 for seven declared.Retiring Sangakkara scored 91 off 122 runs in the first hour of play, while 142 were scored in 19.1 overs from the start of play to declaration.Sangakkara reached his century off off 136 balls and his 150 off another 28. In all, he hit 21 fours and four sixes in 183 balls. -
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WICKET: Kent 9/1 (2.4 ov, trail by 182 - 2nd inns) v Notts
DJ Bell-Drummond b Ball 6 (11) Partnership: 9 (2.4 ov)
JT Ball 1.4-0-9-1 SR Dickson 0* (6) -
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Northants 37-2 lead Leics by 141 runsNorthamptonshire took a hold of the pink-ball Specsavers County Championship match on the second afternoon against Leicestershire, reaching tea 37 for 2 leading by 141 runs.
They were set for a huge first-innings lead when Leicestershire slumped to 86 for 8 before lunch but a stand of 60 for the ninth wicket between Lewis Hill and Matt Pillans ensured the follow-on would not be of concern.
The second session was delayed by rain but when play did resume, Northants took only six overs to remove the Leicestershire tail. Ben Sanderson, who probed away without full reward before lunch - nine overs for just eight runs and one wicket - changed ends to send a ball from wider on the bowling crease through bat and bat and into the bails of Pillans.
Azharullah then cleaned up No. 11 Dieter Klein and Leicestershire’s 157 all out gave Northants a first-innings lead of 104.
Conditions favoured the bowlers all day with the floodlights on under gloomy skies and Leicestershire responded with two early wickets. Rob Newton lbw to Klein for the second time in the game and Ben Duckett, after a first-innings century, taken at second slip off Clint McKay for a second-ball duck.
It was the Northants’ bowlers who enjoyed the conditions in the opening session of the day in a first 25 minutes where 33 balls were bowled, Northamptonshire didn’t concede a single run and they took three wickets.
The first of those was McKay, who was dropped to the final ball of day one but caught to the first ball he saw of day two - driving loosely at Richard Gleeson and edging to first slip Chesney Hughes, the same man who dropped McKay the previous evening.
Gleeson struck again when Ned Eckersley tamely chipped a catch to point. Between those dismissals, ben Sanderson nipped a ball back into Colin Ackerman, forcing an inside edge into the off stump.
When Azharullah trapped Neil Dexter lbw for 11 - the decision appearing to be a marginal call - Leicestershire were 86 for 8 and facing the prospect of being asked to follow-on. But Hill rode his luck and with Pillans at No. 10 to reduce the deficit.
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WICKET: Northamptonshire 43/3 (13 ov, lead by 147 - 2nd inns) v Leics
MDE Holden c Horton b Pillans 13 (37) Partnership: 31 (9.4 ov)
MW Pillans 1-0-6-1 AG Wakely 22* (24) -
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Cook, Stoneman, Jennings, Root, Ballance, Stokes, Bairstow, Ali, Woakes, Anderson, Broad. Maybe. Need a number 3. Then I'd open with Jennings. Like Root at 4, particularly as captain. Need a new spinner too. Perhaps: Cook, Jennings, Root, Ballance, Ali, Stokes, Bairstow, Woakes, Broad, Anderson, Crane. Probably not Crane yet, I just like the idea. Leach maybe.
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