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

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  1. Postpublished at 17:11 BST 6 April

    Kent 172-5 - need 357 to win at Durham

    Tawanda Muyeye again opts to take a single from the first ball of the new over, off Ben Raine.

    Chris Benjamin is thumped on the pads and Raine launches into a concerted appeal but it's outside the line this time.

  2. Postpublished at 17:09 BST 6 April

    Kent 171-5 - need 357 to win at Durham

    23 overs remain in the day.

    Durham need five wickets.

    Kent are not making 357, let's be real.

    Tawanda Muyeye feels like the key to the destiny of this game.

  3. Postpublished at 17:07 BST 6 April

    Kent 167-5 - need 357 to win at Durham

    Lovely stuff from Matty Potts who wheels away in celebration after rapping Chris Benjamin on the pads.

    Shake of the head from the umpire.

    Benjamin has endured a torrid time in his first four balls at the crease but Tawanda Muyeye has turned down the chance to keep strike a couple of times of late, even though he's been out there for 96 balls for his 74*.

    Nervy, nervy times...

  4. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 17:04 BST 6 April

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    I see Lancs are at it again, had the opposition 50 for 6 and can’t finish them off?? What is the problem with this Lancs team? It was the same last season, no promotion if this doesn’t get sorted!!

    Mark, Manchester

    I agree with my namesake from Petersfield. Jack Leach bowling in Div 1 against last season’s champions manages to get wickets with flight and guile but our old boy, Bashir is struggling to make any impression on a div 2 lower order. Surely Jack must be in with a shout.

    Chris, Yeovil

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    WICKETpublished at 17:03 BST 6 April

    McManus lbw b Anderson 27 (Northants 179-8)

    It has just breezed away from the initial line a shade but it is enough to hit the pad in front of off stump.

    Lancs have the breakthrough and that could be enough.

    Lewis McManus departs and Louis Kimber is the new batter.

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    WICKETpublished at 17:02 BST 6 April

    Lyth c Cooke b Kellaway 97 (Yorks 174-5 - target 295)

    What a moment for young Ben Kellaway.

    He finds just enough turn to find the edge of Adam Lyth's bat and the Yorkshire opener, who has gone past 16,000 first-class runs in this innings, falls three short of what would have been a deserved century.

    Will the sporting declaration pay off for Glamorgan?

    Lyth batted for just over three hours, faced 150 balls and hit 14 boundaries.

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    WICKETpublished at 17:01 BST 6 April

    Evison lbw b Raine 0 (Kent 166-5 - need 357 to win at Durham)

    It's up to 11.

    Ben Raine skids one through and strikes Joey Evison on the shin in his crease and his uncomfortable stint is over after six deliveries.

    Chris Benjamin joins Tawanda Muyeye in the middle with 24 overs and change remaining and five wickets in hand.

  8. Postpublished at 17:00 BST 6 April

    Kent 165-4 - need 357 to win at Durham

    Real rush of blood from Tawanda Muyeye who sets off for a single from the first ball of the new Ben Raine over and is within a whisker of running himself out for 72.

    The pressure is firmly back on the visitors as Joey Evison has played and missed twice in his opening three balls too.

    Another wicket soon would turn that pressure up to 11.

  9. Worcestershire's resistance is highpublished at 17:00 BST 6 April

    Derbyshire 625-8 Worcestershire 312 & 267-6

    Worcestershire are continuing to battle for the draw. No early wicket in this session as Matthew Waite and Ethan Brookes continue to frustrate the home side.

    Shoaib Bashir and Zak Chappell are in the attack for Derbyshire and they still have time with a minimum of 22 overs still scheduled.

  10. Postpublished at 16:58 BST 6 April

    Yorks 170-4 - target 295

    Ryan Hadley tries an inswinging delivery but Matthew Revis is equal to it and the ball just misses the stumps at the bowler's end as it trundles away for four runs, just beating the desperate dive of the chasing Glamorgan fielder.

    To make matters worse for the bowler, it's a no-ball.

  11. Postpublished at 16:58 BST 6 April

    Notts 120-3 - need 417 to win at Somerset

    Is this a drop? Depends on your viewpoint.

    Jake Ball bangs one in short at Freddie McCann who follows it down the leg side and gets something on it to send it into the gloves of James Rew.

    However the ball breaks free and drops to the deck.

    Hands on heads all round. Did it come off the glove or maybe the arm. hard to tell. Either way McCann survives.

  12. Postpublished at 16:56 BST 6 April

    Northants 172-7 (need 149 to win)

    George Bartlett has left well alone when possible but negotiated the first over from Jimmy Anderson with no dramas.

    The Lancs legend got some nice shape away from the bat but let's see what Tom Bailey can do against Lewis McManus.

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    WICKETpublished at 16:55 BST 6 April

    Bell-Drummond c Aldridge b Potts 37 (Kent 165-4 - need 357 to win at Durham)

    Is Durham's luck turning just in time?

    Matty Potts picks up his second wicket - which might have been double that already - as Daniel Bell-Drummond edges through to Kasey Aldridge to take a good catch by his boot laces at second slip.

    The 124-run stand is broken.

    Durham need six more. Joey Evison is the new man.

  14. Postpublished at 16:53 BST 6 April

    Kent 160-3 - need 357 to win at Durham

    Daniel Bell-Drummond survives a good lbw shout from Ben Raine.

    Raine cannot believe it. He stands statue still on the track and covers his face for a good 15 seconds.

    The only explanation is the umpire saw, or heard, an inside edge there.

    26 overs remain. Durham are straining every sinew to try and set up a grandstand finish.

  15. new ball

    New ballpublished at 16:52 BST 6 April

    Northants 258 & 172-7 v Lancs 384 & 194

    Right, that is quite enough of the occasional spin of Luke Wells and Harry Singh. Now comes what you feel is the pivotal part of the game.

    Northants at least have set batsmen to face this new ball with George Bartlett and Lewis McManus 50 runs into their partnership.

    Yet ranged against them is one of the greatest seam bowlers the game has seen in James Anderson and in Tom Bailey a man who has 6-79 in this match so far.

    The next hour is the game, you suspect. Negotiate it and Northants could grab an unlikely draw. Fail to and Lancs will be travelling back north with 22 points.

  16. WARWICKSHIRE DRAW WITH SURREYpublished at 16:50 BST 6 April

    Warwickshire 544 v Surrey 328 & 447-4

    Surrey declare allowing the captains to agree a draw., Dan Lawrence finishes unbeaten on 161.

    An excellent batting performance on the final day from Surrey with Jamie Smith contributing 132 in a double century stand with Lawrence.

    Warwickshire looked threatening in the first hour but other than that it was a frustrating day for the Bears.

    They'll be consoled with a decent points tally of 16 from the match while Surrey take 11.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 16:50 BST 6 April

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    Well done Middlesex. A great start to the season on the field. Hopefully those in management and the former players can come together in a similar spirit to find a path to a new future. Egos back in the kit bag please

    Richard, Kent

  18. Postpublished at 16:49 BST 6 April

    Kent 158-3 - need 357 to win at Durham

    Daniel Bell-Drummond is fine to continue and Tawanda Muyeye is continuing too, pulling a short one from Matty Potts away through mid-wicket for his 13th boundary and moves to 70*.

    He has been imperious into the leg-side today.

    27 overs on the slate. 199 runs to find, or seven wickets...

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    Get Involvedpublished at 16:47 BST 6 April

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    Perhaps I’m being harsh here but if Bashir is to have a future as an England spinner then he should be able to run through a division 2 lower order on the last session of a county game. Two wickets so far in the match is hardly a stunning performance.

    Chris, Petersfield

    There's ten lads in the Hollies at edgbaston making the most of a lovely day in the sun making some noise. Great to see youngsters involved in the County Champs.

    Nigel, at Edgbaston

    Nice for that notoriously sedate stand to have some atmosphere for once, eh Nigel.

  20. Postpublished at 16:45 BST 6 April

    Notts 104-3 - need 417 to win at Somerset

    OOOOF.

    Alfie Ogborne wheels away with the biggest celebrappeal you'll see as he steams in and whacks Freddie McCann on the pads with one which straightens up.

    Did it straighten enough? the umpire thinks not. It's heading down leg, maybe, just... seen 'em given. Often.

    The cat was on the very edge of the pigeons for a moment there...