Overview
- Reigning champions Nottinghamshire moved first on Monday after a 10-wicket win at Grace Road, with Liam Patterson-White finishing 5-53 in a 36-over spell.
- Yorkshire completed a 75-run comeback in Taunton on Monday as Joe Root and Dom Bess took four wickets each to bowl out Somerset for 184.
- Surrey secured their first victory of the season on Monday with an eight-wicket win over Sussex after piling up 622, led by Dom Sibley’s 187 and a debut 120 from 19-year-old Adam Thomas.
- Kent claimed their first County Championship win in over a year on Monday, routing Derbyshire by 225 runs as Matt Milnes took career-best figures of 6-12.
- Earlier in the round, Northamptonshire won by an innings and 177 after Ben Sanderson’s 7-31, and at Lord’s Emilio Gay’s 129 in a draw kept his England case in the spotlight.