County Championship: Keaton Jennings helps Durham beat Warwickshire
Warwickshire suffer first defeat of the Championship season
Saturday 28 May 2016 14:19, UK
Keaton Jennings completed his third century of the Specsavers County Championship season as Durham wrapped up a four-wicket win over Division One rivals Warwickshire at Edgbaston.
Jennings, who scored two tons against Somerset on the opening weekend, hit 113 as Durham reached their 238-run target before lunch on day four having been 154-4 overnight.
The left-hander, who began the day on 88, took his fifth-wicket stand with captain Paul Collingwood (44) to 111 before both batsmen were dismissed by spinner Jeetan Patel.
However, Ryan Pringle (19no) and James Weighell (6no) ushered Durham to their second win in five matches and up to second place in the standings.
Warwickshire, now in third spot, would have leapfrogged table toppers Lancashire with a win but Jennings' exploits consigned the Bears to their first defeat of the campaign.
Hampshire, meanwhile, moved off the foot of the table and above Surrey with their first victory of the season, a 69-run triumph over Nottinghamshire at The Ageas Bowl.
Nottinghamshire were set 305 to win in Southampton and remained in contention after Brendan Taylor (71) and Samit Patel (65) took their side from 68-4 to 176-4.
Dan Christian (31) added 46 with Patel after Taylor's dismissal but Notts, for whom Chris Read was unable to bat due to a hand injury, shipped their last four wickets for 13 runs, Tino Best ending with four scalps and leg-spinner Mason Crane three.
Middlesex and Somerset's game at Lord's ended in a stalemate - each side's sixth in as many matches in 2016 - with James Hildreth and bad light dashing the hosts' push for victory.
Hildreth (85no) and Peter Trego (58) steadied Somerset with a stand of 99 after the West Country outfit had been reduced to 57-4, though the visitors wobbled again once Trego departed, Ollie Rayner (4-56) taking three wickets in 11 balls.
However, Hildreth, ably supported by Craig Overton (19no from 55), rectified the slide before the darkening skies caused play to end prematurely in the final session with Somerset on 202-7, a lead of 155.
