County cricket: Middlesex beat Yorkshire, Essex thrash Lancashire and more – as it happened
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Yorkshire were narrowly beaten at Lord’s while Lancashire succumbed to Essex by an innings and 124 runsOnly one of Dan Lawrence and Dom Sibley has hit a six at Canterbury, and it isn’t the one you think. Sibley hovering on 99, Lawrence, getting his eye in, 39. Surrey 213-1.Yorkshire inching up into tricky target territory at Lord’s. George Hill still there, on 63, but has lost Ben Coad to Ethan Bamber. Continue reading

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