End of day one and Somerset are in charge, 154-3 in reply to Hampshire's 238 all out. James Rew has 77* and Tom Abell is giving him good support on 29 not out.
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A bit of a recovery from Hampshire, but they end up all out for 238 after winning the toss and batting first. The ease with which the last three wickets added 111 runs suggests that Hampshire's early batting was very poor indeed.
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#Hampshire not making the best fist of batting first (a decision they made after winning the toss) in the face of some fine Somerset bowling. They are now 127-7, barely halfway to a batting point.
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Lancashire County Cricket Club Moves Men's Matches Behind Paywall

Lancashire County Cricket Club will move men's home matches to a paid streaming service, LancsTV+, starting May 8th. Women's matches stay free.

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Lancashire's men's cricket matches will now require a subscription to watch, unlike the 38,000 people who watched their last free game.

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Lancashire Cricket Club Puts Men's Games Behind Paywall on LancsTV+

Lancashire County Cricket Club will move men's home matches to a paid streaming service, LancsTV+, starting May 8th. Women's matches stay free.

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Looking forward to my copy of the Wisden Cricketer's Almanack arriving soon. Especially as Lawrence Booth has given the Bazball regime both barrels in his editorial notes for the new edition.

It remains to be seen how much notice is taken of performances in County Cricket. There's a lad called Anderson at Lancashire. Looks good, should be in the national team.

I saw mention that after the previous Ashes hammering, a certain Robert William Trevor Key was using his television profile to push for the removal of incumbent CEO and coach Ashley Giles and Chris Silverwood.

Odd how when the same thing happens to Key he's asking for more time. Double standards?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cy81l2l9z9no

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Wisden editor gives scathing assessment of England Ashes defeat

England were "feckless, reckless and legless" on their dismal Ashes tour of Australia, according to the editor of the prestigious Wisden Almanack.

BBC Sport
Championship Capers

A look at events on the final day of action in round two of the 2026 county championship and a photo gallery.

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2 games in and Surrey haven't yet hit their straps properly. But anyone watching the game against Leicestershire got to see two of the best keepers in the country - Ben Cox and Ben Foakes, who remains the best in the world IMO. We do seem to miss Dan Worrall.

Kyle Abbott aged 38 and Sir James Anderson aged 43 are still outstanding bowlers. If you want a bowler for Headingley then you're going to pick Abbott. Sir James just keeps doing what he keeps doing. Go see these guys if you get the chance.

Good to see Sussex doing well in the face of that points deduction.

Kent will be thanking everything they can - weather gods, faith healer, Ben Compton, his holiness the Pope, the king of Norway - after coming out with a draw after Northamptonshire's mammoth batting effort.

Middlesex losing usually brings a smile to any Surrey supporter's face but with the troubles they are having at the moment might make some not smile too much. Toby Roland-Jones is bowling very nicely though.

TRJ, James Anderson, Kyle Abbott... there's a 2016 feel to that line up 😀

Old guys still rocking then. Just like Deep Purple, Europe and Judas Priest.

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The light closes in and Kent escape with a draw (well batted Ben Compton, but even with your innings Kent did not deserve anything from this match), 253 short of avoiding the innings defeat with five wickets in hand.
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The light has declined to the point that only spinners are allowed to bowl. Thus Nathan McSweeney and Calvin Harrison are operating in tandem as Northamptonshire are not yet willing to give up the victory push.
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