Resuming on 318-3, Glamorgan crawled along against the newish ball, with Sam Cook particularly accurate, though Tribe was happy to accumulate gently in his second major score in successive innings after scoring 155 against Surrey. Together with his England Lions runs, Tribe passed 1,000 in first-class cricket for the season as he tries to stay
Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury (day two) Gloucestershire 229: Bracey 86; Milnes 4-55 & 61-2: Hammond 33* Kent 353: Compton 126, Bell-Drummond 55; Langridge 3-105 Gloucestershire (3 pts) trail Kent (6 pts) by 63 runs with eight wickets standing Match scorecard Kent took a tentative stride towards promotion from Division Two
Championship titles are constructed on a bedrock of solid sessions interspersed with the occasional spectacular one – and Hain and Barnard’s efforts were the epitome of solid. Resuming on 130-4, already five runs in front, they added 51 without loss in a morning session truncated by bad light. Hain and Barnard did exactly what their
Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Trent Bridge (day two) Nottinghamshire 251 & 55-3: Haynes 30* Yorkshire 179: Hill 58; Stone 5-51 Notts (4 pts) lead Yorkshire (3 pts) by 127 runs Match scorecard Another five wickets for fast bowler Olly Stone, giving him 50 in a first-class season for the first time, provided at least
Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, Lord’s (day two) Northamptonshire 103 & 249-7: Zaib 83*; Gohar 3-57 Middlesex 255: Higgins 115; Sanderson 4-68 Northants (3 pts) lead Middlesex (4 pts) by 97 runs Match scorecard Half-centuries for Saif Zaib and Ricardo Vasconcelos prolonged Northamptonshire’s dwindling promotion hopes on day two of their final County Championship fixture
Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, Old Trafford (day two) Durham 493: Gay 141; Ali 6-166 Lancashire 10-0: Jennings 8* Lancashire (2 pts) trail Durham (4 pts) by 483 runs Match scorecard Lancashire’s Noman Ali took 6-166 on the second day of the County Championship match against Durham at Emirates Old Trafford but the Pakistan slow
