Ollie Pope has proven some spectacular early season type with the bat on a day when the English county championship program was disrupted by unhealthy climate.
England batter Pope made an completed unbeaten 48 as Surrey and Hampshire had been held up on a truncated second day of their conflict on the Oval on Friday.
Surrey moved to 4-153 in reply to Hampshire’s first-innings 254, with Dom Sibley, Rory Burns, Ryan Patel and Jordan Clark dismissed within the 43.three overs bowled throughout 4 separate periods.
Play was finally referred to as off at 6.10pm – simply over half an hour after the gamers had left the sphere for what proved to be the ultimate time.
At Chelmsford, Matt Critchley racked up his third fifty for Essex in three championship innings this season in one other rain-affected match towards Lancashire.
The allrounder loved the higher a part of an intriguing joust with England paceman James Anderson, who in any other case had Critchley’s teammates leaping and weaving whereas taking two extra wickets to return figures of 4-70.
Critchley was final man out for 78 from 154 balls, enabling Essex to put up 219 and eke out a 12-run benefit that at one time within the day appeared past them.
When a mix of unhealthy mild and drizzle curtailed play with 27 overs remaining, Lancashire’s unbeaten second-wicket pair of Keaton Jennings (45) and Josh Bohannon (28) swung the pendulum again in direction of the guests who held a 70-run lead.
No play was potential within the different first division video games between Northamptonshire and Middlesex, Nottinghamshire and Somerset, and Warwickshire and Kent.
Within the second division, two wickets from Matthew Potts allowed Durham to make inroads into the Worcestershire batting line-up earlier than rain ended play prematurely.
Durham declared on 9-425 of their first innings after Ben Raine scored a formidable 71 to construct on David Bedingham’s century and Alex Lees’ 70 from day one, securing 4 batting bonus factors.
Ed Pollock acquired the Worcestershire reply off to a blistering begin, scoring 41 from simply 26 balls earlier than he was bowled by Potts.
The England seamer produced a well timed peach to take away Azhar Ali simply earlier than the shut.
Gloucestershire’s conflict with Yorkshire at Bristol was worn out for a second successive day, whereas there was additionally a second-day washout for Leicestershire and Derbyshire.
