Tanya Aldred

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Tanya Aldred

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureSunday's round-upA 14-wicket day at Trent Bridge as Hampshire were steam‑rollered to a 366-run defeat. Liam Patterson‑White and Jack Haynes dominated the morning session with centuries, and Hampshire were set 483 to win, or four and a bit sessions to bat. It wasn’t to be. Seven wickets fell after tea as Hampshire were whistled out for 116 in their second innings, the top scorer No 11 Sonny Baker, with 27.

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Tanya Aldred

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleGood morning! A dog walk with a lovely friend, too much coffee in the garden, and now some county cricket. Do join us to see if Northants, Kent, Hampshire, Essex and Worcestershire can escape their fates. And good luck to the Warwickshire bowlers, it could be a long day. Play starts at 11am.

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Tanya Aldred

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureA meeting of the National Drought Group is never a good sign…Friday's round-upThere was a to-and-fro scrap at Trent Bridge, the difference being Nottinghamshire’s 20-year-old England Lion Freddie McCann, who hit a wonderful century, already his third in the Championship. Kyle Abbott collected five wickets for the 43rd time in his career – it could have been more but Hampshire dropped five catches.

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Tanya Aldred

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureFor you coffee break, a moving interview with Mohammad Abbas, by Ali. FixturesDIVISION ONEChelmsford: Essex v YorkshireTrent Bridge: Notts v HampshireHove: Sussex v WorcestershireEdgbaston: Warwickshire v SurreyDIVISION TWOCanterbury: Kent v GlamorganCounty Ground: Northamptonshire v LancashirePreambleGood morning! Round six, already. Elderflower stretching out, still no rain or swifts.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Tanya Aldred

When Tom Bailey’s mobile phone fell out of his pocket on Saturday as he was turning for a quick second during Lancashire’s Championship match with Gloucestershire, it brought some cheap laughs, as well as a sharp letter of warning from the ECB’s anti-corruption officer. It was also another chapter in cricket’s pocket history: from sandpaper to sandwiches. What, as Gollum pondered, has it got in its pocketses? For Derbyshire left-arm spinner Fred Swarbrook, the answer was a lucky pebble.