New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/05/18/county-championship-latest/
A look at some of the action from the round of matches now approaching a conclusion, especially Yorkshire v Surrey and Somerset v Sussex, and a large photo gallery.
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Worrall has his off stump knocked out of the ground by George Hill for 18, leaving Abbott stranded on 33. Surrey 155 all out, making the final margin an innings and 127 runs. Sean Abbott, mainly a bowler, has top scored in the first Surrey innings and second top scored in the second, by a mere single at that. He has contribute 89 for once out, in what has otherwise been an abject failure with the bat by Surrey.
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Fisher is ninth out, caught by Root off Revis for 10 to make it 120-9, still 162 short of avoiding the innings defeat, and Daniel Worrall is a genuine tailender.
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Jack White bowls Jordan Clark with a superb ball to make it 95-8, still 187 short of avoiding the innings defeat.
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Blake pinned LBW by Jack White and it is 90-7, still 192 needed to avoid the innings defeat (exactly 100 more than the deficit when Graham Dilley joined Ian Botham in the famous 1981 Test Match, when England turned it around).
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That is virtually the end of such hopes as Surrey still had of escaping with a draw. Sibley has been caught at second slip off Jhye Richardson for 34 to make 88-6, still 194 short of avoiding the innings defeat.
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Play underway at Headingley, where Surrey have five wickets left and need to bat out the day to secure a draw. Surrey have only themselves to blame for being in such a mess - their kneejerk decision to bowl first on Friday allowed Yorkshire the opportunity to bat in good conditions and put up a very large total, and they have been on the back foot ever since.
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It really is looking like that knee-jerk decision to bowl first on Friday morning has blown up in Surrey's faces. They are now in dire straits at 101-7 in reply to Yorkshire's 486. Given that we already on day three there is no doubt that Yorkshire will enforce the follow-on if in a position to do so, as they are likely to be. Lunch, and the score is now 103-7, another two having accrued while I typed this.
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Stumps at Headingley. Yorkshire in command on 362-4, Lyth 138 not out, Bairstow 116 not out. Surrey's addiction to bowling first is not working very well for them this season (they won the toss and as they always seem to do put their opponents in).
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Lunch on day one, and Yorkshire are 96-2 after Surrey won the toss and chose to bowl first.
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