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Results for lunch

sorry everyone a few interface issues this morning. A couple of big wickets just before lunch – Josh Bohannon sent on his way at Trent Bridge for 35, and a disgruntled Sam Hayne from Kemar Roach at The Oval. Results follow.

And the first fifty of the round goes to Ali Orrin fact his first half-century for Hampshire as he made the jump from Sussex in the off-season. Hants 82-1.

A second Tom went missing in Cardiff – Clark, who joined Haines back at the pavilion, caught James Harris. Sussex 87-2.

Parks! Callum, in his first match at the Rose Bowl, bowls Flecha Middleton. Necessary breakthrough for Durham with just 15 minutes to go before lunch, Hants 74-1. Siddle’s first five overs were clean but unfruitful.

“Good morning Tanya”. Nice to hear from you Smylers. “I guess it’s actually round six, given that the teams not playing today have already played five games. But it begs the question…why does the Country Championship do this where every county misses a few rounds each season?

“Are you resting? (But surely this would apply to all teams.) Need pitches for international matches? (But outfields do exist. And so do away fixtures.)

“Surely without these gaps, each county playing each round, the season could start later, avoiding having to play matches early in a cold and wet April? And that would make the tables more meaningful, with everyone having played the same number of games.”

The consensus seems to be that eight games in two months is too intense, so each team is given a week off (and by the way, you’re absolutely right that it’s round six) – so by the end of May, they’ll all be played seven games. In terms of why everyone isn’t playing everyone else in the first division – I think it’s because there’s not enough room in the season after you’ve gone four competitions between a wet April and a dreary September.

Great Six by Josh Bohannon, on Trent Bridge, Lancashire 42-1. And a wicket for George Scrimshaw at The County Ground – and he’s a sniffer too:

And Surrey start opening the throttle: Abbott darts the ball in, hitting Rob Yates in the balls. Warricks suddenly 59-2. Rory Burns in a wide-brimmed hat joins the celebrating crowd. I’ve just finished The Battle for Ben Bloom and was amused/surprised to read that Burns took the whole of August off last year (?) to go on a family holiday because there was no red ball cricket to play.

Go to Surrey stream, where Jordan Clarkes’ jersey flutters in a strong breeze and the pitch is the color of a worried sailor. Al Davies’ pass rush brings another boundary. And here is the door! Davies loses his off stump on the very next ball. Warricks 59-1.

Wicket falls at Canterbury, Agar, the greedy glutton, again, Libby lbw for 19. Wicket too Trent Bridge, where Luke Wells, having moved up to 17, is a wicket for Patterson. The first part of the sponge cake.

Sussex lost one of their Toms, this time T Haines, for 19 – the wicket of Mir Hamza. Meanwhile Warwickshire gallop almost five up at The Oval, 51-0.

Has anyone played for more counties than Peter Siddle? Currently pulling on the number five cap with Durham – after a stint with Somerset, Lancashire, Notts and Essex. Must wait to make his mark, usurped for the new ball by Potts and Raine – Hampshire 13-0.

Tweet of the day?

After almost half an hour had passed, tthere are no loopholes around the field here.

Must be CCLive in the morning – my inbox is pinging Hi Tim Maitland!

“I’m trying again on Lancashire’s batting woes.

“Is there a consensus on what their problem might be?”

“Are they less like Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball and more like Mentos? Once you get past the crunchy exterior that is their top three, you expose a bland and rather unsatisfying environment?”

I think it’s pretty much a Mentos or possibly Gold Bar situation. A crisp and tasty top three, although even Bohannon has only made a half-century this year, followed by a young but fragile biscuit a talent bereft of leadership in the absence of old heads and overseas who, and I desperately pity him, can barely buy mileage at the moment.

Agar smeared with paint on his nose is looking to do Worcestershire, what he did to Lancashire last week. Meanwhile, Lancashire are 6-0 against Notts, boosted by the return of Saqib Mahmood – with Nathan Lyon playing a round this week.

Canterbury looks beautiful live, lime grass and sunshine. Worcestershire and Kent lined up before a game on the boundary edge to remember Josh Baker, the talented and much-loved 20-year-old spinner from Worcestershire, who died just over a week ago. Silence, then a minute’s applause.

a bat? Bowl?

But to restore your faith in humanitywonderful spin by Rob Smith on walking cricket:

And that was Barney, chewing up and spitting out private investment in a hundred franchises:

The news dropped yesterday that the ICC has renewed its deal with oil and gas giant Aramco, a global partner, for another four years until the end of 2027. It is not content to ignore the plight of its own game, which is being played in many of the most climate-vulnerable nations of the world, the desperate appeals of UN for immediate actionand concerns of his own players in the air pollution, they went ahead and accumulated the money.

“The themes at the heart of the partnership are performances with a focus on engaging a younger audience,” the press release reads, noting the depth of young people’s concern about climate and their involvement in climate activism. “How to Toxic Your Brand” might be a better way to put it.

Jonathan Liu wrote this in 2022 when the original deal was signed.

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