The Cricketer wraps up the best of the action during day three of round 13 of the Vitality County Championship in 2024
Chester-le-Street (day three of four): Lancashire 228 & 155-4, Durham 537-9 - Lancashire trail by 190 runs with six wickets remaining
Durham maintained their complete domination of their Vitality County Championship match against Lancashire on a day when David Bedingham became the highest individual scorer in the county's first-class history.
Bedingham's 279 surpassed Martin Love's 273 against Hampshire in 2003 and his innings was the bedrock of his team's 573 for 9 declared. Facing a deficit of 345, Lancashire ended the day poorly placed on 155 for 4 with Matthew Potts having taken three of the wickets. Keaton Jennings' side therefore need another 190 runs to avoid their fourth innings defeat of the season.
And it was a day when other records tumbled at the Riverside. Bedingham and Colin Ackermann's 424-run fifth-wicket partnership set a new record for any wicket in Durham's first-class history, easily eclipsing the 334 put on by Stewart Hutton and Michael Roseberry against Oxford University in The Parks in 1996.
It is also the eighth-highest fifth-wicket stand in the history of first-class cricket and the second highest first-class partnership for any wicket against Lancashire.
Chelmsford (day three of four): Essex 457, Nottinghamshire 93 & 180-2 - Nottinghamshire trail by 184 runs with eight wickets remaining
Jamie Porter and Simon Harmer shared nine first-innings wickets as Essex skittled Nottinghamshire for 93 on a morning of utter carnage at Chelmsford.
Seam bowler Porter took his third five-wicket haul of the season, and second in consecutive Vitality County Championship matches, to finish with 5 for 35, the season's best figures that included three wickets in five balls.
Simon Harmer also claimed his best bowling figures of the summer with 4 for 16 from 12.5 overs and then took the first two wickets of Nottinghamshire's second innings. Allied with a season's best 51 in Essex's 457, it was a welcome return to form for the off-spinning all-rounder who has been dogged by persistent injury.
Nottinghamshire's inability to cope with Porter's pace and Harmer's guile on a wicket that had become less benign overnight, left them 364 runs adrift on first innings. When they followed on, captain Haseeb Hameed led the fightback with a patiently crafted unbeaten 100 from 151 balls and put on an unbroken 131 with Joe Clarke (62 not out) for the third wicket. At the close, Nottinghamshire were 180 for 2, still 184 runs from making Essex bat again.
Canterbury (day three of four): Hampshire 403, Kent 207 & 70-0 - Kent trail by 126 runs with 10 wickets remaining
Kent were battling hard to save their Division One status after being forced to follow on by Hampshire, on a rain-affected third day in the Vitality County Championship at Canterbury.
The hosts could be relegated by the end of this round of fixtures, but they were 70 without loss in their second innings, still 126 behind, with Tawanda Muyeye unbeaten on 46 and Ben Compton 24 not out.
Earlier Kyle Abbott took 5 for 46 as Kent were dismissed for 207 in their first innings, Compton their highest scorer with 51.
Torrential rain fell during an already truncated evening session and play was eventually abandoned for the day at 5.26pm.
Jamie Porter took his third five-wicket haul of the season (Getty Images)
Taunton (day three of four): Somerset 317 & 190-9, Surrey 321 - Somerset lead by 190 runs with one wicket remaining
Tom Curran launched an extraordinary assault on the Somerset bowlers as Surrey turned up the heat on the third day of the crucial Vitality County Championship match at Taunton.
Making his first appearance in the competition for two years, the all-rounder smashed eight sixes and six fours in a game-changing innings of 86 from 75 balls, which rescued the Division One leaders from a perilous 228 for 8 in their first innings and allowed them to post 321 all out.
Eighteen-year-old off-spinner Archie Vaughan finished with 6 for 102, while Jack Leach claimed 4 for 105. But Surrey had gained a slender advantage of four runs and soon built on it, reducing their opponents to 194 for 9 by stumps on a rain-interrupted afternoon, which saw Shakib Al Hasan take four for 83.
Craig Overton was unbeaten on 40, having added 41 for the last wicket with a stricken Tom Banton (28 not out), batting heroically with a runner after suffering an ankle injury playing football in the warm-up for the day's play.
Worcester (day three of four): Worcestershire 307, Warwickshire 128 & 171-3 - Warwickshire trail Worcestershire by 8 runs with seven wickets remaining
Worcestershire all-rounder Tom Taylor produced a deadly spell with the ball on his way to career best figures as Warwickshire were forced to follow on in the Vitality County Championship derby at Visit Worcestershire New Road.
Taylor picked up five wickets in six overs this morning as Warwickshire were bowled out for 128 in 42.2 overs in their first innings.
The 29-year-old finished with 6 for 28 as he surpassed his best figures of 6 for 47 for Leicestershire against Sussex at Hove in April 2019.
His morning analysis was 5 for 6 from five overs and Warwickshire lost six wickets for 16 in 9.2 overs after resuming on 112 for 4.
Taylor added one more in Warwickshire's second innings when they followed on 179 runs in arrears to take his tally to 23 wickets in five Championship games for Worcestershire.
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