da lvbet： A round-up of the latest action from the County Championship
Cricinfo staff16-Jun-2005Division OneSussex and Nottinghamshire squeezed in just seven overs on a heavily rain-affected second day at Arundel, but it was enough time for Chris Harris to dismiss Robin Martin-Jenkins. Jenkins added 12 to his overnight score of 25. Sussex ended the day on 274 for6.Harbhajan Singh ripped through the Hampshire middle-order, taking 6 for 36 as Surrey grabbed thesecond-day honours at The Rose Bowl. Surrey added 35to their overnight score to finish on 361 all out.Dominic Thornely was eventually dismissed for 73, thefourth of Chris Tremlett’s victims. Tremlett returnedfigures of 4 for 106. Harbhajan also chipped in withthe bat, posting a useful 25 before he was bowled bySean Ervine. Then came the bowling onslaught. MartinBicknell struck first, removing Jimmy Adams. MichaelBrown was the next to fall, to Mohammad Akram. ButHarhbajan did the bulk of the damage. And Hampshirewere in dire straits at 146 for 8 by the close.Daniel Cherry struck a sweet double century – thefirst of his career – as Glamorgan strode to animposing 584 for 3 declared. There were centuries toofor David Hemp (103) and Jonathan Hughes, who wasunbeaten on 134. Hughes shared an impressivepartnership of 239 for the third wicket as Glamorgansteered themselves into a very solid position. BenHutton turned to nine bowlers in all in a bid to gainbreakthroughs, but wickets were few and far between.And he failed to cash in on a belter of a pitch,making 16 before falling to Dean Cosker. Middlesexended the day at 96 for 1, with Ed Smith unbeaten on57, but the home side still have much work to do atSouthgate.Kent wrested control at Edgbaston through Robert Key(75) and Martin van Jaarsveld (62). At the end of theday Kent were 270 for 3, a lead of 18 with sevenwickets in hand.Division TwoDale Benkenstein and Phil Mustard each struck 80 asDurham added 200 to their overnight score to reach334. Johannes Wright was Northamptonshire’s mostsuccessful bowler, with 4 for 71. Northants’ reply gotoff to a steady start, with Martin Love and BilalShafayat sharing an opening stand of 54. But RobertWhite fell just before the close to leave Northants on98 for 2 and the match in the balance.Lancashire will feel the happier of the two sides,just, as they ended the second day against Derbyshirewith a lead of 51 and one wicket remaining. DominicCork chipped out the last two wickets for Derbyshireearly, to end with 4 for 40. Lancashire’s reply gotoff to a bad start, as they lost Mark Chilton and MalLoye with the score just 12. They were going along nicely, but a further threewickets fell for just eight runs to leave them in somedisarray at 128 for 6. Cork again came to the rescueand was unbeaten on 63 by the close, with some stronglower-order support from Muttiah Muralitharan (24 notout).Zander de Bruyn struck an unbeaten half-century asWorcestershire shaded the day at Grace Road. NadeemMalik took 5 for 71 as Leicestershire wickets fellsteadily – they ended on 225. In reply, Worcestershirewere in some difficulty at 27 for 2 – with SimonDavies and Graeme Hick back in the pavilion courtesyof Ottis Gibson, but Ben Smith (45), Stephen Moore(41) and de Bruyn all batted well to add stability.