The Cricketer wraps up the best of the action during day one of round 14 of the Vitality County Championship in 2024
Cardiff (day one of four): Yorkshire 361, Glamorgan 12-0 - Glamorgan trail by 349 runs with 10 first-innings wickets remaining
Promotion-chasing Yorkshire worked their way into a strong position after the first day against Glamorgan, George Hill the mainstay with 90 as they finished on 361 all out.
Trailing second placed Middlesex by a single point at the start of the day's play, Yorkshire were chasing batting points and had to settle for three after being put in to bat first.
Hill went on to get the big score, getting out with only a handful of overs left at the end of the day, while no fewer than four other batters got more than 40 without going on to make the most of their starts.
Glamorgan's top bowler was Andy Gorvin with 4 for 67 as he was able to extract some seam movement, Timm van der Gugten getting reward for his efforts with two wickets late in the day to keep the Yorkshire innings within reach. Glamorgan survived two overs before the close, 12 without loss.
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Bristol (day one of four): Gloucestershire 109, Sussex 147-4 - Sussex lead by 38 runs with six first-innings wickets remaining
Jaydev Unadkat claimed four wickets before lunch as Sussex took another step towards clinching the Division Two title with a dominant display on the opening day of the Vitality County Championship match with Gloucestershire at Bristol.
The runaway leaders bowled out the home side for just 109 after losing the toss, left-arm seamer Unadkat finishing with 4 for 32, while Ollie Robinson and Tom Clark claimed three wickets each. Tom Price top scored with 25 in a sorry Gloucestershire batting effort.
Sussex then put nature of the pitch at the Seat Unique Stadium in perspective by posting 147 for 4in reply, Tom Haines making 40, Tom Alsop 37 and James Coles 36 not out. Off-spinner Ollie Price took 2 for 13.
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Toby Roland-Jones played a starring role for Middlesex with the ball (Warren Little/Getty Images)
Northampton (day one of four): Leicestershire 203, Northamptonshire 134-3 - Northamptonshire trail by 69 runs with seven first-innings wickets remaining
Spin duo Yuzvendra Chahal and Rob Keogh combined forces again to share seven wickets and give Northamptonshire the upper hand on the opening day of their Vitality County Championship game against Leicestershire.
The pair, who bowled Northamptonshire to their first victory of the Division Two campaign last week, dismissed the visitors for 203 at Wantage Road, with Chahal taking 4 for 82 and Keogh 3 for 20.
Opener Sol Budinger's 56 was the only score of note for Leicestershire, who opted to bat after winning the toss but struggled to get to grips with the home spinners.
Paceman Scott Currie picked up two wickets as Northamptonshire reached stumps at 134 for 3 in reply, with James Sales undefeated on 34.
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Derby (day one of four): Derbyshire 173, Middlesex 125-1 - Middlesex trail by 48 runs with nine first-innings wickets remaining
Middlesex, trying to close a 15-point gap behind second-placed Yorkshire in the promotion race, utterly dominated an afternoon in Derby where the home side, attempting to overcome their own 19-point deficit to elude a first wooden spoon since 2016, lost six wickets for three runs in 43 balls.
With Toby Roland-Jones returning 5 for 40 in all, Derbyshire ignominiously sank from 130 for 2 to an eventual 173. The decline set in when Harry Came fell for 66 as the Middlesex captain extended his recent superb sequence to 36 wickets at 16.92 in six matches.
Led by Mark Stoneman's rampant, unbeaten 79, Middlesex then romped through the evening, too, reaching 125 for 1 in reply on the first day of a vital Vitality County Championship meeting for them.
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