Essex, Gloucestershire coast to easy wins

Essex and Gloucestershire coasted to easy outright wins with two days to spare in the County Championship matches which concluded at Chelmsford and Bristol yesterday.

The two teams recorded their third outright wins with Essex outclassing Northamptonshire by an innings and 44 runs and Gloucestershire recording a comfortable seven wicket win over Durham.

Meanwhile an unbeaten knock of 205 in 299 balls inclusive of 18 boundaries and a six by Chris Cooke helped Glamorgan, resuming from their overnight score of 371 for 5, to amass a score of 672 for 6 declared against Surrey. (MSA)

Results
At Chelmsford 
Northamptonshire 81 and (23/5 overnight) 45 (Luke Procter 24: Sam Cook 5 for 20, Shane Snater 4 for 7) Essex 170 
At Bristol – Gloucestershire won by seven wickets
Durham 140 and 131 (Michael Jones 17, Graham Clark 17, Liam Trevaskis 38 not out; Zafar Gohar 6 for 51, Graeme van Buuren 2 for 6)
Gloucestershire (146/6 overnight) 218 (Graeme van Buuren 62, Zafar Gohar 30, James Bracey 27, George Scott 21, Tom Lace 17, Tom Price 16; Liam Trevaskis 5 for 78, Ben Raine 3 for 39)
At Oval
Glamorgan (379/4 overnight) 672 for 6 declared (David Lloyd 121, Kiran Carlson 69, Joe Cooke 68, Dan Douthwaite 59, Eddie Byrom 45, Hamish Rutherford 36, Chris Cooke 205 not out, Callum Taylor 38 not out; Amar Virdi 3 for 140, Dan Moriarty 2 for 165)
Surrey 45 for 0 (Jamie Smith 23 not out, Ryan Patel 22 not out)
At Hove
Derbyshire (371/5 overnight) 465 (Wayne Madsen 111, Matt Critchley 85, Billy Godleman 52, Harry Crane 45, Brooke Guest 30, Mattie McKiernan 23, Anuj Dal 49 not out;  Henry Crocombe 4 for 92, Jamie Atkins 4 for 117, Sean Hunt 2 for 88)
Sussex 255 for 6 (Oliver Carter 51, Tom Haines 18, Ben Brown 150 not out;  Jack Carson 27 not out; Dustin Melton 3 for 47, Ben Aitchison 3 for 60)
At Nottingham
Nottinghamshire (292/9 overnight) 296 (Joe Clarke 109, Joey Evison 58, Steven Mullaney 31, Haseeb Hameed 23, Ben Slater 18, Liam Patterson-Whue 16;  Ben Coad 3 for 75, Matthew Revis 2 for 19, George Hill 2 for 32, Jordan Thompson 2 for 55)
Yorkshire 73 (Jordan Thompson 16; Joey Evison 4 for 13, Luke Fletcher 3 for 31, Dane Paterson 2 for 11) and 169 for 3 (Tom Kohler-Cadmore 49, George Hill 34, Adam Luth 74 not out)
At Birmingham
Warwickshire (283/4 overnight) 367 (Sam Hain 83, Will Rhodes 60, Dom Sibley 56, Matthew Lamb 44, Michael Burgess 20, Danny Briggs 53 not out; Craig Overton 5 for 88, Jack Brooks 3 for 83)
Somerset 239 for 5 (Azhar Ali 60, Tom Lammonby 59, Steven Davis 48 not out, Lewis Gregory 15 not out; Danny Briggs 2 for 40)
At Worcester 
 Leicester 222 
Worcestershire (30/1 overnight) 378 for 6 (Jack Libby 77, Charlie Morris 50, Jack Haynes 44, Brett D’Oliveira 37, Gareth Roderick 35, Ben Cox 52 not out, Ed Barnard 44 not out;  Callum Parkinson 3 for 68, Chris Wright 2 for 71)
At Liverpool
Hampshire 143 and 158 for 7 (James Vince 69, Liam Dawson 41, Joe Weatherley 33; Tom Bailey 5 for 19)
Lancashire (25/3 overnight) 141 (Steven Croft 40, Luke Wood 37, Tom Bailey 23; Mohammad Abbas 5 for 48, Keith Barker 4 for 51)
At Canterbury
Middlesex 147 and 298 for 6 (Mark Stoneman 109, Robbie White 38, Stephen Eskinazi 31, Martin Anderson 15, Luke Hollman 29 not out, John Simpson 21 not out;  Daniel Bell-Drummond 3 for 37, Matt Milnes 2 for 69)
Kent (82/4 overnight) 138 (Tawanda Muyeye 30, Jack Leaning 27, Zak Crawley 20, Daniel Bell-Drummond 20, Matt Milnes 16; Ethan Bamber 3 for 36, Martin Anderson 3 for 44, Toby Roland-Jones 2 for 20, Tim Murtagh 2 for 35).