LV= Insurance County Championship 2022 Round 9 Day 1: Monday July 11th - Latest News, Scores and Match Reports

Here is all the latest news, scores and match reports for the LV= Insurance County Championship 2022 Round 9 Day 1: Monday July 11th
Division One
Essex vs Gloucestershire, The Cloud County Ground
Essex 127 for 1 trail Gloucestershire 136 all out by 9 runs
Simon Harmer, with figures of 5 for 44, was the architect of Gloucestershire’s batting woes as they were bowled out for a meagre 136 having won the toss.
After Harmer had tortured the visitors on a scorching hot day at Chelmsford, Sir Alastair Cook and Tom Westley carried Essex to 127 for 1 at the close with Cook posting a 126-balls half-century completed with the 8th boundary of his innings.
Only Grame van Buuren and Zafar Gohar emerged with any credit from the lamentable Gloucestershire first innings, which concluded 40 minutes after lunch.
Then Cook and Westley demonstrated the value of disciplined graft with a century stand spanning 256 balls with Westley completing a 146-ball fifty shortly before the close.
By lunch the visitors, who are still seeking their first LV=County Championship win of the summer, had lost their top-five runs getters in red-ball cricket this season as they stumbled to 104 for 6 at the break.
Although new ball bowler Sam Cook was away on England Lions duty, Jamie Porter ensured a flying start for the home side striking twice in his first four overs to remove the opening pair of Marcus Harris and Chris Dent for single figure scores before the sight of Essex maestro Simon Harmer striding in to start his bowling spell from his customary River End served to increase Gloucestershire’s concerns.
The match was only 40 minutes old when the South African off-spinner took the ball for the tenth over of the innings. After two overs, his concerns regarding the shape of the ball were acknowledged by the umpires. Harmer himself jogged to the boundary, retrieved the bag of alternative replacements and after handing it to the officials, was handed a replacement cherry.
Finding it immediately to his liking, he took the first of his five wickets when Ryan Higgins slapped him straight to long-on. Without addition Miles Hammond, who had just moved into double figures, offered no stroke to an Aaron Beard delivery that clipped off bail to leave the visitors 37 for 4.
James Bracey and Graeme van Buuren doubled the score but the threat of Harmer’s canny variations of flight and length were always looming large.
Having scored 12, Bracey was pushed onto the back foot and edged to wicket-keeper Adam Rossington and the same Essex combination teamed up to dismiss Ollie Price who was stumped.
Seven balls after lunch, the visitors troubles continued when van Buuren, who had been functionally effective in advancing to 34 from 37 balls set off for a single and was stranded at the non-striker’s end where he found Tom Price a stationary onlooker.
Gohar drove effectively for an unbeaten 29 but Harmer rounded of the innings with two of the last three wickets taking his tally to 340 first-class victims for Essex. It was the 27th time he has returned 5 wickets or more in an innings for the county since joining them in 2017.
Although the visiting attack - missing David Payne and Benny Howell both with England Lions - were given a boost with the early dismissal of Nick Browne, Cook will resume on 61 and Westley 50 in the morning
Hampshire vs Warwickshire, Ageas Bowl
Warwickshire 217 lead Hampshire 42/3 by 175 runs
Dom Sibley answered Ben Stokes’ call to arms with an aggressive LV= Insurance County Championship half-century before Warwickshire collapsed to 217 against Hampshire.
England Test captain Stokes sent a message to county cricketers that the manner in which they play “will be on the selectors' minds" – with Stokes and head coach Brendon McCullum promoting a more aggressive mindset.
Sibley, previously criticised for his slow play when playing for England, responded at the Ageas Bowl with a 56-ball fifty, full of shot-making.
He fell for 56 to start a post-lunch wobble of five wickets falling for 17 runs – headed by Kyle Abbott’s five for 45 – before Australian Nathan McAndrew countered with 63.
In reply, Oliver Hannon-Dalby pilfered two wickets for 22 as Hampshire stumbled to 42 for three at stumps.
Visiting skipper Will Rhodes couldn’t have said “bat” any quicker having won the toss under blue skies and warm sun, and before lunch, everything was as easy as the conditions suggested.
Sibley made things look even simpler with an approach which would have pricked Stokes and McCullum’s attention, having not played a Test since last autumn. The third and fifth balls he faced disappeared to the third boundary with controlled and uncontrolled edges.
While thick outside edges were an early motif of his innings, it was a pair of straight drives that drew surveillance due to their rarity in a typical Sibley innings. Those took him to 27 from only 20 balls.
Surrey-bound Sibley went away over the winter to work on his cricket, pulling out of an England A tour to Australia. He has returned with 537 runs at a smudge under 45, with two centuries – with only Ben Compton and Alastair Cook bettering his record as an opener in Division One.
A glorious cover drive continued his off-side dominance before he reached the fourth score over 50 this summer with a flick off his legs to the boundary.
Alex Davies was leg before to Liam Dawson attempting a scoop and Chris Benjamin was bowled shouldering his arms to the returning Mohammad Abbas, but otherwise, it had been a batting morning.
The afternoon was not. The ball started to nibble slightly more as Abbott and Keith Barker asserted their pressure. Abbott’s post-lunch spell was exemplary as his eight overs produced figures of three for nine.
Barker was equally prolific with his first five-over after the interval two for 11 as he had Sibley caught behind, having narrowly missed the outside edge the ball before. Abbott pinned Dan Mousley in front and Will Rhodes squared up and outside edging to third slip before Barker bowled Matt Lamb while leaving.
Michael Burgess tried to charge Abbott but couldn’t get out the way of a bouncer, which he gloved to first slip.
Having been 77 for one, Warwickshire were now 104 for seven. Enter McAndrew and Danny Briggs – who was afforded a warm welcome on his return to his first county. The pair put on 57 to take the sting out of the afternoon before Hannon-Dalby added a further 56 with McAndrew once Briggs became the third victim not to offer a shot.
McAndrew, in his 18th first-class match, reached his fifth half-century in 79 – although he and Hannon-Dalby were both given lives earlier in their innings.
Abbott ended the resistance as McAndrew hooked to deep fine leg and George Garrett was bowled. Sam Hain-less Warwickshire bowled out for 217.
The Bears’ bowling display in 23 overs was magnificent. Hannon-Dalby saw off Felix Organ lbw and James Vince nicking to first slip.
Garrett didn’t go for a run in his opening three overs – and only conceded four runs in five overs. While McAndrew moved on Nick Gubbins for a turgid two off 30 balls with a catch at second slip.
Kent vs Northamptonshire, Canterbury
Northamptonshire are all out for 303 against Kent, after a fluctuating first day in the LV= Insurance County Championship match at Canterbury.
Emilio Gay hit 112 after the visitors lost Ricardo Vasconcelos to the first ball of the day and Ryan Rickleton was the next highest scorer with 55, but having reached 205 for two, they lost their next eight wickets for 98 runs.
Matt Milnes had Kent’s best bowling figures with three for 47, while Joe Denly took two for 31 and Matt Quinn two for 51.
The 170th Canterbury Festival began with the temperature already over 25 degrees in the shade and in the day’s least surprising development, Northamptonshire chose to bat after winning the toss.
The pitch, however, didn’t look benign early on. Vasconcelos went for a platinum duck when he was caught behind off Quinn and Rickleton and Gay then endured a torrid hour, during which they struggled to score at over two an over. Both survived, however, and as the session ground on, the runs came more freely, leaving the visitors on 95 for one at lunch.
An elegant cover drive off Milnes took Rickleton to 50 just after the restart, but he then edged the same bowler behind.
It was otherwise a session of few chances. Luke Procter was dropped at leg slip when on 12 off Linde and Gay reached his century with a glanced two off George Linde, but he fell in the penultimate over before tea. Kent skipper Sam Billings threw the ball to occasional red-ball spinner Joe Denly and his second ball was pulled to Linde at mid-wicket, leaving Northants on 206 for three at the interval.
Denly struck again soon after the resumption, getting Procter caught and bowled for 33 and Jack Leaning then bowled Rob Keogh for six.
The new ball accounted for Josh Cobb who went for nine. He tried to cut Milnes and was caught by Ben Compton at point.
Milnes then splayed Jimmy Neesham’s off and middle stumps, bowling him for 33, before Quinn bowled Lewis McManus for four.
Ben Sanderson made 23 from 18 balls before he edged Grant Stewart and fell to a juggling catch by Billings and George Linde wrapped up the innings by bowling Simon Kerrigan for seven with the final ball of the day, leaving Jack White unbeaten on six.
A DEBUT first class century from Somerset’s Lewis Goldsworthy put the West Country outfit in a commanding position after day one of their Division One clash with Lancashire at Southport.
Goldsworthy, whose previous high score was 67, dominated the second half of the day as a partnership of 145 for the fifth wicket with County Championship debutant James Rew saw ninth place Somerset turn the tables on high-flying Lancashire.
The Red Rose started the morning well and had reduced the visitors to 16-2 before Tom Lammonby and George Bartlett began the rebuilding mission that was continued by the fifth wicket pair and which allowed Somerset to close on 297-5 in front of a sun-baked crowd on the Sefton coast.
The crowds were still streaming in when Somerset lost their first wicket in the fifth over of the morning with Steven Davies departing after edging Tom Bailey to a tumbling Rob Jones at second slip for three.
Bailey repeated the trick as 9-1 became 16-2 with Jones pouching another to dismiss Matt Renshaw for 13 and leaving Lancashire confident of more to come.
It was not to be and after the frenetic cricket of recent weeks from both England’s Test team and the country’s leading T20 sides it was refreshing to watch two batters go about things in a more traditional manner as Lammonby and Bartlett slowly dragged Somerset back into the game.
As is traditional the left arm spin of Jack Morley was introduced just before lunch and the 21-year-old struck with his second ball as Bartlett appeared to york himself and was bowled for 27 leaving Somerset 89-3 at the interval.
Following lunch the mercury began to rise and so did the run rate as Lammonby was joined by Goldsworthy and the pair began to score more freely off George Balderson and Luke Wood who struggled to find the accuracy Bailey and Will Williams had in the morning session.
The hundred came up but so did the breakthrough soon afterwards as Lammonby was trapped in front by Williams for a well-made 42 which included eight boundaries.
The fourth wicket brought 18-year-old Rew to the crease with the teenager making his first appearance in the County Championship following a first class debut in the recent three day game against the touring Indian side.
Rew’s inexperience did not show as together with the 21-year-old Goldsworthy the pair belied their youth and constructed a brilliant partnership that steered the day firmly in Somerset’s direction by late afternoon.
Rew’s half-century came and went and an even more memorable debut looked on the cards until Williams struck with the new ball and enticed the youngster to chip one straight to Bailey at square leg for an excellent 70.
Determined not to make a similar mistake, Goldsworthy brought up his debut first class century shortly before the close of play and it was one to be proud of coming off 207 balls and with 15 fours.
With Lewis Gregory not out on 23 and Goldsworthy looking hungry to add to his unbeaten score of 103, Somerset will go into day two well in charge and hopeful of only their third win of the season.
mpu-4]Yorkshire vs Surrey, Scarborough
Adam Lyth posted his second LV= Insurance County Championship century on his home ground at Scarborough and Jonny Tattersall recorded his maiden ton in this competition as Yorkshire seized on disappointing Surrey bowling to dominate day one.
Lyth’s unbeaten 152 off 265 balls was the centrepiece of Yorkshire’s 364 for five from 96 overs having elected to bat on a typically fast and bouncy North Marine Road pitch, wicketkeeper Tattersall’s superb 104 not out from 218 providing expert support.
Reducing their opponents to 58 for three before lunch and 125 for five shortly afterwards, Division One leaders Surrey would have expected better.
But they largely bowled too short, allowing sixth-wicket pair Lyth and Tattersall, playing his first Championship game of 2022, the opportunity to share a day defining 239 unbroken from early afternoon onwards.
England’s Jamie Overton lacked rhythm, and Surrey sent down 18 no balls. Three came in one over from Conor McKerr.
Yorkshire reached lunch at 106 for three from 29 overs, Lyth 43, after electing to bat.
Dan Worrall, Surrey’s standout bowler with two for 61 from 22 overs, had George Hill caught at third slip for a duck six balls into proceedings before Tom Lawes trapped James Wharton lbw and Aaron Hardie had Will Fraine caught at third slip, leaving the score at 58 for three in the 18th.
Lyth, aged 34, pulled two morning sixes, and his experience was key to a Yorkshire batting line-up lacking depth in this game.
Harry Brook, Dawid Malan, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow are all away with England.
Yorkshire, who handed a first-team cap to all-rounder Jordan Thompson before play, do have plenty of young talent below first-team level.
First-class debutant Will Luxton is an example. The 19-year-old was part of the England team which made it to the Under 19s World Cup final over the winter.
Batting at five, he contributed an encouraging 31, though was not without fortune.
Dropped on nought in the slips, he was later caught at second slip off a McKerr no ball on 17.
But just when you thought he was about to make the most of those chances, he was caught behind down leg to the first ball of the afternoon session from the off-spin of Will Jacks.
That left Yorkshire at 106 for four in the 30th over.
Lyth reached his fifty off 108 balls inside the opening 40 minutes of session, thought not before Worrall had forced Matthew Waite to edge to second slip (125 for five in the 35th).
But, instead of Surrey pressing on, it was Yorkshire who did so.
Lyth found an ally in Tattersall, the wicketkeeper briefly on loan with Surrey last year and having replaced Harry Duke in the Yorkshire team for this game.
As Tattersall dug in to start with before expanding - largely working through the leg-side - Lyth was typically strong through the covers to go with his earlier pulled sixes.
The latter, who last played league cricket for Scarborough in 2013 - two years before playing Test cricket for England, reached his 29th first-class century off 165 balls with a third six, lofted over long-off against the spin of Jacks.
His first hundred at Scarborough was 117 against Middlesex in 2014, the year Yorkshire won the first of back-to-back Championship titles.
By tea-time, with Tattersall reaching his fifty off 95 balls in the over before the break, they were 260 for five from 64 overs and just about on top.
The evening session proved a much more sedate affair.
The bowling was tighter and Yorkshire were happy to consolidate their position as they bid for a second win in eight games added to five draws.
There was more than enough time, however, for 27-year-old Tattersall to reach his maiden Championship century off 214 balls by clipping an Overton full toss through square-leg.
Lyth reached 150 off the day’s last ball.
Division Two
Durham vs Derbyshire, Riverside
Chris Rushworth marked his 36th birthday with his first five-wicket haul of the LV= Insurance County Championship season, taking figures of seven for 44 as Durham bowled out Derbyshire for 283 on day one of their clash at Seat Unique Riverside.
Rushworth was irrepressible after Durham opted to bowl first in sweltering conditions. He rose to the occasion to hold the visitors in check with a perfect line and length, despite a brilliant century from Leus Du Plooy. After a flurry of wickets, the left-hander rebuilt the Derbyshire innings with a stand of 166 with Anuj Dal, who produced a fine knock of 90, to frustrate the home side.
However, Rushworth returned with the new ball in the evening session to turn the momentum of the day with three wickets before debutant Stanley McAlindon cleaned up the tail to bowl out Derbyshire, leaving Du Plooy stranded on 122 not out.
Durham captain Scott Borthwick made a bold decision to field first in the heat and sunshine at the Riverside. But, Rushworth would reward his skipper and his team-mates with his best first spell of the term. The seamer found life in the pitch to trouble the Derbyshire openers, removing Luis Reece with inswinger lbw for five. Tom Mackintosh on debut behind the stumps then produced a brilliant diving catch to his left to hand Rushworth his second wicket as Billy Godleman departed for only three.
Durham capitalised on the absence of Shan Masood, who left the Derbyshire camp to join up with the Pakistan Test squad, reducing the visitors to 30 for three when Ben Raine found Wayne Madsen's outside edge. Brooke Guest and Du Plooy stabilised matters before lunch with a stand of a 55, stymieing Durham's charge.
A refreshed Rushworth broke the partnership by bowling Guest for 29 and then cleaned up Hilton Cartwright's off-stump for a first-ball duck. Dal survived the hat-trick ball and endured a close shave on seven, narrowly missing his stumps with an inside edge.
Du Plooy and Dal would dig in for the rest of the session as the pitch flattened out in the baking heat at Chester-le-Street. Chances were at a premium for the home side amid solid batting led by Du Plooy, who posted his fourth half-century of the campaign. Dal was more fluent at the other end, passing fifty for the fourth time of the season from only 79 balls with six boundaries to his name.
The two players worked their way past the century partnership, becoming the first Derbyshire players to muster a hundred stand for the sixth wicket against Durham. Du Plooy's hard work was rewarded when he notched his first century of the campaign by cutting Liam Trevaskis to the fence, but Dal could not join his team-mate with three figures following the arrival of new ball.
Rushworth bounded in from the Lumley End and claimed two wickets in two balls for the second time of the day. Dal could only fend an outside edge through to Mackintosh before Alex Thomson suffered the same fate. McAlindon would end the day with two moments to remember on his first-class debut, removing Sam Conners to claim his first scalp and Toby Pettman to end the visitors' innings.
Glamorgan 1st Innings: 318 all out - Notts 1st Innings: 19-0
It was third v first at Sophia Gardens, where Nottinghamshire were the visitors, and it was honours even at the end of day one of the LV= Division 2 County Championship clash.
League leaders Notts did enough to justify the decision of skipper Stephen Mullaney to bat first by bowling out Glamorgan for 318 (84.2 overs) on a hard-baked wicket that offered very little to the bowlers.
They lead the Welsh county by 23 points in the table and both sides picked up three points in the day. Haseeb Hassan and Ben Slater ensured Notts kept all 10 wickets intact by reaching 19-0 before stumps at the end of the day.
When the two teams first met this season at Trent Bridge it was the Welsh county that got the upper hand, winning by seven wickets. New signing Sam Northeast chipped in with a score of 85 in the first innings in April and he was the man who made most headway in the opening sessions at a sun-drenched Sophia Gardens.
There was little movement for their seam attack, but the accuracy of Luke Fletcher, Brett Hutton and Dane Paterson, backed up by Mallaney later on, earned them their just rewards.
Home skipper David Lloyd never looked comfortable and he fell in the third over when Fletcher squared him up and got the LBW verdict to remove him for 6 (12 balls).
That brought Colin Ingram to the crease and the 37-year-old hit a boundary off his first ball. That showed his intentions and he didn’t hang around as he scored 34 (29) in 44 lively minutes that included seven fours.
He and opener Eddie Byrom put on 52 before Ingram was caught at the wicket by stand-in keeper Joe Clarke off Hutton. Hutton’s persistence meant he ended up with 4-76 from his 17 overs.
Byrom got to 24 (55) before he was trapped LBW by Paterson and then left Northeast and Kiran Carlson helped to steer the ship safely through to lunch (103-3).
If honours were even after the first session, it looked as though Northeast and Carlson were going to push Glamorgan into a commanding position as they put on 50 in 18 overs. Northeast reached his half-century in before departing four overs later when he became the third LBW victim, this time to Hutton, for 56 (85).
Carlson was caught superbly at second slip by the debutant Max Montgomery to provide Hutton with his third wicket. He went for 46 (95) just as he looked set for a big score.
A ball change in the 55th over caused new problems for the home batsmen and in the second row with it Paterson got a ball to move away from Billy Root, who edged the ball to Hutton at second slip. He left for 12 and Glamorgan were 193-6.
There was a definite wag in the tail from the home side as Michael Nesser plundered 42 (51), Andrew Slater 35 (44) and James Harris 28 (44) to ensure their side passed the 300 mark to pick up three battling points.
Middlesex vs Worcestershire, Merchant Taylors School
Bowlers held sway as wickets tumbled on day one of the LV = Insurance County Championship Division Two clash between Middlesex and Worcestershire at Merchant Taylors School.
Joe Leach (three for 58) and Dillon Pennington two for 41 routed Middlesex’s top order as they were hustled out for 188, Luke Hollman 62 and Tom Helm 50 not out providing belated resistance.
However the hosts too prospered ball in hand, Tim Murtagh returning two for 22 as Worcestershire plummeted to 49-5 in reply before Ed Barnard’s unbeaten 33 left honours even.
Leach and Pennington wasted little time giving Middlesex cause to question their decision to bat on winning the toss.
Sam Robson, a man with three first-class centuries at Merchant Taylors made only three before Leach uprooted his middle stump with a peach of an in-swinger.
Pennington then stepped forward with a well-directed bouncer which Mark Stoneman injudiciously chose to hook and skied the easiest of catches to Leach at mid-wicket.
His demise sparked a collapse as Jack Davies nicked Pennington through to Gareth Roderick and the recalled Robbie White lost his off-stump to almost no shot at all.
The home side then compounded their woes with a runout which wouldn’t have been out of place in a Keystone Cops silent movie. Max Holden played a ball to fine-leg, turned for a second, but neither he or non-striker John Simpson made eye contact and crashed into each other meaning the former was run out.
Leach trapped Simpson LBW soon afterwards and when Toby Roland-Jones drove loosely at Charlie Morris after lunch the hosts were 93-7.
It could have been worse with Helm dropped first ball, but that scare survived he and young all-rounder Hollman provided the first resistance of the day.
Hollman, still only 21, underlined his growing maturity, driving crisply square of the wicket and taking on the short ball. Eight boundaries helped him to a third half-century of the season in 82 balls, while Helm recovered from his sketchy start to hit Josh Baker over mid-wicket for the only six of the day.
Baker struck back to bowl Hollman for 62, ending a stand of 83, but Helm got to his second first-class 50 in 74 balls before Worcestershire mopped up the tail.
With so few runs to defend Middlesex needed early wickets and skipper Murtagh was the man to oblige, having Ed Pollock caught behind before pinning Jake Libby lbw in his next over.
Inspired by his batting Helm then found the edge of Jack Haynes’ bat to give Robson a simple catch, but the opener shelled another from the bowling of debutant Umesh Yadav to reprieve Brett D’ Oliveira on nought.
Yadav quickly banished that memory castling Taylor Cornwall for his first wicket in Middlesex colours, and D’ Oliveira failed to make the most of his reprieve, gloving a viciously lifting ball from Roland-Jones to Hollman in the gully to leave the visitors reeling.
But Barnard and Roderick raised a 50-stand in the day’s dying embers to leave things delicately poised.
Sussex vs Leicestershire, The 1st Central County Ground
Sussex 407-4 (Alsop 150, Orr 70, Carter 54 not out) v Leicestershire.
When Sussex captain Tom Haines chose to bat on a sweltering day at Hove his bowlers must have felt like giving him a collective hug. The sun was high and the pitch was low as Sussex piled on 407 for four against Leicestershire, the only side in the second division of the LV= Insurance County Championship still looking for their first win of the season.
Tom Alsop led the way with 150 from 243 balls in exactly five hours, with 16 fours. But there was bad news for Sussex too, with the news that Haines will miss the remainder of this match plus the next 5-6 week weeks after sustaining a fracture of a bone in his left hand.
For Leicestershire, it was a day of toil in the field. Chris Wright was their only faster bowler to impress and they had to rely on their spinners, Callum Parkinson and Colin Ackerman, to give them a measure of control. There were too many no balls and too many four balls.
Haines and opening partner Ali Orr set the tone for the day when they put on 61 in the opening ten overs. But in the next over Wright surprised Haines when he brought one back into the left hander. The batsman was in obvious pain as he marched at high speed in the direction of third man before flinging off his gloves.
After a delay of some minutes, in which he received treatment, Haines resumed batting and looked in no obvious pain. But in the next over, at 70 without loss, he retired on 24 and was replaced by Alsop.
The injury might have upset the momentum of the Sussex innings but there was no sign of that as Orr opened the face of his bat to drive Wiaan Mulder to the cover boundary to raise the 100 in only the 17th over. Two balls later Orr went down on one knee and hoisted Mulder over the short midwicket boundary on the pavilion side for his second six to reach his fifty off 58 deliveries. That Mulder over went for 19 runs.
Sussex went to lunch on 138 for no wicket after 26 overs and Leicestershire did not break through until the second over after the interval when Orr, sweeping, was lbw to Parkinson for an 85-ball 70, with nine fours and two sixes.
That brought Cheteshwar Pujara to the crease with a batting average of 120 for Sussex this season, including four centuries. And Pujara looked in such total control that it was a surprise when, on 46, with eight easy fours, he was lbw to off-spinner Ackerman, with the ball on line to knock back his leg stump. Then Tom Clark went across his stumps and was lbw to the same bowler, this time bowling round the wicket and making the ball straighten. At tea Sussex were 285 for three and Alsop, who was missed at slip off Parkinson when he had made 60, reached his second century for his new club shortly after the break, off 160 balls. Leicestershire took the new ball at 339 for three and shortly before the close, with the score on 380 Alsop, who had been well supported by Oli Carter, skied an attempted pull to mid-on.
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