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County Championship Division One
Somerset vs Hampshire, Rothesay County Championship 2025 Division One
By Richard Latham, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
No play was possible on the opening day of the Rothesay County Championship Division One match between Somerset and Hampshire at the Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton.
Heavy overnight rain had created a wet outfield and, although a pitch inspection was planned for 12.30pm after an early lunch, it was cancelled when the rain returned.
Tea was taken at 3.10pm, but the weather, including high winds, failed to improve sufficiently. Umpires Ben Debenham and David Millns eventually abandoned any hope of a start at 4.20pm.
More rain is forecast overnight, but the outlook is brighter for tomorrow.
Sussex vs Yorkshire, Rothesay County Championship 2025 Division One
By ECB Reporters Network, supported by Rothesay
No play was possible on the first day at Hove between Sussex and Yorkshire in the Rothesay County Championship.
Umpires Tom Lungley and Jack Shantry carried out five pitch inspections before deciding to call it a day at 3.30pm.
The outfield had largely dried out after heavy rain on Sunday but ground staff were unable to remove the covers on the square because of safety concerns in the 50 mph winds.
With a better – and less windy – forecast for Tuesday, the hope is for a prompt start on day two.
Warwickshire vs Essex, Rothesay County Championship 2025 Division One
By Brian Halford, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
No play was possible due to high winds on the opening day of the Rothesay County Championship match between Warwickshire and Essex at Edgbaston.
The strong winds caused the umpires to keep the players off the field due to consequent “safety concerns around players and groundstaff.”
It meant frustration for spectators and players alike in Birmingham, though at least the two teams, locked in mid-table in Division One, know the weather won’t cost them potentially crucial points in terms of either a championship challenge or a survival struggle. Both are out of contention for the title and out of danger from finishing in the bottom two.
The teams now face a three-day match and the spectators will hope it turns out to be a cracker like the one between them at Edgbaston in 1977. On that occasion, Essex set Warwickshire a target of 357 on the final day and won a thriller by eight runs after the home side, fuelled by Dennis Amiss (100) and Eddie Hemmimgs (85), fell just short on 348. Stuart Turner took four for 69 while there were two wickets apiece for John Lever, Ray East and David Acfield.
When the 2025 contest begins tomorrow, the players will be wearing black armbands in honour of former Warwickshire and England player John Jameson who sadly died last weekend. Jameson played four Tests for England and scored 18,941 first class runs, mostly in memorably buccaneering style, between 1960 and 1976.
Durham vs Worcestershire, Rothesay County Championship 2025 Division One
Durham vs Worcestershire
No play possible on day one due to rain
Report by Thomas Ridley on behalf of the ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Durham and Worcestershire’s basement battle in the Rothesay County Championship fell victim to the rain as no play was possible on day one at the Banks Homes Riverside.
This will no doubt frustrate both sides, as the two are in desperate need of a Division One victory.
Worcestershire are bottom of the table, 44 points adrift of safety, while Durham are second bottom, six points below Hampshire and haven’t won a game in the competition since May.
Both sides will return tomorrow morning hoping that play will start on time and that their pursuit of a vital victory isn’t halted further.
Surrey vs Nottinghamshire, Rothesay County Championship 2025 Division One
From ECB Reporters Network
Surrey v Nottinghamshire – day 1 report
Surrey 43/1 v Nottinghamshire 231
By ECB Reporters Network, supported by Rothesay
Matt Fisher and Gus Atkinson spearheaded a relentless Surrey display with the ball as Nottinghamshire struggled to impose themselves on the top-of-the-table Rothesay County Championship showdown at the Kia Oval.
Fisher finished with five for 61, his first five-wicket haul for Surrey since last winter’s move from Yorkshire, and Atkinson four for 41 as Notts – who began the game just one point behind Surrey in an exciting race for the title – were bowled out for 231 on the opening day of a contest that could well decide the championship.
In reply, in 16 overs’ batting, Surrey reached 43 for one by stumps with Rory Burns unbeaten on 19 but Dom Sibley caught behind in the penultimate over for 14 as he tried to take his bat away from a shortish ball from Dillon Pennington.
Burns had earlier won the toss and, as Surrey like to do on home turf, put Notts into bat on a green-hued surface. The visitors fought hard to build a competitive total but, with Atkinson looking a particularly difficult proposition in the conditions, it was Surrey – chasing four successive titles – who will be the happier of the two teams following the opening exchanges.
Haseeb Hameed, the Notts captain, was put down at first slip on seven but the unlucky bowler, Atkinson, was celebrating a couple of overs later when Hameed edged again on nine and Ollie Pope scooped up a good low catch to his left at second slip.
Then came the best Notts batting of the day with left-handers Ben Slater and Freddie McCann showing skill and self-discipline to make it through to lunch at 75 for one and, afterwards, to extend their second wicket partnership to 64 in 24 overs of hard graft.
Fisher’s second spell, however, brought McCann’s downfall for 34 and then Slater’s four overs later for an excellent 50, from 95 balls. Thin edges through to keeper Ben Foakes accounted for them both, with Fisher being rewarded for some probing fast-medium that also gave the batsmen very little to hit.
Atkinson was then recalled for his own second spell, again from the Pavilion End, and with his fifth ball back he had Jack Haynes leg-before for 13 to leave Notts suddenly looking vulnerable at 132 for four.
Joe Clarke, whose 29 contained some of the best and most authoritative strokes of the day, edged the testing Atkinson to Foakes and after tea was taken early because of the afternoon’s second short rain shower it was Atkinson who sent the Notts innings into further decline.
Lyndon James, beaten multiple times by Atkinson in a fraught 17, chipped to mid wicket and Dan Worrall finally got into the act by having Liam Patterson-White caught behind for eight from the last ball of his 16th over.
Notts’ 174 for seven soon became 187 for eight when Fisher replaced Atkinson, who had taken three for 19 in nine overs either side of tea.
South Africa keeper-batsman Kyle Verreynne was leg-before for 13, aiming towards mid wicket, and Fisher kept running in to add the scalps of Josh Tongue (4) and last man Pennington.
Tongue gave Foakes his fifth catch of the innings as he tried to drive and Pennington’s useful 14 was ended by an inswinger into his pads after he and Hutton, who pulled Fisher for six in a defiant 30 not out, had added 28 for the tenth wicket.
Surrey’s Matt Fisher said: “It’s been a good day for us and hopefully we can capitalise on that tomorrow.
“As everyone knows, there is a template for how we want to play our cricket here at the Oval and today pretty much fitted that template.
“It’s now about scoring as many runs as we can and hopefully getting as many batting bonus points too. We’ve stopped them from getting any batting points at all today so that’s a big tick for us, and now we have to focus on our own batting effort tomorrow.
“I was purring at mid on watching Gus [Atkinson] bowling today. To be able to watch people as good as Gus from up close is amazing.
“He hits the crease so well in his last couple of strides and his arm comes over the top. It’s class to play with him.
“I’m obviously also pleased with the way I bowled. It’s been decent on some occasions this season but sometimes I’ve felt lacking in a bit of nip and getting injured up at Scarborough a month or so ago was not ideal.
“But I’ve worked my way back and it felt good today and that nip was there again.”
Nottinghamshire opener Ben Slater said: “It was a big wicket to get just before stumps, because Dom Sibley is the division’s leading run-scorer this season, though two wickets would have been better!
“I think we’ve seen all day today that the ball has nipped around and bounced a little bit from a good length, so as batsmen you never really feel in.
“It was nice to get to 50 but you always want to go on from there, and tomorrow it’s really just about our bowlers trying to bowl as they bowled throughout our innings. Hopefully wickets will then come for us.”
County Championship Division Two
Leicestershire vs Kent ,Rothesay County Championship 2025 Division Two
By Jon Culley, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Rothesay County Championship, Division Two
Leicestershire v Kent, Uptonsteel County Ground
September 15-18, 2025
Day 1: No play Monday due to adverse weather.
Leicestershire’s push to crown their promotion to Division One of the Rothesay County Championship with the Division Two title suffered a frustrating start as day one of their final home match against bottom-of-the-table Kent fell foul of rain and strong winds.
A wet outfield delayed the scheduled start but, even with the ground at times bathed in sunshine, the real problem was the wind, which was gusting at a strength considered to pose a risk to the safety of groundstaff attempting to remove or secure coverings on the playing area.
Umpires Hassan Adnan and Simon Widdup patiently waited in the hope that conditions would improve but with no indication that it would happen, play was abandoned for the day at around 3.40pm.
Leicestershire, who have been the Division Two front-runners all season, confirmed that next season would be their first in Division One since 2003 by drawing with Gloucestershire last week.
To be certain, mathematically, of going up as champions, they need to gain a further 24 points from their remaining two fixtures, culminating in a trip to Northamptonshire next week.
Second-placed Glamorgan, who are the only team who can deny them the title, trailed by 25 points at the start of this round. They are away to Derbyshire this week – likewise losing the first day to the weather – before wrapping up against Lancashire at home.
Lancashire vs Middlesex, Rothesay County Championship 2025 Division Two
ECB Reporters’ Network supported by Rothesay
Lancashire v Middlesex – Day One – No play because of rain. NB: No quotes today
A combination of high winds and frequent heavy showers ensured that no play was possible on the first day of the Division Two Rothesay County Championship match between Lancashire and Middlesex at Emirates Old Trafford.
Ground safety regulations meant that the covers could not be removed before play was due to begin when there was no rain falling early in the day but the heavy downpour that began about half-past ten, the scheduled start-time, would have made that a fruitless exercise in any event.
Umpires Richard Illingworth and Chris Watts conducted an inspection during a dry interval at 1.30 but the rain had returned by 2.30, when they were due to take a second look and it was no surprise that play was finally abandoned at 2.35.
Middlesex come into the match lying fourth in the table, 30 points behind second-placed Glamorgan. They therefore have an arithmetical chance of winning promotion to whatever division or conferences are in place for the 2026 season. However, their chances are likely to be scuppered if this game is badly affected by the weather.
Lancashire, rather by contrast, are sixth and will finish among the bottom six counties whatever system is established next April and whether or not this game is wrecked by rain.
Gloucestershire vs Northamptonshire, Rothesay County Championship 2025 Division Two
Play abandoned for the day without a ball bowled owing to rain.
Derbyshire vs Glamorgan, Rothesay County Championship 2025 Division Two
Nigel Gardner, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay.
Derbyshire v Glamorgan Day one no play.
The high winds which prevented any play on day one of the Rothesay County Championship Division Two match at Derby blew Glamorgan closer to promotion but buffeted Derbyshire’s chances.
Although the outfield at the Central Co-op County Ground had recovered from Sunday’s heavy rain, there was a health and safety issue caused by the strong winds with gusts in excess of 50 mph.
The extreme conditions posed a potential threat to the groundstaff who would have struggled to safely remove the big sheets covering the square.
After five inspections and with no sign of the winds easing, the umpires abandoned play for the day at 3pm.
Glamorgan went into the match in the second promotion spot with a 27 point cushion over third placed Derbyshire knowing that anything other than a defeat will take them to the brink of Division One.
For Derbyshire, only a win will keep their hopes alive so they will be praying for better weather over the remaining three days.
Division One
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