County Championship Division One
Durham 223-4 & 256 v Somerset 179
Keaton Jennings has entered the Durham County Cricket Club history books as the third player to score a century in both innings of a County Championship game.
The South African joins Dean Jones who achieved it against Pakistan at Chester-le-Street in 1992 and his current captain Paul Collingwood who did the double against Somerset at Taunton in 2005.
His performance has given the Riversiders a commanding 300 run lead with six wickets remaining against Somerset at the end of day two.
Some superb bowling by Graham Onions saw the Riversiders reduce the vistors to 102 for eight this morning and another marvellous innings from history maker Keaton Jennings gave Jon Lewis' side a commanding 300 lead at the close of play.
Chris Rogers would have been disappointed to have lost three wickets in the 12 overs his side played at the end of yesterday's session but the Cidermen bravely battled through Onions' menacing early morning spell despite the challenging cloudy conditions.
James Hildreth's (27) resistance lasted until the 21st over when Onions' persistance finally found the edge of his bat and he was caught by Ryan Pringle at third slip. But, the England pace-bowler wasn't finished and the very next ball he got Jim Allenby LBW leaving him on a hat-trick and Somerset on 73/5.
Four overs later - after Roloef van der Merwe successfully fended off Onions' hat-trick ball - Somerset again lost two wickets in two balls. Van Der Merwe drove at Onions' in-swinger, which took the inside edge and was well caught by Michael Richardson. After battling hard at the crease captain
Rogers was removed shortly after by a wonderful bit of fielding from Mark Stoneman whose direct hit ended the Australian's gutsy innings.
A maiden wicket for championship debutant Brydon Carse followed when wicketkeeper Ryan Davies tried to fend a short ball to leg and lobbed it back to the exciting 20-year-old bowler.
Peter Trego (45) and tailender Lewis Gregory (27) - who took four wickets yesterday - dug deep to take the total to 143 at lunch.
Chris Rushworth picked off Gregory in the 44th over leaving Somerset all out for 177 and Durham's openers sharply padded up.
79 runs in front, Durham raced to 109/1 at tea with Jennings once again playing with confidence despite Somerset's poor bowling. It took the introduction of left-arm spinner Van Der Merwe to remove Stoneman (41) who was caught at short mid-wicket by Marcus Trescothick after playing some beautifully timed strokes.
After reaching 50 in 130 balls yesterday, Jennings' half-century came in under half the amount of balls and the South African continued to play wonderful cricket, reaching his historic century in style.
The afternoon session was largely played under the brand new Riverside Emirates floodlights. Jennings lit up the ground with his wonderful shot selection that earned him another century and made him only the third Durham player to score a ton in both innings during a Championship match.
The next 20 overs brought only 46 runs for the loss of three wickets before Collingwood emerged in fading light and swiftly atoned for his first ball dismissal in the first innings with two imperious drives off Gregory.
Hampshire 198-8 v Warwickshire (No play Monday rain)
Warwickshire's hopes of building on their first-day domination were stymied by the Southampton weather as no play was possible on a rain-ruined day two.
Umpires Steve O'Shaughnessy and Martin Saggers twice inspected the sodden outfield with the hope of some action.
But, despite a dry afternoon, the pitch could not dry quickly enough and it was called off for the day at 16:00 BST.
Hampshire had earlier been rocked by the news that fast bowler Reece Topley had broken his hand batting.
The England World T20 fast bowler, who is making his debut in this match following his winter move from Essex, was struck on his right hand by Boyd Rankin early on making a career-best 15.
He is to see a specialist to check whether the injury is just a single or double fracture just below the knuckle.
On his 34th birthday, new Bears skipper Ian Bell is still hopeful of forcing a result given that Tuesday's weather forecast promises more dry spells.
Surrey 14-0 & 225 v Nottinghamshire 446
Nottinghamshire dominated day two against Surrey, bowling the visitors out before enforcing the follow-on.
Resuming on 7-0 in reply to Notts' first innings total of 446, Surrey were reduced to 85-4 before lunch.
Only Jason Roy (28), Ben Foakes (38) and Tom Curran (35) offered convincing resistance as Notts picked up maximum bowling points in dismissing Surrey for 225, with Jackson Bird taking 4-56.
Surrey reached stumps on 14 without loss but are 207 runs behind the hosts.
Rory Burns departed in the second over of the day, caught behind off the bowling of Bird, before Arun Harinath became the Australian seamer's second victim six overs later when he was caught by Riki Wessels.
Harry Gurney then picked up the wicket of Steven Davis and the visitors were in trouble when Kumar Sangakkara (32) was dismissed by Brett Hutton.
Once England international Roy and wicketkeeper Foakes had departed Surrey then lost Sam Curran (20) shortly afterwards to slump to 174-7.
Tom Curran rallied in a stand of 47 with Gareth Batty, but the Surrey captain was removed by Samit Patel before Bird returned to finish the Surrey innings, trapping Ravi Rampaul and Curran.
Newly-promoted Surrey, who took the option to bowl first without a toss on day one, will need improved returns from their batsmen to work their way back into the match on day three.
Division Two:
Essex 287-6 v Gloucestershire 262
England Test captain Alastair Cook struck a century for Essex against Gloucestershire at Chelmsford in his first Championship innings of 2016.
The 31-year-old reached his 52nd first-class century, off 182 balls.
Cook shared a second-wicket stand of 222 with Tom Westley, who was caught behind for 121, before being trapped lbw by off-spinner Jack Taylor for 105.
Josh Shaw took his maiden Championship wickets, removing Dan Lawrence and Ryan ten Doeschate as Essex closed on 287-6.
England's first Test match of the summer is against Sri Lanka at Headingley, starting on 19 May.
Cook is England's leading run-scorer in Test cricket and requires just 36 more to become the first England player to reach the milestone of 10,000 Test runs.
He is one of several England players appearing for their county during the opening rounds of Championship fixtures.
Essex stuttered following the dismissal of the two centurions, with Liam Norwell bowling Ravi Borapa cheaply before Shaw had Lawrence caught at mid-off attempting a pull, and trapped Ten Doeschate lbw for just four in consecutive overs.
Rain brought play to an early close, with the home side holding a slender first-innings lead of just 25 runs despite Cook and Westley's batting masterclasses.
Northants 481-7 v Sussex
Northamptonshire opener Ben Duckett extended his career-best score to within 18 runs of a triple century on 282 after another rain-interrupted day against Sussex at Wantage Road.
After resuming on 292-2, with Duckett on 178, the hosts progressed to 481-7 before bad light intervened.
Teenager George Garton has taken three wickets on his Championship debut.
But the Sussex bowlers have otherwise struggled, not helped by dropping Duckett twice.
After 82 overs on the first day, only 53 overs were managed on day two, during which 21-year-old Duckett reached eighth position in the all-time annals of best individual innings for the county, going past Wayne Larkins, Allan Lamb and Dennis Brookes on that list.
But, for all Duckett's dominance, Northants ended four runs short of a fifth batting point, having only reached 396-5 at the 110-over mark.
Worcestershire v Kent - No play Monday (wet outfield)
Worcestershire's opening County Championship match of the season at home to Kent is still to get started at New Road after being rained off for the second day running.
After Sunday's first day abandonment, the ground was further drenched by overnight rain, leaving pools of water around the sodden outfield.
Having ruled out play before lunch, the umpires inspected again at 12:45 BST.
With the water table still so high, play was then called off for the day.
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