County Championship 2024

[Durhamfootman]

Cam Steel, take a bow. Comes on late for Surrey and tears the bottom out of Lancs. Hartley left stranded on 16, that's how quick he went through them. I'll bet you his favourite wicket was '*modded* I've fumbled it' first ball. Lancs all out for 202

Notts folded pretty quickly once Clarke and Haynes fell in short order, for a lead of 40. Should probably have done much better than that. Essex have knocked that off for no loss

Warky's trail by 68 with 5 wickets in hand, so they're on track

Middlesex end on 138-1, putting everything into perspective. Even Stonemercenary is in the runs (62 off 1040 or something) and I won't be saying that many times this season. Kookaburraflattrack bully

Leics get to 350 thanks largely to Ben Mike who follows that up with the wickets of Bean and Masood. Yorks 72-2 and behind the curve a bit.

[Durhamfootman]

Notts folded pretty quickly once Clarke and Haynes fell in short order, for a lead of 40. Should probably have done much better than that. Essex have knocked that off for no loss

I failed to spot that part of that collapse was down to a Sam Cook hat trick

[Durhamfootman]

Durham Hants already called off for the day

[Durhamfootman]

Warkys undoing all their hard work from yesterday. 3 quick wickets this morning and they're still 40 odd behind. If they want parity they have to rely on Briggs, OHD and Rushy to get them there

[DiligentDefence]

Good to see Lewis McManus get some runs after a dreadful season with the bat last year. Hopefully Northants will have many fewer spectacular collapses.

[sussexpob]

Good to see Lewis McManus get some runs after a dreadful season with the bat last year. Hopefully Northants will have many fewer spectacular collapses.

Either team has to play very poor from here to lose the match now.

[Durhamfootman]

Stonemercenary fails to get his ton despite playing against a flat kookaburra on a complete road. Middlesex 252-3, still a mile away from avoiding the follow on

Northants lower order get them to 371 and deny Sussex a bowling point by one ball

Essex 5 down leading by 99 only

Nothing happening at Derby, Lancs and Yorks

Warks fell short and Worcs now lead by 73 one bat down

Somerset 108-1 at lunch

[Arthur Crabtree]

Stonemercenary fails to get his ton despite playing against a flat kookaburra on a complete road. Middlesex 252-3, still a mile away from avoiding the follow on

A few games might be fixed by a declation well behind the game and a contrived fourth innings run chase.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Newly promoted sides are usually favourites to go down- but Worcs have started well.

[Durhamfootman]

not a lot of cricket on this afternoon

[Durhamfootman]

another 21 runs and Middlesex will have avoided the follow on and surely end Glamorgan's hopes for a result. The Middle have now batted for longer than Glammy, but are still 170 runs behind. They've done what they needed to do

[Durhamfootman]

Notts look like they could be chasing 300 plus tomorrow. Essex have an experienced day 4 bowling attack, so might very well fancy their chances

[Durhamfootman]

Warks Worcs still have all results possible

Somerset on target for 3 batting points and a draw

Surrey will hope to grab as many batting points as they can tomorrow, as will Yorks and Sussex

[Durhamfootman]

seemingly Feroze Khushi of Essex had his bat measured by the umpires and was made to change it today. It'll be interesting to see what happens, because Durham were docked 10 points for Nic Maddinson's bat failing that test in 2022

[sussexpob]

The Disciplinary hearing said it was strict liability offence also, so surely that's automatic points deduction