County Championship 2022 | Division Two Round-up

The Division Two of the ongoing 2022 County Championship continued with three matches on Thursday, July 21. Here is a look at how each of the three games panned out before stumps.

Derbyshire vs Nottinghamshire

Derbyshire capitulated their solid Day 2 defiance by losing eight wickets for just another 154 runs on Day 3. Brooke Guest with 109 and Wayne Madsen’s 74 accounted for more than half of their total as none of the other batters reached the 30-run mark.

Getting asked to follow on, the Derbyshire openers faced 38 overs late in the day without giving away any wicket. Reaching 79, they trail Nottinghamshire by another 221 runs.

Brief scores:

Nottinghamshire: 618-8d (134)
Ben Duckett 241, Haseeb Hameed 196;
Ben Aitchison 3-119, George Scrimshaw 2-73

Derbyshire: 318 (111.5)
Brooke Guest 109, Wayne Madsen 74;
Luke Fletcher 3-44, Steven Mullaney 3-51

Derbyshire: 79-0 (f/o) (38)
Harry Came 38*, Luis Reece 30*

Derbyshire trail by an innings and 221 runs

Middlesex vs Sussex

Hosts Middlesex batted throughout the day to add 382 runs to their overnight score of 103-0. John Simpson scored 109 while all-rounder Toby Roland-Jones missed out on a well-deserved hundred.

Bradley Currie with his six-fer was instrumental in Middlesex’s downfall, as his side earned a 38-run first innings advantage over the hosts.

Brief scores:

Sussex: 523 (162.2)
Cheteshwar Pujara 231, Tom Alsop 135;
Tom Helm 5-109, Toby Roland-Jones 2-75

Middlesex: 485 (124.5)
John Simpson 109, Toby Roland-Jones 85;
Bradley Currie 6-93, Aristides Karvelas 2-72

Middlesex trail by 38 runs

Leicestershire vs Glamorgan

With a century from Wiaan Mulder, hosts Leicestershire piled up 584 in their first innings.

In response, Glamorgan reached 111-2 off the remaining 30 overs of the day. Sam Northeast (50*) will resume his side’s crusade on Day 3 alongside Colin Ingram (46*).

For the Leicestershire bowlers, Roman Walker and Chris Wright picked up a wicket each.

Brief scores:

Leicestershire: 584 (148)
Wiaan Mulder 156, Ben Mike 91;
Andrew Salter 4-158, Michael Hogan 3-88

Glamorgan: 111-2 (30)
Sam Northeast 50*, Colin Ingram 46*;
Roman Walker 1-23, Chris Wright 1-30

Glamorgan trail by 473 runs