Each week The Cricketer picks a team of the round from the LV= Insurance County Championship
Haseeb Hameed (Nottinghamshire)
Notts may have been denied in their pursuit of victory against Derbyshire but he helped set the game up across the first two days. Hameed struck 196, falling narrowly short of a maiden double hundred and put on 402 for the second wicket with Ben Duckett as Mickey Arthur's side were put to the sword. The former Lancashire man has two fifties and two hundreds in his last five first-class innings.
Felix Organ (Hampshire)
One of only two openers to reach three figures during the last round of matches. Organ's third first-class century of 118 was a career-best return and came alongside a century opening stand with Ian Holland, 55 with Nick Gubbins and 81 with James Vince. A strike rate of 47.01 won't get Brendon McCullum excited but it was just what the doctor ordered for title-chasing Hants.
Josh Bohannon (Lancashire)
Didn't double up like Cheteshwar Pujara or Ben Duckett, but Bohannon's 103 at Wantage Road (he top-scored in the first innings with 31 too) carried plenty of value as Lancashire held firm to beat Northamptonshire. Set 278, Lancs were 48 for 2 and then 188 for 5 but Bohannon batted through, hitting his second hundred of the campaign. He fell with 69 still needed before Will Williams and Washington Sundar, other vital components of the victory, polished off the chase.
Hameed cashed in against Derbyshire (Ryan Hiscott/Getty Images)
Sam Northeast (Glamorgan)
Where do you start? Northeast struck the ninth highest first-class score in history, hammering 410 not out against Leicestershire. It was the highest score in the LV= Insurance County Championship for 127 years, the biggest by any Glamorgan player and the first quadruple ton for 19 years. It helped put on the biggest sixth-wicket partnership in the Championship (461) and Glamorgan's highest innings score (795 for 5d).
Joe Denly (Kent)
Kent gave their hopes of avoiding dropping into Division Two a timely boost with a second win of the campaign against defending champions Warwickshire. They led by only 45 with six second-innings wickets remaining when Denly came to the crease but a 196-run stand with Jordan Cox turned the game on its head and helped set Warwickshire 325. Denly's 141 was his 30th first-class hundred, his first of the campaign and followed a first-innings three-ball duck.
Will Jacks (Surrey)
Surrey were in a perilous position at the Kia Oval, seven down in their first innings and 159 behind Essex. Cue Jacks switching to white-ball mode against one of the best attacks around. He smashed a career-best 150 not out, with 10 fours and eight sixes - five of which came off Simon Harmer. Jacks put on 55 with Tom Lawes, 85 with Kemar Roach and 67 with Daniel Worrall to give the hosts a lead of 48 and set the platform for a crucial win.
There is nothing stopping Michael Hogan this season (Ryan Hiscott/Getty Images)
Chris Cooke (Glamorgan)
Can't claim to be main headline grabber from that record partnership at Grace Road but Cooke's performance went a long way towards Glamorgan securing victory to keep their promotion hopes alive. He added 120 to his overnight 71* on the fourth morning to help push Glamorgan towards a positive declaration at lunch. With the gloves, he completed eight dismissals, the joint third-best return by anyone in the County Championship this season.
Michael Hogan (Glamorgan)
One of the few bowlers to get any joy off a Grace Road pitch that produced 1,379 runs in the first 10 sessions. His first-innings 3 for 88 was only bettered by 4 for 43 in the second as Glamorgan chased down a fourth-day win. Colin Ackermann succumbed in both innings, finding the safe gloves of Cooke on both occasions while he also got Louis Kimber nicking off twice. Make that 57 wickets across the formats this season for the 41-year-old.
Matt Milnes (Kent)
As Warwickshire fell apart in their day four chase, Milnes was the beneficiary with figures of 6.5-1-11-4 as the champions were bundled out for just 147. Dom Sibley went on the third evening before Michael Burgess, Danny Briggs and Olivier Hannon-Dalby followed. The frugal Nottingham-native claimed 3 for 41 in the first innings when he got Sibley, captain Will Rhodes and denied Sam Hain (99) a century to help limit the Bears' lead to just 60.
Matt Milnes inspired Kent to a crucial win (Nathan Stirk/Getty Images)
Kyle Abbott (Hampshire)
Seven wickets in the match for the South African but his second innings of 19.2-5-76-6 was an imperious return as Hampshire set up a fourth-innings chase of just 82. Gloucestershire got themselves into a good position thanks to Miles Hammond's 169 to lead by 60 with five second-innings wickets remaining. But Abbott got him caught edging to spark a hat-trick, picking up the final five wickets in the space of 11 deliveries.
Daniel Worrall (Surrey)
The Victorian produced the second-best match figures by a seamer in Division One this season to help Surrey keep their grip on the title. Worrall claimed five-fors in both innings, 6 for 56 followed by 5 for 66, to leave the leaders needing just 161 for victory. He dismissed nine of the Essex line-up and got rid of Dan Lawrence in both innings in what was the best bowling performance of his first-class career, four years on from his only previous 10-wicket haul in the Sheffield Shield.
Honourable mentions: Miles Hammond, Ryan Higgins, Tom Abell, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Dom Bess, Adam Rossington, Oliver Hannon-Dalby, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Jack White, Will Williams, Tom Alsop, Cheteshwar Pujara, Tom Helm, John Simpson, Bradley Currie, Ben Duckett, Brook Guest, Wiaan Mulder
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