{"id":661919,"date":"2026-05-10T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661919\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:50:09","slug":"county-championship-cricket-live-scores-radio-commentary-updates-from-nine-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661919\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship Cricket LIVE: Scores, radio commentary &#038; updates from nine games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essex in pursuit of wickets at Chelmsfordpublished at 14:31 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:31 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Essex 273 ao v Hants 235 &amp; 196-6, Hants lead by 158<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d484b446-eac2-46ae-9479-54ff968a8b53.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Grace Ballinger<br \/>The Blaze and Manchester Super Giants seamer<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex won&#8217;t want the Hampshire tail to wag at Chelmsford, as Ben Brown and James Fuller begin to settle at the crease, offering some middle-order resistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A few quick wickets could lead to Essex requiring less than 200 runs in the fourth innings to win, but with the side generally struggling for runs this season, the task is perhaps more difficult than it seems on paper for the home side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex&#8217; top run scorer in 2026 is Simon Harmer, who batted nine in the first innings, and is 29th highest run scorer in Division One. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essex in pursuit of wickets at Chelmsfordpublished at 14:31 BST 14:31 BST Essex 273 ao v Hants 235&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-661919","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\/661919","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=661919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}