County cricket: Surrey beat Warwickshire, Gloucs v Glamorgan and more – live!

Surrey beat Warwickshire by 74 runs. Surrey 194 (Lester 4-41) and 325 (Stoneman 71; Miles 5-91); v Warwicks 230 (Rhodes 51) and 215 (Sibley 73, Batty 4-34)

Day 4: Gloucestershire 313 (Dent 105) and 131-5 v Glamorgan 287 (Selman 73).

Day 3: Northants 299 (Wakely 65; Wright 4-78) v Leicestershire 87-1

Day 3: Sussex 232 (Rawlins 56; Carse 5-43) v Durham 384 (Bancroft 158, Eckersley 118; Jordann 4-58) and 100-1 (Lees 55 not out)

And after that all that, we have lunch. Scores to follow.

A very good morning’s work by Surrey! Their first Championship win of the season. Not so brilliant a couple of hours from Warwickshire who lost six for 25 since elevenses. And things are starting to just look a little bit more interesting in Division One – Surrey jump up to fifth after revealing at last what they can do when everyone starts functioning at once, and how much they’ve missed Sam Curran. Warwickshire fall to seventh, though they’re still 26 points above bottom-placed Notts.

Hush, hush, whisper who dares, Durham haven’t lost a wicket for over an hour.

Nor have Leicestershire actually, all morning!

And, with a desperate sigh, Dom Sibley strikes out at Morne Morkel who scoops up the ball at the bottom of his very long legs, from the toe of his boots. Sibley out for 73, after 299 minutes of crease occupation, and Warwickshire are 196 for 8, needing a fantastical 94 to win.

James Bracey is lbw to Douthwaite for 33 – Gloucs 97-4, wickets falling fairly regularly at Bristol, but probably not regularly enough with only two and a bit sessions left…

Warwickshire falling in a heap – a run-out! Ambrose for a duck. It sounds absurd, I’ll try and find it…

Warwickshire need a magic hundred to win, but what’s this madness? Six wickets down?! Sam Curran has two in an over – Adam Hose for 21 and Matthew Lamb for a duck three balls later.

I wanted to find a picture of Brydon Carse to celebrate his first first-class five-fer, but this is the best I can do – his side view from 2017. For those that don’t know, he is a Kolpak player, was born in Port Elizabeth, is 23 and was a joint winner of Durham’s young player of the year award in 2016, alongside Jack Burnham.

And in the time it took me to write that, Gareth Roderick had nudged a thick edge behind at Bristol (Gloucs 70-3) and Mohammad Amir got Martin Guptill for five in front of a green, partisan crowd at Edgbaston.

Steve emails in to articulate some white-rose concern about the signing of Maharaj.

I think it’s fair to say there’s some consternation amongst Yorkies regarding the Maharaj signing. Undoubtedly an excellent player, but it’s disappointing that the promising James Logan, who did so well on debut at York last week, will now be relegated to the seconds. It also seems bizarre that our main problem – the batting department – has still not been addressed!”

I did a bit of digging after reading the Yorkshire academy report on Logan’s batting: “ he needs to work on his batting. He’s not a frontline batsman.” I googled Maharaj’s batting stats for Lancs last year to see if he was a secret tail-end basher that I’d forgotten about – but he only made 66 runs in five innings, with a top score of 38. And as you say Bess has gone back to Taunton, so I can only think that Headingley feel their position isn’t strong enough to risk promise, and would rather buy certainty. Which is daft really, as with only one team going down this year, the risk of relegation is low – especially with Nottinghamshire in a permanent state of crisis.

Alas, no double daddy, Cameron Bancroft trudges off for five, caught at slip off Ollie Robinson. And that early wicket at Hove leaves Durham 10 for one.

I’m just pondering Durham, at Hove. I’m thinking, they could bat calmly all day and build up a lead say, of 350? That seems ample.

And Lizzie Ammon has tweeted that the south London Hundred side will be known as The Oval Greats. Hmm. C’mon you greats? C’mon you OGs?

Brydon Carse grabbed the last Sussex wicket with the second ball of the morning, giving him final figures of five for 43, a maiden first-class five-fer. Bravo!

And Sussex are all out but Durham have NOT enforced the follow on. They bat again, 152 ahead.

Oh dear. Warwickshire don’t start the day well. Miles lbw Clarke 9. Warwicks now 150 for four, needing 140 still to win. Nice round numbers if that helps Warwicks fans?

In other news: the New Zealand v Pakistan match will start at 11.30 and is still 50 overs per side; and Yorkshire have a new recruit – left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj. Maharaj, who I last saw wheeling away for Lancashire at Southport, will fly in for three matches, starting with Yorkshire’s game against Surrey at Scarborough which starts on Sunday.

Set your sights on The Oval:

There is a greasy outfield at Edgbaston, after it rained most of yesterday, which has delayed the start; follow over by over updates on what is now rather an important game for England – Pakistan v New Zealand.

They are also playing the waiting game at Loughborough where England Academy Women are due to take on Australia Women.

Hello everybody, it is Wednesday, it is June, it is chilly, and we have two games going into their last day, two into their penultimate day, and one over a day early at Chelmsford – where Somerset were unable to resist the magic of Essex’s bowlers on an overcast day and fell to their first Championship defeat of the season – by 151 runs. The result leaves Somerset still top of Division One with 118 points, but Essex second, and with their spurs at the ready, with 105. Both teams have played seven games.

There’s an umbrella-nibbler in store at The Oval where Warwickshire need 142 to win, with seven wickets in hand. Dominic Sibley, ever-present at the crease for Warwickshire this season, could do his Ashes chances no harm at all if he could he convert that 52 not out, into 150 not out. But he’s up against Morne Morkel, Sam Curran, Clarke one and Clark two, plus Gareth Batty, who has already taken two wickets in this innings.

Glamorgan need to bowl out Gloucestershire in a hurry on the final day at Bristol, if they want to get another win under their belt. Gloucestershire lead by 67 with eight wickets remaining.

Only one day’s cricket has been possible at Northampton, where play will be extended by half an hour, weather permitting. Leicestershire start the day six without loss. And at Hove Durham have thrown a basket of eggs into the air and produced a light fluffy omelette, still leading by 153 with only one Sussex wicket remaining.