English County Cricket.

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Australia's Somerset duo enjoyed a milestone outing at Essex with Matthew Renshaw starring with the bat after Peter Siddle claimed his 700th first-class wicket.

Queensland's Matthew Renshaw has cruised to his second ton of the county season as he continues to stake his claim for a Test recall with an Ashes series in England on the horizon.

Renshaw finished with 146 off 313 balls for Somerset in Chelmsford as they ate away at Essex's mammoth first innings of 9(dec)-505.

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James Pattinson's having a good game, against Sussex.

39 and 31 with the bat and 5/56 with the ball.

Dane Paterson also took a 5fa for Nottinghampshire.

Notts leads Sussex by 398 runs with 3 wickets remaining.

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Notts 301.

Sussex 2/56. Pattinson 1/26.

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Somerset 3/477. Tom Banton 92* (86), James Rew 48*.

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Banton scored a century in Somerset's 6/dec for 605. 120 balls with 6 sixes.

James Rew was 101*.

Essex 1/26. Sids has the wicket.

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The Championship resumes.

Gloucester (sent in by Somerset) 1/231. Ben Charlesworth 56.

Marcus Harris 111*, Ollie Price 46*.

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6/320. Harris 159.

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Essex v. Kent.

5 centuries in this match.

Essex 514. Nick Browne (107) and Alastair Cook (100) put on 220 for the first wicket. Matt Critchley scored 132. Jackson Bird took 3/85.

Kent 581. Ben Compton and Jordan Cox both scored 129.

Essex. 1/68.

Unsurprisingly, a draw.

[Donny]

I see Cook is now a Knight.

"Former England skipper Alastair Cook officially received the knighthood for his services to cricket at an investiture ceremony in Buckingham Palace earlier on Tuesday, according to a release by Essex Cricket. He is the first England cricketer to receive a knighthood since Sir Ian Botham in 2007."

https://www.bing.com/cricketdetails?q=E ... eId=209273&

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Lancashire elected to bat first. Scored 131 & 73 in their second innings.

Essex: 107 & 59.

Some quite incredible bowling returns. For Lancs > Tom Bailey 5/36 & George Balderson 5/13.

For Essex > Simon Harmer 5/41 & Shane Snater 6/10.

Begs the question: Have 4 different bowlers taken a 5fa or better in the one first class match ?

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Glamorgan scored 5d-550, with David Lloyd not out on 313 (40 fours & 4 sixes).

Derby 1/26. Will be interesting to see if they can get near or even pass the Glamorgan total.

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Highly unlikely. 5/92.

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Derby scored 253. Anuj Dal 92, Ajaz Patel 5/68.

Followed on. 3/131. Leus du Plooy 44*.

Need 162 more runs to make Glamorgan bat again.

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Glamorgan won by an innings and 24 runs.

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Lancs 2/248 at tea.

Keaton Jennings 100*, Steven Croft 78*. 156 partnership.