Summary

  • Day three of nine Championship matches

  • Ben Stokes hits unbeaten 66 and takes 5-17 as Durham hammer Derbyshire by 338 runs

  • Leaders Notts thump Surrey by 145 runs with 10 wickets in the game for Olly Stone

  • Chris Woakes leads Warwickshire to one-wicket win over Sussex in Edgbaston thriller

  • Somerset being held up by strong Essex resistance

  • Hampshire v Yorkshire and Leics v Glamorgan set up for exciting final days

  • Div Two: Glos v Worcs; Lancs v Northants; Middlesex v Kent

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Adam Lanigan, Joseph Chapman, Matthew Cresswell & Paul Grunill

  1. What a day!

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    Olly Stone is congratulated by three Notts players while pigeons are flying round at The OvalShutterstock

    And there ends a truly thrilling day of Championship cricket.

    Champions Notts showed their credentials in thrashing Surrey at The Oval while Chris Woakes was the hero as Warwickshire beat Sussex by a single wicket at Edgbaston to keep their own title hopes well and truly alive.

    And in Division Two, some all-rounder called Ben Stokes showed his credentials with a second 50 of the game before he demolished Derbyshire with 5-17 with the ball.

    The Durham fella could have some future!

    But as those sides celebrate, we will rest up and return with the six other games set for gripping final days.

    We will be back refreshed and raring to go at 10:45 BST for those.

    Until then Championship lovers, it's thanks and hasta luego!

  2. Close of play scorecards

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    Division One

    • Utilita Bowl: Hampshire 197 & 106-3 v Yorkshire 173 & 301 - Hampshire need 172 to win
    • Leicester: Leicestershire 151 & 257 v Glamorgan 152 & 126-5 -Glamorgan need 131 to win
    • Taunton: Somerset 469 v Essex 158 & 314-3 - Essex lead by 3
    • The Oval: Surrey 162 & 183 v Nottinghamshire 184 & 306 - Notts win by 145 runs
    • Edgbaston: Warwickshire 161 & 206-9 v Sussex 156 & 207 - Warwickshire win by one wicket

    Division Two

    • Derby: Derbyshire 156 & 84 v Durham 283 & 222-4 - Durham win by 338 runs
    • Cheltenham: Gloucestershire 150 & 248-3 v Worcestershire 267 - Gloucestershire lead by 131
    • Old Trafford: Lancashire 137 & 24-2 v Northamptonshire 284 & 298-4 dec - Lancashire need 422 to win
    • Northwood: Middlesex 249 & 186-4 v Kent 350 & 254 - Middlesex need 170 to win

  3. Close of play at Northwood

    Middlesex 186-4 v Kent - target 356

    Leus du Plooy and Ryan Higgins are the not out batters walking off on day three for Middlesex.

    Kent need six more wickets on the final day for victory after Ekansh Singh's three-wicket burst this evening. Middlesex need 170 runs.

    It could be a cracker!

  4. Close of play at Grace Road

    Leicestershire v Glamorgan 126-5 (Target - 257)

    Kiran Carlson of Glamorgan raises his batRex Features

    Glamorgan will return to the crease on the final day of their County Championship meeting with Leicestershire at Grace Road deliciously poised.

    Leicestershire, having set their visitors 257 for victory, were indebted to the knock of young Sheridon Gumbs, who hit a career-best 93 earlier in the day. The hosts were then on top when they had Glammy 37-3.

    An unbeaten 73 from Kiran Carlson, who led by example having stabilised the Glamorgan chase and will return tomorrow morning to the middle, has hauled the away side back into the reckoning.

    One side needs five wickets, the other requires 131 runs.

  5. wicket

    DURHAM BEAT DERBYSHIRE BY 338 RUNS
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    Derbyshire 156 & 84 v Durham 283 & 295-6 dec

    Durham have won the match emphatically by 338 runs.

    A five-wicket haul for Ben Stokes!

    Stokes ends the second innings with 5-17. An extraordinary finish to day three across the grounds in the County Championship.

    He gets the final wicket of Nick Potts, banging the ball in short, as the tailender can only send the ball to captain Alex Lees who takes an easy catch at gully.

    There is a small delay to see if Brett Randell, who had to retire hurt not out on 13 after being banged on the helmet by a short ball by Stokes, can come out to continue with Shoaib Bashir.

    However, it was deemed, with the state of the match, it was not worth the risk and the two sets of players shake hands.

    A big, big win for Division Two promotion-chasers Durham who have won inside three days.

  6. wicket

    NOTTS BEAT SURREY BY 145 RUNS

    Surrey 162 & 183 v Notts 184 & 306

    That is that! Ollie Pope had some fun in what proved to be the final over of this match, hitting Dillon Pennington for successive fours and a huge straight six as he brought up his century, but Pennington had the final say.

    Pope sent one up in the air and Liam Patterson-White took a comfortable catch at mid-wicket, last man out for 111.

    Notts have been on top since Patterson-White's innings-defining knock on Thursday and they largely remained ahead of their opponents from that point onwards.

    Notts, on this evidence, look great value to defend their crown.

  7. Close of play at Cheltenham

    Glos 248-3 v Worcs - lead by 131

    A fantastic rearguard effort from Gloucestershire in their 80 overs of batting gets them to the close only three down.

    All five batters have dug in for the team, with Miles Hammond getting 57, Ollie Price now on 63 and James Bracey joining him in reaching 45 at stumps.

    These two have put on an unbroken 58 and the lead has grown to a useful 131.

    Worcestershire have a lot of work to do on Sunday if they want to manufacture a win from here.

  8. Derbyshire 80-8 v Durham - target 423

    Shoaib Bashir digs in an inside edge to prevent Matthew Potts from wrapping the game up and keeps out the final delivery of the over with a more convincing defensive stroke as well.

    Ben Stokes will continue from the Racecourse End, his eighth over of this current spell.

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Geddes c Parkinson b Dudgeon 37 (Middlesex 171-4 v Kent - target 356)

    Ben Geddes has adopted a positive, attacking mode and it brings him 37 in 25 balls, but he falls on the 26th.

    He goes for the hook off Keith Dudgeon, but he is well caught by a tumbling Matt Parkinson at fine leg.

    Another hammer blow for Middlesex in trying to hunt down this big target.

  10. 100 runs

    100 for Ollie Pope

    Surrey 177-9 v Notts (Target: 329)

    Surrey batter Ollie Pope raises his batShutterstock

    You have to hand it to Ollie Pope. A remarkable knock, in the grand scheme of things.

    On a day when Surrey's order have been ripped through by the Notts quicks, Pope has remained defiant and has scored comfortably more than half of his side's runs all by himself.

    He brings up a century when cutting Dillon Pennington away to the offside boundary. Surrey are staring down the barrel here, but Pope's class has been on display throughout this forlorn-looking chase.

  11. Close of play

    Lancashire 24-2 v Northants - target 446

    Night-watchman Tom Bailey collects nine from 15 balls to do his job and get through to the close.

    A tiniest crumb of comfort from the ashes of a miserable day for Lancashire in which they have lost 10 wickets for 93 runs and seen Northants score close to 300 in their second innings.

    A fine 100 from Ricardo Vasconcelos set up the declaration and with wily Ben Sanderson and leggies Yuzvendra Chahal and Calvin Harrison to come with the ball, it's impossible to imagine anything but an away win on day four.

  12. Derbyshire v Durham 79-8 - target 423

    Ben Stokes races in and looks to find either the outside edge of Shoaib Bashir, or his off-stump, but Bashir leaves the ball alone like a classy top-order batter.

    Bashir survives the over. Matthew Potts will look to wrap things up from the other end, bowling to his namesake Nick Potts, in a second separate innings today.

  13. WARWICKS BEAT SUSSEX BY ONE WICKET
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    Warwickshire 161 & 206-9 v Sussex 156 & 207

    What an incredible finish!

    Chris Woakes decides to go for broke and edges to third man for four to secure Warwickshire's third Championship win of the season and ensure they will go into the final five rounds in the thick of the title race.

    They seemed to be cruising to victory at 149-3, but then lost four wickets for seven runs, including Vansh Jani for 62 - his maiden half-century in first-class cricket.

    Sean Hunt completed a five-for for Sussex who took the ninth Warwickshire wicket with the scores level, but Woakes saw the Bears home to finish on 23 not out.

    They take 19 points - and are next at home to defending champions Notts on Thursday - and Sussex three.

  14. Warks 202-9 v Sussex - target 203

    Olly Hannon-Dalby defends. Another over ticks by.

    Hard to believe for any Hundred or T20 lovers, we're sure, that it can be this hard to score a single run.

  15. Warks 202-9 v Sussex - target 203

    The Warwickshire batters scamper a leg bye and the win is theirs.

    No, it isn't - the umpires call dead ball because Olly Hannon-Dalby didn't play a shot.

    Absolutely astonishing!!!

    There have now been 10 balls with the scores level.

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    WICKET

    Andersson c Parkinson b Stokes 28 (Derbyshire 79-8 v Durham)

    Ben Stokes has his fourth wicket of the innings!

    He bangs the ball in short and Martin Andersson goes after it but can only hook the ball to Callum Parkinson on the square-leg boundary.

    Safe hands from the left-arm spinner who takes it comfortably in the bread basket.

    Shoaib Bashir, Stokes' old mate, walks to the crease for Derbyshire. This could be fun.

  17. Warks 202-9 v Sussex - target 203

    Great bowling by Jaydev Unadkat - a maiden over to Chris Woakes.

    Olly Hannon-Dalby will again be on strike to Sussex's quickest bowler, Henry Crocombe.

    "What a game of cricket - just extraordinary. You've got to give credit to both sides. It's been utterly compelling," says BBC Sussex's Adrian Harms.

  18. Derbyshire 76-7 v Durham (target 423)

    End of Ben Stokes' sixth over, just two runs off it.

    Matthew Potts is back into the attack from the other end.

    A huge appeal for lbw with Potts' second delivery back but it looks like a small inside edge prevents Martin Andersson from being Potts' ninth victim of the match.

  19. Warks 202-9 v Sussex - target 203

    Henry Crocombe steams in and Olly Hannon-Dalby meets the final ball of his over with a rock-solid defensive bat.

    Over to you, Chris Woakes.

  20. wicket

    WICKET

    Harris lbw b Chahal 10 (Lancashire 15-2 - target 446)

    Yuzvendra Chahal is thrown the ball and the leg-spinner needs only three balls to work his magic.

    The batter Northants would choose to remove this evening in Marcus Harris is trapped on the back foot to a ball that turns sharply from outside off-stump.

    The Australian thinks it may be drifting down leg, the umpire has other ideas and Lancashire are deep, deep, deep in trouble.