Division 1
Yorkshire 273 v Hampshire 58-5 - Hampshire trail by 215 runs
Gary Ballance scored a century in his first game as captain and Ben Coad took five wickets to help Yorkshire take control on day one against Hampshire.
Ballance struck a vital 120 from 190 balls, including 17 fours, to anchor his side's first-innings score of 273.
Yorkshire had slipped to 152-7, but his 106-run partnership with Steven Patterson (37 not out) steadied things.
Coad (5-18) then produced career-best figures to leave Hampshire reeling on 58-5 at close.
At an uncontested toss, Hampshire captain James Vince elected to bowl first, but may have been worried as Yorkshire's opening pair of Adam Lyth (30) and Alex Lees (20) put on 41 for the first wicket at a rate of five runs per over.
However, Edwards bowled Lees and Gareth Berg (2-50) had Lyth caught behind by Lewis McManus to slow the scoring.
Australia batsman Peter Handscomb made 25 on debut before Edwards got through his defences and exposed the middle order, with Jack Leaning and Tim Bresnan falling in quick succession.
England left-hander Ballance, who played the last of his 21 Test matches against Bangladesh in October, battled on throughout in an innings that spanned nearly four hours.
He found a willing partner in Patterson in a crucial stand before 23-year-old seamer Coad - in just his fourth first-class game - turned the match on its head with a remarkable eight-over burst.
He pinned Jimmy Adams lbw in his first over, had Vince caught at mid-wicket, Michael Carberry taken at slip and Sean Ervine caught at mid-off, before debutant Rilee Rossouw (23) fell lbw to leave the visitors in real trouble at stumps.
Surrey 327-3 v Warwickshire
Opening batsman Mark Stoneman made 165 on his debut for Surrey as the hosts piled on the runs on the first day of the County Championship season.
After being invited to bat by Warwickshire at The Oval, Surrey reached 327-3 at the end of day one.
After sharing a first-wicket stand of 154 with Rory Burns (71), Stoneman went on to complete the first Championship century of the season.
The Bears, back under Ashley Giles' command, got through just three times.
It was some form of revenge for Surrey, who were well beaten by the Bears at Lord's when the two sides last met at the One-Day Cup final in September.
After Surrey went to lunch on 133-0, the visitors finally claimed their first wicket when left-hander Burns was caught behind off persevering left-armer Keith Barker.
Stoneman's former Durham team-mate Scott Borthwick, also making his Surrey debut, was second out after a 76-run second-wicket stand when he drove loosely to slip at the start of a new spell by Oliver Hannon-Dalby.
After adding a further 84 for the third wicket with former Warwickshire batsman Kumar Sangakkara (47 not out), Stoneman was getting close to the career-best 187 he made for Durham against Middlesex at Chester-le-Street in June 2014.
However, he was finally dismissed three overs after Warwickshire had taken the new ball, also caught behind as he tried to drive on the up at Chris Wright, having faced 267 balls.
Essex 39-2 v Lancashire 319 - Essex trail by 280 runs
England opener Haseeb Hameed shook off a hand injury to make a confident 47 as Lancashire edged a see-saw first day of the new season against Essex.
The 20-year-old hit six fours, showing no ill-effects from the break to the same finger that caused him to leave England's winter tour of India early.
Hameed was eventually bowled by seamer Jamie Porter as the visitors reached 319, thanks largely to a counter-attacking 74 from debutant Dale Vilas.
Essex were 35-2 in reply at the close.
After Lancashire opted to bat first, Hameed, playing after being hurt on the same finger practising against the Cambridge students this week, shared a third-wicket stand of 68 with Liam Livingstone.
Steven Croft (48) then gave the visitors' innings impetus, but a flurry of wickets in the afternoon session put Essex in charge as Lancashire were reduced to 160-6.
On his Essex debut, former Lancashire paceman Neil Wagner (3-100) and Aaron Beard (3-47) did the damage, along with the run-out of Shivnarine Chanderpaul on 15 by substitute fielder Callum Taylor.
South African Kolpak signing Vilas struck 10 boundaries as his 101-ball innings to ensure there was no collapse from the visitors, but their total was still looking a little below par when he was the penultimate batsman out with the total on 268.
However, England's James Anderson (13 not out) joined Kyle Jarvis (28) to put on 51 runs in fewer than 10 overs, which frustrated the hosts, taking Lancashire past 300, giving them a third batting point.
Essex faced nine overs before stumps and began their reply solidly enough, but Jarvis and Anderson took a late wicket apiece to give their side a slight edge.
Division 2
Northants 268-6 v Glamorgan 101 - Northants lead by 167 runs
Northants controlled day one against Glamorgan after shooting the visitors out for just 101 at the County Ground.
Rory Kleinveldt smashed 71 not out, reaching 50 off just 23 balls in the evening sun as Northants reached 268 for six, 167 runs ahead.
Adam Rossington's 58 was the hosts' other main contribution of the day.
Earlier Ben Sanderson, Kleinveldt and new recruit Nathan Buck all bowled tightly as wickets tumbled, with only Aneurin Donald (34) passing 20.
Glamorgan's decision to bat first was a brave one under cloudy skies, and their batsmen never showed the necessary application against an accurate Northants seam attack, supported by smart catching.
Klienveldt and Buck both took 3-35 while Sanderson matched their three-wicket haul with figures of 3-20 to ensure Glamorgan were all out in just 31.3 overs.
Later, the visitors' newly-signed South African paceman Marchant de Lange trapped England opener Ben Duckett lbw for 12 as Northants lost three early wickets, but recovered well as batting conditions eased in the final session.
Kleinveldt then launched into the Glamorgan bowlers, striking eight fours and four sixes in a brutal display of power-hitting worthy of a T20 match.
Leicestershire 251 v Notts 52-1 - Notts trail by 199 runs
England's Stuart Broad warmed up for a busy international summer with three wickets for Nottinghamshire against his former county Leicestershire.
The paceman's haul (3-45) included the hosts' top scorer Mark Cosgrove (57), giving long-serving wicketkeeper Chris Read his 1,000th first-class catch.
Ben Raine (55 not out) and Clint McKay (33) sparked a home fightback from 169-8 to 251 all out with a stand of 81.
The visitors then reached 52-1 in reply at the close, losing Greg Smith (11).
Like Broad, Australia international James Pattinson could be pleased with his efforts on the opening day of the Championship season, finishing with 3-55 on his Nottinghamshire debut after skipper Read had decided against a toss and elected to bowl first.
The defiant ninth-wicket stand between Raine and McKay was the only partnership of the hosts' first innings to pass 50 as Leicestershire, who were deducted 16 County Championship points for disciplinary offences on Thursday, struggled with the bat.
Kent 298 v Gloucestershire 9-1 - Gloucestershire trail by 289 runs
Kent's lower order struck valuable runs to frustrate Gloucestershire's bowlers on an even opening day at Canterbury.
James Tredwell (26) and James Harris (33 not out) helped Kent recover from 154-5 to reach 298 all out.
Earlier, batsmen Joe Denly (62) and Darren Stevens (50) hit half-centuries, but both were guilty of poor shots to give away their wickets.
Liam Norwell (3-46) was the pick of Gloucestershire's bowlers, who reached 9-1 at the close.
Harris, making his debut following a loan move from Middlesex, was particularly impressive with the bat, striking five fours in his 54-ball knock.
His 10th-wicket partnership of 36 with Mitch Claydon delayed Gloucestershire's reply with the bat but in the five overs they faced before stumps, Stevens struck for the home side when he bowled Cameron Bancroft with his fifth delivery.
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Day 2
Div One
Warwickshire 91 & 29-0 v Surrey 454
Hampshire 141 & 10-0 v Yorkshire 273 & 187
Lancs 319 & 114-1 v Essex 159
Div Two:
Northants beat Glamorgan by an innings and 22 runs
Kent 298 & 118-4 v Glos 149
Leics 251 & 42-6 v Notts 329
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Day 3
Division 1
Surrey v Warwickshire
Hampshire 141 & 321-6 beat Yorkshire 273 & 187 by four wickets
Essex v Lancashire
Division 2
Kent beat Glos by 343 runs
Notts 329 & 9-0 beat Leics 251 & 81 by 10 wickets
Guardian's round up: Jonathan Trott ambled to the crease, on a pair, at the end of the third day’s second over, with Warwickshire in the mire, trailing by 334 and facing an innings defeat by Surrey. By day’s end he had a 41st first-class century and had shaved the deficit to 41; there remain few better equipped to blunt a quality attack. In doing so he saved Warwickshire’s blushes – no doubt on Monday he will set about saving the match.
Trott came to the crease when William Porterfield was lbw to Sam Curran and soon Jade Dernbach had Alex Mellor caught at first slip; the sense is that Trott and Ian Bell will be fighting fires with Warwickshire two down for not many often this season. If the circumstances left Bell looking a little frantic, Trott was the picture of calm.
He got off the mark courtesy of a misfield at mid-off but then went scoreless for 31 balls. From there he purred, though, reaching his century (having taken tea on 99) from 191 balls. In the day he hit 18 fours, so many of them with deft deflections in the areas and in the fashion he has trademarked: third man – guided, midwicket – flicked, and cover – driven and cut. Barely an appeal was uttered.
Trott had two key allies. First there was Bell, whose 64 (in a stand of 103) was typically elegant but a touch flighty, and ended in such fashion, with Scott Borthwick taking a brilliant diving catch at second slip as the batsman threw the hands at a full ball from Mark Footitt. Then there was Keith Barker, who fell late in the day, lbw to Gareth Batty, for 57. Between that pair Trott lost Sam Hain, plumb lbw to Dernbach, and Tim Ambrose and Rikki Clarke, both victims of a fine spell from Tom Curran; Ambrose’s rap on the pads stayed low while Clarke was caught behind off a lifter. Life was easy for Surrey on the opening two days, so it was refreshing to see them forced to graft.
If Surrey looked the strong favourites at the start of the day, it is new-look Hampshire, the beneficiaries of Durham’s divisional demotion, who claimed the first win of the season in Division One by chasing down 320 with four wickets in hand against Yorkshire at Headingley, no less. Michael Carberry and Jimmy Adams’s opening stand of 91 provided the innings’ backbone before James Vince, Rilee Rossouw and Liam Dawson chipped in. Tim Bresnan picked up three wickets (including Dawson with a brilliant caught and bowled) to peg Hampshire back but a spirited stand of 58 from Lewis McManus and Gareth Berg (who won the game with a handsome six down the ground off Ben Coad) carried Hampshire over the line. Having had a first-innings deficit of 132, it was a remarkable win.
At Chelmsford Lancashire are in the box seat thanks to a maiden first-class century from the 22-year-old keeper-batsman Alex Davies. His knock, as well as a second half-century on debut for Dane Vilas (92), provided the central plank of Lancashire’s second-innings 317 for three declared, which set Essex a target of 478 to win. By the close they were 89 for two, with Nick Browne, slogging a half-tracker from Stephen Parry to deep-midwicket, and Varun Chopra, bowled by Ryan McLaren, the dismissed batsmen.
If the day in Division One was defined by tough, high-quality cricket, the second division simply served up a reminder of the gulf in class and professionalism of its best and worst sides. Nottinghamshire bowled out Leicestershire for 81 and took 10 balls to win by 10 wickets, while Kent dismissed Gloucestershire (who were chasing 396) for 61 (having been 37 for nine) with Darren Stevens, 41 this month, taking six wickets. Nottinghamshire and Kent will be right in the promotion mix but Leicestershire, Gloucestershire and Glamorgan (who trumped them by failing even to take their game to Sunday) can commence their battle to avoid the wooden spoon.
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Day 4
Division 1
Surrey 454 beat Warwickshire 91 & 362 by an innings and one run
Essex drew with Lancashire
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