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Big sunglasses for Alex Thomson, bowling with the preferred squirrel tail haircut connected to his head. It’s sunny on the County Ground, the place Holden and Eskinazi have added 15 this morning.
We’ll have part an eye fixed on complaints nowadays, but in addition chewing over the primary month of the season. Have you been learning speedy bowlers with a Baz ‘n’ Ben eye? Is your middle with some of the Joshes, or Sonny Baker, Gus Atkinson? What in regards to the younger spinners, like Jack Carson or Farhan Ahmed? Should Crawley stay his position or do you fancy a transformation? Perhaps Tom Haines, Ben McKinney and even Rehan Ahmed? Or is it time to carry again a Dom Sibley or HH-shaped barnacle?
Was Fergus O’Neill the select of the in a foreign country crop?
What about new glance Kent? Or on-the-up Leicestershire?
Will Surrey travel up once more?
All this and extra, however, first, time to position the kettle on.
Obituary of Keith Stackpole
“A stockily belligerent counterpoint to Lawry’s reed-thin caution,” – what a an excellent line in a pleasing obituary of a captivating and proficient cricketer.
Sunday’s round-up
On a London day of top spirits because the marathon threaded its method around the streets, Surrey cranked during the gears. They finished a complete eight-wicket victory, their first of the season, simply after tea – a recreation grew to become the wrong way up when Somerset suffered a 30 minutes of horror.
After proscribing Surrey to a lead of 84, Somerset misplaced two early wickets. But it used to be as other folks had been completing their post-prandial pints that the sport used to be misplaced, the guests at one level shedding 5 for 4 in 34 balls. Tom Abell shouldered palms, Josh Davey performed on, Tom Banton used to be brilliantly stuck, Kasey Aldridge edged onto his stumps, and an airborne Dan Lawrence plucked James Rew out of the spring air.
From 38 for seven, a complete of 119 used to be if truth be told one thing of an fulfillment, particularly with Sean Dickson not able to bat. Rory Burns’ busy 20 briefly guided Surrey to 36 for victory, regardless that Dom Sibley and Ollie Pope fell alongside the way in which. Pope used to be out for one for the second one time within the recreation as Jordan Clark went house with 8 wickets in his pockets.
Nottinghamshire marched to a nine-wicket win over Sussex, buoyed through every other 4 wickets from 17-year previous Farhan Ahmed, and fifties from Haseeb Hameed and Ben Duckett – one a Penguin vintage, the opposite an airport mystery. Fergus O’Neill leaves Trent Bridge, after 21 wickets in 4 video games, to get replaced through Mohammad Abbas, who lands simply in time for his or her subsequent fit – in opposition to his previous membership Hampshire. It used to be a 2d victory of the season for Notts, who sit down beautiful on the best of Division One.
In Division Two, a zig-zagging recreation on a Bristol pitch with peculiar power ended with a two-wicket victory for Leicestershire within the night time daylight. Gloucestershire couldn’t regain sufficient flooring after their batting suffered an assault of the vapours, at one level shedding 5 for 16, with 4 wickets for Ian Holland – the second one tier’s main wicket-taker.
Leicestershire had been set 143 and it seemed not going as Dom Goodman (4 for 33) zipped during the best order, however Ben Cox and the tail hauled them over the road. In the one recreation to succeed in a fourth day, Middlesex are following on in opposition to Derbyshire, nonetheless trailing through 97 runs of their 2d innings.
Scores at the doorways
DIVISION ONE
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 300 and 148-1 BEAT Sussex 169 and 278 BY NINE WICKETS
The Oval: Surrey 367 and 36-2 BEAT Somerset 283 and 119 BY EIGHT WICKETS
New Road: Durham 136 and 108-4 BEAT Worcestershire 162 and 81 BY SIX WICKETS
DIVISION TWO
Derby: Derbyshire 472 v Middlesex 315 and 60-1
Bristol: Leicestershire 262 and 146-8 BEAT Gloucestershire 252 and 152 BY TWO WICKETS
Preamble
Hello! It’s a comfortable Monday at CC Live!, the air beautiful with hawthorn and cow parsley, and with only one recreation on the town. All eyes to Derby, the place Middlesex are following on.
We’ll be right here all day, draw up a chair and sign up for us between spreadsheets.
