Somerset v Essex, Middlesex v Kent, and extra: county cricket day one – dwell | County Championship
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Key occasions
Sam Cook dinner picked for Zimbabwe Check
Ben Stokes (Durham) – Captain
Gus Atkinson (Surrey)
Shoaib Bashir (Somerset)
Harry Brook (Yorkshire)
Sam Cook dinner (Essex)
Jordan Cox (Essex)
Zak Crawley (Kent)
Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)
Ollie Pope (Surrey)
Matthew Potts (Durham)
Joe Root (Yorkshire)
Jamie Smith (Surrey)
Josh Tongue (Nottinghamshire)
Root out!
Root fences, uncharacteristically, and this time second slip takes the prospect. Ed Barnard, who has simply signed a brand new contract with Warwickshire, has now bowled two overs, two maidens, and has the most effective batter within the nation in his pocket.
Root dropped
Alex Davies makes a horlicks of a catch at first slip at Headingley. Ball in, ball out, like a person shocked by a jack in a field. Sadly the person on the crease was Joe Root, on one.
Joe Root is batting at Headingley, one not out from 12 balls, after the Bess experiment got here to a untimely shut, caught behind for 16. Wharton didn’t final lengthy, out the identical manner in Bamber’s subsequent over.
The umpire all of a sudden takes a eager curiosity in Josh Bohannon’s bat and assessments it together with his gauge – it passes – and shortly afterwards KJ edges Singh Dale to Bancroft at slip. Lancs 23-2.
Hoards of seven and 9 12 months olds are in at Outdated Trafford at present, sword combating with balloons and, in the event that they appeared up, watching George Bells kick Ajeet Singh Dale’s second supply onto his stumps. Lancs 16-1.
No wickets to report up to now this morning!
Good luck to SACA graduate Zen Malik on his first-class debut, he was picked up by Warwickshire after a cracking season with Glamorgan second XI final 12 months.
An attention-grabbing learn on Cameron Bancroft, the third of the sandpaper gate Australian trio, whose fledgling profession by no means fairly recovered in the identical manner as these of David Warner and Steve Smith.
One to control as play begins around the grounds. Craig Overton returns after his again spasm.
Yorkshire are batting, with Lyth and Bess opening – maybe in Rehan Ahmed mode.
ECB and BBC announce prolonged partnership
Extra of the identical so far as I can see: the Beeb will proceed to point out highlights of England Males’s and Girls’s internationals and dwell protection of The Hundred in a deal working 2025-2028.
BBC sport will present eight double-headers every season, together with the opening matches and the finals of the Hundred throughout TV and iPlayer. This may see extra dwell girls’s video games screened on the BBC than beforehand.
Right here is the, er, emerald, pitch noticed BTL at Taunton.
Surrey have signed Australian left-handed Kurtis Patterson as batting cowl for his or her three County Championship matches in Might.
Patterson has performed two Exams for Australia, with a high rating of 114 in opposition to Sri Lanka in 2019. Final season, Patterson hit 743 runs in eight Sheffield Defend matches for New South Wales at a median of 57.15.n
No Jimmy Anderson, however Brook and Root play
Lancs are nonetheless with out Jimmy, who’s “champing on the bit” however not fairly match-fit. Rocky Flintoff is seemingly again to hitting balls and seeking to play some sooner or later cricket in June. Yorkshire are strengthened by the return of Root and Brook, in addition to Australian Jordan Buckingham, who has signed for 5 video games. WArwickshire even have an Australian, Beau Webster.
DIVISION TWO
1 Leicestershire (performed 4) 74
2 Derbyshire (performed 4) 53
3 Kent (performed 3) 52
4 Middlesex (performed 4) 38
5 Gloucestershire (performed 4) 38
6 Lancashire (performed 3) 34
7 Northamptonshire (performed 3) 34
8 Glamorgan (performed 3) 15
DIVISION ONE TABLE
1 Nottinghamshire (performed 4) 70
2 Surrey (performed 4) 60
3 Sussex (performed 4) 52
4 Essex (performed 3) 47
5 Warwickshire (performed 3) 46
6 Durham (performed 4) 45
7 Hampshire (performed 3) 43
8 Yorkshire (performed 3) 40
9 Somerset (performed 4) 33
10 Worcestershire (performed 4) 18
Fixtures
DIVISION ONE
Southampton: Hampshire v Durham
Taunton: Somerset v Essex
Headingley: Yorkshire v Warwickshire
DIVISION TWO
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan v Derbyshire
Outdated Trafford: Lancashire v Gloucestershire
Grace Highway: Leicestershire v Northamptonshire
Lord’s: Middlesex v Kent
Preamble
Good Might morning! With 1 / 4 of the Championship season already gone, the cherry blossom falling however the swifts not but right here, patterns are beginning to emerge. However patterns might be undone. 4 groups take a relaxation this financial institution vacation weekend: the highest three in Division One, Notts, Surrey and Sussex, and the April picket spoonists, Worcestershire. Play begins at 11am, please be part of us!
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