County Champ R10 - D4/3 and Pro40 Cricket

More rain, and more draws. Plus a bizarre Pro40 match in the Netherlands.

County Championship

Day 4

Middlesex v Somerset - Match drawn
Som - 173 & 227-7
Mid - 364-3d

Middlesex declared on their overnight score, with Somerset 191 behind, and soon had the visitors in trouble on 4-2. Compton, though batted excellently to take the game away from Middlesex, with 69 not out. It didn't stop Somerset sweating on 113-5 or 176-7, but with 50 from Trego it was enough to see out the draw.


Durham v Warwickshire - Match drawn
Dur - 277 & 147-7
War - 197

No play due to rain
Durham take 8 points, while Warwickshire pick up 6.


Leicestershire v Derbyshire - Match drawn
Lei - 177
Der - 259-5

No play due to rain
Leicestershire get 4 points, but Derbyshire collect 8.


Day 3

Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
Lan - 321-9

Nottinghamshire have been struck by the disease of being unable to take the final wicket, a regular illness on the county circuit. Lancashire progressed from 271 overnight to 321 without losing a wicket, taking the final wicket partnership to 70, with Hogg on 44 (the second highest score of the innings) and Kerrigan on 22.
     A draw now looks the mostly likely option, with bonus points the aim, but if a full day tomorrow is possible a deal may be struck to try and find a winner.

Sussex v Surrey
Sur - 124 & 39-1
Sus - 351

Some astonishing lower order batting gave Sussex's innings an oddly unbalanced look. Taking away Wells's 127, the rest of the top seven contributed 51. However the bottom four put together 163 to take the home side past 350, despite having been 87-6 and 236-8. Anyon finished 64 not out.
     Surrey are now in deep trouble, still 188 runs behind, and must bat almost all of tomorrow, or pray for more rain, to survive this match.

Kent v Hampshire
Ham - 90-3

Hampshire edged along today in search of batting points and reached their first before the close. Dawson is 111 not out overnight, so if he is at all superstitious I'm sure all kinds of odd things will be going on.

Northamptonshire v Essex
Ess - 195-4

No play due to rain


Glamorgan v Yorkshire
Gla - 117-3

No play due to rain



Pro40 Cricket

Netherlands v Worcestershire
Worcestershire won the toss and chose to field.
Net - 57
Wor - 61-1

There was rain on the continent today too, although nowhere near enough to stop this short encounter. The Netherlands may be top of their group but they were wiped away by Worcestershire. A few drops of rain stopped play briefly after 2.3 overs, with the hosts on 9-1. On returning they progressed easily to 23-1, unaware of the carnage to come. Swart was dismissed for 3 and followed 1 run later by Barresi. Cooper, the top scorer with a wopping 25, went lbw with the score on 33-4 and Borgas left with the total still the same. After 12.2 overs and the score on 34-5 more rain arrived and the game was reduced to 39 overs a side, possibly unnecessarily. Borren scored 12, the only other player to pass 5 but was the eighth man out and soon after the innings was over.
     Worcestershire began cautiously, scoring 13 from the first 4 overs. Clearly the pitch was proving more than a handful, and it soon did for Ali (5, from 22 balls). Solanki (39*) and Hughes saw the game through though in 13.1 overs, to complete a comfortable, if unexpected, victory.