{"id":564042,"date":"2026-05-03T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/564042\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:26:09","slug":"county-championship-live-scores-radio-commentary-updates-from-seven-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/564042\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship LIVE: Scores, radio commentary &#038; updates from seven games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/sport\/incident-types\/light-mode\/cricket-50.11b6947df2.svg\" alt=\"50 runs\"\/>for Joe Rootpublished at 13:57 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:57 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Yorks 141-2 (lead Somerset by 29 runs)<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe Root batting\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/910eb997-5bd5-4140-a2d7-8e43bc7ebc75.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1906\" height=\"1072\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A second innings in the County Championship this season for Joe Root, and a second half-century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having made 96 against Sussex last time out, the England lynchpin reaches another 50 with a single just after lunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s not without an alarm, first though &#8211; a big appeal when he was 49, but there may have been two noises and it looked just outside the line of off stump as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Root has now made a half century or better in each of his last six matches in all formats &#8211; 160 against Australia in the fifth Ashes Test; 61, 75 and 111 not out in the three one-day internationals against Sri Lanka, and the two Championship scores this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"for Joe Rootpublished at 13:57 BST 13:57 BST Yorks 141-2 (lead Somerset by 29 runs) Image source, Getty&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":["post-564042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564042","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=564042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564042\/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=564042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}