County Championship round-up: Latest match-by-match scores & reports

County Championship: Reports & scores (May 25-29)

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Division One

Essex v Surrey
Somerset v Hampshire

Division Two

Glamorgan v Durham
Kent v Sussex
Northamptonshire v Worcestershire
Nottinghamshire v Gloucestershire
Derbyshire v Leicestershire

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Monday review

Kumar Sangakkara missed out on a piece of County Championship history as Surrey drew with Essex at Chelmsford in Division One.

The Sri Lankan fell 16 runs short of a record-equalling sixth consecutive Championship century - and his 100th hundred across all forms of the game - when he patted the ball anticlimactically back to Essex's part-time spinner Tom Westley.

Sangakkara now has 853 runs in red-ball cricket this season at an average of just over 106, with his last six innings bringing scores of 136 against Lancashire, 105 against Warwickshire, 114 and 120 against Middlesex and 200 and 84 in this game.

There had been a doubt at one stage whether Sangakkara would even get the chance to the challenge the record. He was stranded on 79 not out when the umpires took the players off for bad light and they did not return for 75 minutes.

When the captains shook hands at 4.51pm, Surrey were 246 runs ahead in their second innings with one wicket still to fall.

The draw maintained Essex's one-point advantage over Surrey at the top of the table. The two teams meet again at Guildford at the end of next week in what could be one of the season's pivotal matches.

Glamorgan beat Durham with three balls remaining in a thrilling finish at Swansea for their first Championship win of the season.

They were indebted to opener Nick Selman, who batted throughout the innings for 116 with 12 fours and three sixes - the last two coming from the first two balls of the final over of the Division Two clash as he scored the 14 runs still needed.

Durham added a further 118 to their overnight 158 for three in the morning session, although Paul Collingwood would have probably batted on after lunch had 16 overs not been lost to rain. The Durham captain was undefeated on 92 when he declared, and another eight runs would have seen him become the only Durham player to have twice scored two centuries in the same game.

Kent completed a double over neighbours Sussex by wrapping up a 147-run win over their Division Two rivals with a session to spare in Tunbridge Wells.

Sam Northeast's unbeaten side, who have not lost to Sussex in their last seven meetings, required 43.4 overs to mop up the last four Sussex wickets and secure their fourth win of the campaign to remain on the coat-tails of divisional leaders Nottinghamshire. 

Sunday review

Spinners Mason Crane and Liam Dawson shared nine wickets as Hampshire romped to a three-day victory over Somerset at Taunton.

Twenty-year-old leg-spinner Crane claimed the second best figures of his first-class career with five for 40 and Dawson, later called up to England's one-day squad, took four for 66.

Combined with a run-out by Reece Topley, that was enough to topple the hosts for 168 and secure victory by 90 runs.

South Africa opener Dean Elgar top-scored with 60 but there was precious little support as seven batsmen made 10 or fewer.

The result saw Hampshire go top of the Specsavers County Championship Division One table with 60 points having wrapped up victory ahead of time.

At Chelmsford, highly-rated Essex teenager Dan Lawrence notched his second century of the season in an evenly-matched clash with Surrey.

Lawrence, resuming on 78, moved to 107 before falling lbw to Stuart Meaker as Essex posted 383 and a 14-run lead.

Meaker and Brown Caps debutant Amar Virdi, an England Under-19 international, each took three wickets before Surrey reached 55 for one in their second innings.

Division Two leaders Nottinghamshire cemented their best start to a championship campaign in a decade with victory by an innings and 50 runs over Gloucestershire inside three days.

Following-on at Trent Bridge, the visitors were dismissed for 231 in their second innings as Steven Mullaney's career-best figures of five for 32 hogged the attention.

Cameron Bancroft mustered nominal resistance with 53, his best in the championship to date.

The win, Nottinghamshire's fourth in five matches - together with last week's draw with Glamorgan - equals the start they made to the 2007 campaign, their last in the second tier.

Worcestershire look set to push them all the way after making it four wins from four with a turbo-powered chase at Northamptonshire.

Chasing 148 always seemed well within their grasp after dismissing the hosts for 343 but most expected it to occupy them into a fourth day.

Instead they raced for the line, Daryl Mitchell backing up his earlier century with a run-a-ball 78 not out as they sped to a finish in 27.4 overs. Rory Kleinveldt took two wickets along the way but it was scant consolation.

Kent will head into day four confident of seeing off Sussex after a strong showing at Tunbridge Wells.

Kent's top-four scored evenly and swiftly before declaring on 298 for two, Daniel Bell-Drummond making 90 and Joe Denly in fine touch with a 49-ball 71 not out.

That left Sussex in pursuit of a notional 504 and by stumps they were 182 for six, Denly joining Matt Coles in chipping in with two scalps.

Things were tight in Swansea where Durham were 147 ahead of Glamorgan on 158 for three.

The Welsh side had an 11-run advantage by making 353 but Graham Clark (63no) and visiting captain Paul Collingwood (40no) mounted a considerable partnership that will need breaking on the final morning.

Derbyshire and Leicestershire took 11 points apiece as their match dawdled to a draw in Derby.

Leicestershire declared after reaching 217 for three in 57 overs, an innings which ended any prospect of a positive result and served only to provide half-centuries for Paul Horton and Harry Dearden.

Derbyshire saw out 10 overs before the handshakes, reaching 42 for nought.

Saturday review

Teenager Dan Lawrence produced an encouraging response to Kumar Sangakkara's double hundred as Essex fought back in their top-of-the-table Specsavers County Championship clash with Surrey.

The visitors posted 369 after their Sri Lankan left-hander reached 200, but a confident start by Nick Browne (52) and Alastair Cook (36) was built on by the 19-year-old Lawrence, who scored an unbeaten 78 in an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 89 with Ravi Bopara.

Essex reached stumps at 215 for three, just five short of the follow-on mark, and 154 runs behind with seven wickets in hand.

An eventful day at Taunton saw 15 wickets fall on day two as 19-year-old off-spinner Dom Bess claimed a career-best seven for 117 as his side Somerset side were set a victory target of 259.

In the morning the hosts lost their last five wickets for 40 runs to eke out a 35-run lead over Hampshire after posting 197.

Bess then came to the fore as the visitors were bowled out for 293 and Somerset's requirement was reduced to 220 by Marcus Trescothick and Dean Elgar at the close.

In Division Two, unbeaten leaders Nottinghamshire seized the initiative after declaring on 430 for nine and then forcing Gloucestershire to follow on, having been skittled for 149.

Notts added 63 to their overnight score before reducing the visitors to 59 for five, with Phil Mustard providing the only resistance with a half-century.

Asked to bat again Gloucestershire closed on 37 for one, still 244 behind.

Barry Godleman (141) and Shiv Thakor (132) both scored centuries while Gary Wilson fell just three short as Derbyshire's game at home to Leicestershire headed towards a high-scoring draw.

Chasing the visitors' 619, the hosts reached 532 for eight on day three as bat dominated ball at the County Ground.

Chris Cooke (63no) and Aneurin Donald (51) both scored half-centuries in Glamorgan's delayed response to Durham's 342 all out, the visitors reaching 225 for six at stumps.

Kent have already racked up a 321-run lead on day two after bowling out visitors Sussex for 164 thanks to a five-wicket haul from Darren Stevens, who now has 29 championship wickets at 12.08 apiece.

Resuming on 316 for eight, the hosts added a further 53 before making immediate inroads with their bowling, reducing their opponents to 69 for four. But just when it appeared they had steadied the ship, Sussex lost their last six wickets for 64 runs.

Daniel Bell-Drummond (68no) and Sean Dickson (42no) then put on 116 without loss to take a stranglehold on the game.

Daryl Mitchell's 161 on the second day at Wantage Road put Worcestershire on course for a fourth consecutive victory.

He helped his side take a first-innings lead of 196 and Northamptonshire were then reduced to 53 for two by the close of day two, trailing by 143.

Friday review

Kumar Sangakkara's fifth successive first-class ton led Surrey's recovery against Division One leaders Essex.

The Sri Lankan finished day one unbeaten on 177 as Surrey closed on 334 for seven, having been reduced to 31 for five before lunch.

Sam Curran chipped in with 90 in a 191-run sixth-wicket partnership with Sangakkara as Essex toiled in the field on a baking afternoon in Chelmsford.

Elsewhere in Division One Jack Leach took six wickets to put Somerset in charge against Hampshire at Taunton.

Leach registered six for 78 and fellow spinner Dom Bess took three for 45 to skittle Hants for 162.

George Bailey and Kyle Abbott offered some resistance but both fell infuriatingly one run short of half-centuries.

Dean Elgar then hit 60 as Somerset ended day one on 157 for five, trailing by just five runs with five wickets remaining.

In Division Two centuries from Cheteshwar Pujara and Michael Lumb helped put leaders Nottinghamshire in control against Gloucestershire at Trent Bridge.

India Test batsman Pujara scored 112 and Lumb added 117 as Notts piled up 357 for five after being asked to bat.

Joe Denly's first hundred of the season helped Kent recover from a poor first session to reach 316 for eight against Sussex.

Denly hit 119 in a five-hour stay at the crease as Kent rallied after losing three wickets in the morning session.

Daryl Mitchell's unbeaten half-century made it Worcestershire's opening day at Wantage Road.

After Northamptonshire were bowled out for 238, Mitchell's 52 not out steered the visitors to 108 for two by the close.

Paul Collingwood hit 127 on his 41st birthday but Durham lost their final four wickets for no runs at Glamorgan.

Michael Hogan took five for 49 as Durham missed out on a fourth batting bonus point for reaching 350.

Skipper Billy Godleman led Derbyshire's reply after Leicestershire passed 600 on the second day at Derby.

Godleman marked his 50th first-class appearance for the county with an unbeaten 60 as Derbyshire closed on 154 for one, still 465 runs behind, in reply to Leicestershire's 619 all out.

Leicestershire captain Mark Cosgrove top-scored with 188, adding 239 inside 38 overs with Ned Eckersley, who made a career-best 158.

Thursday review

Mark Cosgrove made Derbyshire pay for dropping him by scoring yet another hundred at Derby as Leicestershire reached 415 for three on the opening day of the Specsavers County Championship Division Two match.

Missed on eight, the Foxes skipper dominated the bowling to finish unbeaten on 137, sharing a third wicket partnership of 175 with Colin Ackermann - who made 118, his first century for the county.

Cosgrove's previous three innings at Derby, where he made his career-best 233 for Glamorgan in 2006, were 156, 95 not out and 110 and he passed 13,000 first-class runs as Leicestershire took control of the contest. Ned Eckersley also managed an undefeated 77.