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Cameron Steel's maiden first-class century kept Durham afloat against Northamptonshire on the third day of their Specsavers County Championship match at Chester-le-Street

Steel's maiden century keeps Durham fighting

Samit Patel has switched the pressure back onto Derbyshire during a season when his successes have been few and far between

Patel stirs to put onus back on Derbyshire

04-Jun-2017•Jon Culley at Trent Bridge

Sussex roar back after D'Oliveira reprieve

Sussex will be confident of wrapping up victory at Hove after a strong opening stand between Daryl Mitchell and Brett D'Oliveira was followed by a controversial umpiring reprieve and a wholesale collapse

Jonathan Trott produced a defiant century at No. 8 after missing a disastrous Warwickshire collapse the previous evening because of a family-related absence

Trott digs deep with defiant century

Yorkshire flexed their muscles in the Roses match and the result was that Lancashire were dispensed with by 10 wickets within three days at Headingley

Gale delighted by Yorkshire Roses dominance

04-Jun-2017•Paul Edwards at Headingley

Gregory's maiden hundred frustrates Middlesex title defence

Reigning Specsavers county champions Middlesex appear on course for their fourth successive draw of an uninspired Division One title defence after Somerset enjoyed the best of a sun-kissed second day at Lord's

Last August Yorkshire took the immensely far-sighted step of opening a dedicated multi-faith room at Headingley. After Adam Lyth's hundred put Yorkshire on top in the Roses match, it might have to be made available to devout believers in Lancashire

Lyth's battling hundred tests Lancashire's faith

03-Jun-2017•Paul Edwards at Headingley

Godleman application gives Derbyshire sniff of rare win

Billy Godleman scored his third hundred of the season to help Derbyshire into a 134-run lead against Nottinghamshire and give his side hope of victory

03-Jun-2017•Jon Culley at Trent Bridge

Wright refinds batting zest after resignation

Luke Wright rediscovered his panache with the bat after abandoning the Sussex captaincy but Worcestershire produced an excellent response after conceding their second-highest total in matches between the pair

Max Holden's maiden century in only his sixth first-class game left Durham kicking themselves for dropping him twice early on the second day of their Specsavers County Championship match

Maiden Holden ton gives Northants edge

Sean Ervine, with a double century, and Jimmy Adams shared the biggest Champion ship strand of the season before Warwickshire collapsed in the final session at the Ageas Bowl

Warwickshire collapse after record Hampshire stand

Ben Coad's joyous season came up Roses as he demolished Lancashire at Headingley with career-best figures

Coad's joyous season comes up Roses

02-Jun-2017•Paul Edwards at Headingley

Derbyshire stir thanks to a loanee from... Surrey

Tony Palladino finished with four wickets, but much Derbyshire discussion surrounded a derby debut for a South African loanee from Surrey

02-Jun-2017•Jon Culley at Trent Bridge

Buck's best deepens Durham gloom

Nathan Buck took a career-best 6 for 34 for Northants as Durham's season showed few signs of clearing under heavy Chester-le-Street skies

Jimmy Adams and Sean Ervine recorded Hampshire's best fourth-wicket partnership against Warwickshire as the pair led a remarkable recovery for the hosts

Ervine and Adams stage record recovery

Dean Elgar's pugnacious resistance came to Somerset's aid again as Tom Abell and Steven Davies found no escape from their disastrous form

Elgar plays on but Abell, Davies still out of tune

Luke Wells continued his impressive start to the season with a second successive century at Hove as Sussex delighted their new skipper Chris Nash by dominating the first day against Worcestershire

Wells' century helps Sussex get over Wright shock