{"id":641216,"date":"2026-06-16T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641216\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:25:10","slug":"county-championship-day-four-somerset-beat-notts-essex-middlesex-and-northants-also-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641216\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship day four &#8211; Somerset beat Notts, Essex, Middlesex and Northants also win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signing offpublished at 18:45 BST 15 June<\/p>\n<p>18:45 BST 15 June<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Somerset's Jake Ball\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0a5b4ba9-d79e-47fd-865a-fa2e287c17a5.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1350\" height=\"759\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With each team having played seven games, we are now at the half-way point of the County Championship season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just nine points cover the top five teams in Division One, who do not include defending champions Nottinghamshire following their defeat by Somerset, their first loss at Trent Bridge since 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex, who last won the title in 2019, are now setting the pace and face Notts at Chelmsford in their next game on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Durham and Northants are setting the pace in Division Two and play each other in the next round of games, which start on Friday, when Ben Stokes could be involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thanks for your company over the past four days. We&#8217;ll see you again next time.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signing offpublished at 18:45 BST 15 June 18:45 BST 15 June Image source, Shutterstock With each team having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641216","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\/641216","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=641216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}