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Sussex v Kent, Somerset v Surrey and more: County Cricket – live!

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10:52

Live streams

A reminder that you can access the live streams via youtube and also the central ECB hub, with radio commentary on BBC digital radio. There have been roughly 700,000 interactions with the live stream per round!

The following England players will be lacing up their boots today: Jofra Archer (Sussex), Dom Bess (Yorkshire), Rory Burns (Surrey), Zak Crawley (Kent), Ben Foakes (Surrey), Dan Lawrence (Essex), Ollie Pope (Surrey), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Reece Topley (Surrey), Mark Wood (Durham).




10:44

Weather watch and rain delays

“Rain across the south-west today, but sunshine and showers elsewhere. Cooler in the north-east.”

There will be no play before lunch at Cardiff because of a wet outfield and the start is delayed at Taunton due to rain.

The one round where there is just a single game in the north! Up in Manchester, I’m considering hanging out my washing…




10:36

Ali Martin

And the round to come:

Ali Martin drops me a line: “It will be interesting to see if Craig Overton, in the Somerset squad, actually plays today. I’m pretty sure no county seamer has bowled more than his 206.2 overs.. and he’s on an England pace contract, which controls his workload etc. It may be that he and the England medical staff are perfectly happy right now, of course. If he doesn’t play, that may indicate that he’s in line for the Test squad too. Looking at the rain radar right now, we might not find out for a while…”




10:26

Championship Tables

Group One

Nottinghamshire 73 (played 5)

Warwickshire 67 (played 5)

Worcestershire 66 (played 5)

Durham 53 (played 4)

Essex 52 (played 5)

Derbyshire 40 (played 4)

Group Two

Gloucestershire 95 (played 5)

Somerset 82 (played 5)

Hampshire 62 (played 5)

Surrey 59 (played 5)

Middlesex 41 (played 5)

Leicestershire 40 (played 5)

Group Three

Lancashire 93 (played 5)

Yorkshire 86 (played 5)

Northants 68 (played 5)

Glamorgan 58 (played 5)

Sussex 51 (played 5)

Kent 38 (played 5)




09:53

Today’s fixtures

Group one

Riverside: Durham v Worcestershire

Chelmsford: Essex v Derbyshire

Group two

Lord’s: Middlesex v Hampshire

Taunton: Somerset v Surrey

Group three

Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan v Yorkshire

Hove: Sussex v Kent

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09:48

Preamble

Good morning! Er, sorry, this went live when I wasn’t expecting it…but welcome to round six of the Championship – mid May and we’ve got ourselves a merry little contest. Only six matches this round – with four teams: Lancashire, Northants, Notts and Warwickshire sitting things out.

And last, but not least, Eid Mubarak! to everyone celebrating today .

Lord’s Cricket Ground
(@HomeOfCricket)

#EidMubarak to all the cricket fans celebrating around the world.

Wishing you a happy Eid al-Fitr.#LoveLords pic.twitter.com/3sMKrjna6H


May 12, 2021

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source: theguardian.com