Sunday 8 May 2016 19:13, UK
James Anderson continued his warm-up for a summer of England duty with three wickets as Lancashire took a firm grip of their Specsavers County Championship Division One clash with Hampshire.
Anderson returned figures of 3-42 in 17 overs at Emirates Old Trafford as Hampshire were bowled out for a paltry 109, with Lancashire's top order building a handy lead by the end of day one.
Hampshire were soon in trouble, with Anderson accounting for Jimmy Adams (5) and England team-mate James Vince being run out by a superb Steven Croft throw before he had troubled the scorers.
The in-form Michael Carberry made only 16 before he fell to New Zealand seamer Neil Wagner, who then trapped Liam Dawson LBW for a first-ball duck before missing out on a hat-trick.
Will Smith (18) and Adam Wheater provided a little bit of resistance in the middle order, with Wheater hanging around for nearly two hours for a top score of 32 before he was the ninth wicket to fall.
Both were dismissed by the medium pace of Luke Procter, who took 3-14 and ended Hampshire's innings when James Tomlinson was clean bowled for a five-ball duck.
Karl Brown and Haseeb Hameed scored quickly in an opening stand of 53, with Brown dominating and scoring 40 off 33 balls before Gareth Andrew ended his innings.
But that would prove to be Hampshire's last success of the day as Hameed (41) and Procter (48) put on 104 for the second wicket and saw them to a 48-run lead - Hampshire also contributed 28 extras to their 157-1.
Early leaders Nottinghamshire were thankful to three of their England players for their majority of their runs on the opening day of their clash with Middlesex at Lord's.
Alex Hales, Michael Lumb and Samit Patel all made half-centuries to help them to 345-7 in beautiful conditions at the Home of Cricket.
Hales and Greg Smith helped rebuild after Notts lost Steven Mullaney for four, trapped in front by Tim Murtagh.
Smith reached 29 before he was dismissed by Toby Roland-Jones, who also ended Hales' innings after a 107-run partnership with Lumb.
Roland-Jones claimed his third wicket when Riki Wessels was adjudged leg before for a duck and when Lumb was dismissed by Olly Rayner for 78, the visitors were in danger of a collapse.
But Patel and Chris Read steadied things with a sixth-wicket stand of 71 before Steven Finn struck to remove Read for 38 and also dismiss his international colleague Stuart Broad, who made seven.
Patel would end the day as Nottinghamshire's top scorer, reaching stumps unbeaten on 86 - an innings including nine fours and two sixes - in partnership with Brett Hutton (23no).
Somerset were indebted to fine innings from Tom Abell and Peter Trego to reach 295 as their big names struggled against Warwickshire at Edgbaston.
Young opener Abell dug in early on after seeing Marcus Trescothick (12) and captain Chris Rogers (0) dismissed by left-arm pace bowler Keith Barker.
He put on 56 with James Hildreth and another 110 with Trego, who came in at six after Barker claimed his third wicket of the day when Jonathan Trott held a catch to dismiss Jim Allenby (7).
And it would be the former England batsman who ended Abell's stay at the crease just after he had passed three figures for the second time in his first-class career - he was trapped in front by Trott for a fine 104 after an innings that included 12 fours and a six.
Somerset lost Ryan Davies (4) and Lewis Gregory (1) soon after but Trego hung around until a handful of overs before the close, only to fall six short of a century when Chris Woakes was given a leg before decision.
Woakes could also claim an unlikely hat-trick in Somerset's second innings after he had Jack Leach caught for a first ball duck to end their opening effort on 295.
There was still enough time in the day for Somerset to claim a couple of Warwickshire wickets with Gregory trapping Ian Westwood in front on three and night-watchman Boyd Rankin dismissed by Craig Overton for one - they ended the day on 27-2.
Steven Davies provided the chief resistance as champions Surrey were dismissed for 330 just before the end of Sunday's play against champions Yorkshire at Headingley.
Davies and Kumar Sangakkara dominated Yorkshire's bowlers for more than 30 overs in a stand of 122 after Rory Burns and Arun Harinath had both been dismissed for 12, a wicket apiece for England team-mates David Willey and Liam Plunkett.
Sangakkara hit 13 fours in a fluent innings of 78 before Plunkett (2-77) struck again and Surrey were in a little trouble on 161-4 when Jason Roy was dismissed for only one by Jack Brooks.
Davies and wicket-keeper Ben Foakes calmed any nerves with a 103-run fifth wicket stand before Davies' innings was finally ended on 117 when Steven Patterson struck.
Patterson also dismissed Foakes soon after for 45, but Tom Curran (32) saw Surrey past 300 with some lusty hitting before becoming one of two late victims for Brooks (3-73), who ended their innings by dismissing Ravi Rampaul (12).
Willey, who is keen to force his way into England's five-day plans, was the most impressive of the Yorkshire bowlers as he returned figures of 3-55 in 20 overs.
Yorkshire reached 15-0 in the two overs they had to face at the end of the day, with Alex Lees (5no) and Adam Lyth (6no) each hitting an early boundary.
