{"id":766132,"date":"2026-09-10T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766132\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:22:14","slug":"county-championship-live-day-three-scores-radio-commentary-live-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766132\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship LIVE: Day three &#8211; scores, radio commentary &#038; live text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draw could be enough for Durhampublished at 13:02 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:02 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Durham 252 &amp; 322-5 v Middlesex 203<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the matches at lunch on day three, it&#8217;s a good time to get the calculators out and look at a few scenarios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All the key games in Division Two are in the third innings so we know the bonus-point scenarios for the sides in the promotion race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Durham have collected four, Northants also have four but Kent only got three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WIN &#8211; If Durham beat Middlesex and they currently have a 371-run lead, they will go up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">DRAW &#8211; Durham would collect 12 points for a draw. That would be enough if Northants fail to win or Kent lose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">LOSE &#8211; Even a defeat for Durham would not matter if Northants lose to Worcestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Given we are on day three of game 12 in a 14-game season, it really is a matter of when, and not if, Durham are promoted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Draw could be enough for Durhampublished at 13:02 BST 13:02 BST Durham 252 &amp; 322-5 v Middlesex 203&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-766132","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\/766132","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=766132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}