The Cricketer wraps up the best of the action on day one of the 13th round of LV= Insurance County Championship matches in 2023
Chester-le-Street (day one of four): Sussex 266, Durham 6-0 - Durham are 260 runs behind with 10 first-innings wickets remaining
Matt Parkinson claimed four wickets and took a brilliant catch to hand promotion-chasing Durham a strong start to their LV= Insurance County Championship Division Two clash after bowling out Sussex for 266 on day one.
Sussex openers Tom Haines and Tom Clark put on 110 for the opening stand in a wicketless first session for the hosts. But, Parkinson turned the momentum of the day by removing Haines for 51 with a sensational diving grab before he tore through the middle order, including the prized wicket of Cheteshwar Pujara.
Tom Alsop top-scored with 59 for the visitors, but Ben Raine and Matthew Potts were on their mettle with the new ball to clean up the Sussex tail, who lost all 10 wickets for 156 runs in the afternoon and evening sessions.
Matt Parkinson, back on loan at Durham ahead of his permanent move to Kent, had a busy day (Gareth Copley/Getty Images)
New Road (day one of four): Worcestershire 284, Glamorgan 3-0 - Glamorgan are 281 runs behind with 10 first-innings wickets remaining
Club Captain Brett D'Oliveira helped inspire a Worcestershire comeback on his return from injury for the County Championship top-three encounter with Glamorgan at New Road.
D'Oliveira, side-lined for three weeks with a dislocated shoulder, came to the wicket with Worcestershire 103 for 5 after they had been put into bat with Jamie McIlroy picking up three wickets.
A mixture of probing and accurate bowling but also some undistinguished shots had put Glamorgan in command until D’Oliveira redressed the balance of the day.
He top-scored with 74 not out and was given excellent support by Logan van Beek and on-loan Essex all-rounder Ben Allison during stands of 101 and 64.
D’Oliveira has a liking for playing against Glamorgan having scored three Championship hundreds, including a career-best 202 not out, and his best bowling figures of 7 for 92.
Brett D'Oliveira kept Worcestershire on the straight and narrow (Warren Little/Getty Images)
Scarborough (day one of four): Yorkshire 297, Derbyshire 47-1 - Derbyshire are 250 runs behind with nine first-innings wickets remaining
Derbyshire all-rounder Anuj Dal impressed with 5 for 72 during a hard-fought opening day of their County Championship clash with Yorkshire at Scarborough.
Dal's 20 overs of medium pace limited Yorkshire to 297 after they had been inserted in a low-key Division Two affair.
While Yorkshire are bottom of Division Two and definitely out of the promotion race, Derbyshire are just about still alive. But it would take something remarkable to secure a top-two finish given they are 52 points adrift with four games remaining.
Dal’s third career five-wicket haul - his second in the Championship this season - stood out during a day that saw a number of Yorkshire batters fail to make the most of encouraging starts on a pitch not as pacy as is usual at North Marine Road.
James Wharton top-scored with a middle-order 58, but Fin Bean and Jonny Tattersall both fell in the forties. Derbyshire then reached close at 47 for one from 17 overs.
It was a day to remember for Anuj Dal (Dan Mullan/Getty Images)
Grace Road (day one of four): Gloucestershire 159, Leicestershire 103-2 - Leicestershire are 56 runs behind with eight first-innings wickets remaining
Leicestershire's bid to win promotion in the County Championship to go with their first one-day final for 22 years started impressively as they returned to red-ball action at the Uptonsteel County Ground.
Gloucestershire, the side they bowled out for 125 here last Tuesday to clinch their place in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup final, fared scarcely better, dismissed for 159 by Leicestershire’s seam attack despite Chris Dent's half-century.
Tom Scriven, with a career-best 4 for 30, and veteran Chris Wright (3 for 30) exploited a green pitch, with much of the damage done between lunch and tea as Gloucestershire collapsed from 77 for 1.
In reply, against a visiting attack lacking three of their top four wicket-takers, Leicestershire were 103 for 2 in their first innings at the close, with opener Rishi Patel closing in on 1,000 first-class runs in a season for the first time in his career, on 60 not out.
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