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Apologies all, I simply needed to take a piece name. Nonetheless nothing doing right here at OT, in truth the covers are coming again on. It began raining 5 minutes earlier than play was on account of restart.
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Ben Kellaway and Sean Dickson have added thirty since Glamorgan’s pre-lunch clatter of wickets – Glamorgan 89-4. Oooh, and Dan Hughes is simply two runs wanting his hundred at Hove…
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Yates and Davies appear to have determined that on this pitch assault within the reply – 5 boundaries between them in simply eight overs. Warwicks 27-0.
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The OT covers have been briefly pulled off however now they’re being pulled again on once more. The sopper sopps.
Surrey are batting at Trent Bridge, a 4 for Rory Burns off huge Josh Tongue. Sibley reserving in for bread and breakfast.
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Circling thunder and lightning means they’ve aborted the clear-up operation in progress at OT.
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Lunchtime-ish scores
DIVISION ONE
Chelmsford: Essex 142-6 v Hampshire 235
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 66-4 v Somerset 354
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 415 v Surrey
Hove: Sussex 125-2 v Leicestershire 328
Edgbaston: Warwickshire 147 and 7-0 v Yorkshire 152
DIVISION TWO
The County Floor: Derbyshire 447-5 v Northamptonshire
Bristol: Gloucestershire 325 v Kent 99-3
Outdated Trafford: Lancashire 201 v Middlesex 116-5
New Street: Worcestershire 278-9 v Durham
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In Div 2, Derbyshire bat on and on in opposition to Northants, although Conway has three wickets. 431-5.
At Canterbury, Mikey Cohen and Sam Northeast are becoming a member of Crawley in an early tub, however Ben Dawkins and Tawanda Muyeye are sticking it out. Kent 96-3.
And after the failure of the highest order, Worcestershire proceed to battle at New Street. Twenty overs however no extra wickets for Stokes. Worcs 272-9.
It’s persevering with to rain at OT the place we’ve taken an early lunch.
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Because the rain continues, Ken Grime performs us Crimson Rose/The Ballad of David Hughes as recorded by Lancs CCC at Strawberry Studios in Stockport in 1972. It’s definitely of its time…
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Really they’re all out. Dropping six for 15 in 14 overs. 5 catches for Rob Yates. Unhealthy Yorkshire.
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Up to date at 07.34 EDT
4 wickets for OHD at Edgbaston, Yorkshire have subsided – shedding 5 for 15 since Harry Brook was bowled chasing an elaborate drive. Yorks 152-9 solely lead Warwicks by 5.
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Now hosing it down at OT.
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Rain at OT
Or possibly unhealthy light. Anyway, they’ve come off – Middlesex 116-5, Leus du Plooy 39 not out. Appears fairly depressing to be trustworthy.
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Dan Hughes collects a speedy fifty at Hove, after Tom Clark and Dan Ibrahim have been each extracted c Rishi Patel, b Tom Helm. Sussex 85-2 path Leics by 328.
Tom Helm bowls quick to Jack Leaning. {Photograph}: John Mallett/ProSports/ShutterstockShare
Up to date at 07.50 EDT
Notts’ tail is inflicting Surrey some frustration. Joe Clarke was out with out including to his in a single day rating however 41 from Fergus O’Neill and 25 not out from Olly Stone has added one other 58. Notts 375-9.
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Glammy have misplaced each openers, ul Hassan following Asa Tribe again into the dressing room. A wicket every for Gregory and Ball. Glamorgan 38-2, path by 316.
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James Fuller has been chopping via Essex, although has hit some resistance within the form of Matt Critchley and Wiaan Mulder. Essex 104-5, path Hants by 131.
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(a fearsome drive by du Plooy off Stanley – ping! over mid off)
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Some nasty trying skies approaching from behind the OT pavilion. Higgins and du Plooy in the meanwhile preventing off the Lancashire storm 90-4, path by 111. Time to wander around the grounds.
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Oooof, a nasty, brutish supply from Mitchell Stanley to unsettle Ryan Higgins.
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One other talked about opener falls early – Asa Tribe caught for 4. Glamorgan 16-1 after Somerset picked up one other 17 runs for the final wicket.
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Brook out!
and Bairstow, each bowled. Brook driving, Ethan Bamber selecting out off stump. YJB completely misjudging Olly Dannon-Dalby and watching the ball jingle into his stumps. Yorkshire 142-6, nonetheless path by 5.
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No hundred for Falconer on Championship debut, a refrain of bouncing slips and an imploring Tom Bailey sufficient for the umpire to boost an off-you-go finger to an lbw shout.
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Poor Zak Crawley out once more cheaply, chopping on . I actually hope this doesn’t disintegrate right into a Haseeb Hameed 2019 summer season and that somebody has an arm spherical his shoulder. Kent 13-1.
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An harm substitute right here at OT – Yorkshire’s Harry Duke has joined Middlesex for a two-week mortgage to exchange Joe Cracknell, who damage a finger standing as much as Jennings yesterday. Middlesex 50-3.
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5 slips, Jimmy pistoning in. Middlesex supporters, hunker down.
A take a look at for younger Caleb Faulkner on county debut, who scored 100 within the U19 World Cup last.
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Up to date at 06.12 EDT
That didn’t take lengthy. Jimmy Anderson comes on on the Jimmy Anderson finish, and first ball Ben Geddes offers a catch again.
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Raf runs her eye over England’s summer season, and a primary captaincy gig for Charlie Dean.
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Ali’s journey to Worcester to see Ben Stokes bowl.
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Friday’s round-up
The emptiness signal over one England openers slot continues to swing. The selectors fancy James Rew, however he retains wicket and bats within the center order for Somerset. Find out how to sq. the circle? Friday’s reply was Rew opening for Somerset for the primary time in his first-class profession. It was a short-lived experiment, Rew lasting simply seven balls earlier than being bowled for 4.
Round Rew there have been runs for younger Josh Thomas (71) and Tom Lammonby (45) earlier than Glamorgan debutant Tom Norton picked the primary of three wickets. Tom Abell’s 86 propped up the remainder of the innings.
Dan Worrall slipped into his Surrey bowling boots for the primary time this spring and shortly dismissed Nottinghamshire’s openers. He pocketed one other wicket when Ben Duckett (42) fended at a lifter, and one other two in a mini Notts collapse of 4 for 5. Joe Clarke’s unbeaten 129, his second century of a wealthy early season, saved Notts within the match.
Middlesex’s expert younger seam assault made Lancashire work onerous for his or her runs, Keaton Jennings (67), was, as ever, the glue. James Anderson then lowered Middlesex to 38 for 2 because the clouds closed in.
Jack White (4 for 49) and his band of Yorkshire right-arm seamers ruined Warwickshire, a string of single digit scores strung collectively by 57 from Sam Hain. Harry Brook, in his first innings of the summer season, received off the mark with an outrageously dismissive cowl drive.
Half-centuries for Jake Lehmann and Ben Brown hauled Hampshire in the direction of close to respectability in opposition to Essex. A marauding Sam Cook dinner (three for 56) took out the highest order and Wiaan Mulder completed issues off.
Sussex saved Leicestershire in sight, regardless of dropping six catches. Jack Carson pocketed 4 wickets and the spectacular Ollie Robinson three.
An unbeaten 91 from Caleb Jewell topped a morale-boosting day for Derbyshire in opposition to Northamptonshire.
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Scores on the doorways
DIVISION ONE
Chelmsford: Essex 51-2 v Hampshire 235
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan v Somerset 337-9
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 317-7 v Surrey
Hove: Sussex 3-0 v Leicestershire 328
Edgbaston: Warwickshire 147 v Yorkshire 110-4
DIVISION TWO
The County Floor: Derbyshire 342-3 v Northamptonshire
Bristol: Gloucestershire 325 v Kent 1-0
Outdated Trafford: Lancashire 201 v Middlesex 38-2
New Street: Worcestershire 209-7 v Durham
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Preamble
Good morning! And welcome to a reassuringly quaint Manchester spring day, barely damp, barely overcast, barely muggy on the seams.
It was a day principally for bowlers yesterday, and we wait to see if Jimmy Anderson can inflict extra ache on Middlesex, how Kent fare in opposition to Gloucestershire, Essex in opposition to Hampshire and Glamorgan in opposition to Large Craig and co. It’s already a decent tussle at Trent Bridge, and Harry Brook proved extremely entertaining final night at Edgbaston within the gloom. And all eyes to New Street, the place Ben Stokes will go into bat on the floor the place he blasted 161 off 88 balls 4 years in the past.
All of it begins at 11am, do be a part of us!
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