Jennings turns down Durham contract and will leave club
Some breaking news to bring you: Durham’s one-day captain Keaton Jennings has turned down a new contract and will become the latest high-profile player to leave the county at the end of the season.
Jennings cited his continued international ambitions and the need to be playing in the first division of the County Championship, meaning his widely anticipated switch to Nottinghamshire would rely on the latter confirming promotion this week.
Durham have already lost their Twenty20 captain Paul Coughlin to Trent Bridge, with their record wicket-taker Graham Onions also moving on at the conclusion of the campaign, while Mark Stoneman and Scott Borthwick both departed for Surrey last summer.
Durham CCC 🏏 (@DurhamCricket)
📝 Keaton Jennings has decided to leave Durham at the end of the 2017 season
Hello and welcome to the second day of the final round of County Championship matches of the summer. I’m Will Macpherson and I’m at Chelmsford to see if Essex can go unbeaten for the first time ever, while I’m delighted to say we have Vic Marks at Taunton for the relegation bunfight on a bunsen between Somerset and Middlesex. That’s not going to make the fourth day. We are hoping too for play at Edgbaston, while there’s lots at stake in Division Two too. Here are the overnight scores:
Division One:
Middlesex 18-3 v Somerset 236
Essex 227 v Yorkshire
Lancashire 17-0 v Surrey 201-8d
No play yet between Warwickshire and Hampshire
Division Two:
Sussex 230-5 v Nottinghamshire
Worcestershire 90-3 v Durham
Glamorgan 18-1 v Kent 302
Derbyshire 104-2 v Gloucestershire
No play yet between Northants and Leicestershire
Here is yesterday’s roundup. Read it!
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We greatly look forward to hearing from you all. All that leaves me to say, as ever, is enjoy the cricket. It should be a belting day of action.
Durham CCC 🏏
