The Cricketer wraps up the best of the action on day two of the ninth round of LV= Insurance County Championship matches in 2023
Cardiff (second day of four): Glamorgan 242 & 46-0, Sussex 203 - Glamorgan lead by 85 runs with 10 wickets remaining
Glamorgan's bowlers fought their way back into this game, dismissing Sussex for 203 as the home side finished with a lead of 85 and 10 second-innings wickets standing.
The first innings lead of 39 could be crucial for the Welsh county in a low-scoring contest. Australian leg-spinner Mitch Swepson took the last two wickets in two balls to wrap things up, finishing with 3 for 52, while seamer James Harris returned figures of 3 for 38.
Sussex had started the day in a strong position on 65 for 1 but lost both not-out batsmen before a run had been added, with Fynn Hudson-Prentice then holding the innings together in scoring only the second half century of the match.
When he went for 59, the rest of the Sussex innings folded. Glamorgan openers Zain-ul-Hassan and Andrew Salter went about patiently increasing that lead, as the home side finished the day on 46 without loss.
Matthew Revis made a hundred for Yorkshire (Getty Images)
Leicester (second day of four): Durham 517-6d, Leicestershire 335-4 - Leicestershire trail by 182 runs with six wickets remaining
A century by Colin Ackermann against the county he will be representing next season led a solid Leicestershire response after Ollie Robinson's career-best unbeaten 167 had set up a Durham declaration at 517 for 6 on day two of their LV= Insurance County Championship meeting at the Uptonsteel County Ground.
Ackermann, who will move to the northeast at the end of the season along with Leicestershire teammate Callum Parkinson, is 104 not out as his current side ended the day 335 for 4.
The 32-year-old allrounder shared a fifth-wicket partnership of 117 with Australian international Peter Handscomb, who made 55 after opener Sol Budinger's 51 earlier.
Matt Parkinson, the leg-spinning twin of Callum who is currently with Durham on loan from Lancashire but will play for Kent in 2024, took 2 for 91 on a pitch likely to favour the spinners increasingly over the last two days, and with a lead of 182 the Division Two leaders still hold the upper hand.
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Worcester (second day of four): Worcestershire 237, Derbyshire 374-5 - Derbyshire lead by 137 runs with five wickets remaining
Wayne Madsen and captain Leus du Plooy rewrote the record books as Derbyshire moved into a position of considerable strength on day two of the LV= Insurance County Championship encounter with Worcestershire at New Road.
The duo scored centuries and broke a 31-year-old landmark in establishing a new Derbyshire record of 267 from 70 overs for the highest fourth-wicket against the home side. They went past the previous best partnership of 218 by Peter Bowler and Chris Adams at Derby in 1992.
Madsen has always enjoyed batting against Worcestershire and in 24 innings has struck four centuries and nine other fifty-plus scores.
Their efforts have given bottom placed Derbyshire a realistic chance of completing a first win in 10 Championship matches since they triumphed in the corresponding fixture last season.
They will begin day three with a lead of 137 and five wickets in hand and du Plooy unbeaten on 159.
Colin Ackermann hit a century against his future team (Getty Images)
Headingley (second day of four): Yorkshire 550-9, Gloucestershire 232-5 - Gloucestershire trail by 318 runs with five wickets remaining
Matthew Revis became the third Yorkshire up-and-comer to post a century in their dominant first-innings 550 for 9 declared against Gloucestershire at Headingley as the county went on the hunt for a second successive LV= Insurance County Championship victory.
Revis, aged 21, advanced from 25 not out at the start of day two to an unbeaten 104 off 163 balls, backing up the centuries opener Fin Bean and fellow allrounder George Hill had scored on day one.
Yorkshire declared in the first half of the afternoon before an action-packed Gloucestershire reply of 232 for 5 from 57 overs saw Miles Hammond breeze to an entertaining 84 not out off 95 balls.
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