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7m agoRound-up: Stokes and Potts demolish Derbyshire
9m agoScores on the doors
Durham showed why they are 50-league-boots ahead at the top of Division Two with a crushing display at Derby. Where to start with such a thrashing? The glorious 140 from Ben McKinney, eight match wickets for the magnificent Matthew Potts or some entertaining humpty and five wickets for the still irrepressible Ben Stokes?
Derbyshire lost their remaining wickets quickly on a sunny morning, which gave Durham a chance to gather runs of their own. Alex Lees fell to Ben Aitchison’s first ball, but from there the tap was open. McKinney was majestic, rifle-shots flying to the rope, 15 fours and six sixes in all.
Half-centuries from Will Rhodes and a coconut-shying Stokes kept the scoreboard firing at the other end until Durham declared with Derbyshire set 423 to win. It was all over in less than a session as an almost unplayable Potts fired out three, and Stokes collected three more in his first over, later felling Brett Randell with a brutish bouncer (who went off after a second concussion check and didn’t bat again). Stokes collected two more and Derbyshire sloped away, after the largest defeat by runs in their history.
Olly Stone’s match figures of 10 for 94 detonated Surrey at the Oval. The last Notts bowler to take 10 against Surrey at their home was Harold Larwood in 1936, and Stone proved almost as potent. Only Ollie Pope, last man out for 111, could hang about as Surrey were crushed by 145 runs.
Warwickshire won a thriller against their title-chasing rivals at Edgbaston, but only just. Their one-wicket victory over Sussex came as Chris Woakes and Olly Hannon-Dalby played out 13 dot balls before Woakes scrapped the winning runs. Earlier, Tom Haines had stood tall with 67 against fabulous bowling, leaving Warwickshire to chase 203. Sean Hunt grabbed five wickets but Vansh Jani and Dan Mousley took Warwickshire most of the way and Woakes did the rest.
Things are tight on a dry pitch at Southampton where Hampshire need another 172 to beat Yorkshire, with seven wickets in hand. Yorkshire’s tail added vital runs, with 30s from Jonny Bairstow, batting down the order because of a finger injury, and George Hill. Then Hampshire struggled to build impetus against a disciplined attack and a slow outfield.
Essex toughed it out against Somerset thanks to a rearguard 105 from Charlie Allison, and 76 from Matt Critchley, as they finished with an unlikely lead of three runs after following on. Somerset, without Lewis Gregory who slipped and bruised his hip in Essex’s first innings, plugged away without much reward.
Division Two promotion hopefuls Northants swarmed over Lancashire, dismissing them for 137, then setting 446 for victory thanks to a hundred from Ricardo Vasconcelos. Lancs then collapsed to 24 for two. Kent, also with Division One ambitions, are in a good position at Merchant Taylor School. They set Middlesex 356 to win, thanks to 50s from Tawanda Muyeye and Ben Compton, before Ekansh Singh plucked out the Middlesex top three before stumps.
Gloucestershire fought back at Cheltenham with half centuries from Ollie Price and Miles Hammond; while Sheridon Gumbs’ 93 put Leicestershire in a hopeful position against Glamorgan.
Southampton: Hampshire 197 and 106-3 v Yorkshire 173 and 301 Hampshire need 172 to win
Grace Road: Leicestershire 151 and 257 v Glamorgan 152 and 126-5 Glamorgan need 131 to win
Taunton: Somerset 469 v Essex 158 and 314-3
The Oval: Nottinghamshire 184 and 306 BEAT Surrey 162 and 183 by 145 runs
Edgbaston: Warwickshire 161 and 206-9 BEAT Sussex 156 and 207 by one wicket
DIVISION TWO
Derby: Durham 283 and 295-6dec BEAT Derbyshire 156 and 84 by 338 runs
Cheltenham: Gloucestershire 150 and 248-3 v Worcestershire 267
Old Trafford: Lancashire 137 and 24-2 v Northamptonshire 284 and 298-4
Merchant Taylors’ School: Middlesex 249 and 186-4 v Kent 350 and 254 Middx need 170 to win
Hello and welcome to the final day of this August round of games. It’s a beautiful morning in Manchester, sunny with a hint of autumnal bite (and very active squirrels), so no meteorological mercy in sight for Lancashire in their battle for survival against Northants. It was a great day’s cricket yesterday around the grounds, with three results – a nail-biter at Edgbaston won by Warwicks, alongside old-fashioned thumpings for Surrey and Derbyshire at the hands of Notts and Durham. Lots more to look forward to today, do join us.
