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Just been chatting to Vithushan Ehantharajah who was once at Trent Bridge and he’s completely satisfied via Farhan Ahmed.
It’s that guy Ian Holland once more, getting via nightwatchman Dom Goodman’s defences. Gloucestershire 92 for 3, a lead of 82. If they may be able to inch that against 200….
Atkinson has a hoopla too many and is stuck. Surrey 8 down, the lead 59.
Thanks to Romeo for this cracking essay on The Oval – cabbage patch, communal gardens and all.
The Oval had advanced a name for experimentation and communal residing. One of essentially the most well-known examples was once Bonnington Square, only a stone’s throw from the cricket flooring. In the 1970s, this cluster of Victorian homes was once earmarked for demolition, however a gaggle of squatters—lots of them artists, musicians, and activists—moved in and reworked the world right into a thriving countercultural hub. They arrange co-operatives, grew greens in communal gardens, and based the still-beloved Bonnington Café, a charmingly ramshackle eatery the place other volunteer cooks take turns cooking every evening.
As the song from the Oval church carrier sings in the course of the stands, Surrey have were given off to a gradual Sunday morning get started. Surrey 327-7
All over at New Road in fact. Worcestershire trainer Alan Richardson sounded resigned the previous day night time;
“We didn’t handle the third innings of the game very well at all. If you have a session like that you are not going to win many games of cricket. It’s incredibly disappointing to go from a position where we were in a position of strength and ahead of the game and then to lose so quickly.
“It is disappointing to have lost two games after taking a first innings lead but it would be more of a concern if we were never in the games. We are putting ourselves into strong positions, it’s just a question of working out how to make sure we drive those positions home.
“When we look at this game, similar to the Essex game, it was probably one session where we didn’t hit our straps. We didn’t handle the third innings well and that left us far too much to do.”
Saturday’s round-up
It was once a late-April miracle that the Worcester groundstaff had coaxed New Road into motion in any respect after the pitch was once underwater for 39 days throughout 5 other floods all the way through the wintry weather. It nonetheless bore the scars, alternatively, a verdant outfield that Worcestershire’s New Zealand speedy bowler Jacob Duffy referred to as “the slowest outfield he’d ever played cricket on”, and a floor that promised nice bounty to the bowlers.
And, in a fit performed at double-speed, it was once injury-hit Durham who got here out the most productive with a six-wicket win in a recreation the place the best possible person rating was once 42. Twenty wickets fell on the second one, and ultimate, day, as first Durham had been bundled out for 136, after which a hyperactive Worcestershire limped with chocolate sticks to 81 all out – Ben Raine, unplayable from time to time, taking 4 for 20 and Codi Yusuf 4 for 26. It left Durham chasing 108 for victory. There had been hiccups at the manner however 20 yr previous Ben McKinney, rated so extremely via England, was once resolute in his 34, helped out via twenties from Ollie Robinson, Will Rhodes and Graham Clark.
Delighted Durham go back house to sew up their strolling wounded, whilst Worcestershire contemplate a 2nd successive loss in spite of taking a first-innings lead.
Somerset near to stored Surrey in test on an Oval pitch with occasional chew. Surrey’s powerhouse best six, made up of 4 batters jilted via England and two males in ownership, is an ominous sight and Dom Sibley and Rory Burns made superb development on a sunny Saturday morning. But, after lunch, Burns was once undone on 76 via a spitting supply via Lewis Gregory which adopted him like a homing pigeon, touchdown on his best glove earlier than flying to slide. Gregory then bowled Ollie Pope for one. Sibley and Jamie Smith batted like hearth and ice, till Sibley had a wanton dance at Jack Leach and was once bowled for 53. Smith was once neatly stuck for 58 and Somerset chipped away, fielding with nice panache. Surrey had a lead of 38 at stumps, helped via an enormous early night time six from Gus Atkinson, with 3 wickets in hand.
Nottinghamshire have victory in sight at Trent Bridge after stretching to a first-innings lead of 131 over Sussex in spite of Jayden Seales (4 for 107) and Ollie Robinson (4 for 94) inflicting some early morning dysfunction. The treasured late-order run-scrabbling got here from Josh Tongue (39 now not out) and Liam Patterson-White (42). Tom Haines opened Sussex’s answer and reached his fifty – and 500 runs for the season – with a six, till he was once one among 3 wickets for the Australian Fergus O’Neill, who finishes his superb spell with Notts on the finish of this around. There had been two wickets for Farhan Ahmed, and Sussex shuffled to a lead of 64 at stumps, however with most effective 3 wickets in hand. Robinson, who bowled 25 overs in Nottinghamshire’s innings, concept Sussex had an opportunity if they might catch a lead of 150. He additionally waved within the path of Rob Key.
“Obviously, I’d love to play international cricket again and I hope that by bowling these longer spells I can prove I can still do that. I’d just like to put my name back in the hat, really.”
Martin Andersson confirmed his former membership, Middlesex, simply what they had been lacking after he hit 107 to place Derbyshire in a powerful place on the County Ground. Middlesex then misplaced 3 early wickets, one among them to Andersson, who additionally snaffled a catch. Leus du Plooy retired harm after his proper foot was once squished via a yorker from Luis Reece.
Leicestershire and Gloucestershire are nonetheless toe to toe after an soaking up day at Bristol. Fifties from Lewis Hill, Ben Cox and Ian Holland helped Leicestershire to a first-innings lead of 10, a very good outcome from the doldrums of 37 for 4. Dom Goodman accumulated his first five-wicket haul.
Scores at the doorways
DIVISION ONE
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 300 v Sussex 169 and 195-7
The Oval: Surrey 321-7 v Somerset 283
New Road: Durham 136 and 108-4 BEAT Worcestershire 162 and 81 BY SIX WICKETS
DIVISION TWO
Derby: Derbyshire 472 v Middlesex 101-3
Bristol: Gloucestershire 252 and 88-2 v Leicestershire 262
Preamble
Good morning from a fantastically sunny Oval, and an enormous thanks to whoever owns the rambling jasmine at the Harleyford street which throws candy perfumes to hide the visitors fumes.
It’s marathon day so London is in effervescent spirits, the trains and streets filled with supporters. Good good fortune to everybody working, each in London and within the Manchester Marathon, together with Alastair Cook and Andrew Strauss elevating cash for the Ruth Strauss fund, ( and my brother Tom!).
At reverse ends of the sphere, two video games of soccer are taking place. Play begins right here, and all over else, at 11am. Pull up a chair, and sign up for us.
