Summary

  • Sussex beat Leicestershire by 222 runs at Grace Road

  • Middlesex beat Gloucestershire by an innings and 14 runs

  • Defending champions Notts start with draw against Somerset

  • England's Jamie Smith hits 132 for Surrey in Edgbaston draw

  • Glamorgan set Yorkshire a 295 target, but they are 239-7 as the game ends drawn

  • Northants' final pair hold out for draw with Lancashire

  • Worcestershire bat through final day for a draw after following on at Derby

  • Tawanda Muyeye scores 109 not out as Kent draw with Durham

  • Essex beat Hampshire by an innings and 137 runs on Sunday

Send us your county cricket views

  1. 50 runs

    50 for Matthew Waitepublished at 17:35 BST 6 April

    Derbyshire 625-8 v Worcestershire 312 & 273-7

    It's been a brilliant effort from Matthew Waite who brings up his 50 off 120 balls.

    But will it be enough to save Worcestershire and deny Derbyshire? Tom Taylor is the new batter at the crease.

  2. Postpublished at 17:33 BST 6 April

    Northants 189-9 (63 balls remaining)

    Ben Sanderson survives the final two deliveries of Jimmy Anderson's over to leave 63 balls in the game.

    This is gripping stuff with George Bartlett (77) back on strike and facing up to Tom Bailey. He gets behind the first two deliveries nicely.

    The third is knocked back into the leg side but they decline the single or the two which they could probably have run.

  3. Postpublished at 17:33 BST 6 April

    Kent 196-5 - need 357 to win at Durham

    Ben Raine is taken out of the attack for a breather, and perhaps to cool his head too.

    Kemar Roach is on, and it might be a double change soon if Matty Potts is also replaced at the other end.

    Another appeal as Roach hits the pads of Chris Benjamin, who has nurdled his way to 12*, but it's outside the line and might have come off the bat first anyway.

    18 overs remain. Five wickets needed.

  4. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 17:32 BST 6 April

    Brookes b Andersson 34 (Worcestershire 272-7, trail by 41)

    Brookes 123 ball vigil is ended as Martin Andersson squeezes one past his defences and hits the stumps.

    What a game Andersson is having. If Derbyshire win he gets every Player of the Match award going.

    At least 14 overs left and Derbyshire need three more wickets. Into the attack comes Mohammed Abbas.

  5. Postpublished at 17:30 BST 6 April

    Yorks 194-5 - target 295

    Four men round the bat as George Hill tucks Ben Kellaway to long leg for a couple. Another over ticks by.

    Change of tactic now as Timm van der Gugten comes back into the attack with a short mid-on and two short mid-wickets in place.

  6. Postpublished at 17:28 BST 6 April

    Kent 190-5 - need 357 to win at Durham

    Ben Raine is cutting a hugely frustrated figure.

    He's probably had seven or eight appeals in his past three overs and hasn't been successful with any of them.

    His last, which sounded like an inside edge anyway, saw him walking backwards down the middle of the track almost to the crease as he appealed.

    There is a lot of pressure about, on Kent, sure, but also on the home side, and the umpires.

    Storm Dave was certainly not the only high pressure formation in the north east this week.

    19 overs left in the day.

  7. Postpublished at 17:28 BST 6 April

    Northants 184-9 (72 balls remaining)

    George Bartlett nicks the strike on the final delivery again with an agricultural hook which squirts away as Tom Bailey tried to tuck him up with a short one.

  8. Postpublished at 17:27 BST 6 April

    Yorks 192-5 - target 295

    Are Yorkshire going to have a final dart at this?

    Mason Crane gives George Hill too much width at the end of his latest over and is cut away behind square for four.

    The Tykes need 103 from 14 overs - a run-rate of 7.35.

  9. Postpublished at 17:25 BST 6 April

    Northants 183-9 (74 balls remaining)

    There are 74 deliveries left for Northants to negotiate and George Bartlett is going to have to face as many of those as possible.

    He has got through seven overs already but the pressure is huge on the former Somerset man's shoulders.

    He is taking singles on offer near the end of the overs but he does not trust Ben Sanderson to fend off Jimmy Anderson and Tom Bailey for more than a ball.

  10. Final Hour at Derbypublished at 17:24 BST 6 April

    Derbyshire 625-8 v Worcestershire 312 & 270-6

    We're into the final hour at Derby during which a minimum of 16 overs have to be bowled. They could get more in with Bashir and Montgomery currently in the attack.

    Still no wickets since tea for Derbyshire as Waite and Brookes continue to keep them out.

  11. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 17:23 BST 6 April

    Click the yellow button at the top left of this page

    Re Mark.in Manchester (17.04) Not just last season. Its been a consistent theme for 3 or 4 years. Do they change strategy when bowling against the tailenders? Problem needs to be solved.

    (a different) Mark, (the same) Manchester

  12. Postpublished at 17:22 BST 6 April

    Kent 183-5 - need 357 to win at Durham

    Ben Raine tries a bouncer at Tawanda Muyeye but the youngster is equal to it and hooks away to the fence at fine leg to move to 79*.

  13. Postpublished at 17:21 BST 6 April

    Glamorgan 186-5 - target 295

    Glamorgan have dropped a couple of catches - how costly will that be. George Hill has a let-off at short extra cover in the latest over.

    There are 16 overs left and Yorkshire need 109 to win.

  14. Postpublished at 17:21 BST 6 April

    Kent 177-5 - need 357 to win at Durham

    No chance of hands being shaken any time soon at the Riverside, not with the way Ben Raine and Matty Potts are bowling.

    21 overs remain in the day, the hosts need five wickets and are thumping the pads almost at will, it seems, as the Kent batters shuffle around their crease.

    Tawanda Muyeye is on 75* from 99 deliveries but has been happy to farm the strike to Chris Benjamin who has started to settle down after a nervous introduction.

  15. Match drawn at Tauntonpublished at 17:18 BST 6 April

    Somerset 347 & 407-5d v Notts 338 & 140-3

    An enjoyable game drifts into a final session draw, which is just about right.

    Tom Abell made a first-innings century and Joe Clarke fell narrowly short of one in the Notts reply before James Rew and Tom Kohler-Cadmore shared a monster second-wicket stand of 224 for Somerset and each reached three figures.

    The target of 417 Notts were set on the final afternoon was nominal, and despite a couple of flurries of intensity, the spoils are shared at Taunton.

    13 points apiece.

  16. Postpublished at 17:17 BST 6 April

    Yorks 184-5 - target 295

    That must have been very close.

    Ben Kellaway is convinced he has George Hill leg-before. The umpire isn't.

  17. Postpublished at 17:16 BST 6 April

    Derbyshire 625-8 v Worcestershire 312 & 269-6

    Derbyshire turn to their occasional off spin bowler Matthew Montgomery as they look for ways to breakthrough against Worcestershire's stubborn 7th wicket pair who've now batted for 22 overs.

    Montgomery has three first class wickets to his name and from Derbyshire's point of view now would be a good time for him to get his fourth

  18. Postpublished at 17:14 BST 6 April

    Notts 139-3 - need 417 to win at Somerset

    They are still playing at Taunton, and Josh Thomas has come on for some dual-spin with Jack Leach, with the hosts packing close fielders around the bat, but with seven wickets still to find, it feels like the final act.

  19. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 17:13 BST 6 April

    Kimber c Hurst b Anderson 1 (Northants 181-9)

    James Anderson takes a wicketImage source, Getty Images

    Oh what a catch this is from Matty Hurst.

    Louis Kimber fends off an outswinger from Jimmy Anderson and Hurst darts sharply down to his right and picks that off six inches from the grass.

    It is Ben Sanderson versus Anderson now with the game on the line.

  20. Postpublished at 17:11 BST 6 April

    Yorks 177-5 - target 295

    All results still possible at Sophia Gardens.

    We are into the last 20 overs and Yorkshire require another 118 to win - Glamorgan need five wickets.

    Gripping stuff in south Wales, with Matthew Revis and George Hill together at the crease.