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County Championship Round 3 Day 3

A look at developments in the county championship, with close looks at Somerset v Nottinghamshire and Kent v Surrey.

The third round of the county championship continues to progress. Essex have already polished off Lancashire by an innings and 124 runs, and Middlesex are close to completing victory over Yorkshire. Other matches are rather closer. This post looks closely at two of the games in progress.

SOMERSET V NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Somerset took a huge first innings lead over Nottinghamshire – when the eighth Somerset wicket fell the lead looked like being manageable, but then Craig Overton and Migael Pretorius batted very well, Pretorius making 77 from number 10, and Overton being stranded on 95 after a poor shot from Bashir to end the Somerset innings. Nottinghamshire are looking untroubled in their own second innings, but they are only just in credit even so.

KENT V SURREY

This is the game I am now following, and Surrey are in total control – a massive second wicket stand between Dominic Sibley and Dan Lawrence saw them into a first innings lead with nine wickets still standing, and some more aggressive later play, especially from Jamie Smith, Cam Steel and Jordan Clark saw them reach tea at 543-7, an advantage of 299, at which point, as predicted by me they declared to have a go at Kent’s second innings in the evening. Dan Worrall has just accounted for Crawley, the second time in the match he has dismissed that worthy, and Kent are currently 16-1, still 283 adrift.

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My usual sign off…

Yesterday morning was a ‘just a cuppa’ for autistic adults at King’s Lynn library. This lego archiecture was constrained by how little lego was actually available for us.

County Championship Round Three So Far

A look at what is going on in round three of the county championship, with the main focus on Somerset v Nottinghamshire

The third round of the 2024 County Championship got underway yesterday. The Duke ball made its first appearance of the season after the Kookaburra had been in use for the first two rounds, and in the main it did lead to a sharp uptick in the rate at which wickets fell (Hampshire have embarrassingly failed to make use of it against Warwickshire – the latter are well past 400 and still batting). My attention at the moment is focussed on…

SOMERSET V NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

When it was time for play to start yesterday many matches were delayed by bad weather. Of the games that did start on time I opted for the one at Taunton. Kasey Aldridge, who had such a fine game against Surrey in round two, was missing from the Somerset line up, but otherwise they looked strong. This impression was confirmed when they dismissed Nottinghamshire for a paltry 193, with every bowler contributing (probably the least impressive was overseas signing Migael Pretorius, who was flattered by being given the wickets of two tail enders after not challenging the middle or upper order unduly). Nottinghamshire were unimpressive with the ball as well, though just before the close Aussie Matt Renshaw donated his wicket. The morning session today (most of which I missed due to a commitment at the library) was probably Nottinghamshire’s least bad out of the four, with three wickets going down, but nightwatcher Josh Davey batted right through the session (a feat also achieved by another nightwatcher this morning, Sam Cook, for Essex against Lancashire). Somerset moved into credit with six first innings wickets standing almost on the stroke of the interval. Since the resumption there has been little to suggest Nottinghamshire are getting back into this, and Somerset are currently 209-4, 16 runs ahead.

ELSEWHERE

Essex are in complete control against Lancashire, already well into the lead with nine first innings wickets standing. Warwickshire continue to pile on the runs against Hampshire although they are now nine wickets down. Surrey have had the better of such action as there has been at Canterbury, claiming six Kent wickets so far. The other match of big interest to me seems to be going well for visitors Gloucestershire – they amassed 417 at Hove and have already taken a Sussex wicket with not a huge number on the board against them.

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My usual sign off…

Mama duck supervising a substantial brood.

While I have been preparing this for publication both nightwatchers referred to have been dismissed, Davey for 45 and Sam Cook just one run short of what would have been his maiden first class 50.