He sent down 18 wicketless overs for 49 as former South Africa captain Dean Elgar held centre stage for the hosts at Chelmsford on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Elgar was an immovable object, hitting an unbeaten 140 to put Essex on track to build a big lead over Durham<\/p>\n
Replying to 333 all out, Elgar spent over five-and-a-half hours at the crease as he shepherded the hosts to 3-312. Matt Critchley proved the ideal foil for the opener, sharing in a stand of 154, and will resume on day three on 97 not out.<\/p>\n
England seamer Josh Tongue has continued to make hay against his former club, pushing title hopefuls Nottinghamshire towards a winning position against Worcestershire.<\/p>\n
Tongue matched his first-innings haul of three wickets at New Road, dismissing the Pears’ top three as they crumbled to 5-93 on the second day.<\/p>\n
The Division One strugglers hold a lead of just 68 and will need to battle hard to avert a three-day defeat that could temporarily lift Nottinghamshire back ahead of Surrey at the top of the table.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the Brown Caps are in no mood to let their title defence slip, having taken control of their clash against Warwickshire.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Returning Test seamer Gus Atkinson took three wickets and Tom Lawes four as the Bears were bowled out for 248 at The Oval – just two runs in front.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But three consecutive top-order fifties, from captain Rory Burns, leading run-scorer Dom Sibley and England vice-captain Ollie Pope nudged the scales as Surrey closed on 1-181.<\/p>\n
Tom Abell racked up a century as Somerset kept reached 6-391 on the second day of their Taunton clash against Yorkshire.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Abell was three not out overnight and fell just before bad light ended things, reaching three figures with a reverse sweep and finishing with 130.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He sent down 18 wicketless overs for 49 as former South Africa captain Dean Elgar held centre stage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-130980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}