Yorkshire beat Northamptonshire by 53 runs at Wantage Street, arrange by a century from Harry Brook. He made hay whereas wickets tumbled on the different finish, Simon Kerrigan pocketing 5 for 39.
Northamptonshire’s pursuit of 206 couldn’t have began with much less pizazz as they misplaced three wickets for 2 runs both facet of tea. Luke Procter and Kerrigan raised hopes with a ninth-wicket partnership of 49, however the finish was swift.
An innings victory in opposition to bottom-placed Derbyshire left Nottinghamshire whistling merrily on the high of Group One. 5 wickets for Luke Fletcher and three for Dane Patterson decimated Derby, who misplaced their final 4 wickets for one run. The 18-year-old Dane Schadendorf, given an sudden first-class debut when Ben Duckett was referred to as up by England, made 24 and gathered 4 catches behind the stumps.
James Bracey put his hellish England debut behind him with a sparky 88 at Cheltenham as Gloucestershire constructed a strapping lead. Middlesex had earlier misplaced eight for 25 when collapsing to 101 all out; Matt Taylor took 4 for 19.
In the meantime, at Hove, Ali Orr stroked an unbeaten 54 to rescue Sussex from the second-innings doldrums of 19 for 3. They completed the day on 111 for 4 with a lead of 122 over Glamorgan.
A cataclysmic day for Surrey on the Rose Bowl left them praying for rain within the essential Group Two sport. Dismissed for 72 of their first innings in reply to Hampshire’s 488, as Kyle Abbot and Keith Barker ran amok, they had been left dribbling at six for 2 following on, with each openers gone: Stoneman for one, Burns for a duck.
A chirpy century from Leicestershire’s Harry Swindells scotched Somerset’s hopes of implementing the follow-on at Taunton, frustration intensified by Craig Overton’s removing by England and Josh Davey’s sore toe.
Rain continued to thwart Durham and Warwickshire on an attritional day at Edgbaston the place solely 55 overs of play had been potential.
Lancashire constructed a greater than useful lead in opposition to Kent at a moist Previous Trafford the place play didn’t begin until 3pm. Luke Wooden made the best rating of the match, an unbeaten 63, whereas two additional cowl drives by Jimmy Anderson off Darren Stevens in sudden brilliant sunshine over the last over of the day introduced a soupcon of pleasure.