Key occasions
It’s been all go at Chester le Avenue – first Ben Stokes, with what appears to be like like blond hair, warms up on the outfield, then James Minto is caught second ball after the break after a cracking 58. Lees has 58, McKinnney has zipped to 21 off 23 balls. Durham 147-1.
Below the shade of the Outdated Trafford concourse, 4 boys are taking part in cricket with a coke bottle for a bat and a screwed up sweatshirt for stumps. Out within the solar, Lancashire have eased previous 400…Jimmy time approaches.
Lunchtime scores
DIVISION ONE
Chester-le-Avenue: Durham 107-0 v Nottinghamshire 407
Taunton: Somerset 338 v Sussex 68-2
The Oval: Surrey 145-2 v Yorkshire 255
Edgbaston: Warwickshire 103-6 v Hampshire 300
New Highway: Worcestershire 358 v Essex 57-3
DIVISION TWO
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 216-4 v Northants 185
Bristol: Gloucestershire 48-0 v Kent 424
Outdated Trafford: Lancashire 380-6 v Derbyshire
Lord’s: Middlesex 232 v Leicestershire 112-4
A wicket from nowhere at OT. Balderson bowled, a slither of an inside edge, off Morley, for 73. He can’t imagine it and bends over his bat in disappointment. Lancashire 377-6, the tip of the third century stand of this Lancashire innings.
Around the grounds:
Minto and Lees plough on: Durham 92-0 at Chester le Avenue.
At Hove, Archie Vaughan didn’t attain 100, giving a dolly to mid-off for 80, Somerset 338 all out. 4 wickets to Ollie Robinson. COverton and the returning Matt Henry have struck early for Somerset, Sussex 49-2, Haines and Clark out.
Surrey have misplaced each openers at The Oval, however debutant Kurtis Patterson and Dan Lawrence have taken Surrey to 131-2.
Three wickets for Abbot as Warwickshire wobble at 94-5. Webster steadying the ship, not out 40.
And Essex haven’t had an important morning, Elgar becoming a member of Allison C and Westley again within the pavilion. Essex 51-3, nonetheless 307 behind.
Fifties for the Georges at OT, fifty for James Minto at CLS
George Bell, all completely proportioned neatness, reaches fifty with a single, to affix George Balderson (58 not out) within the half century membership. At CLS, Minto has turn out to be the youngest cricketer to attain a f-c fifty for Durham, at slightly below 17 and a half. And he’s the nightwatchman!
Seventeen 12 months outdated James Minto is having a morning to recollect at Durham, a fast 46 not out towards Mohammad Abbas and the remainder. Durham racing alongside to 72-0 after Notts had been all out for 407. HH stated final night time how briskly the dry outfields had been.
Good morning Tim Maitland:
“Haseeb Hameed’s spectacular, however not faultless, knock yesterday has put him again on prime of the Division One run scorers list with 682 from 10 innings. It’ll come as no shock to be taught that carrying his bat and scoring over half his facet’s runs has additionally despatched his common hovering into three figures at 113.66.
”For completeness Adam Lyth is second on the checklist with 666, though I don’t know how a sextuple Nelson on particular person statistics performs out.
”As for Notts, I think about they’re steeling themselves for an extended onerous day within the area. Listening to the reside stream as play started, I heard the Chester-le-street pitch described because the driest Durham had ever ready there. You didn’t must nip down the A688 for one in every of Dominic Cummings’ well-known eye assessments to see that the outfield was simply as arid: on day one Durham’s infielders didn’t chase the ball to the ropes when it penetrated the ring, extra shrugged and jogged after it to gather it as soon as it had hit one thing strong exterior the boundary.
”I’m now visualising nice Saharan sand dunes forming round Washington: the Angel of the North towering over a desolate desert panorama whereas salt flats encompass Sunderland.”
Thanks Tim (who wrote this earlier than Has was left excessive and dry, not out for 206), and sure to the pitches – we’ve been a month with out rain at Outdated Trafford and I suppose the identical at Durham. Worrying instances (although in the event you briefly neglect about local weather, very pretty to see the blue skies). I did hear the forecasters say that rain was on the best way for the financial institution vacation weekend.
Bell and Balderson are batting fantastically this morning at OT, one other bonus level within the bag and fours a a lot – 70 runs within the first hour.
Within the different division two video games:
Glamorgan have misplaced Carlson for a feisty 54, 149-4 towards Northants; Gloucestershire’s Singh Dale, spectacular towards Lancashire, now has seven wickets towards Kent together with Benjamin (93) and Stewart (182) who frolicked wildly final night time. Kent 424-9. And at Lord’s, Leicestershire have misplaced two extra wickets this morning, Budingher and Ahmed, 73-3.
Oh Brother the place artwork thou?
Lurking with intent at New Highway….first Charlie Allison caught brother Ben to shine off Essex, now Ben has bowled Charlie for 0. Further complicated for a cricket scorecard that their initials are b and c.
It was 59 years in the past right now, Bob Dylan performed his well-known live performance on the Free Commerce Corridor in Manchester. I don’t suppose any weblog readers had been there?
and Somerset are actually 9 down, Vaughan 80 not out, Leach wants to seek out his interior Headingley.
An early tumble of wickets around the grounds: OHD and Tom Latham gone at Edgbaston, the place Warwickshire at are actually in a spot of hassle at 42-4 towards Hampshire; Craig Overton has been neatly caught by John Simpson at Hove, oh and Pretorius too – Somerset 362-8 and Archie Vaughan at risk of working out of companions whereas in sight of a century. And Worcestershire have been bundled out for 358 by Essex.
At OT, 4 boundaries already after a sluggish grind yesterday – it took 47 minutes for the primary ball to journey over the rope.
Some attention-grabbing perception from the reporters community final night time, that Luke Wells had requested to return to the highest of the order
“I’m clearly happy to get a rating. I truly referred to as Benky the opposite day asking to return up the order. I did have alternatives to win a few video games in run chases batting at six, so I did have alternatives to influence the crew there and was disenchanted that I didn’t get a match-winning contribution rating.
“However I simply felt, particularly when everybody’s beneath stress, we haven’t acquired the outcomes we wished. I’d relatively go to what I do know greatest, having performed that for almost all of my profession.
“It paid off and the sport is such a humorous one as a result of, , narratives fully change in line with the end result and what occurs. Drop second ball or no matter, that will get caught, (it’s a) complete totally different narrative.”
Unbelievable that over 6,000 folks had been at The Oval yesterday – nicely performed to everybody there. Right here at OT, Ben Aitchison has the brand new ball, taking part in his first Championship match since July 2023, after a horrible run of luck with accidents.
An amazing journey down reminiscence lane from Taha, and a considerate evaluation on the disappearance of cricket from the nationwide dialog.
Friday’s round-up
In Division One, a feisty Jonny Bairstow frisked 89 at a honey-warm Oval, the place the Guardian soccer author Jonathan Wilson and his stag do had been among the many 6,000 spectators. There have been three wickets apiece for Surrey’s Jordan Clark and Tom Lawes and a gravity-defying catch by Ben Foakes, hanging within the air like an voiceless reminiscence. Adam Lyth added one other fifty to his hefty season’s assortment, however Yorkshire wilted after tea.
The Nottinghamshire captain Haseeb Hameed was a sea of calm on a stormy scorecard at Chester-le-Avenue, carrying his bat for 206. Brydon Carse, taking part in in his first sport for Durham this season after a toe damage, bowled via 14 overs, and grabbed three wickets. Somerset appeared to have thrown their batting order right into a paper bag and pulled out the numbers at random – however the brand new strategy had its successes towards Sussex. The upside-down opening partnership placed on simply 21, however there have been contributions down the order, together with an unbeaten 70 from Archie Vaughan.
Warwickshire’s Ed Barnard (4 for 56) and Olly Hannon-Dalby (three for 47) riffed via Hampshire at Edgbaston, regardless of an unbeaten 52 from James Fuller. At New Highway, a swarm of bees compelled the gamers off the pitch the place Worcestershire earned their first batting factors of the season, ending on 354-9 towards Essex.
In Division Two, greater than 2,000 youngsters revelled within the warmth of the concrete concourse at Outdated Trafford, the place it has been a busy few days. On Tuesday, Keaton Jennings stepped down as Lancashire captain, changed by Marcus Harris, and the membership formally apologised for the dangerous begin to the season. That dangerous begin continued shortly after Jennings walked out and was caught off Blair Tickner for 2, Josh Bohannon following shut behind. However Luke Wells took cost of the rebuild towards Derbyshire, his fastidiously crafted 141 his highest rating at Outdated Trafford.
At Lord’s, Ian Holland’s golden summer season continued, his 5 for 35 giving Division Two leaders Leicestershire the higher hand over Middlesex. Northants misplaced 9 for 80 at Sophia Gardens, brittle as overcooked flapjack, earlier than Marnus Labuschagne made a duck on his Glamorgan return. At Bristol, Grant Stewart’s boundary-biffing 173 not out remodeled Kent’s day as they made 386-6 towards Gloucestershire.
Scores on the doorways
DIVISION ONE
Chester-le-Avenue: Durham 2-0 v Nottinghamshire 470
Taunton: Somerset 317-6 v Sussex
The Oval: Surrey 46-0 v Yorkshire 255
Edgbaston: Warwickshire 27-2 v Hampshire 300
New Highway: Worcestershire 354-9 v Essex
DIVISION TWO
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 82-3 v Northants 185
Bristol: Gloucestershire v Kent 386-6
Outdated Trafford: Lancashire 250-5 v Derbyshire
Lord’s: Middlesex 232 v Leicestershire 22-1
Preamble
Good morning from a cloudy Outdated Trafford – presumably not the very best information for Derbyshire with Jimmy Anderson as a result of stretch that forty second 12 months outdated physique later right now. Play begins across the grounds at 11am, do be part of us.
