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Bolivia v Scotland: World Cup 2026 warm-up – live | Friendlies
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50 min: Gannon-Doak gets away, and Adams, on a hat-trick, waits in expectation for the ball to arrive. It results in a corner that Scotland recycle before McGinn shoots and another corner results.
47 min: Two players of standing replacing two players of standing; there’s real quality in the Scotland ranks, if not across the board but at full-back, and in midfield, Clarke is spoiled for choice.
46 min: Back we come, and there’s sight of John McGinn coming on. Bolivia have made a couple of changes, too. Kieran Tierney is another arrival. So that’s Robertson off, and Christie, too.
Simon McMahon gets in touch: “Yeah, ok Scotland, this is good, but maybe calm it a bit and save one or two for Haiti? Four against Curaçao, three in half an hour v Bolivia, I mean, wtf? I’m starting to believe. Make Scotland Great Again.”
Half-time: Bolivia 0-4 Scotland
Scotland have been brilliant, Bolivia bloody awful but it’s been full of fine play from Robertson, Shankland and Gannon-Doak in particular. Four fine goals rattled in.
45+1 min: Anyone else worried that Scotland have used up all their goals here? Three minutes added on of a half that could not have gone any better for Steve Clarke.
Goal! Bolivia 0-4 Scotland (Adams, 45)
Gannon-Doak’s run cuts deep, and then Adams gets two bites, the second a beauty of a finish, drilled home.
44 min: Bolivia try a clever free-kick but Scotland read their minds. The Bolivian league is still being played but the South Americans are less than sharp.
43 min: Villamil gets a shot on goal that goes wide but play is called back for an earlier foul. Hickey left some on Fernandez, the Bolivia full-back.
41 min: Lewis Ferguson’s corner is great, and Andy Robertson really should make it four. Scotland, the rampant lions.
40 min: Gannon-Doak bobs and weaves and forces a good save from Viscarra, and yet again it’s neat play by Lawrence Shankland that sets up the chance.
39 min: Bolivia’s Villamil is down, and that offers a break to the players. Lots of those red Scotland shirts in the stands.
38 min: Gannon-Doak, who missed a lot of the season for Bournemouth, has been decent and may well be fresh. His position there was taken by Rayan, who was a tough player to shift, in any case.
36 min: Paul McCann gets in touch: “The next town over from Harrison is Kearney, which was settled by Paisley carpet makers. In the 1980s it still had fish and chip shops and places that sold Irn Bru. It also had an Ulster Club (Rangers) and an Irish Club (Celtic) and a Scottish Club, presumably for St Mirren fans. I had a memorable Hogmany in the latter in 1989 with nine Scottish nurses.”
Excellent stuff.
Matt Dony joins us in Gaelic: “Tha e a’ tighinn dhachaigh!”
34 min: Weirdly, and this can’t have helped, Scotland prepared for their last World Cup, in 1999, by playing friendlies in New Jersey and Washington. They went out in the group stage.
33 min: Christie, coming off the opposite, right-hand flank cuts in and has time to shoot, and probably could have done better. The Bolivians are not doing much in the way of defending.
31 min: This couldn’t be going any better for Scotland. The excitement levels must be increasing. Reminder: before 1990, they beat Malta 2-1, and lost to Costa Rica.
Goal! Bolivia 0-3 Scotland (Adams, 30)
Gannon-Doal breaks free, and tees up Adams to tap home. Scotland in dreamland, bring on Haiti.
29 min: First save for Gunn, from Bolivia’s Matheus. Gunn played just 45 minutes of football for Nottingham Forest all season, against Crystal Palace in February.
28 min: We are reminded that Bolivia beat Brazil last year, and got as far as the playoffs for the finals. This is a performance to lend plenty of confidence to the Scots.
26 min: Back underway, everyone refreshed and towelled down.
24 min: The goalie was not much cop for that goal, but champagne stuff played there by Scotland. At the moment, water is being taken on. This essentially breaks games down to quarters, right?
Goal! Bolivia 0-2 Scotland (McTominay, 23)
Lovely goal, more great link-up play from Shankland, who lays it to McTominay to smash home.
22 min: More galloping down the flank from Robertson. Don’t tire yourself too soon, to invoke Del Amitri.
20 min: Shankland and Adams are linking well, the former laying up Adams to blam a shot just wide. Good chance, well created. Perhaps Adams’ finish might have been better.
19 min: The pitch looks OK, better than that England are currently playing on in Tampa. Shankland is playing very well, and almost directed a flick to Christie.
17 min: Scotland’s initial brio has died off a little. Let’s hope it’s not the climate already.
15 min: Tony Barr gets in touch: “Wash your mouth (well, keyboard) out John!
No less an organ than the Guardian itself anointed the Scotland away kit as one of the best at the tournament. Speaking personally, I preferred the bright pink Earl of Roseberry number that got so many culture-war idiots’ knickers in a twist. This one’ll do until the Euros come around.”
James Humphries is back in touch: “I realise of course that this is a bit, but if you could avoid deliberately angering the football gods/ghost of Ally Mcleod’s dog that’d be great, aye?”
14 min: More careful passing from the Bolivians, for whom both full-backs play in Russia, Akron Tolyatti, a club formed in 2018.
12 min: Bolivia get a corner as a bagpipe wails in the background. The corner is poor, looks like they need a Nicolas Jover to sort this. Austin MacPhee, a Scot, will be helping out Portugal on set pieces at this World Cup.
10 min: Aaron Hickey is caught out and Gannon-Doak fouls Terceros. The resulting free-kick is a shambles, and cleared easily.
9 min: Gannon-Doak on the outside, and he pings in a cross, that evades everyone. Andy Robertson is playing very well. Are Liverpool quite sure about this?
7 min: Scotland look full of fizz, is it time to do an Ally MacLeod and suggest they are going to win the World Cup?
6 min: It’s a great start for Scotland, Christie and Robertson in tandem, and then Adams gets a shot in, that Viscarra can only parry away.
Goal! Bolivia 0-1 Scotland (Shankland, 5)
Gannon-Doak seems to have licence to go forward while Ryan Christie is tucking in, with Scotland playing an old-style 4-4-2. And you know what, it’s working, as Robertson overlaps and loops a ball from Christie to the back post and Shankland heads in.
3 min: Andy Robertson, the skipper, runs to a flick from Shankland but then fouls the opposing defender. It looks hot, and Bolivia look comfortable in passing the ball around.
Away we go in Harrison
1 min: It’s not a packed stadium, and Scotland being in red feels unfamiliar. The kit resembles that of Chile, or a lower-ranked La Liga team. It’s Bolivia who set off at a rate, Villamíl to the fore. Gtant Hanley has to head clear.
Flower of Scotland rings out, the bagpipes made it through customs at JFK.
Tony Hughes gets in touch: “As a teenager a million years ago at Kirkcaldy High School, the euphoria of Mexico ‘86 was such that 8 of us in our Physics class held a sweepstakes, whereby each of us paid in two pounds and got 3 randomly assigned Scotland players, and whomever came out collectively with the most goals, for Scotland, got to keep all 16 pounds. And 22 doesn’t go into 8, so unfortunately we had to add Alex Ferguson and Craig Brown (along with the goalkeepers). Some of us were really unlucky. I got Graeme Sharp, Arthur Albiston and Maurice Malpas, none of whom scored, and obviously the kid that had Gordon Strachan won the lot.”
I completed Mexico 86, it was the last one I completed.
This stadium in Harrison, New Jersey is home to New York Red Bulls; I’ve been, back in 2010, it was a short train ride from the World Trade Center, and from memory, not a great deal around it. Looking up famous people from Harrison and the best I came up with is Tab Ramos. I saw Juan Pablo Angel playing for the Red Bulls, so there’s that.
Ben Gannon-Doak spoke to the BBC in New Jersey: ““I don’t really know until the game gets started, but I think me and the rest of the lads have had a good week to prepare in my opinion in harsher conditions down in Florida, so I think we’re more than equipped to go out and play the football that we want to play. [We want] a good result to go into this World Cup with confidence, to go and play well as a team, play some nice football and aye, just to go out there and enjoy myself. No one would have thought we would have been here.”
Last time out for Scotland, the win over Curacao, which proved costly for Billy Gilmour and an opportunity for Tyler Fletcher.
Of those Bolivian players, the striker, Paniagua, plays for Wydad Casablanca, and Terceros plays for Santos in Brazil. It’s a real mix of home-based players and emigres.
This is the first time Bolivia have met Scotland.
The Bolivia team: Viscarra, Rocha, Haquín, Morales, Fernández, Matheus, Vaca, Villamíl, Terceros, Ribera, Paniagua. Subs: Arroyo, Centella, Govea, Lampe, López, Macazaga, Melgar, Nacif, Tórrez, Viviani, Zabala
James Humphries gets in touch: “Not that I wish mini-Fletch any ill – his dad was, I think, one of the most underrated players of his generation – but whose chips has Lennon Miller pished on such that Tyler gets called up ahead of him?
“Played 25 games for udinese this season, several years of bossing games at senior level for a pretty ropey Well side, and he plays (or played) a fairly similar role to Gilmour, too. But, no, let’s call up the guy who’s had about half an hour of senior football. And folk say Steve Clarke doesn’t like taking risks, eh?”
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For Scotland, Angus Gunn is in goal, Lawrence Shankland, Andy Robertson, Aaron Hickey, Ben Gannon-Doak and Ryan Christie remain from last weekend’s game against Curacao. Though expect plenty of changes. Gunn, Grant Hanley, Jack Hendry, Lewis Ferguson, and Che Adams are the players coming in.
The Scotland team
Scotland: Gunn, Hickey, Robertson, McTominay, Hanley, Adams, Christie, Hendry, Gannon-Doak, Ferguson, Shankland. Subs: Kelly, Gordon, Tierney, McGinn, Fletcher, Dykes, Stewart, Souttar, Hyam, Hirst, Patterson, McLean, Ralston, Curtis, McKenna
Ewan also wrote our Scotland preview.
Clarke is pragmatic in approach but it will be a shock if he does not start with two strikers for game one against Haiti. Victory there and Scotland have a genuine chance of progression from the first round for the first time. There is also a lingering reason for Clarke to at least appear bold; he was castigated by supporters for negative tactics in a must-win match against Hungary at the last Euros.
A more defensive style is likely and understandable against Morocco and Brazil, who simply put are better teams than Scotland. Clarke’s team can be useful in such a situation; they are excellently drilled and carry a counterattacking threat.
Ewan Murray is following Scotland at the World Cup, and he will be reporting on this game from New Jersey. All eyes are on Haiti.
Clarke insists he cannot alter plans on account of potential fitness setbacks.
“Do you want to wrap them in cotton wool and [they] don’t train?” Clarke asked. “You need to work. Injuries are part and parcel of football. When it happens, especially when it happens in the circumstances it happened to Billy, it is really disappointing. Everybody has got to take a deep breath and move forward again. That is what we will do.”
Preamble
Harrison, New Jersey hosts this warm-up for Steve Clarke’s Scotland. Expect to see plenty of substitutions, and hope for no more injuries after Billy Gilmour was ruled out last week. This is the final match before Haiti, a week from now, a chance to acclimatise, and get used to the conditions. Bolivia are not one of the 48 finalists, having lost to Iraq in the intercontinental playoffs; they were last at a final in 1994, and it’s been a long time since Erwin “Platini” Sanchez and Marco Etcheverry, the latter a legend of MLS lore. Scotland are back at the World Cup for the first time since 1998, and this is the last step before Haiti.
Kick-off is 9pm Scotland time/4pm Eastern time
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Nottinghamshire v Somerset, Leicestershire v Essex, and more: county cricket day four – live | Sport
Key events
Tea time scores
Division One
Grace Road: Leicestershire 187 and 428 v Essex 401 and 99-2 Essex need 116 to win
Trent Bridge: Somerset 310 and 355-7dec BEAT Nottinghamshire 193 and 166 by 306 runs.
Hove: Sussex 521 BEAT Glamorgan 155 and 268 by an innings and 98 runs
Scarborough: Yorkshire 469 and 246-6dec v Warwickshire 263 and 237-5 Warwicks need 216 to win
Division Two
Chester-le-Street: Durham 377 BEAT Derbyshire 118 and 237 by an innings and 22 runs
Blackpool: Kent 178 and 332 BEAT Lancashire 87 and 283 by 140 runs
Northampton: Northamptonshire 465 v Gloucestershire 268 and 387 Northants need 191 to win
New Road: Worcestershire 265 and 191-7 v Middlesex 339 and 283-6dec Worcs need 167 to win
To Scarborough: where Sam Hain (63) and Ed Barnard (280 are keeping Warwickshire hopes alive, a flying George Hill not quite able to get hand on ball. Ah, they’re going in for tea now, needing 216 off 35 overs, five wickets left. Enthralling stuff for those sitting sunning themselves on the bleachers.
Rehan Ahmed, unwanted by England, lurches left to take a super catch to get rid of Tom Westley at Grace Road. Scriven the wicket taker. Essex 86-2.
Gloucestershire are really getting stuck into their task at Wantage Road – the lead is now 176. James Bracey now 137, Will Williams, whose obstinance Lancs would have liked at Blackpool, 7 in 40 minutes.
While at New Road, Cullen (15) and Taylor (6) continue to hold up Middlesex – Worcs seven down, needing another 179.
Looks lovely and sunny at Grace Road, as the clouds stitch a blanket over Manchester. Walter and Westley moving things along. Essex 73-1 need another 143.
England Test XI: Jordan Cox and Sonny Baker to make their debuts
There are four changes from England’s XI at Lord’s. Jordan Cox, fresh from a magnificent 204 against Leicestershire, and Sonny Baker will make their Test debuts. Jofra Archer returns, as does Matt Fisher, replacing his Surrey teammate Gus Atkinson who, along with Ben Stokes, wasn’t considered for selection after breaking the curfew. There is no space this time for Shoaib Bashir.
James Rew could also make his Test debut at The Oval, if Jamie Smith’s wife goes into labour.
England XI: Ben Duckett, Emilio Gay, Jacob Bethell, Joe Root (capt), Harry Brook, Jamie Smith (wk), Jordan Cox, Jofra Archer, Josh Tongue, Matthew Fisher, Sonny Baker
Somerset (thank you Anthony Gibson) were without Toms Kohler-Cadmore, Abell, Banton and Lammonby and Will Smede, and then were raided by England for James Rew and lost Lewis Gregory to a hamstring mid-game.
Somerset BEAT Notts by 306 runs – five wickets for Coverton
Overton with the final wicket as Ali swats like a man about to be stung and Alfie Ogborne takes the catch, running over to Overton for a bear hug. Happy handshakes all round. O’Neill undefeated on 54, Notts all out for 166 and defeated for the first time in 15 matches.
Trent Bridge: Somerset 310 and 355-7dec BEAT Nottinghamshire 193 and 166 by 306 runs.
Somerset 21 points, Notts 3 points.
The wheels have fallen off and rolled into the gutter at New Road. Worcestershire, 123-7 at lunch, are now 156-7. Three for Zafar Gohar, one for Seb Morgan.
An early Essex wicket at Grace Road: “In a variation to his first innings dismissal, Elgar’s caught at slip off Davey to give Leicestershire some hope.” says Mike Daniels.
“I’m worried about Ben”
Some quite worrying quotes from Brendon McCullum about Ben Stokes.
Half a big Somerset boot is across the line as Dillon Pennington becomes wicket number four for Craig Overton, driving to backward point. O’Neill stands, thoughtful at the non-striker’s end on 45. Mohammad Ali gets a snorter first ball but survives. Notts 153-9.
Regulations, regulations. Over to you Mike Daniels: “Apparently the regs are that the 15 mins is taken if there’s a chance of a result and it’s the last innings of the game, whereas the 30 mins taken here was because that’s mandatory when there are 9 wkts down in any innings.
“That’s the combined wisdom of the scorers and the match referee at lunch. Apparently you can take the 15 mins and the 30 mins subsequently if it’s the last innings of the game.”
On a Monday in June?
100 for James Bracey
A second hundred of the season for James Bracey who has stitched Gloucestershire’s second innings together. Daz Ahmed was lbw just before lunch, so Matt Taylor joins the vigil. The lead over Northants 125.
Lewis Hill out at last for 127 – Essex need 215 to win
Could be interesting…. especially as Essex are without Jordan Cox in their second innings. All hail last man out Lewis Hill, bowled t’ween bat and pad heaving for the rope, for 127, walks off chastising himself. A second wicket for Critchley. Three each for Snater and Harmer.
Lunch at Trent Bridge, where a furious Craig Overton stalks off after missing a catch at slip in the last over before lunch, bowled by Jack Leach.
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 193 and 138-8 v Somerset 310 and 355-7dec Notts need 335 to win
While at Grace Road they will play on till 1.30 – thanks to Mike Daniels for the info.“Scorer tells me they’re playing on for half an hour or 8 overs, rather than 15 mins. Don’t know the regs myself.”
They’re playing on for 15 mins at Grace Road too, where Lewis Hill is still keeping vigil on 113, but has lost Josh Davey after 65 minutes of defence. Leics 414-9 lead by 200.
Lunchtime-ish scores
Division One
Grace Road: Leicestershire 187 and 414-9- v Essex 401
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 193 and 129-8 v Somerset 310 and 355-7
Hove: Sussex 521 BEAT Glamorgan 155 and 268 by an innings and 98 runs
Scarborough: Yorkshire 469 and 246-6dec v Warwickshire 263 and 139-4 Warwicks need 314 to win
Division Two
Chester-le-Street: Durham 377 BEAT Derbyshire 118 and 237 by an innings and 22 runs
Blackpool: Kent 178 and 332 BEAT Lancashire 87 and 283 by 140 runs
Northampton: Northamptonshire 465 v Gloucestershire 268 and 306-8
New Road: Worcestershire 265 and127-3 v Middlesex 339 and 283-6 Worcs need 231 to win
A Thomas Rew stat that I missed yesterday – he is the third youngest Somerset centurion after Trevor Jones and Marcus Trescothick. He beats brother James by one precious day. They’re playing an extra 15 mins at Trent Bridge to try and get this game polished off.
Worcestershire had been enjoying a fruitful morning – but have just lost Roderick for 20, lbw to Eathan Bosch, a name he must always have to spell out over the telephone. (I feel his pain). Ben Allison 71 not out. Worcs 117-3 need another 241 to beat Middx.
They’re on at Wantage Road, but James Bracey (93) and Daz Ahmed are hanging on in there. Gloucs 398-7 lead Northants by 101. Ahmed, who came through SACA, is playing in his second f-c match.
Jack Haynes, Nottinghamshire’s last real hope, get a wobbler from Pretorius that shimmies past, and touches, the outside edge, Notts 104 for eight.
100 for Lewis Hill
Well played Lewis Hill! Back-to-the-wall innings of the year? Over six hours of concentration. Leicestershire 397-8 and Essex’s frustration grows.
To Scarborough, where George Hill is also polishing his all-round credentials – 65 not out yesterday, 3 for 23 with the ball today. Warwickshire are listing badly – three wickets down this morning – 97 for four, 355 more to win.
Patterson-White has a waft and is caught at second slip by Craig Overton scooping the ball off the turf with both hands – Pretorius with the wicket. Notts down and nearly out – 87-7.
Elsewhere, Simon Harmer has extracted Tom Scriven from the Grace Road pitch, but Lewis Hill’s nearly-six-hour opus continues. He’s now got Josh Davey (5 in 23 balls) for company. The lead over Essex is 148.
Rew highlights
Thanks to WashingtonIrvine BTL for the link to the Rew brother’s batting partnership yesterday and Tom’s first century. So young, so talented.
Thomas Rew! What catch, diving to his right in front of first slip with open mitt, and only wearing the gloves because brother James was called up by England yesterday. T Rew and James Coles are currently battling for allround performance of the round. A pair for Lyndon James, a second wicket for Overton this morning.
Notts 75 for six and looking lightly to slip to defeat at fortress Trent Bridge for the first time since May 2024 against Hampshire
And there’s the next big wicket for Somerset, HH, who turns Overton off his hip and into the gloves of Thomas Rew. Notts 69 for five and HH is another player, like Saif Zaib until this round, who hasn’t been able to match last year’s plenty.
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Weather watch – no play yet at Northampton
Mostly positive, with sunny spells, though there are some showers moving north and east. At Wantage Road, they’re starting to mop up.
A huge wicket! Joe Clarke is bowled by Jake Ball, who was substituted in half way through the game because of Gregory’s hamstring. Delight for Somerset, despair for Clarke who was done for pace. Notts 51-4,
Big Craig with the second over of the morning, after Joe Clarke tickles four off Jake Ball’s first ball of the day. Not many in the white tip-up seats. And that’s a maiden.
Eyes first to Trent Bridge, where Notts are trying to avoid their first defeat of the season, and their first since May 2025 when they lost to Durham at Chester le Street. Anthony Gibson thinks it is a bowling morning moving onto a batting afternoon.
Good morning Mike Daniels in the Grace Road scorebox. “Will it be a Headingly ‘81 day here or will Leicestershire subside to another tame loss?
“It’s frustrating for their supporters to see the optimism generated by last season’s promotion dissipated by the performances this year.
“Yes, there are mitigating factors with key players missing for either the whole or part of the season and a great overseas signing subsequently withdrawn by the SA Board, but the batting hasn’t generally been good enough from the established players. Days like yesterday, when grit was shown, are more frustrating as it shows what has been missing from the first innings, and too many innings so far this year.
“The workmanlike bowling attack was never going to be strong enough to win games in Div 1 so the onus was on the batting, and it hasn’t delivered.
“There’s still time to put strong performances in this season and supporters are hoping they’ll show the fight they showed yesterday in the coming games.”
Deepti Sharma popped Pakistan dreams.
Ollie Robinson ruled out of the second Test
Due to that knee soreness he felt after the first Test. He will stay with the squad and undergo rehab work ahead of the third Test. Which means England’s bowling attack will have at least three changes from Lord’s – minus Stokes, Atkinson and Robinson.
Scores on the doors
Division One
Grace Road: Leicestershire 187 and 326-7 v Essex 401
Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 193 and 47-3v Somerset 310 and 355-7
Hove: Sussex 521 BEAT Glamorgan 155 and 268 by an innings and 98 runs
Scarborough: Yorkshire 469 and 246-6 v Warwickshire 263 and 44-1
Division Two
Chester-le-Street: Durham 377 BEAT Derbyshire 118 and 237 by an innings and 22 runs
Blackpool: Kent 178 and 332 BEAT Lancashire 87 and 283 by 140 runs
Northampton: Northamptonshire 465 v Gloucestershire 268 and 264-7
New Road: Worcestershire 265 and 33-2 v Middlesex 339 and 283-6 Worcs need 325 to win
Sunday’s roundup: Mahmud’s six continues Kent’s revival
Hasan Mahmud poured cold water over the Blackpool sandcastles with a career-best six for 69, nine wickets in the match, bowling Kent to a 140-run victory over Lancashire. He lifted the match ball as he led Kent off, enveloped in a huge hug from head coach Adam Hollioake as he crossed the rope – not a bad debut performance.
Kent’s dismal start to the season has been transformed, with three wins in four games. Lancashire’s though, has slipped dangerously – this a third defeat in four. Marcus Harris was stranded on an immaculate 91, though for a time, as the crowd on the bleachers soaked in the afternoon sun, the unlikely seemed possible, as Keaton Jennings (61) and Liam Livingstone (47) stuck to the task.
Sussex leaped to the top of the Division One table with an innings victory over Glamorgan at Hove. Glamorgan batted with furrowed concentration second time around, with half centuries for Ben Kellaway (55) and Asa Tribe (64), but Sussex chipped away. Captain Tom Haines snaffled three wickets as did double-centurion James Coles, who put the full stop on a magical match by bowling Ryan Hadley.
Durham coach Ryan Campbell, buoyant after the innings defeat of Derbyshire, confirmed he expects Ben Stokes to play for his team next week. He also praised Matthew Potts, whose eight for 66 cannoned Durham to victory. “When you find out you’re not going to be selected [by England], you can go one of two ways,” said Campbell. “You can be down in the dumps, or you can be Matthew Potts and take eight wickets. It just shows the qualities of the man.”
Potts’ four wickets in 19 balls ended Derbyshire’s resistance, though Harry Came carried his bat for 105. Earlier Lewis Moody, on his fundraising cycle ride from Newcastle RUFC to Twickenham, had called in to Chester le Street.
Eighteen-year-old Tom Rew hit his maiden first-class century for Somerset, a delightfully racy knock, as they dominated Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.
England pulled Jordan Cox, fresh from his 204, out of Essex’s match against Leicestershire early as cover for Jamie Smith, whose partner is due to give birth to their second child. On the pitch, a dogged Leicestershire second innings, following on, hauled the game into a fourth day.
Preamble
Hello! Monday morning and there’s three empty places at the breakfast table – Chester-le-Street, Blackpool and Hove have all left early.
But there’s still lots to chew over – can Somerset’s bowlers run through the rest of Notts? Will Leicester’s dogged Sunday be in vain?Will Yorkshire pickle out Warwicks, Middlesex, Worcester and Northants stride up the table? All this and more, from 11am. Do join us.
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