When all variables pointed towards another day of toil for Leicestershire they gave as good as they got and landed a couple of body blows themselves but Jason Roy turned the day Surrey's way

Tim Phillips staged a late assault as Essex pipped Middlesex at Chelmsofrd to keep up their challenge in the NatWest Blast South Group

Jonathan Trott has made an unexpected return to first-team cricket and make just a single as the Birmingham Bears side ran out easy winners over Northamptonshire

Ravi Bopara's non selection for England is very much Essex's gain who have him in the form of his life. He smashed 81 in just 44 balls to send Essex joint top of the South Group of the NatWest T20

Gloucestershire put in a powerful batting performance but it came to nothing against Glamorgan as rain swept in

Dan Christian played one of the innings of his life but it could not spare Middlesex from their eighth successive T20 defeat

On the day when his international career all but evaporated into the early summer sunshine, Michael Carberry clubbed a half-century that provided the footing for Hampshire's third successive NatWest T20 Blast victory

Cricket Ireland have a stated aim of reaching Test cricket by 2020. Such has been their success that they may be able to bring that target forward, but series like the one in West Indies have to be about more than just taking part