County Championship 2022 | Division Two Round-up, July 26

The Division Two of the ongoing 2022 County Championship continued with three matches on Tuesday, July 26. Here is a look at how each of the three games panned out before stumps.

Worcestershire vs Derbyshire

Derbyshire made a strong comeback on Day 2 of their Division Two game against hosts Worcestershire. To start off the day, they took the final five wickets of Worcestershire’s first-innings for just an additional 44 runs.

Giving away a 55-run half-game advantage to the hosts, the Derbyshire batters came out strongly and charted 286-6 off the remaining 83 overs of the day. Anuj Dal, who top-scored for his side with 55 on Day 1, reached an unbeaten 85 by stumps.

Brief scores:

Derbyshire: 130 (51.1)

Anuj Dal 55, Leus de Plooy 38

Dillon Pennington 4-36, Ed Barnard 3-18

Worcestershire: 185 (45.1)

Kashif Ali 52, Jack Haynes 48

Ben Aitchison 4-40, Samuel Conners 3-63

Derbyshire: 286-6 (83)

Anuj Dal 85*, Wayne Madsen 69

Dillon Pennington 2-50, Joe Leach 2-63

Derbyshire leads by 231 runs

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Durham vs Middlesex

Durham captain Scott Borthwick called for a declaration to his side’s first innings at 421-7. Opener Michael Jones reached his double hundred while Middlesex skipper Toby Roland-Jones chipped in with four wickets in the innings.

The visiting openers survived the remaining 16 overs of Day 2, reaching 43-0.

Brief scores:

Durham: 421-7d (126.3)

Michael Jones 206, David Bedingham 62

Toby Roland-Jones 4-67, Umesh Yadav 1-66

Middlesex: 43-0 (16)

Sam Robson 19*, Mark Stoneman 18*

Middlesex trail by 378 runs

Nottinghamshire vs Sussex

Ben Slater and captain Sam Mullaney made handy contributions to Nottinghamshire’s first innings total of 240. For Sussex, Ollie Robinson took four and his new-ball partner Bradley Currie pocketed three wickets in the opening innings of the match.

The visiting Sussex batters lost half their side in their first-innings response before stumps. Interim captain Cheteshwar Pujara occupies the crease at 34* and will resume his side’s batting crusade on Day 3.

Brief scores:

Nottinghamshire: 240 (61.4)

Steven Mullaney 70, Ben Slater 55

Ollie Robinson 4-44, Bradley Currie 3-58

Sussex: 94-5 (34)

Cheteshwar Pujara 34*, Alistair Orr 34

James Pattinson 3-27, Dane Paterson 2-28

Sussex trail by 146 runs

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