Superb Surrey blow away Somerset, Nottinghamshire win again

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION ONE ROUNDUP: Somerset collapsed in the third innings at the Kia Oval, while Sussex were outplayed by Nottinghamshire to be beaten inside three days

Trent Bridge (day three of four): Sussex 169 & 278, Nottinghamshire 300 & 149-1 - Nottinghamshire win by nine wickets

Division One leaders Nottinghamshire eased to a nine-wicket win inside three days after outplaying Sussex in their Rothesay County Championship clash at Trent Bridge.

Needing 148 to win after Sussex were bowled out for 278 in their second innings, Nottinghamshire were home and dry in 25.5 overs after unbeaten half centuries from skipper Haseen Hameed (62) and England's Ben Duckett (59), earning 21 points from their second victory of the campaign.

A doughty 74 from Sussex captain John Simpson, backed up by off-spinning allrounder Jack Carson's 43, kept the home side in the field until lunchtime, but Nottinghamshire looked as if they were no mood to be still playing at tea, completing the job in good time to watch their neighbours from Nottingham Forest take on Manchester City in their FA Cup semi-final later.

Farhan Ahmed, their 17-year-old off-spinner, delivered another standout display with the ball, taking 4 for 54, with Australian seamer Fergus O'Neill signing off with 3 for 74 in his last match for the county.

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^{Nottinghamshire's impressive start continued (Gareth Copley/Getty Images)}

Kia Oval (day three of four): Somerset 283 & 119, Surrey 367 & 36-2 - Surrey win by eight wickets

Champions Surrey recorded their first win of the season in emphatic style, beating Somerset by eight wickets at the Kia Oval.

Dan Worrall and Jordan Clark shared six wickets as Somerset were bowled out for 119, having conceded a first-innings deficit of 84. Surrey knocked off their target of 36 in 5.2 overs and moved up to second in the table. behind early leaders Nottinghamshire.

At one stage Somerset lost six wickets for 13 runs in eight overs and were 38 for 7 after Clark and Worrall proved too good with a new ball that swung nicely.

Somerset, winless after four games, were complicit in their own downfall with some soft dismissals in the post-lunch period when five wickets went down in 34 balls for just four runs. Migael Pretorious held up Surrey with 54 but it was only delaying the inevitable.

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