Key occasions
Lancashire aside, the Div Two batters are having fun with themselves. Cameron Bancroft and Joe Phillips have taken Gloucestershire to 52-0 towards Glamorgan; whereas Sam Robson and Josh de Caires, in his new opening spot, are gliding alongside towards Leicestershire – Middx 66-0.
Kent have misplaced simply Jaydn Denly, for 35, and are 62-1 towards Northants.
Jimmy Anderson will bowl for the primary time underneath the crooked spire this week. Lancashire’s batters are guaranteeing he doesn’t have it too simple (at the moment 28-3).
County Cricket Day
Immediately is County Cricket Day – a celebration of purple ball cricket. As a part of the festivities, you may get in without spending a dime at Hove (the place Alex Davies is having fun with himself with a boundary heavy 29 not out, Warwicks 47-0); without spending a dime at Grace Street (Middx’s openers as but resisting the Leicestershire juggernaut – 42-0)whereas there’s stay music and miscellaneous treats at Taunton (Somerset offering the jeopardy at 28-2 towards Notts).
Please let me know something I’ve missed.
Jofra Archer isn’t taking part in for Sussex at present after his England call-up however may return – if the brains belief resolve he’s surplus to necessities. The identical appplies to Jamie Overton and Sam Cook dinner. Ali with the report.
I’ve needed to retreat from the balcony of York cricket membership pavilion media space, as a result of melting and display glare.
“RIP Wayne Larkins,” writes Matthew Doherty
”Wayne scored a first-class century towards all different counties, centuries that had been referred to as being Nedded.”
A listing that additionally contains Chris Adams, Mark Ramprakash and Carl Hooper.
Northants legend Wayne Larkins dies, aged 71
An iconic determine to these who watched cricket within the Eighties, together with his large curly hair and swashbuckling model, ‘Ned’ Larkins performed 13 Checks and 25 ODIS for England between 1979 and 1991 – and it might need been extra if he hadn’t gone on the 1982 insurgent tour to South Africa and been banned for 3 years.
“Ned liked everybody he met and everybody liked him,” stated his spouse Debbie to Northants CCC. “Individuals had been drawn to his infectious power. He lit up each room and by no means wished the social gathering to complete.
“He liked his soulmate of a spouse and his valuable daughters a lot. He might be partying up within the sky, consuming a toast to everybody and to his personal life. We’re devastated however we’ll always remember his undeniably distinctive presence and his impression on our lives.”
There’s a stunning obituary by Andrew Radd on the Northants CCC web site – the place he performed nearly all of his profession, with a late innings for Durham.
It’s a beautiful and largely shady stroll from York station to Clifton Park – although there was a poor lifeless chicken on the trail that appeared as if he’d fallen from a tree (please put out some water for the wildlife)
And right here come the gamers, YJB leads out Yorkshire in his house city. Bustle, bristle.
Division Two Desk
1 Leicestershire 155
2 Derbyshire 122
3 Glamorgan 110
4 Gloucestershire 99
5 Northamptonshire 94
6 Lancashire 80
7. Middlesex 77
8 Kent 76
Division One Desk
1 Nottinghamshire 127
2 Surrey 125
3 Sussex 109
4 Somerset 106
5 Warwickshire 104
6 Durham 97
7 Hampshire 96
8 Essex 85
9 Yorkshire 71
10 Worcestershire 57
Fixtures
DIVISION ONE
Southampton: Hampshire v Worcestershire
Taunton: Somerset v Nottinghamshire
The Oval: Surrey v Durham
Hove: Sussex v Warwickshire
York: Yorkshire v Essex
DIVISION TWO
Chesterfield: Derbyshire v Lancashire
Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan v Gloucestershire
Canterbury: Kent v Northamptonshire
Grace Street: Leicestershire v Middlesex
Preamble
Good morning! I’m chugging into York, the warmth shimmering, the grass splinter-dry. We’re in for one more Kookaburra spherical, which, at the side of the hovering temperatures, makes it an unlucky time to be a seam bowler. A number of consoling captain’s arms will relaxation on weary shoulders (GET OFF ME).
It’s cricket week down in Canterbury, whereas Lancashire and Yorkshire have decamped to Chesterfield and York.
Play begins across the grounds at 11am, do be part of us with a moist flannel and a pint of one thing chilly.
