Day four of six County Championship matches
Div 1: Duckett hits century for Notts against Surrey; Glamorgan set target of 283 to beat Somerset
Warwickshire beat Yorkshire by 377 runs; Sussex need 126 to beat Leics
Div 2: Crawley out cheaply withKent chasing 261 to beat Glos; Northants following-on against Derbyshire
Wins for Essex, Middlesex and Durham on day three
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Northeast lbw b Williams 4 (Kent 64-3 Target: 261)
Not the restart Kent had in mind and Will Williams has the breakthrough straight after the extended lunch break.
No dissent from the batsman either with Sam Northeast looking back at the wickets, checking his alignment with his front pad, and walking head bowed from the middle.
Grudging approval, that is called.
Sales c Madsen b Bashir 11 (Derbys 604-7d v Northants 228 & 145-6)
Derbyshire strike just after the break.
It’s Shoaib Bashir again.
He floats one up outside off and lures James Sales into a firm drive that produces an edge to slip!
Clarke lbw b Worrall 59 (Notts 415 & 237-3 v Surrey 449)
Two balls later, Dan Worrall has his seventh wicket of the match!
There's to be no second hundred of the game for Joe Clarke, who is pinned in front for 59.
Jack Haynes is the new man in for Nottinghamshire.
Glam 213-5 - target 283 v Somerset
Jake Ball is too straight to Sean Dickson and flicks through midwicket for an eighth boundary to raise fifty in 99 balls.
Then almost a breakthrough as Migael Pretorius finds an edge from Ryan Hadley but it lands safe between first and second slip and races away to the third man fence.
The target is down to 70.
Notts 415 & 237-2 v Surrey 449
Image source, ShutterstockBen Duckett steers Dan Worrall for a single to bring up his first century of the season - and his first in Nottinghamshire colours since 2024.
Duckett has made four half-centuries this season, but this is the first he's converted into three figures.
Sussex 16-1 (Target: 131)
Some fairly persistent rain has arrived at Hove which is not great news for Sussex.
Covers are on and they are the ones that cover the square not just the wicket.
Sussex 16-1 (Target: 131)
Tom Helm finds the edge of Tom Clark's bat and the edge flies to first slip but Rishi Patel cannot hang on to it.
Big blunder from the Leics opener and a break for the hosts but, rain is imminent.
Glos v Kent 64-2 (target 261)
The good news from Bristol is that, after a slightly extended lunch break, the covers are off and we can get back to the business of this intriguing Kent run chase.
Eight overs have been lost, so Kent now have a minimum of 64 available to score another 197.
Notts 415 & 220-2 v Surrey 449
Image source, ShutterstockJoe Clarke's remarkable start to the season continues in the first over after lunch - he's now passed 50 in each of his last six innings.
The Notts player gets there from 80 balls - and you wouldn't bet against him turning this into two hundreds in the match.
Warwickshire beat Yorkshire by 377 runs
Jonathan Doidge
BBC Radio Leeds cricket commentator
Warwickshire have completely and utterly dominated things since the start of the second innings.
That poor hour with the ball for Yorkshire getting them ahead and it’s a grip that they have squeezed ever more tightly between then and 12:51 on the final day.
A week after knocking table toppers Somerset off their perch, Yorkshire have suffered their second heaviest ever defeat by runs in the history of the club - 377 - only outshone, or however you would put that, by the 433 they lost by against Kent at Headingley in 2019.
There’s a bit to do.
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Glamorgan 229 & 202-5 v Somerset 354 & 157
Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset
A deeply frustrating morning for Somerset, the low point in which came when umpire Paul Pollard raised his right hand in response to a vociferous LBW appeal from Craig Overton, only to use it to adjust his hat.
That, it turned out, was the nearest that Somerset would come to a wicket as Sean Dickson and Ryan Hadley slowly but surely extended their partnership to a potentially decisive 68.
Yes, they played and missed a few times, but they also batted with great patience and resolve against an attack that was steady, but never really inspired. This is now Glamorgan's game to lose.
Sussex 430 & 8-1 v Leics 328 & 227
Adrian Harms
BBC Radio Sussex
An eventful morning at Hove with seven wickets falling and Sussex needing 118 runs after lunch to win their third match of the season
However with rain forecast and the floodlights on Sussex will be anxiously hoping the weather holds for long enough this afternoon.
Ben Cox provided the late order resistance for Leicestershire helping to add an important 57 runs for the last two wickets, and then Tom Helm dismissed first innings centurion Daniel Hughes first ball to give the Foxes some hope going into the afternoon session.
Glamorgan 229 & 202-5 v Somerset 354 & 157
Cennydd Davies
Commentator on BBC Radio Wales
Glamorgan’s cricketers are fighting back on the last day of their Division 1 County Championship match against Somerset at Sophia Gardens.
At lunch the home side are 202-5 in pursuit of 283 to win. The home side added to their overnight tally thanks largely to former Somerset batter Sean Dickson who’s unbeaten on 46
Supported by a determined defensive effort by nightwatchman the Australian Ryan Hadley who’s still there on 18 from 126 balls.
What looked an unlikely probability at the start of the fourth day, Glamorgan require a further 81 runs to register what would be their first ever home win in Division One
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Division Two:
Sussex 8-1 (Target: 131)
Dan Hughes is still fizzing about that dismissal but it is the last piece of action as the players troop off for lunch.
In the grand scheme of things it is a minor setback with just 126 needed for the win but try telling that to an opening batsman.
His 136 in the first innings has been joined by a duck in the second but on balance Hughes can hold his head high.
The Foxes will need a flurry of wicket to fall after lunch if they are to given themselves hope but that is a decent start.
Warks 147 & 553-6 dec v Yorks 152 & 171
Richard Wilford
BBC Radio WM commentator
Warwickshire have won this match. Jordan Thompson with his fifth wicket rounds things off for a second successive home win that will keep them nicely in the top half of the table.
A game that turned after a day one dominated by Yorkshire but turned out to be a resounding victory for the home side. A really useful victory for Warwickshire.
Derbys 604-7d v Northants 228 & 140-5
A good morning for Derbyshire.
Three wickets have fallen, including first-innings centurion Calvin Harrison when well set.
What resistance have Northants got this afternoon?
Glam 202-5 target 283 v Somerset
Glamorgan couldn’t have asked for much more from this session.
They started the day needing another 143 more to win.
Sean Dickson - against his old county - and Ryan Hadley have battled though the morning to bring the requirement down to 81.
Runs have been hard to come by but steady progress has put Glamorgan in the driving seat to get up for victory.
Dickson takes lunch 46 not out with Hadley on 18
Notts 415 & 219-2 v Surrey 449
Although Nottinghamshire lost only one wicket in the morning session, there have been some testing moments for the batters.
Ben Duckett had to receive treatment after a ball from Sean Abbott spat up off the surface and whacked him on the hand and he's played a few deliveries a little gingerly since then.
Overall though, Duckett has batted extremely well for his 92 not out - as has the County Championship's leading run-scorer Joe Clarke, who goes to lunch one short of another half-century.
