County Cricket Championship - DOWN DOWN, DEEPER THAN DOWN.

[The Subhuman]

Well I was 12 and probably not into local politics, especially someone elses local politics...As a kid I didn't realise we lived in Surrey until I was about 10.

[wilsdenwhite]

Spent about 5 hours cutting grass and strimming today and what with all the playoff 2nd leg thoughts going through my mind I totally forgot we were back in action today in the CC at Kent. Looks like a bang average performance with the bat all out for 210 with no player scoring more than 29 while Kent closed on 130/4 with Zak Crawley going along nicely on 73 n/o. Need to get into them early to stand any chance in this one I reckon. I felt this game would signal our intent one way or another. After a couple of decent results and a win here I would've thought we could well be in for a good season. We'll see.

[1964white]

Spent about 5 hours cutting grass and strimming today and what with all the playoff 2nd leg thoughts going through my mind I totally forgot we were back in action today in the CC at Kent. Looks like a bang average performance with the bat all out for 210 with no player scoring more than 29 while Kent closed on 130/4 with Zak Crawley going along nicely on 73 n/o. Need to get into them early to stand any chance in this one I reckon. I felt this game would signal our intent one way or another. After a couple of decent results and a win here I would've thought we could well be in for a good season. We'll see.

Lets hope we can bowl out Kent cheaply tomorrow

Meanwhile Bairstow scores 128 & Root 43 for England

[wilsdenwhite]

A very impressive turnaround by Yorkshire given the first innings deficit of 86, thanks largely to a brilliant 159 from Gary Ballance and Ben Coad's 6 for 52 in the 2nd innings. Fair play to Kent for making a good fist of it today but thankfully the second new ball came at just the right time after tea and we collected the 3 more required wickets for the win. That's 3 centuries in 3 games so far now for Ballance. Perhaps an England re-call is on the horizon. Taking into account the back end of last season Yorks are now 7 CC games unbeaten (W4 D3). Next up for Yorkshire is Hampshire at Headingley beginning Bank Holiday Monday.

[1964white]

A very impressive turnaround by Yorkshire given the first innings deficit of 86, thanks largely to a brilliant 159 from Gary Ballance and Ben Coad's 6 for 52 in the 2nd innings. Fair play to Kent for making a good fist of it today but thankfully the second new ball came at just the right time after tea and we collected the 3 more required wickets for the win. That's 3 centuries in 3 games so far now for Ballance. Perhaps an England re-call is on the horizon. Taking into account the back end of last season Yorks are now 7 CC games unbeaten (W4 D3). Next up for Yorkshire is Hampshire at Headingley beginning Bank Holiday Monday.

Last thing Yorkshire need is to lose another class batsman to England

Great recovery from the Yorkies to gain a impressive victory

[1964white]

Easy wins for Hampshire & Essex with the Somerset v Surrey drawing their match

[wilsdenwhite]

Kent managed to do what they couldn't do last week against Yorkshire and have batted out the final day of their game against champions Surrey. Faced with an identical situation as last week having to face the 2nd new ball after tea with a few wickets remaining they managed to hold off the Surrey attack. I don't think Surrey will be too bothered at starting with 3 straight draws but will be looking to bag their first win when they go to Edgbaston to face Warwickshire beginning on Monday. Warwickshire have been really poor so far especially with the bat and will be wanting Ian Bell back as soon as possible. Even then I think they face a real battle to avoid the drop this year. Somerset still lead the way but don't play in the next round of fixtures giving the winners of the Yorkshire v Hampshire game a chance to go top of the table. I see there is some more talk about the kind of wickets been prepared at Taunton.

In case anyone interested didn't know they appear to be streaming CC games live now through each teams website with commentary from the BBC running simultaneously. Only one camera though over the wicket. Still it's nice for the few of us who do have an interest in the CC and better than nothing.

[1964white]

Victories for Somerset in a low scoring match & a easy win for Hampshire with centuries for
Rahane & the prolific Northeast plus Alsop knocking up another unbeaten half-century.

That Hants victory takes them above Yorkshire into 2nd place in the table

[1964white]

Interesting match developing at Headingley going into day four

[The Subhuman]

Yorks should win comfortably unless we can hold out for a draw...this is not a strong 4 day team

[1964white]

Yorks should win comfortably unless we can hold out for a draw...this is not a strong 4 day team

Maybe not Faaip but with Northeast, Rahane & Alsop in the Hants side they are capable of winning matches at any level I would think

Personally I think the match will end up in a draw due to so much time lost to the weather conditions

[1964white]

Probably the only place in England getting rain, start delayed this morning

Beautiful here in East Yorks

[The Subhuman]

That helps us

[1964white]

Another century from Gary Ballance & decent runs from Kohler-Cadmore, Leaning & Tattersall have given Yorks a stronghold in this match with a lead of 254 so far!

Surely Yorks have to declare shortly ?

[1964white]

Yorks set Hampshire a total of 275 to win

Hants 7 for 1

Soames out for a duck

[1964white]

Ooh Hants 35 for 3

Northeast & Rahane gone

Still think it's a big ask for Yorks to claim 7 wickets in one session

[Haighy]

I think we'd have won but for the rain !!
Fair play to Hants who top the table.

[1964white]

I think we'd have won but for the rain !!
Fair play to Hants who top the table.

Commentators said Yorkshire would have won it had it not been for the rain. Swings & roundabouts as all the counties will lose points to the weather

[1964white]

9 bonus points take Hants to the top of the table

[The Subhuman]

All helps in our perennial relegation battle