County Championship Division Two roundup: Brooke Guest stars as bowlers dominate at Oakham

The Cricketer wraps up the best of the action on day one of the 11th round of LV= Insurance County Championship matches in 2023

Derby (day one of four): Derbyshire 317-6, Durham

Derbyshire wicketkeeper Brooke Guest scored a career-best unbeaten 145 to frustrate Division Two leaders Durham in the LV= Insurance County Championship game at Derby.

Guest backed-up his hundred against Sussex at Hove last week with another accomplished display to steer Derbyshire to 317 for 6 after Durham had put them in.

Wayne Madsen made 62 and shared a third wicket stand with Guest of 118 in 32 overs before he fell to England fast bowler Matty Potts who took 2 for 57 from 20 overs.

Headingley (day one of four): Sussex 120-6, Yorkshire

New ball duo Matthew Fisher and Ben Coad helped Yorkshire make the absolute most of only 42 overs of play possible on a rainy day one at Headingley as they restricted promotion-chasing Sussex to 120 for 6.

Sussex, third in Division Two with eight draws and a win, are one of only two unbeaten sides in either division of the LV= Insurance County Championship this season – Glamorgan the other.

But they were put under intense early pressure after surprisingly electing to bat first under a cloudy sky and on a green-tinged pitch.

Seamers Fisher and Coad shone with 4 for 53 from 13 overs and 2 for 10 from 12 respectively during a day including a pair of two-hour plus rain delays.

^{Ben Coad took four wickets for Yorkshire (Nathan Stirk/Getty Images)}

Leicester (day one of four): Worcestershire 178, Leicestershire 88-8 - Leicestershire trail by 90 runs with two wickets remaining

On the day their most famous cricketing old boy claimed his 600th Test wicket, Oakham School hosted first-class cricket for the first time in 16 years and saw 18 wickets fall in one day as Leicestershire closed on 88 for 8 in reply to Worcestershire's 178 in a clash of potential promotion rivals in Division Two of the LV= Insurance County Championship.

Pitches at this 439-year old public school had a reputation for being fast and true when Stuart Broad began developing his craft here in the late 1990s.

After the rain of recent days, it was never likely to match that description and a Leicestershire attack in which Wiaan Mulder's 3 for 27 was the stand-out performance exploited seam-friendly conditions to good effect as Worcestershire lost nine wickets between lunch and tea.

Matt Salisbury's 3 for 56 – his best figures so far since moving to the East Midlands from Durham last winter – included the wicket of Pakistan international Azhar Ali, who was Worcestershire's top-scorer with 34.

But Dillon Pennington, with 3 for 24, led a Worcestershire response that was still more devastating to leave Leicestershire 90 runs behind with only two wickets standing, and the possibility that England's Josh Tongue – not required at Old Trafford – may be released to play for the Pears for the remainder of the match.