The Cricketer wraps up the best of the action during day two of round five of the Vitality County Championship in 2024
Old Trafford (day two of four): Kent 261, Lancashire 92 & 119-4 (f/o) - Lancashire trail by 50 runs with six second-innings wickets in hand
Nathan Gilchrist took a career-best 6 for 24 to deepen Lancashire's current batting woes and help Kent take complete control of their Vitality County Championship match on a dramatic afternoon at Emirates Old Trafford.
Replying to the visitors' 261, Keaton Jennings' side were bowled out for 92 in 30 overs, with both Gilchrist and Wes Agar, who bagged 4 for 35, making the most of cloudy conditions.
Presented with the luxury of a 169-run first-innings lead, Kent skipper, Daniel Bell-Drummond, chose to enforce the follow-on and his decision was justified as Lancashire lost three wickets for as many runs late in the day to finish on 119 for 4, still 50 runs in arrears.
Nathan Gilchrist returned career-best figures of 6 for 24 as Lancashire were skittled for 92 in their first innings [Alex Pantling/Getty Images]
Sean Dickson (pictured) and Matt Renshaw shared an important opening partnership in Somerset's second innings [Harry Trump/Getty Images]
Taunton (day two of four): Essex 156 & 138, Somerset 128 & 170-7 - Somerset won by three wickets
Somerset's Matt Renshaw and Sean Dickson tamed a seaming pitch to lay the foundation for a three-wicket County Championship Division One win over Essex inside two days at Taunton.
When the visitors were bowled out for 138 in their second innings, 30 wickets had fallen in the match. There were three each for Somerset seamers Josh Davey and Lewis Gregory as Jordan Cox top scored with 27 on a still green wicket.
A target of 167 to win looked stiff for the home batting line-up given what had gone before. But Renshaw (35) and Dickson (42) put together an opening partnership of 75 and, although the Essex bowlers stuck gamely to their task, Somerset always looked favourites from then on.
Andy Umeed made 34 and Tom Banton's 29 off got them over the line to take 19 points, while Essex had to settle for three.
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