County round up: Monty spins Northants to victory

This was only Hampshire’s third win in the LV County Championship and keeps their title hopes alive.

Warwickshire declared their first innings on 353 for five with Alex Loudon left unbeaten on 41 after rain totally washed out day three.

Hampshire hit 23 for one in their first innings before declaring and Warwickshire forfeited their second innings - leaving Hampshire with a target 331 off a minimum of 92 overs.

The home innings got off to an inglorious start with opener Michael Brown bowled by James Anyon cheaply for 10.

Warwickshire skipper Maddy celebrated his own call-up to the Twenty20 World Cup squad by grabbing the vital wicket of former England batsman John Crawley for 10, caught by Jonathan Trott.

Michael Lumb was out for 15, caught by Ian Westwood off the bowling of Paul Harris. Chris Benham was run out for 40 with 103 still needed of 27 overs, with Hampshire chasing down the total.

Nic Pothas was next in and was run out for 12 after a mix-up with Carberry. Pothas pushed a ball to mid-off and went for a quick single, but was called back by Carberry and was easily run out by Harris to leave the hosts on 246 for five.

Mascarenhas and Carberry slowly made their way as the over rate needed climbed to nearly eight. In a crucial fourth-last over, Carberry smashed the last ball for six to leave Hampshire needing 20 runs off the last three.

Hampshire slowly inched their way towards the total and needed six off the last over. Needing two off the last three balls, Heath Streak bowled a last no ball to hand Hampshire victory.

Old Trafford
Lancashire v Yorkshire

Lancashire: 247-6
Yorkshire: 320

Lancashire drew with Yorkshire

Spinner Adil Rashid took five wickets for 114 as Yorkshire’s Roses match against Lancashire ended in a predictable draw.

With two days lost, there was not much to play for but James Anderson ended with 5-98 as the Tykes were out for 320 after resuming on 254-6.

All of Lancashire’s top order got off to a start, with Stuart Law making 55, and Mark Chilton and Mal Loye 47 each.

Rashid had Law stumped with the last ball as Lancs ended on 247-6 and the visitors claimed a fifth bonus point to remain top of the County Championship.

LV County Championship - Division Two

Chelmsford
Essex: 700-9 & 63-1
Nottinghamshire: 791

Match drawn

Chris Read became the first Nottinghamshire wicketkeeper to score a double century as more records were set on the final day. Read carried his overnight score of 161 to 240 - a career-best - before he was ninth out after occupying the crease for nearly seven hours.

Read struck eight sixes and 23 fours in his marathon 328-ball stay as Nottinghamshire went on to make 791 all out, the visitors’ highest-ever first-class total, beating the 739 for seven declared amassed against Leicestershire 104 years ago.

Only five runs separated Read and Graeme Swann from a Nottinghamshire eighth wicket record stand before Swann holed out at long-off three runs short of his century after the pair had put on 216 runs.

When Essex went in again with just over an hour remaining, they quickly lost skipper Mark Pettini, caught at slip off left arm spinner Samit Patel but Varun Chopra and Ravi Bopara carried the total to 63 before the curtain came down on a boring run feast.

Grace Road
Leicestershire: 481 & 27-1
Glamorgan: 268 & 236

Leicestershire beat Glamorgan by 10 wickets

A valiant 71 from Robert Croft failed to save Glamorgan from defeat as Leicestershire wrapped up an emphatic victory by ten wickets in the morning session.

Needing just 17 runs to win on the final morning, opening pair Tom New and Arno Jacobs took just 25 balls to reach their target and secure Leicestershire’s first Championship win this season. Jacobs hit the winning runs with a boundary off Alex Wharf.

Glamorgan never recovered from a poor start, losing both openers early on, Nicky Peng falling to Kruger for just 4 and David Masters capturing Gareth Rees for a duck to leave them flailing at 4-2. And despite a tenth wicket partnership of 63 with Waters, Croft was the last man out, leaving the home side needing just 24 for the win, which they acheived in 7.1 overs .

Hylton Ackerman, Paul Nixon and Mansoor Amjad all hit centuries in the first innings while Garnett Kruger took 5-62.

Southgate
Middlesex: 258 & 266
Derbyshire: 340 & 199

Derbyshire beat Middlesex by 15 runs

Middlesex suffered their first LV County Championship defeat of the season despite half-centuries from Andrew Strauss and Ed Smith.

Three wickets apiece for Greg Smith and Ant Botha saw the visitors win by 15 runs with 17 overs to spare and claim only their second win of the season.

Last pair Jamie Dalrymple (48) and Alan Richardson (19) almost saw Middlesex home but Graham Wagg accounted for the latter after Kent took the new ball.

The hosts had earlier seemed to be coasting to victory on 208 for four before the dismissal of Smith for 65 sparked a collapse.

Botha then returned for his second spell and with his second ball forced Joyce to mistime a drive from which Botha did well to take a return catch low to his left.

Part-time spinner Greg Smith then claimed two vital wickets in successive overs. First to go was Ed Smith, who played off the back foot and was trapped leg before wicket and that was soon followed by the dismissal of Ben Scott (0) in similar fashion.

In his second over after tea, Botha saw Tim Murtagh edge to Tom Poynton behind the stumps to leave Middlesex struggling on 221 for seven and four runs later Murali Kartik stepped down the wicket and sliced to backward point.

Chris Silverwood became the ninth wicket to fall driving to mid on to give Greg Smith his third wicket.

Northampton

Gloucestershire: 250 & 192
Northamptonshire: 310 & 270

Northamptonshire (20pts) beat Gloucestershire (5pts) by 138 runs

Monty Panesar took 6-65 as Northants eased to a comfortable win over Gloucestershire. The England spinner rattled through the lower order after Gloucester resumed at 119-4, still 211 runs behind on a turning wicket on day four.

Panesar quickly snaffled nightwatchman Steve Kirby and Chris Taylor, both for ducks, before removing dangerman Hamish Marshall for 58 as Gloucester slumped to 155-9.

A last-wicket stand of 39 ended when Steven Crook dismissed Ben Edmondson, leaving the visitors all out for 192.