{"id":541001,"date":"2026-04-20T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541001\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:22:08","slug":"county-championship-cricket-live-scores-radio-commentary-updates-from-four-games-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541001\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship Cricket LIVE: Scores, radio commentary &#038; updates from four games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lunch at Edgbastonpublished at 13:08 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:08 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Warks v Essex 80-5 &#8211; target 206<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What a morning in Birmingham, which has ripped this game wide open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The drama started in the second over of the day, Keith Barker taking three wickets &#8211; he had Dean Elgar trapped lbw when offering no shot, induced an uppish drive from nightwatchman Sam Cook which went to cover, and then bowled Charlie Allison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ethan Bamber accounted for Matt Critchley, who cut him to cover, before Luc Benkenstein survived a delivery that rolled back on to his stumps but didn&#8217;t dislodge the bails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He and Paul Walter dug in before the latter presented Barker with a catch at mid off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benkenstein is still there, on 37 not out, and much will depend on him as Essex&#8217;s seemingly chaseable target of 206 suddenly seems a little way in the distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wicket-keeper Michael Pepper is supporting Benkenstein, on 9 not out from 38 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The visitors need 126 more to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lunch at Edgbastonpublished at 13:08 BST 13:08 BST Warks v Essex 80-5 &#8211; target 206 What a morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-541001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}