Find out what happened on day two of the latest round of LV= Insurance County Championship matches
DIVISION ONE
The Oval (second day of four): Surrey 673-7d, Kent 147-2 - Kent trail by 526 runs with eight first-innings wickets remaining
Sam Curran made his maiden first-class hundred as leaders Surrey continued to dominate.
For only the second time in their history, four batsmen made centuries in the same Championship innings as Surrey piled up 673 for 7, with Will Jacks making an undefeated 103 to add to the first-day hundreds by Ben Geddes and Hashim Amla.
Surrey's total was a new record against Kent and only two runs more than they made at Beckenham in May when seven of their batters scored fifties - but no one made a hundred.
Curran then picked up Ben Compton in the fourth over of Kent's reply, and they also lost Joe Denly, before Daniel Bell-Drummond and skipper Jack Leaning fought back either side of a 90-minute rain delay which took 17 overs out of the day's allocation.
Bell-Drummond reached 50 for the second successive match as Kent closed on 147 for 2, still 526 runs behind.
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Chelmsford (second day of four): Essex 238 & 223, Hampshire 168 & 35-0 - Hampshire need 264 runs to win with 10 second-innings wickets remaining
Simon Harmer tormented Hampshire with bat and ball as Essex racked up a huge advantage.
South African Harmer claimed 8 for 46 – his first of the season and the best figures by anyone so far in the 2022 Championship – to condemn Hampshire to a 75-run first-innings deficit.
He then totted up 61 to go alongside Adam Rossington's 60 to ease Essex away from 51 for 5 and to set Hampshire a target of 299, taken down to 264 by the close.
Across the three innings, all 14 wickets in the day fell to spin bowling – with Liam Dawson picking up his best Hampshire figures of 7 for 68 and Felix Organ 3 for 7 on a pitch full of turn.
Sam Curran hit his first career first-class century [Getty Images]
Northampton (second day of four): Northamptonshire 451, Warwickshire 71-1 - Warwickshire trail by 380 runs with nine first-innings wickets remaining
Oliver Hannon-Dalby celebrated 250 career first-class wickets as he ran through Northamptonshire's lower order on day two.
In a miserly four-over spell, Hannon-Dalby claimed four victims for just five runs as Northamptonshire added 31 runs to their overnight total to close on 451. The 33-year-old-seamer is now the second leading wicket-taker in Division One with 29 scalps, just behind Keith Barker's 32.
But despite his efforts Warwickshire still face a tough task in this game after some highly disciplined Northamptonshire bowling performance restricted scoring to just 1.8 an over, with only two boundaries coming in the first 25 overs of the visitors' reply.
Alex Davies looked to regain the initiative with some lusty blows but Jack White soon ended the resistance when he trapped him leg before for 31. Dom Sibley was still there at the close unbeaten on 30 as Warwickshire ended the day on 71 for one, still a mammoth 380 behind.
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Bristol (second day of four): Gloucestershire 337, Lancashire 226-4 - Lancashire trail by 111 runs with six first-innings wickets remaining
Opener Keaton Jennings narrowly missed out on a century as Lancashire built a promising position at Bristol.
The experienced England Test batsman hit 94, off 152 balls, with 15 fours and a six, helping his side reach 226 for 4 in their first innings by the close, 111 behind. Steven Croft was unbeaten on 49.
Gloucestershire had been bowled out for 337 from an overnight 279 for 7, Chris Dent falling for 110 and Zafar Gohar a valuable 62, his highest score for Gloucestershire.
Alex Davies in action for Warwickshire [Getty Images]
DIVISION TWO
Nottingham (second day of four): Nottinghamshire 551-8d, Middlesex 106-4 - Middlesex trail by 445 runs with six first-innings wickets remaining
Division Two leaders Nottinghamshire tightened their grip against Middlesex, posting their highest total at Trent Bridge for seven years after Lyndon James had turned his overnight 90 into a career-best 152.
The 23-year-old allrounder completed his first century on home soil and went well past his previous best of 108 before miscuing a ball from Middlesex’s young leg-spinner Luke Hollman to be caught at backward point as Nottinghamshire racked up 551 before declaring at eight down.
After a rocky start saw them slip to 37 for 3 inside 10 overs, Mark Stoneman and Max Holden looked to have built a platform for a Middlesex fightback by adding 69 in 24 overs but Stoneman fell for 67 just before close to leave the visitors 106 for 4, still 445 runs behind.
Hollman finished with 4 for 122 as the most successful Middlesex bowler, although only Toby Roland-Jones was able to find any measure of control.
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Hove (second day of four): Derbyshire 551-8d, Sussex 142-3 - Sussex trail by 409 runs with seven second-innings wickets remaining
Derbyshire's batsmen ran amok to place their side in total control. They piled up 551 for 8 before declaring and at the close Sussex were 142 for three in reply.
The Sussex bowlers toiled on a flat pitch and on a warm day and their worst period was after lunch, by which time Derbyshire were seven wickets down. Sussex did take an eighth wicket. But then Anuj Dal (146*) and Mark Watt (55*) thumped a century partnership off just 115 balls. Their unbroken stand of 108 in 20 overs is a new ninth-wicket record for Derbyshire against Sussex.
In their partnership, Dal, who scored his second century of the season from 236 deliveries, and Watt appeared to score at will and at one period Sussex captain Tom Haines handed over control of his side to Steve Finn. Haines had left the field for a spell but when he returned he fielded at long-off while Finn talked to the bowlers and set the fields.
A Sussex spokesman said: "It was easier for Finn to manage the field while Tom was on and off and preparing to bat." But there was a sense of frustration among the spectators.
Sussex are looking for their first County Championship victory since April 2021. That looks well beyond them already and it didn't get much better when they batted. Ali Orr was bowled for 5 by Sam Connors, who then dismissed Haines, driving, for 17. But then Tom Alsop (44) and Mohammad Rizwan (54*) added 95 before Alsop fell to a juggling catch at midwicket shortly before the close.
The County Championship round is entering its business stage [Getty Images]
Worcester (second day of four): Worcestershire 271 & 147-6, Glamorgan 139 - Worcestershire lead by 279 runs with four second-innings wickets remaining
Joe Leach marked his return to first team action with career-best figures of 6 for 44 to help Worcestershire establish control.
The allrounder has been sidelined since suffering a back problem in mid-May but quickly made his presence felt on a wicket of pace and bounce continuing to offer encouragement to the seamers.
His three-wicket burst on Sunday evening had put Worcestershire in the ascendancy and he continued in the same vein on Monday to earn his side a lead of 132.
Only opener Ed Byrom, with a fighting half-century, offered much resistance.
Azhar Ali and Jake Libby then built on Worcestershire's position of strength with a second-wicket stand of 87.
But Michael Neser bowled an inspired late spell which brought him three wickets as the home side closed with a lead of 279.
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