There were runs galore today, possibly inspired by the match at the opening ceremony of the Olympics last night, with several centurians across the five matches; six including the CB40 match in Taunton.
County Championship
Day 2
Warwickshire v Surrey
War - 571
Sur - 109-1
Warwickshire showed no sign of being rolled over this morning as the 7th wicket partnership went to 122, taking the hosts past 400, but not to a fifth batting point as they'd taken too many overs. Troughton was eventually caught for 119 but the innings continued as Warwickshire batted Surrey out of the game.
Woakes and Patel (76) put together 127 for the ninth wicket but the end came shortly before tea with last man Rankin, run out and Woakes left not out on 118. The last four wickets cost Surrey 264, and possibly the match. They then had to dig in and try to survive two days.
Ansari managed less than an hour but Burns (53*) and Harinath (44*) took Surrey to 100 and the close to give some hope to the Londoners.
Nottinghamshire v Sussex
Sus - 171
Not - 443-4
Wessels was clean bowled early in the day for 43, but Patel took over his quick scoring throughout the morning before he was also dismissed for 43, from 67 balls. Nottinghamshire passed Middlesex before lunch as Lumb went to a half century after having being dropped early in the day, then he and Taylor batted the whole of the afternoon to take the game away from Sussex, by which time Lumb had entered triple figures.
After tea the Nottinghamshire batsmen came out hitting as Lumb took 14 from the first over to go past 150 and then hit another 6 as Panesar came under attack. Magoffin soon came to the rescue by clean bowling Lumb for 171, but Taylor and new man Voges took Nottinghamshire past 400 and to a fifth batting point.
Late in the evening session Taylor went to his first Championship century for Nottinghamshire in measured fashion. He finished the day 106* in an beaten partnership of 71 with Voges (32*), as Nottinghamshire again took the day's honours.
Durham v Middlesex
Dur - 102 & 200
Mid - 185 & 58-5
Middlesex added another 41 runs this morning, with Berg making 37, but the end came quickly as Onions finished with 3 for 38. Durham needed to dig in and try to wipe out the 83 run defecit without losing too many wickets, but Finn didn't take long to get among the top order. Two wickets for him left Durham on 32-3 and staring at a possible two day defeat. Stokes made 23 but he too departed and was followed by Benkenstein, shortly after Durham had passed the score needed to make Middlesex bat again.
Rolland-Jones picked up two more wickets to leave Durham on 119-7, just 36 ahead, but then rain arrived and play was halted for about an hour. On returning however Borthwick (41*) and Thorp (36) added 60 to give a small boost to Durham and the Northerners edged to 200 before being all out, setting Middlesex 118 to win.
Robson was promtly caught to the third ball of the innings and victory didn't look so easy. It looked even harder when Rushworth removed Rogers, also for 0 and Middlesex still required 118.
Malan finally scored a run and then went on to add 15 and put Middlesex back in front, but he too was dismissed by Rushworth who followed up by having Morgan lbw for 2 leaving the visitors on 30-4 and the game in the ballance. It only took Thorp 8 balls to come to the party too, as he removed key man Denly for 16.
Rolland-Jones tried a different tack, attack. He hit 15* before the close but Middlesex have scored less than half the required runs and lost half of their wickets.
Hampshire v Kent
Ham - 292
Ken - 291-5
Hampshire couldn't add a run before Davies removed Briggs for his third wicket, and the last of the innings. Kent then began their reply and soon had the upper hand as Northeast and Key both went to fifties in a century opening partnership that took them past lunch.
In the afternoon the pair put Hampshire's bowlers to the sword, all seven of them, as none of them were able to break the partnership that built up to a double hundred and beyond.
Northeast was finally caught behind off the bowling of Ervine for a splendid 140, with Kent on 252. The visitors then collapsed dramatically at the end of the day, losing 5 wickets for 39, the last of which was Key for 119. Hampshire will hope to take more wickets in the morning to keep in touch.
Leicestershire v Yorkshire
Lei - 320
Yor - 336-5
Leicestershire added just two runs this morning before Boyce was caught and bowled for 107 but the hosts quickly picked up a wicket of their own, Buck cleaning bowling Root for 0. Lyth and Jaques (30) then added 68 before Buck removed the latter, caught by Boyce.
Henderson took a wicket to reduce Yorkshire to 112-3 but then Lyth and Bairstow combined to add 197 for the fourth wicket and all but wipe out the gap to Leicestershire's score. Both batsmen went to hundreds in the evening session but Bairstow was finally dismissed, also by Buck, for 118. Hoggard finally got going by having Ballance lbw for 1, but Yorkshire passed the hosts' score as Lyth reached 150 before the close.
CB40 Cricket
Somerset v Glamorgan - Somerset win by 3 wickets
Glamorgan won the toss and decided to bat
Gla - 250-9
Som - 251-7
Somerset's first match since their Twenty20 win on Tuesday saw them make a good start reducing Glamorgan to 7-1 and 33-2. The visitors built small partnerships but struggled to turn them into bigger scores as Somerset continued to pick up wickets. One man frustrated the home side however, third man, Cooke, who opened his shoulders later in the innings to crash four 6s in a magnificent century. He held the team together as more late wickets threatened to end Glamorgan's innings early. Cooke survived to the end of the 40 overs and finished with 137 to his name, a one-day career record score for him.
Somerset though wasted no time in putting bat to ball themselves as they raced to 50-0 inside 5 overs. Indeed 92 were on the board before a wicket fell but then Glamorgan fought back taking three for just 29 runs. Trescothick had made just 14 of the opening partnership while Trego hit 81 from 43 balls, but both were dismissed as Somerset were left to rebuild.
Buttler scored 22 but was bowled with the score on 154-4, before an excellent half-century from Compton took the home side past 200. Suppiah was run out with 28 still required and the game in the ballance with 6 overs to go. Gregory then became the third batsman to be bowled but Somerset pressed closer to the win. Meschede hit a 6 and Thomas finished 16 not out as Somerset won with 2 overs and a ball to spare.
Star Player: Cooke, for easily the stand out innings of the match (137*), despite it being on the losing side.
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