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Heroic Hildreth and glory for Gubbins

James Hildreth batted through the pain to get Somerset off to a flier while Nick Gubbins thwarted Yorkshire on Day One of the final round...

DIVISION ONE
Hampshire 370-6 v Durham 
Middlesex 208-5 v Yorkshire
Somerset 322-9 v Notts
Warks 219 v Lancs 14-0

DIVISION TWO
Gloucs 201-7 v Sussex
Kent v Essex (abandoned)
Leics 96 & 78-0 v Glamorgan 199
Worcs 255-6 v Derbyshire

THE PERMUTATIONS! Find out who needs what to win the title

GUB A DUB DUB
Middlesex needed someone to step up having been inserted under thick cloud cover at Lord’s and falling to 57-3. Nick Gubbins was that man. Second only to Keaton Jennings in the run charts, he struck a quite brilliant century, underlying his stone cold temperament, and leading Middlesex past 200 before bad light curtailed play on Day One...

RUNNING UP THAT HIL
James Hildreth is a hero. End of. The Somerset batsman was pinned on the ankle by a Jake Ball delivery and could barely walk afterwards. Tom Abell came out as a runner and was pretty busy as Hildreth battled through the pain all the way to three figures, an incredible, Herculean effort. Chris Rogers also tonned up in a partnership of 269 but then Somerset lost five wickets for NO RUNS! That fourth batting point, which looked in the bag at 322-4 now looks out of reach at 322-9...

PEA FACTORY
It was a case of what might have been for Yorkshire. Bowling in friendly conditions they quickly had Middlesex 97-4 - Jack Brooks taking three - but then their catching deserted them. Three went down, two in the slips, and the league leaders crawled away from imminent danger. 

WHAM BAM THANK YOU GLAM
Leicestershire walked on the field to bat at Grace Road and left the field batting at the day's end. The only thing was, an entire innings had come and gone in between. Skittled for 96 in the morning session, Glamorgan's Timm van der Gugten taking 5-52, they then dismissed the visitors for 199 before reaching 75-0 in their second dig. Eventful.

DROP ZONE
After the euphoria of Warwickshire's emphatic Royal London One-Day Cup triumph against Surrey, Ian Bell and co now face a real battle to stay up. With Hampshire ticking away nicely against Durham, Warwickshire accumulated just one bonus point after being skittled by Lancashire, who can secure their safety with a win. A tense few days lie ahead at Edgbaston...

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