Sunday's Domestic Cricket

County Championship Day 1

Hampshire 219 v Somerset 66-1

And that's it at the Ageas Bowl where bad light halted play with 13 overs remaining. Somerset are very much in charge after the Overton twins - Jamie (5-42 and Craig (3-52) - shared eight wickets as bottom-of-the-table Hampshire were bowled out in 66.4 overs.


Marcus Trescothick was 33 not out at stumps, with Johann Myburgh on 29, having added 62 so far, and Somerset will hoping to establish a sizeable first-innings lead on day two. 


Kent 354-7 v Derbyshire

Kent skipper Sam Northeast ends the opening day at Canterbury with an unbeaten 173, having faced 238 balls and hit 20 fours. Northeast's innings, in tandem with Adam Ball (66), has turned the match around for his side, who were struggling on 90-4 at one stage during the afternoon. 


Tony Palladino (3-69) and Will Davis (3-81) plugged away for the visitors, but Kent have four batting points and the fifth is in their sights for Monday morning.


Lancashire 298-3 v Middlesex

It's been fairly slow going - a run rate of just 3.10 - but Lancashire will be happy with their day's work at Lord's, with Alviro Petersen 105 not out after an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of exactly 100 with Steven Croft (34*). Teenage opener Haseeb Hameed made 89 earlier in the day, while Middlesex's bowlers tried in vain to extract any life from the pitch. 


Maximum batting points look out of reach for the leaders, but they have the foundations for a big first-innings score if they can capitalise on Petersen's good work so far. 


Nottinghamshire 125-6 v Warwickshire

That's it for the day between Warwickshire and Notts, with only 61 overs have been possible because of the rain that arrived to force an early tea. The Bears will certainly be the happier side, with paceman Boyd Rankin taking 3-28 as Notts lost four wickets for 34 runs after reaching 76-2. Jake Libby top-scored with 59, and much will depend on Dan Christian - who is 16 not out - on day two.


T20 Blast

Leicestershire 149-5 v Northants 152-4 (Northants beat Leics by 6 wickets)

Former Leicestershire all-rounder Josh Cobb made his third half-century in four innings in the T20 Blast to put Northants on top of North Group with a comfortable win over Leicestershire.

Mark Pettini made 56 for the visitors, but their score looked well below-par as Cobb shared a second-wicket partnership of 89 in 10 overs with Adam Rossington (50).

Cobb hit 57 off 46 balls, including a six and five fours, and although he fell to Cameron Delport (2-27), the Steelbacks got home with 13 balls to spare.


It was their fifth win in seven games, and they moved above Warwickshire because their overall run rate is 0.028 better.


Gloucestershire 184-4 v Sussex 173-9 (Gloucestershire beat Sussex by 11 runs)

Gloucestershire moved up to second place in South Group after Hamish Marshall's 90 off 55 balls paved the way to victory over Sussex at Arundel.

Ajmal Shahzad bowled well for the home side to take 3-26, but they were always struggling to reach the required run-rate despite skipper Luke Wright hitting two sixes and eight fours in his 71 off 47 balls.


He departed in the 15th over with the score on 122-4 and although Matt Machan made a rapid 31, the task was beyond the lower order as Matt Taylor took 3-29 for the visitors.