Snow stops play in County Championship clash at Headingley between Yorkshire and Glamorgan | Cricket News

Steady snow blankets Emerald Headingley as Glamorgan’s victory push against Yorkshire dented; Hampshire on brink of innings victory over Leicestershire; Tom Abell keeps Somerset in contention to beat Middlesex; England’s Rory Burns and Ben Foakes rally Surrey with half-centuries in Bristol

The cricketing summer is well underway – with snow stopping play at Emerald Headingley!

Yorkshire and Glamorgan were unable to play after lunch on day three of their County Championship game due to 90 minutes of steady snow which had blanketed the outfield, with the umpires abandoning play for the day at 3.30pm.

Glamorgan were the more frustrated of the two sides, having extended their lead over the home team to 298 runs in the 32 overs possible thanks to Billy Root (77no) and captain Chris Cooke (57no).

Root – playing against his brother, England Test captain Joe – and Cooke took their fifth-wicket stand to an unbroken 132 during a wicketless first session which ended with Glamorgan on 161-4.

Joe Root was dismissed for 16 on day two as Yorkshire were bowled out for 193 in reply to Glamorgan’s first-innings 330, in which the Welsh side rallied from 132-7.

Yorkshire were without seam bowlers Ben Coad and Matthew Fisher on Saturday, with the duo nursing pectoral and abdominal problems respectively.

Yorkshire’s Ben Coad will not bowl for the rest of the game against Glamorgan due to a pectoral injury

Coad and Fisher will not bowl again in the game and will be assessed early next week ahead of the fixture against Kent at Canterbury.

Coad’s absence, in particular, is a huge blow for Yorkshire, with the 27-year-old having taken seven wickets against Glamorgan, including three in the visitors’ second innings.

Glamorgan’s victory push may have taken a hit but Hampshire are on the brink of beating Leicestershire by an innings after bagging 14 wickets on day three at the Uptonsteel County Ground. SCORECARD

Hampshire are two wickets away from a win, having bowled the Foxes out for 202 in their first innings and then reduced their opponents to 279-8 after asking them to follow on – leg-spinner Mason Crane picking up three wickets in each innings.

Former Yorkshire bowler Olly Hannon-Dalby’s 5-29 from nine overs put Warwickshire into a strong position against Derbyshire on a heavily rain-affected day at Edgbaston. SCORECARD

Derbyshire are 71-5 in their second innings, leading the Bears by just 39, after Hannon-Dalby snared each of the wickets, including three in the third over of the innings as he dismissed Luis Reece, Anuj Dal and Leus de Plooy.

Bad light and rain wiped out the final 62 overs of a day on which Warwickshire were bowled out for 221 – Matt Lamb top-scoring with 54 – after they had resumed in the morning on 162-5.

Poor weather also intervened at Emirates Old Trafford with only 42.3 overs of play possible in the game between Lancashire and Sussex. SCORECARD

After a delayed start, Lancashire added 68 runs to their overnight 339-5 to be bowled out for 407 and carve out a first-innings lead of 106, thanks chiefly to skipper Dane Vilas’ 189 – Sussex seamer Sean Hunt ending with 3-47 on his first-class debut.

Sussex openers Aaron Thomason (23no) and Tom Haines (14no) batted 21.5 overs to take their team to 38-0 and reduce their deficit to 68 before the inclement weather returned and forced an early finish.

Somerset skipper Tom Abell’s unbeaten 62 maintained his side’s hopes of victory over Middlesex after they reached 112-3 in pursuit of 285 at Lord’s before the weather intervened. SCORECARD

Abell is alongside George Bartlett (2no) with Tom Lammonby (0), Tom Banton (37) and James Hildreth (11) dismissed for Somerset, who require 173 more runs to win on day four.

Josh Davey, Jack Leach and Craig Overton earlier ended with three wickets apiece as Middlesex – for whom Stevie Eskinazi (53) hit his first fifty in red-ball cricket for two years – were bowled out for 143 in their second innings, the final six wickets falling for 16 runs.

Ben Foakes (81no) and Rory Burns (74) revived Surrey against Gloucestershire as they closed at Bristol on 232-5 in their second innings with a lead of 126. SCORECARD

Surrey, who trailed by 106 on first innings, slumped to 48-3 as Hashim Amla and Foakes and Burns’ England team-mate Ollie Pope were dismissed for ducks by Matt Taylor.

Foakes and Burns then stabilised Surrey by adding 97 for the fourth wicket – Burns returning to form after a tough winter with England and making just four in the first innings against Gloucestershire.

Reece Topley (5-66) earlier completed his first five-wicket haul in a first-class match since 2014 as Gloucestershire were dismissed for 326.

Worcestershire frustrated reigning County Championship holders Essex at Chelmsford, with Jake Libby (141no) and Ed Barnard (116no) hitting hundreds – Barnard’s the first of his career – and sharing an unbroken seventh-wicket partnership of 205.

Riki Wessels also chipped in with 54 as the Pears – who were 43-4 early on day three when Sam Cook picked up his fourth wicket of the innings – closed on 350-6, leaving them 190 runs behind Essex’s first-innings total of 490. SCORECARD

Like Essex, Kent were unable to rip through their opponents after topping 400 in their first innings with Northamptonshire’s Ricardo Vasconcelos hitting a sparkling 154, his sixth first-class ton.

Northants closed on 301-5, trailing Kent by 154, with a draw looking likely on day four at Wantage Road. SCORECARD

Kent veteran Darren Stevens, 44, backed up becoming the oldest player to hit a County Championship century since 1986 by taking two wickets.

South African batsman David Bedingham turned his maiden first-class century in English cricket into a career-best unbeaten 180 to put Durham in complete control at Nottinghamshire.

Bedingham and Ned Eckersley (113no) helped Durham recover from 22-3 to 332-4 as they fashioned a huge lead of 395 over their opponents at Trent Bridge. SCORECARD

Nottinghamshire now look set to see their run of first-class matches without a win stretch to 28, going back to June 2018.