Saturday 27 August 2016 10:26, UK
Yorkshire moved to within five points of Specsavers County Championship leaders Middlesex after wrapping up a resounding 305-run victory over Nottinghamshire at Scarborough.
The White Rose county needed just 34.3 overs to claim the final seven wickets as the visitors were bowled out for 146 chasing 452 to win, leaving their own hopes of survival in Division One hanging in the balance.
Tim Bresnan finished with career-best figures of 5-36 and his best in any first-class match across the two innings of 8-51 after having Tom Moores (41) caught by Adam Lyth at second slip from just the fourth ball of the morning.
Jack Brooks removed Alex Lees and Luke Fletcher with successive balls as the lower-order imploded, the final four
wickets fell in just three and a half overs after lunch.
Left-arm seamer Mark Footitt finally announced his arrival at the Kia Oval with a career-best haul of 7-62 to wrap up Surrey's 10-wicket win over Lancashire.
Footitt mopped up Lancashire's two remaining wickets within 40 minutes of the fourth and final day to set up his side's fourth win of the campaign.
Home openers Rory Burns (28 not out) and Dominic Sibley (11no) duly knocked off the 38 runs required within 9.1 overs to secure the comfortable and deserved victory with more than two sessions of the game to spare.
By hitting the winning boundary with a reverse sweep Burns also marked his 26th birthday by scoring his 1,000th championship run of the season.
A 151-run stand between Scott Borthwick and Mark Stoneman ensured Durham were able to hold out for a draw against Warwickshire.
Durham were only 10 runs behind with eight wickets standing when Stoneman fell for 80 and Borthwick went on to make 91 before he departed five balls before hands were shaken at Chester-le-Street.
Rikki Clarke came on bowling off-spin and his first ball was so wide Borthwick could not resist flailing at it, only to get a big inside edge into his stumps.
Durham were on 195-3, 21 ahead with 22 overs still available, when a draw was declared. Warwickshire took 11 points from the contest and Durham eight.
Hampshire held on for a draw against Somerset at Taunton thanks to a spot of good fortune and a stand of 159 between Sean Ervine and Jimmy Adams.
Needing 249 in their second innings to avoid an innings defeat, the visitors finished the final day on 254-5.
However, they had to ride their luck on several occasions over the course of the day, with Ervine, who helped himself to a century, dropped three times during an innings that, in the end, was the difference.
The day began with Craig Overton surviving a near run out, when on 99, to celebrate his maiden first-class hundred off 123 balls, with 10 fours.
Overton, who with Roelof van der Merwe broke the county's record eighth-wicket partnership in the Championship, which had stood since 1983 when Ian Botham and Viv Richards put on 172 against Leicestershire at Grace Road, batted with typical aggression to reach 138.
