New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/04/20/round-three-of-the-2026-county-championship/
A look back at the third round of the 2026 county championship, and a #photo gallery.
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Bad light intervenes in the sole remaining match, the one at Northampton, and that is going to be that for round three of the 2026 County Championship.
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Warwickshire win by 41 runs as Zaman Akhtar holes out to Sam Hain off Beau Webster for 35. That leaves only one match still in progress.
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Tom Abell hits a four to take Somerset to a two wicket win and him to 101 not out. This has been a superb match, and full credit to the Hampshire ground staff for producing a pitch that has produced a result late on the fourth afternoon of a fixture scheduled to last four days.
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Sonny Baker bowls Lewis Gregory to make it 262-7, 25 still needed and now only three wickets. So long as Abell is still there I make Somerset favourites, but if he gets out anytime soon they will be in real trouble - the are three batters to support Abell, but one wouldn't bet on any of them playing the lead role successfully in this situation.
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Ogborne edges through to the keeper off Baker, giving the ex-Somerset quick his fifth scalp of the innings. Leach joins Abell with 15 needed and two wickets standing. Leach of course has history in tight finishes, notably his role in the Headingley Heist of 2019.
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Lunch on day four, and Somerset are 223-6, needing 64 to more to win with four wickets left. Tom Abell is on 65, and it is on him that Somerset's main hope rests, Lewis Gregory at the other end is 11 not out and there are three tail enders to come, of whom Ogborne scored 38 in the first dig, Leach can hang around and Ball is a genuine no11.
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