LV= Insurance County Championship 2022 Round 10 Day 3: Thursday 21st July - Latest News, Scores and Match Reports

Here is all the latest news, scores and match reports for the LV= Insurance County Championship 2022 Round 10 Day 3: Thursday July 21st.

Surrey vs Essex, Division 1

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Unbeaten Division One leaders Surrey need another 76 runs to beat Essex, with eight second innings wickets in hand, after fast bowler Dan Worrall took career-best match figures of 11 for 122 at the Kia Oval.

Worrall’s 5 for 66 was Surrey’s stand-out bowling performance for the second time in the game as Essex were dismissed for 208 to leave Rory Burns’ team chasing 161 to record a sixth LV= Insurance County Championship victory of the season.

By stumps on day three Surrey had reached 85 for 2, with Burns falling to Simon Harmer’s off spin for a solid 40 when he skied an attempted slog-sweep to mid wicket and Hashim Amla edging seamer Shane Snater to second slip for 16 three overs from the close.

But opener Ryan Patel held firm with a steadfast 22 not out, from 108 balls, after Worrall had followed up his 6 for 56 in Essex’s first innings 271 with another high-class effort in combination with West Indies paceman Kemar Roach, who finished with 3 for 58 for a six-wicket match haul.

Resuming on 19 for 2, still 29 runs in arrears, Essex might have lost Tom Westley leg-before to the very first ball of the day, a perfectly-pitched inswinger from Roach. Opener Nick Browne, meanwhile, had added just six to his overnight 9 when he was dropped low down at first slip by Jamie Overton off a disbelieving Roach.

Tom Lawes, though, introduced for the 19th over of Essex’s second innings, struck with his sixth ball to have Westley caught behind by a tumbling Ben Foakes for a 52-ball 32, only for Ollie Pope at second slip to grass a relatively simple chance when Dan Lawrence, on 0, edged a sharply rising ball from Overton straight to him at chest height.

That miss haunted Surrey for the next 21 overs as Lawrence, despite a nervy start, grew more assured to help Browne add 65 for the fourth wicket either side of lunch and double Essex’s total. Worrall, in particular, troubled both batsmen with his pace and swing but Lawrence also began to take the game to Surrey’s bowlers with a number of fine strokes including a thumping square drive off Lawes, a confident driven boundary through mid off when Worrall overpitched and then another four whipped off his pads against Overton.

It was Lawes, the highly-promising 19-year old swing bowler, who started an Essex slump that, from 130 for 3, saw them lose six wickets for 37 runs in just 10 overs as Surrey suddenly scented a quick kill.

Browne, wafting at a ball wide of his off stump, edged Lawes to Foakes after battling 101 balls for his 48 and Roach and Worrall then combined to send Essex sliding to 167 for 9.

Roach, recalled in place of Lawes, saw Paul Walter (9) drive his loosener straight to Burns at extra cover, a poor shot, and in his next over trapped Matt Critchley leg-before for 8 with an off-cutter.

Adam Rossington, Essex’s first innings century-maker, tried to drive Worrall into the offside before he had settled and edged to Overton at first slip to go for 3 and, in that same over, Worrall struck a major blow by having Lawrence lbw for 47, a two-hour innings spanning 99 balls.

Three overs later Roach had a third wicket when Snater (3) chipped him weakly to mid on and it was only Harmer’s defiance – featuring a couple of classy on driven fours as well as pulled and cover boundaries off Roach – that left Surrey, who began this round of games 15 points clear of second-placed Hampshire, with a trickier victory target than expected.

Eventually, with Harmer unbeaten on 38 from 68 balls, Worrall produced a beauty to hit Jamie Porter’s off stump after the No11 had contributed just 2 from 24 balls to a last wicket partnership of 41.

 

Warwickshire vs Kent, Division 1

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Joe Denly's 30th first-class century gave Kent a strong scent of victory over Warwickshire on the third day of their vital LV=Insurance County Championship match at Edgbaston. 

Kent shrugged off the loss of the first session to rain to advance their second innings to 384 for nine before declaring to leave the Bears a victory target of 325 with nine awkward overs to bat on the third evening. 

Warwickshire reached 28 for two to set up a fascinating final day if the forecast rain stays away. 

Denly's accomplished 141 (269 balls) was his first championship century since 2019 and was well supported by Jordan Cox (79, 159 balls). The pair added 196 in 56 overs, a Kent fifth-wicket record against Warwickshire, surpassing the 182 by Jack Mason and William Rashleigh at Catford in 1899.  

It was a bitter-sweet day for the descendants of Mason and Rashleigh. They will no doubt feel wistful at the loss of their beloved relations' record, but no doubt also some joy that the partnership which displaced it has levered Kent into a potentially winning position in such a crucial match. 

After rain washed out the morning session, the visitors resumed on 198 for four and Denly and Cox advanced in unhurried fashion. Cox passed 50 in 96 balls and Denly reached his century in 183 as Warwickshire's depleted attack plugged away with defensive fields and diminishing assistance from the pitch. 

There was little that home captain Will Rhodes could to except rotate an attack in which, as has been the case for much of the season, Olly Hannon-Dalby towered above the rest - and not just because he is 6ft 8in tall. 

Denly and Cox batted throughout the afternoon and into the evening. They had just consigned Mason and Rashleigh's Catford masterclass to history when Cox chipped Danny Briggs to short extra. 

Denly then edged the persevering Craig Miles to slip before Matt Henry smote three sixes, taking his match tally to 60 from 44 balls, to expedite the declaration. 

Warwickshire's openers went out for nine overs with very little to gain and everything to lose and Kent took just 12 balls to strike. Alex Davies edged a lifter from Navdeep Saini to wicketkeeper Sam Billings and the visitors, their tails well and truly up, delivered another big blow in the last over when Henry trapped Chris Benjamin lbw.  

All results remain possible but Kent, their pace attack galvanised by the arrival of Henry and Saini, will strongly fancy their chances if an ominous weather forecast proves faulty.  

 

Somerset vs Yorkshire, Division 1

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George Bartlett’s first LV= Insurance County Championship half-century of the season cemented a strong Somerset position on the third day of the match with Yorkshire at Taunton. 

Having seen hopes of a big summer hit by an early shoulder injury, the 24-year-old top-scored with 88 not out as his side ran up 225 for six in their second innings to lead by 373. Tom Lammonby made 46. 

Tom Kohler-Cadmore had earlier been dismissed for 100 in a Yorkshire first innings total of 276, replying to Somerset’s 424. Jonathan Tattersall contributed 43, while Kasey Aldridge claimed three for 23 and Jack Brooks three for 73. 

Much depended on Kohler-Cadmore, unbeaten on 68 against the county he will join next season, when Yorkshire began the day on 167 for four in their first innings, 257 runs behind. 

Matthew Waite again offered solid support as the pair extended their fifth-wicket stand to 65. 

It was broken with the total on 194 when Waite, on 21, was caught at short mid-wicket by the shrewdly-placed Bartlett off Aldridge. 

Kohler-Cadmore was becalmed in the nineties, partly by Jack Leach’s miserly spell from the River End, but reached a largely untroubled hundred off 199 balls, guiding a Lewis Gregory delivery to third man for two. 

The 27-year-old, who had struck 4 sixes and 9 fours, received warm applause from Somerset fans, as well as those from Yorkshire, their appetites whetted for next summer. 

It took the introduction of part-time off-spinner Matt Renshaw shortly before lunch to undo Kohler-Cadmore, beaten by a ball that turned and trapped lbw on the back foot. 

At the interval, the scoreboard read 228 for six. With six runs added, the second new ball became available. 

Tattersall’s important 108-ball innings ended when he edged Marchant de Lange to 18-year-old wicketkeeper James Rew, who claimed his maiden first class catch for Somerset. 

Dom Bess drove a catch to cover off Aldridge and when Jordan Thompson was bowled be de Lange, Yorkshire still required one run to avoid the possibility of following on. 

A Shannon Gabriel single averted that danger, although Somerset may well have batted again anyway, and the deficit was 148 when he was last man out, skying a catch off de Lange. 

Openers Renshaw and Lammonby wasted no time building on Somerset’s advantage, taking their second innings score to 57 by tea, Lammonby lofting sixes off Thompson and Waite. 

Their stand had extended to 65 when Renshaw made a hash of an attempted reverse sweep off Jack Shutt and Kohler-Cadmore held a simple chance at slip. 

Undeterred, Lammonby soon cleared the ropes again, dispatching Bess over long-on. Another six followed off Shutt, but the next ball saw the left-hander get a leading edge to cover where Harry Brook pouched the catch. 

Lammonby had made his runs from just 47 balls and Somerset led by 236. Bartlett joined the sixes spree, lifting Shutt over wide long-on. 

First innings centurion Tom Abell made only ten before falling to another Kohler-Cadmore slip catch, attempting to cut a ball from Bess. 

But Lewis Goldsworthy helped Bartlett add 48 in sensible fashion before a lapse in concentration on 18 saw him slog-sweep a catch to square leg off Bess. At 162 for four, Somerset led by 310. 

Bartlett went to fifty off 86 balls, with 2 sixes and 4 fours, a timely reminder of the form that saw him first establish a regular place in Somerset’s red ball side in 2019. 

Rew and Gregory fell cheaply, but two more Bartlett sixes off Matthew Revis left the hosts reached well placed for a final day declaration. 

 

Northamptonshire vs Lancashire, Division 1

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Josh Bohannon’s unbeaten knock of 92 boosted Lancashire’s chances of forcing victory in a see-saw contest against Northamptonshire and maintaining their LV= Insurance County Championship title challenge.

Bohannon shared a partnership of 117 with Steven Croft (47) to steer the Red Rose to 192 for five at stumps after losing both openers to controversial lbw decisions as they chased an awkward target of 278 at Wantage Road.

Keaton Jennings and Luke Wells were both given out despite apparent inside edges onto the pad, but Bohannon’s solid knock tilted the contest back in the visitors’ favour until a cluster of late wickets gave Northamptonshire renewed hope.

Earlier, Ryan Rickelton’s unbeaten 58 had guided Northamptonshire to 174 in their second innings, with Simon Kerrigan (43) helping him to add 95 for the eighth wicket despite Will Williams’ first five-wicket return in Championship cricket.

With overcast conditions offering plenty of swing for Lancashire’s bowlers, Tom Bailey (four for 65) got the fifth ball of the morning to nip back and dismiss Will Young lbw, while Luke Procter edged to first slip.

Emilio Gay weathered the storm, digging in to nudge Northamptonshire’s lead above 150, but his two-hour vigil for just 17 was ended by Luke Wood’s lethal inswinging yorker to trap him leg before.

Returning for a second spell before lunch, Bailey made deeper inroads as he castled Lewis McManus before foxing Tom Taylor with a slower ball that sent middle stump flying and left the batting side reeling at 75 for seven.

However, their fortunes were transformed after the interval as Kerrigan went for his shots and that drew Rickelton – dropped on eight by substitute wicketkeeper George Lavelle off Williams – out of his shell in turn.

While Rickelton pulled out the reverse sweep to combat Washington Sundar, Kerrigan fought a personal duel against Wood’s short-pitched bowling, taking a sharp blow on the hand but recovering to carve him over the slips for one of his six boundaries.

Lavelle put down another chance off Williams, with Kerrigan the man to escape this time, but it proved less costly for Lancashire as the next ball was snicked to first slip, where Rob Jones knocked it up for Wells to grab.

Ben Sanderson lasted just two deliveries, with Wells taking the catch again, and Williams wrapped up a well-deserved five for 41 by knocking back Jack White’s off stump to end the Northamptonshire innings for 174.

Sanderson struck in the third over of Lancashire’s chase, with Jennings hesitating after the umpire’s finger went up and there was visible frustration from Wells (26) when he suffered the same fate against Taylor after tea.

But Bohannon began to find his rhythm, particularly against the spinners, and swept Rob Keogh for three boundaries in an over as Northamptonshire rotated the bowling without reward.

Yet Sanderson kept his side in contention by capturing the wickets of Croft and Dane Vilas late in the day and nightwatchman Matt Parkinson also perished to leave the visitors still 86 short of victory.

Gloucestershire vs Hampshire, Division 1

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Gloucestershire's Miles Hammond staged a brilliant rearguard action to register his first hundred in four years and hold up Hampshire's victory charge on day three of this LV=County Championship match at Cheltenham.

With his side following on and under duress, the Cheltenham-born left hander produced a truly defiant innings of 109 not out to at least take the contest into a fourth day. This is Hammond's first hundred in 38 matches since he achieved that landmark against Middlesex on September 4, 2018, and it has almost certainly saved his team from the ignominy of an innings defeat.

Replying to Hampshire's mammoth 457, struggling Gloucestershire were forced to follow-on after being dismissed for 201 in their first innings, slow left armer Liam Dawson taking 4-44 and James Fuller and Felix Organ weighing in with two wickets apiece. Apart from a career-best knock of 59 from Ollie Price and an unbeaten 58 by skipper Graeme van Buuren, there was precious little to cheer for home supporters among a healthy Festival audience.

Gloucestershire fared little better second time around, Keith Barker claiming 3-34 to raise the prospect of an inside-the-distance win for the Division One title contenders. But Hammond dug in and, together with van Buuren (27 not out), ushered the underdogs through to the close on 191-4.

Still 65 runs behind with six second innings wickets remaining, Gloucestershire face a sizeable task if they are to save the game on a deteriorating pitch that is offering assistance to spin.

Their inability to post substantial first-innings totals on a regular basis has cost the First Division's basement club dear this season. That particular Achilles heel resurfaced with alarming consequences on day three of the Festival match, Gloucestershire being bowled out for a wholly inadequate 201 in 64.2 overs, with six batsmen contributing two runs or fewer.

Their demise was all the more frustrating given that Hammond and Ollie Price, having resumed on 43-2, successfully defied Hampshire's bowlers for an hour and a half in the morning session. No doubt encouraged by taking his maiden first-class wicket earlier in the week, Price followed up by posting a career-best score of 59, helping himself to eight boundaries and sharing in a restorative stand of 76 for the third wicket with Hammond, whose innings was characterised by some handsome off drives.

Still seeking a breakthrough after deploying all four front-line seamers, Hampshire captain James Vince introduced Dawson with devastating effect in the 36th over, the slow left armer striking with his fourth and sixth deliveries from the Chapel End. Tempted onto the front foot, Hammond overbalanced and was comprehensively stumped by Brown, while James Bracey miss-judged the flight and drove the ball straight back at the bowler, who demonstrated safe hands as 93-2 became 93-4 in a trice.

Gloucestershire's fortunes nosedived thereafter, Price nicking off spinner Organ to short leg, where Nick Gubbins took a startling catch at full length, and Ryan Higgins take an utterly unjustified swing at a widish delivery from Fuller and surrendering his off stump in the final over before lunch.

Only van Buuren offered any semblance of resistance, Gloucestershire's captain cutting and driving his way to a hard-earned 58 from 90 balls, his eleventh and final four at least salvaging a solitary batting bonus point for his beleaguered team. Unfortunately for the South African, the rot had set in at the other end, Zafar Gohar, Tom Price, Zak Chappell and Josh Shaw all coming and going with indecent haste, the four tailenders contributing a mere three runs between them as Kyle Abbott, Fuller and Organ combined with the ball to hasten the follow-on.

His bowlers still relatively fresh, Vince did not hesitate to put Gloucestershire in again, a decision that was rewarded when the openers departed in quick succession for a second successive day. Running in hard, Barker did the damage this time, persuading Marcus Harris to edge behind for nine and then bowling Chris Dent for 4 to severely weaken the case for Gloucestershire saving the game.

Ollie Price and Hammond again did their best to obstruct Hampshire progress, staging an obstinate stand of 63 in 21.2 overs either side of the tea interval to at least raise the spectre of a Gloucestershire recovery Clearly, the returning Barker had other ideas, the big man inducing Price to hit straight to Vince at mid-wicket and depart for 20 with the score on 77. 

Bracey arrived in the middle with a further 35 overs still to negotiate, his brief to stay with Hammond, whose continuing resistance took the form of a 78-ball 50, this raised via his tenth four. Yet the task proved beyond the Bristolian, Abbott locating his outside edge and Dawson pouching a catch at first slip.

But there was no stopping Hammond, the 26-year-old going to his third first-class hundred from 160 balls shortly before the close, in the process earning himself a prolonged standing ovation from grateful Gloucestershire members among an enthusiastic Festival audience. Hammond's hundred included 16 fours and a brace of sixes and he found a willing ally in van Buuren, the fifth wicket pair staging an unbroken stand of 80 to afford their team renewed hope.

Middlesex vs Sussex, Division 2

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A TYPICALLY nugget-like century from wicketkeeper John Simpson saved Middlesex from the follow-on on day three of their LV = Insurance County Championship match with Sussex at Lord’s.

The redoubtable gloveman reached three figures for the ninth time in his career in an almost five-hour vigil as the hosts recovered from the perils of 137-4 to reach 485 all out on the stroke of stumps.

Simpson (109) shared stands of 130 with debutant Pieter Malan (64) and 90 with Toby Roland-Jones (85) amid the fightback.

All this should not overshadow a magical debut for Sussex seamer Brad Currie, who produced a bewitching spell of four for 16 in the morning session to rip out Middlesex’s top order. The 23-year-old later returned to claim two more scalps for figures of six for 93.

The hosts resumed 103 without loss and when Sam Robson (62) creamed the first ball of the day through the covers it suggested a continuation of the run-fest.

However, in perfect swing conditions, Currie’s devastating spell threatened to change the entire landscape of the game.

The younger sibling of Scott Currie of Hampshire swung the ball with impunity and found that fraction of nibble which creates uncertainty, so threatening both the inside and outside edge of the bat.

Reward came quickly as his in-swinger beat Mark Stoneman’s inside edge to trap him lbw without adding to his overnight score.

It wasn’t long before Steve Eskinazi, back from England Lions’ duty became his next victim, an outside edge flying through to Oli Carter who clung on at the second attempt.

Adrenaline now coursing through his veins, Currie’s next two wickets came in the space of four balls, Former England opener Robson having his off-stump pegged back by one which beat the outside edge, before Max Holden was castled too via the inside of the bat. The hosts were in disarray at 137-4, leaving Malan and Simpson to re-entrench.

Malan, finally in the UK after his well-publicised visa issues, played confidently from the off, driving well on both sides of the wicket, while Simpson, one ill-advised sweep shot to the spin of Archie Lenham on the stroke of lunch apart looked his normal dependable self

The hosts prospered through the early afternoon, but the minute Poole-born Currie returned Malan was given a life when Carter spilt an edge, the resulting single taking the batter to 50.

And when Simpson followed his partner to the half-century mark from 137 balls Middlesex appeared to be inching towards safety.

However, in the shadows of the tea interval Greek international Aristides Karvelas got a debut wicket with one which lifted and left Malan, though the right-hander looked aggrieved to be given out caught behind and replays suggested he may have cause.

When teenager Danial Ibrahim had Luke Hollman well caught in the gully by Tom Clark from a full-bloodied square cut soon after the resumption, Middlesex were still 82 short of the follow-on.  

By now the floodlights were on, but Simpson and Roland-Jones launched a counter-attack amid the gloom, reviving memories of their century-stand against Glamorgan back in April.

Roland-Jones showed controlled aggression striking the ball hard and straight, while Simpson timed the ball sweetly against a tiring attack.

A hard-run two to mid-off carried Simpson to his century in a shade over four and three-quarter hours and by the time Delray Rawlins bowled him soon afterwards the follow-on had been saved.

Currie though completed his day to remember by ending Roland-Jones’ swashbuckling innings before scattering Umesh Yadav’s stumps, but barring something extraordinary on day four this game seems destined for a draw.

 

Derbyshire vs Nottinghamshire, Division 2

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Derbyshire wicketkeeper Brooke Guest scored his fourth century of the season to hold up Nottinghamshire on the third day of the LV=Insurance County Championship match at Derby.

Guest batted six-and-a-quarter hours for his 109, sharing a third wicket stand of 140 in 52 overs with Wayne Madsen who made 74.

Luke Fletcher took 3 for 44 and Nottinghamshire captain Steven Mullaney 3 for 51 to bowl Derbyshire out for 318, 300 behind the visitors who enforced the follow-on.

That left the Division Two leaders 38 overs to push for victory but Harry Came with 38 and Luis Reece,30, stood firm to steer Derbyshire to 79 without loss.

Nottinghamshire’s bowlers had also been kept at bay for a large chunk of the morning before Mullaney’s relentless accuracy was rewarded.

Madsen had never scored a century against Nottinghamshire and he missed out again when he steered the all-rounder to slip.

Mullaney struck in his next over when he found just enough movement to have Leus du Plooy caught behind before rain interrupted a Derbyshire championship game for the first time this season.

After an early lunch, the visitors chipped away at Derbyshire’s middle and lower order with only Guest offering the prolonged resistance the situation required.

Hilton Cartwright played on trying to force James Pattinson who breached Anuj Dal’s defence with a ball that seamed away late.

When Mattie McKiernan edged another good ball from Mullaney, Guest was in danger of being stranded in the nineties but a straight drive off Dane Paterson earned him the distinction of becoming the first Derbyshire wicketkeeper to score a hundred against Nottinghamshire since Bill Storer at Trent Bridge in 1898.

Guest went for the same score as Storer made 124 years ago, although his chances of matching his illustrious predecessor who removed his pads and took three wickets in that game are slim at best.

With Guest out, Nottinghamshire would have expected to wrap up the innings quickly but the last two wickets took another 10 overs out of the day before Derbyshire were sent back in.

Under cloudy skies with the floodlights on, Derbyshire openers faced a challenging end to the day but Reece and Came showed good judgement and restraint to get to the close and, with rain in the forecast tomorrow, increase the home side’s chances of saving the match.

Away from the game, Derbyshire batter Tom Wood has been cleared to resume his career after serving a six month ban for the prescribed use of a controlled substance.

Wood returned a positive test last September for terbutaline which was in an asthma inhaler he has used since 2004.

His request for a retroactive Therapeutic Use Exemption was rejected although it was accepted he had no intention of breaching anti-doping rules.

Derbyshire chief executive Ryan Duckett said: “This has been an extremely challenging and distressing time for Tom who has handled himself impeccably throughout the process.

“This was a genuine mistake, regarding an inhaler Tom has been prescribed since he was a child.”

Last season, Wood made 109 off 59 balls, the third fastest century in Derbyshire’s history, in the Royal London One-Day Cup against Nottinghamshire.

Leicestershire vs Glamorgan, Division 2

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Glamorgan face an uphill battle to emerge with even a draw after Leicestershire built their highest total on this ground since 2004 on day two of their LV= Insurance County Championship match.

No Foxes side has prospered to the same degree since a Brad Hodge double century helped them pile on 634 against Durham 18 years ago. Wiaan Mulder added only nine to his overnight 147 but Ben Mike’s 91 and a debut half-century from former Glamorgan bowler Roman Walker turned the screw before Callum Parkinson’s side were dismissed for 584, just a week after their record-breaking 756 for four against Sussex in Hove.

A good pitch and a fast outfield meant Glamorgan’s bowlers had little margin for error, their mood not helped by some poor fielding that saw as many as seven catching chances go begging. Off-spinner Andrew Salter’s four wickets cost 158 runs, albeit from 42 overs.

After losing both openers before they had reached double figures in their reply, Glamorgan had recovered to 111 for two when bad light brought an early close, with Sam Northeast on 50, but needed to reach 435 just to avoid the follow-on.

The day had begun with Leicestershire adding only a single to their overnight score before Harry Swindells was caught at second slip from a ball that climbed on him more than he expected, giving Michael Hogan a third wicket.

The Mulder-Swindells partnership had added 138. Leicestershire notched a fifth batting bonus point for only the second time this season as Mike arrived full of intent, the all-rounder hammering three fours in an over to end Hogan’s first spell of the day.

Michael Neser ended Mulder’s fine if not faultless innings moments after he had gone past 150 as the South African, perhaps weary from his exertions of the day before, was bowled between bat and pad. The breakthrough gave Glamorgan an opportunity to stem the damage.  In the event, Mike inflicted more, albeit with a few slices of luck before he was out for 91.

Spared on 43 after Hogan and Eddie Byrom left it to one another to take the catch when he top-edged James Harris, he survived a half-chance back to the bowler against Kiran Carlson’s off spin on 56 and was carelessly spilled by Harris himself at mid-on off Hogan on 70.

Mike regained his momentum after a period of circumspection, yet missed out on a maiden first-class century for the second time this season.  Left stranded on 99 not out when he ran out of partners against Middlesex at Lord’s in April, he moved into the 90s with four boundaries in as many overs here only to take one liberty too many with Salter, falling to a catch at long-on with the prize there for the taking.

The eighth wicket added 115, and though Callum Parkinson was soon back in the pavilion as ninth man out after David Lloyd took a stunning catch at slip off Salter, there was time for Walker - making his first-class debut a year after moving to Grace Road from Glamorgan - to complete a 79-ball maiden fifty and benefit from another error in the field as Billy Root dropped him on 52 at deep midwicket, and for Chris Wright to survive a simple caught-and-bowled chance to Colin Ingram on 14 as the last wicket added another 45.

Lloyd, who survived beyond the first ball of Glamorgan’s reply only because Wright’s overstepping invalidated Louis Kimber’s brilliant catch at third slip, departed 18 balls later when Kimber reprised the moment to give Walker his maiden first-class wicket. Byrom was taken low down at second slip off Wright but Ingram and Northeast played positively, adding 102 before play was called off with 12 overs left of the day’s schedule.

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