{"id":13078,"date":"2025-07-30T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=13078"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:36:35","slug":"durham-v-surrey-yorkshire-v-sussex-and-more-county-cricket-day-two-live-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=13078","title":{"rendered":"Durham v Surrey, Yorkshire v Sussex, and more: county cricket day two \u2013 live | Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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And Yorkshire get their man at last,<\/strong> a smart sliding catch by Duke to send Lamb on his way for a team face-saving 48. Sussex 222 all out, a last wicket stand of 72.<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a006.22 EDT<\/p>\n

No Ben Stokes one of four changes to England’s XI for The Oval<\/h2>\n

Out go Stokes (shoulder injury), Archer, Dawson and Carse<\/strong> \u2013 in come Bethell, Atkinson, Overton, Tongue. Ollie Pope will captain.<\/p>\n

1. Zak Crawley<\/p>\n

2. Ben Duckett<\/p>\n

3. Ollie Pope (c)<\/p>\n

4. Joe Root<\/p>\n

5. Harry Brook<\/p>\n

6. Jacob Bethell<\/p>\n

7. Jamie Smith (wk)<\/p>\n

8. Chris Woakes<\/p>\n

9. Gus Atkinson<\/p>\n

10. Jamie Overton<\/p>\n

11. Josh Tongue<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a006.18 EDT<\/p>\n

Somerset start as they did yesterday<\/strong>, by losing an early wicket \u2013 Jack Leach heaving lustily at Dillon Pennington.<\/p>\n

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On go the players \u2013 <\/strong>with particularly energetic galloping by Yorkshire wicketkeeper Harry Duke, whose long blond hair swings past his shoulders. Yorkshire will not be keen for this tenth-wicket partnership to become a bigger irritation than it already is.<\/p>\n

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Harry Swindells retires<\/h2>\n

Thanks to Romeo BTL<\/strong> for this nudge \u2013 Harry Swindells, hero of Leicestershire\u2019s one-day cup victory in 2023, has been forced to retire with a finger injury<\/p>\n

Speaking to the club\u2019s website, he said \u201cI\u2019ve been immensely proud to represent the club I\u2019ve loved since I was five years old over the past eight seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank the Foxes fans for their unwavering support across my career. I\u2019ve always felt their love, and hearing them sing \u2018Harry Swindells, he\u2019s one of our own\u2019 was always an amazing feeling. Their passion that day at Trent Bridge was truly unforgettable, a shared memory I will treasure forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wishing him joy in whatever the future holds.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Harry Swindells: hanging up his boots at 26<\/span> Photograph: John Mallett\/ProSports\/REX\/ShutterstockShare<\/p>\n

I think we\u2019ve been here before:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a005.30 EDT<\/p>\n

And from our not-so-roving<\/strong> correspondent, David Hopps.<\/p>\n

Whiling away the hours watching Championship c<\/strong>ricket in your dotage sounds so easy. In principle. It isn\u2019t. Stuff happens. Today I\u2019ve fallen foul of a somewhat inflexible Bee\u2019s Nest remover who works on the emphatic Yorkshire <\/em>principle<\/em> that \u201csomeone will be at home all afternoon\u201d means any time from noon sharp, rather than any of your soft-headed Southern-influenced ideas that the afternoon actually starts around 1pm, the time when my wife will be back home from a dog-walking social in some local gardens where the hours of attendance appear to be equally non-negotiable.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sod\u2019s Law will now invariably apply and he will pitch up around 3pm, if he pitches up at all, to reassert well-honed arguments about why Guardian-style ideas about saving the bees are thoroughly impractical and how the honeycomb is now so large that the ceiling could collapse by close of play. While all this is going on, I\u2019m going to pass the time watching a bit of Durham vs Surrey where Surrey, 29 ahead with five wickets left and Dan Lawrence in inspired mood, look well positioned to take another step towards the title. Unless, of course, as befits my day, there is a sting in the tail…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a005.31 EDT<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s round-up<\/h2>\n

North Marine Road shimmies<\/strong> up between Scarborough\u2019s terraces, a sloping patch of green overlooked on two sides. If the crowds do not flock like they once did, there were still plenty of bums on the salt-burned wooden benches. Yorkshire<\/strong> won the toss and duly ran through Sussex<\/strong>, courtesy of disciplined bowling and some nifty slip catching, as well as a sprinting over-the-shoulder swallow dive by James Wharton to catch a top edge off Tom Haines. But then came 30 overs of frustration as the last-wicket pair of Danny Lamb and Gurinder Sandhu added an unbeaten 60.<\/p>\n

After a high-class partnership with Rishi Patel (85), Rehan Ahmed ticked off hundred No 5 for the summer. It was the highlight of the day for Leicestershire<\/strong>, who then crumbled to Matt Parkinson. His seven for 104 temporarily cooled the brows of Kent<\/strong> members, whose last place in the table was made worse by news that their club had been docked eight points for disciplinary breaches.<\/p>\n

Fifteen wickets fell at Chester-le-Streetwith Durham<\/strong> all out for 153 at tea to the Division One leaders, Surrey<\/strong>, who finished 29 ahead.<\/p>\n

At Trent Bridge, Somerset<\/strong>\u2019s calamitous start \u2013 25 for three, all to Nottinghamshire<\/strong>\u2019s Mohammad Abbas \u2013 improved as James Rew (162no) and Tom Abell (156) added 313, overtaking Peter Denning and Ian Botham\u2019s 310 to become their club\u2019s biggest fourth-wicket stand.<\/p>\n

At Old Trafford, Australia spinner Chris Green found the devil in the dirt for Lancashire<\/strong>, winkling out six Glamorgan<\/strong> wickets. Dropped on 29, Kane Williamson duly advanced to century No 2 in two innings for Middlesex<\/strong>, against his old side Gloucestershire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Tom Westley added a third hundred in five innings to give Essex<\/strong> another good day. From 89 for five, Martin Andersson\u2019s 105 escorted Derbyshire<\/strong> to 348 for eight and tamed the Yuzvendra Chahal wicket-munching machine.<\/p>\n

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Scores on the doors<\/h2>\n

DIVISION ONE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chester-le-Street:<\/strong> Durham 153 v Surrey 182-5<\/p>\n

Chelmsford<\/strong>: Essex 350-4 v Warwickshire<\/p>\n

Trent<\/strong> Bridge<\/strong>: Nottinghamshire v Somerset 338-4<\/p>\n

New Road<\/strong>: Worcestershire v Hampshire 146-2<\/p>\n

Scarborough<\/strong>: Yorkshire v Sussex 210-9<\/p>\n

DIVISION TWO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cheltenham<\/strong>: Gloucestershire v Middlesex 232-3<\/p>\n

Canterbury<\/strong>: Kent v Leicestershire 386-9<\/p>\n

Old Trafford<\/strong>: Lancashire v Glamorgan 260-8<\/p>\n

Northamptonshire<\/strong>: Northants v Derbyshire 348-8<\/p>\n

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Preamble<\/h2>\n

Good morning from Scarborough,<\/strong> where the waves tumble onto North Beach and I saw a weasel skittling around Anne Bronte\u2019s grave. Play looks set fair for an 11am start as the players stretch and lurch and bat around the outfield. Do join us for day two of this final mid-summer round.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Weasling around<\/span> Photograph: Stephan Morris Photography\/AlamyShare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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