Hampshire v Notts, Yorkshire v Warks and more: county cricket – live!

Fifty for Zak Crawley, fifty for Daniel Bell-Drummon as Kent continue their good run of form in Division Three clothing. Jordan Cox out cheaply again, it’s been a tricky third season for him, after that glorious 238 not out last season against Sussex (shortly before missing a match for breaking Covid protocols).

Warwickshire, Northants and Middlesex in trouble. Hampshire teetering. Fairly easy-pickings for the batting side elsewhere. Time for a quick snack, back in half an hour!

Division One

Southampton: Hampshire 53-3 v Notts.

Taunton: Somerset v Lancashire 127-2

Headingley: Yorkshire v Warwickshire 103-7

Division Two

Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 107-0 v Gloucestershire

County Ground: Northants 91-5 v Durham

The Oval: Surrey v Essex 79-1

Division Three

Derby: Derbyshire v Kent 108-1

Grace Road: Leicestershire v Sussex 116-1

Lord’s: Middlesex 81-5 v Worcestershire

Alastair Cook nears fifty at The Oval. There haven’t been many this season (two). Essex 77-1.

Essex will lose one of their most talismanic players, as Ryan Ten Doeschate has decided to hang up his boots at the end of the season. He joined Essex in 2003 and has played at Chelmsford for 19 seasons, making over 17,000 runs taking 348 wickets.

He won his County Cap in 2006, and was made captain in 2016, guiding Essex back to Division one. The next year Essex were unbeaten and won the Championship, winning it again in 2018.

An appreciation from his friend, and the current Essex captain, Tom Westley:

“It’s difficult to begin to put into words Tendo retiring. Not only have I had the honour of sharing a changing room with him for 15 years, but I’ve also had the privilege of changing next to him for 8 of them! To know that he won’t be playing for Essex again is a sad day for the club.

“I have always admired him, not only as a cricketer, who I believe has won more games for Essex than anyone else I have played with. It’s his values and qualities as a person, that means his name is alongside the greats of the club.

“I can assure you that I’m speaking on behalf of every player that has been fortunate enough to play with and share a changing room with Tendo. He has had a positive impact on all of us at some stage in his illustrious career. His selflessness as a teammate and leader is one of the leading factors to Essex’s success in the last decade.

“He epitomises what it means to play for this great club, and his name deserves to be alongside the likes of Fletcher, Gooch, Bailey and Insole.

“Thank you Ryan for everything you’ve done, I along with everyone will miss you. I wish you and your family all the best for the future.”

Tom Haines, not content with being the first batsman to 1000 runs, reaches yet another fifty, this time at Grace Road. He captains Sussex, while Callum Parkinson leads Leicestershire.Sussex 106-0.

My, my, Yorkshire. They’re on fire at Headingley: Warwickshire 67-5. Two for Coad, two for Patterson. The team’s excellence this season, while the Rafiq enquiry swirled around them has been ….surprising, bewildering even. I have no idea if any of the current players were involved in previous events, but for the others, being able to ignore the noise and the clodfotted handling of the enquiry by the club is some feat.

Lancashire 69-2, and going nicely after the early loss of Balderson and Davies. I’d like to complain that it looks considerably sunnier in Taunton than it is in Manchester. Incidentally, the weather has behaved itself immaculately since the Test was called off, they wouldn’t have missed a ball.

Thanks for the gentle prod, four games, already in progress, here are the latest scores:

Central Sparks (83-1 off 12 )v South East Stars

Northern Diamonds (62-1 off 14) v Thunder

Sunrisers v Southern Vipers (81-2 off 14)

Western Storm (43-3 off 14) v Lightning

Can anyone tell me why Lightning (Loughborough), Sunrisers (SE) and Thunder (NW) don’t get a geographical pointer?

Make that 15-2 at Southampton as the leading wicket-taker in the Championship snatches his 60th wicket of the summer: Ian Holland lbw for 3. Is Hampshire’s decision to bat first tarting to gnaw away at James Vince?

And a first wicket in the big first v second clash at Southampton, as Weatherley nibbles at a ball from Hutton which falls straight to Ben Duckett at slip. Hampshire 15/1.

So much to catch up on:

England IPL withdrawals, while Liam Livingstone flew yesterday to join Rajasthan Royals.

Ali’s thoughts on where we are:

Some team news, while everyone gets into their early morning physical jerks (which in Dom Sibley’s case means being lbw for 11, Jordan Cox’s, being bowled for 10, Ricardo Vasconcelos’s caught for 4.) Somerset are without Craig Overton, “minor rib injury” and Jack Leach because his PCR Test didn’t come back in time. I’ve no idea why they can’t just wait this out… how long can it take? Chris Woakes, David Malan, Haseeb Hameed, Ollie Pope and Dan Lawrence all play for their respective counties.

Division One

Notts 49

Yorkshire 38.5

Hampshire 38.5

Warwickshire 36

Lancashire 31.5

Somerset 23.5

Division Two (decided on points per game due to the cancellation of Durham v Surrey)

Essex 20.67

Durham 14

Northants 13.67

Gloucestershire 11.33

Surrey 9

Glamorgan 5.5

Division three

Middlesex 58

Kent 54

Worcestershire 41.5

Leicestershire 27.5

Derbyshire 24.5

Sussex 20

To see the complete tables, click here!

Division One

Southampton: Hampshire v Notts.

Taunton: Somerset v Lancashire

Headingley: Yorkshire v Warwickshire

Division Two

Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan v Gloucestershire

County Ground: Northants v Durham

The Oval: Surrey v Essex

Division Three

Derby: Derbyshire v Kent

Grace Road: Leicestershire vSussex

Lord’s: Middlesex v Worcestershire

Hello! The morning tastes of autumn and the penultimate round of the Championship begins.