County Championship cricket day two: Essex v Surrey and extra – dwell | County Championship
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Key occasions
100 for Matt Critchley!
And that’s lunch! Scores to comply with.
And with morning simply about to slide into lunch, Ryan Patel parries Critchley over the bar on 92.
150 for Tom Banton
He’s again! 27 fours in that 153 and counting. Rew 74 not out, Somerset 314-4
And one thing unusual is going on at Wantage Highway, Zak Crawley (18 from 41) is being out scored by Ben Compton (31 off 49).
Howdy Nat Goodden!
“After some years of gently chiding the Guardian and also you particularly for not getting out to Chelmsford, I simply wished to say – welcome to Essex! And aren’t they placing on a present for you! Although contra somebody’s level earlier, it does grate considerably that Foakes and Lawrence had been seduced away by the guests. I can by no means cease noting in that connection that the Oval will get much more Guardian consideration 12 months in 12 months out than Chelmsford,. However possibly you’re on a newfound mission to alter that perspective? Optimistically then…”
I promise to try to come down once more this season – if signed off by the bean-counters. Dan Lawrence wheels away, Critchley defends.
There’s a Sunday morning really feel to Chelmsford this morning, scorching sufficient to learn a newspaper within the solar with a murmur of contentment coming from the stands. And there’s the Critchley-Pepper hundred partnership in 211 balls.
5 wickets for Fergus O’Neill
A terrific debut for O’Neill, 5 for 81, with Durham bowled out for 378.
Elsewhere in Division One, Hampshire have inched their result in 87 in opposition to Yorkshire, Dawson a second wicket for Bess for 20. James Rew, who had a tough second season final 12 months, has handed fifty at Taunton the place Banton is just not out 123. Somerset 270-4. And John Simpson has 136 at Edgbaston, Sussex crusing at 448-7.
One other ball change right here at Chelmsford – so everybody takes a break: Kemar Roach has a stretch, Critchley and Pepper chew the fats, Jordan Clark scratches his head. Essex 402-4, slowly compiling the factors.
“Morning Tanya from a sunny South Africa.” Howdy there Ian Johnston. “Beautiful to listen to your descriptions of the Essex floor – one of many hidden gems being so near town parks.
”Plus a facet stuffed with dwelling grown gamers. And a pair of of the Surrey gamers too!”
Sure massive factors for Chelmsford for being so central, see additionally Taunton, New Highway, The Oval and Hove.
100 for Tom Banton
at Taunton, the place Somerset are making hay – 217-4. Whereas at Wantage Highway, Zak Crawley is on the crease once more.
Lehmann v Hollioake has hit fast-foward at Wantage Highway: Northants all out 143, path Kent by 88. 4 for Jas Singh.
Matt Hughes talks to the Northants chair Gary Hoffman – playoffs, Championship cricket throughout the Hundred window and extra.
Fifty for Keaton Jennings
Lancashire’s opening pair are holding their very own within the opening half hour at Lord’s – 83-0. Jennings slipping straight again into the groove – he was saying pre-season that realistically he thinks the England ship has sailed, however he’s pleased with that. Their Roses rivals have nipped out one other Hampshire batter, Albert, Hants 176-6.
Sprinklergate
Extra sprinkler points at Trent Bridge, as one is dammed, one other springs into life. The group wait (im)patiently.
Love early season enthusiasm – right here was considered one of yesterday’s centurions, Sussex left-hander Tom Clark.
“It’s our first time in Division One for about ten years and we’re very excited as a bunch to see what we will do at this stage. If can do what we did final 12 months and produce the identical power and expertise and intent than we might do nicely and it’s been a superb first day.
“It was a troublesome begin with the ball doing a bit within the morning however me and Colesy knew we simply needed to get by means of to lunch after which hopefully money in when the bowlers got here on for the second and third spells. It’s the primary time I’ve correctly batted with John Simpson and he’s unbelievable. He makes it look really easy. He scores so freely and takes all of the stress off you and it’s nice to bat with him as a result of the scoreboard is at all times ticking over.
“Once you come into Division One you need to show to your self and others that you are able to do it so I’m in all probability proudest of that century. I needed to combat my method by means of at instances and took plenty of balls on the thighpad and other people spherical the bottom in all probability thought it wasn’t the very best innings on the earth however I used to be happy with the way in which I fought. Possibly at instances prior to now I might have on condition that away for 30 or 40.”
It makes you keep in mind how necessary promotion is on a person foundation, it offers gamers the prospect to check themselves in opposition to the very best.
There’s no rain to delay proceedings however cricket does what cricket does and a misbehaving sprinkler at Trent Bridge has quickly began the beginning.
And an espresso hit to start out the day as Critchley slides the first ball away for 4.
And good morning to Tim Maitland!
“A depressing, moist, wintery day in Hong Kong left me sufficient time ponder how Yorkshire managed to break down for 121, whereas additionally enjoying some pleasant photographs.
”The reply, as is blindingly apparent from a scorecard exhibiting the highest six all stepping into double figures and none bettering Dawid Malan’s 31, is that they had been principally the architects of their very own downfall. Lyth, Wharton and Bairstow all went with negligible footwork – the skipper’s sq. lower maybe essentially the most obtrusive offence – and by the point Malan set off for an ill-judged single the rot had set in.
”Nonetheless, with Hampshire 5 down, they might conceivably maintain the primary innings deficit down under 100 and inform themselves they’re nonetheless in it on the changeover. Then once more, as they are saying in “God’s personal county” pigs would possibly fly.”
Not so many right here in the present day, I’m knowledgeably advised that’s as a result of everyone seems to be off to see Millwall, Ipswich, Leyton Orient, West Ham and Colchester.
Scores on the doorways
DIVISION ONE
Chelmsford: Essex 356-4 v Surrey
Southampton: Hampshire 164-5 v Yorkshire 121
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire v Durham 370-9
Taunton: Somerset 187-4 v Worcestershire 154
Edgbaston: Warwickshire v Sussex 386-5
DIVISION TWO
The County Floor: Derbyshire 127-2 v Gloucestershire 222
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 229 v Leicestershire 65-1
Lord’s: Middlesex 260 v Lancashire 68-0
Wantage Highway: Northamptonshire 118-7 v Kent 231
Friday’s round-up
The primary day of the cricket season in early April isn’t presupposed to really feel like this. T-shirts, ice-creams, arm-crispingly heat. At Chelmsford, the place almost 2,500 got here by means of the turnstiles, ft within the queue earlier than half previous 9, the champions had been on the town.
However Surrey, searching for their fourth title on the bounce, didn’t have issues their method in opposition to Essex. They misplaced the toss on a flat pitch, and first Paul Walter, then Jordan Cox, batted with a bounce and a music. Cox, who was attributable to make his Take a look at debut within the winter at Christchurch solely to be thwarted by a damaged thumb, performed with bellicose magnificence. He drove Dan Lawrence into the boundary boards with a thud to achieve his century, watched with purring admiration by Graham Gooch. When he was lastly out for 117, together with 21 fours, Chelmsford rose. As they did for Walter, the stand-in opener whereas Dean Elgar is on paternity go away, who fell 5 in need of 100 – a primary Surrey wicket for Matt Fisher. The house facet ended the day on 356 for 4.
Issues weren’t going so nicely for England’s Zak Crawley, who misplaced his stumps in spectacular type to the Northamptonshire new boy Liam Guthrie, out for one. Tawanda Muyeye’s 72 then helped Kent to a good 231, earlier than Northants had been fleeced to 118 for seven.
On the Rose Bowl, Jonny Bairstow’s first day as Yorkshire captain didn’t unfold totally as deliberate as they had been skittled for 121 by Hampshire. Shadow within the nook Liam Dawson snaffled three for eight, and there was a primary wicket for Sonny Baker, who had Bairstow caught flaming to 3rd man, bothered by an insect. In reply Hampshire had been 165 for 5 on the shut of play.
It was shaping as much as be Ethan Bamber’s day at Edgbaston when Warwickshire’s winter signing from Middlesex burst out of the traps with three new ball strikes. However bar a wicket on debut for the 18-year-old leg-spinner Tazeem Ali, issues took a downward flip for the hosts thereafter as a succulent career-best 140 from Tom Clark, and a pugnacious 116 not out from the captain, John Simpson, bent the script the way in which of Sussex, who completed on 386 for 5. An announcement day for the Division One newcomers; a barely regarding one for the extra established hosts with out the injured Oliver Hannon-Dalby and Chris Rushworth.
Colin Ackermann had some birthday luck on his method to the primary century of the 12 months, bowled for 80 just for the bails to settle again of their groove. Durham ploughed on in direction of 400 regardless of 4 wickets for Nottinghamshire’s Australian Fergus O’Neill.
At Taunton, Kasey Aldridge’s 5 wickets ruined a superb Worcestershire begin as they misplaced 9 for 52 and had been all out for 154. Half centuries from the Toms Abell and Banton then rescued Somerset from a precarious 39 for 3 to complete on 187 for 4.
The massive title Division Two sport at Lord’s swung merrily; Sam Robson and Max Holden easing Middlesex to 127 for one earlier than the Lancashire debutant Ollie Sutton (two for 57) and Tom Aspinwall (4 for 32) took cost. Leicestershire bowled out Glamorgan for 229, the on mortgage Shoaib Bashir bowled by Rehan Ahmed for 20 whereas Derbyshire’s Luis Reece grabbed six for 52 in opposition to Gloucestershire earlier than Caleb Jewell’s 61 from 48 balls confirmed why he was in Mickey Arthur’s little black e-book.
Preamble
Howdy! Welcome to day two. It’s lovely – once more. Unseasonably so maybe, my buddy at Whalley Vary CC in Manchester tells me that they’re watering the pitch in the present day – exceptional at the moment of 12 months. However local weather apocalypse apart, yesterday was a heat hug of a reintroduction to the season.
I’ve been gained over by Chelmsford this morning, who knew it had a beautiful ethereal cathedral? Additionally a city centre with actual outlets, cycle routes in all places, an quaint park with a lake and a restaurant serving selfmade pilchard cake to fortunate pooches.
Hope your Saturday mornings have been as contented. Play begins at 11am, do be a part of us.
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