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Spinners Liam Dawson and Mason Crane bowled Hampshire to a 90-run victory over Somerset

Teenager Dom Bess claimed a career-best 7 for 117 as Hampshire set Somerset 259 to win on the second day of the action-packed Specsavers County Championship match at Taunton

Sometimes, the feeling in county cricket is that the moments to savour come from the same old faces. That's not necessarily a complaint when Kumar Sangakkara is the face

In the opening 50-minutes, Surrey were 31 for 5. The rest of the day? 303 for 2. What happened, you ask? Kumar Sangakkara. Again

Jack Leach delivered a strong reminder of his undoubted talent as 12 wickets fell to spin on the first day of the Specsavers' County Championship game between Somerset and Hampshire

Kumar Sangakkara announced that this would be his final season in the County Championship after Surrey had secured a draw at Lord's

Marcus Trescothick passed Harold Gimblett's record with his 50th first-class century for Somerset as he helped ensure a draw against Warwickshire

Lancashire's tail wagged to good effect to deny Yorkshire the chance of enforcing the follow on before Peter Handscomb crashed a destructive hundred in the evening

A Jonathan Trott century has earned Warwickshire an outside chance of victory in the bottom of the table battle at Taunton

In the unlikely event that Pablo Picasso had been asked to paint a portrait of a batsman, the resulting canvas might have borne some resemblance to the stance of Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Kumar Sangakkara's sense of occasion was evident once more in this London derby as he scored his second century of the match, while also passing 20,000 career first-class runs

Jamie Porter led the Essex attack in bowling out Hampshire twice inside three sessions for a three-day win to move to the top of the Specsavers County Championship first division, at least for 24 hours

Kumar Sangakkara treated Lord's to a fine century on the first day of the London derby but it is no exaggeration to say that Dawid Malan, Middlesex's own classy left-hander, achieved the same standards in reply

After a long break for rain, an unbroken stand of 165 between the Jacks - Leaning and Brooks - put Yorkshire in a position where they shouldn't lose the Roses match

Jamie Porter and Matt Quinn shared five Hampshire wickets in 17 balls of carnage in overcast evening conditions on the second day of Essex's Specsavers County Championship match at Chelmsford

James Anderson was enjoying a productive Roses new-ball spell against Yorkshire - and then local rivalries gave way to England concerns as he limped off injured

They unveiled a portrait of Kumar Sankakkara at Lord's and he responded by scoring a hundred for Surrey in the London derby - and did so with barely a hair out of place

Alastair Cook and Tom Westley both posted centuries for Essex as Hampshire endured a day of toil at Chelmsford

If you were to judge by the statistics, Jamie Overton shouldn't enter into the thoughts of the England selectors

Mason Crane, the 20-year-old legspinner, broke into the New South Wales team earlier this year but has missed out in Hampshire's opening three Championship matches