“It is vaguely interesting, even romantic, to be back here again for the fifth or sixth time in one’s life beside the River Danube”. Opening of Geoffrey Green’s preview of Derby Co’s Euro Cup tie v Bratislava

Final CC table: 1 Leics 240pts, 2 Yorks 224pts 3 Hants 223 4 Lancs 219 5 Kent 209
Boycott & Roberts top averages. Boycott most runs (1915) Lee most wkts (112)

Surrey (1st inns: Underwood 6-53, Johnson 4-66) drew with Kent
Somerset (Richards 51) drew with Glam
Warks (Jameson 93, Sarfraz 6-76) lost to Northants (Willey 70, Larkins 59) by 3 wkts
Yorks beat Essex (McEwan 59, N Smith 100) by 59 runs to take second place in the Championship.

Graham McKenzie retires. “Of the great fast bowlers of the Past 20 years, none was more genial than McKenzie, none more popular.” Woodcock
Gloucs (Zaheer 123, Shepherd 50, White 7-72) lost to Notts (1st inns: Davey 4-81, Brown 4-125) by 10 wkts.
Sussex drew with Lancs

Notts (Todd 178, Smedley 69, Johnson 58*) lead Gloucs by 193 with 4 first=innings wkts left
Northants (Steele 88, Sarfraz 58) are 140 behind Warks with 2 first-innings wkts left
Somerset (Roebuck 81*) are 3 behind Glam (Breakwell 5-51) with all second-innings wkts left

Sussex need 38 to avoid inns defeat to Lancs (Kennedy 75) with 6 wkts left
Hants beat Worcs (1st inns: Turner 61, Sainsbury 5-48; 2nd inns Jesty 6-40) by inns & 108 runs
Yorks lead Essex (Pont 50, Old 5-57) by 325 with 4 wkts left
Surrey are 230 behind Kent with 4 first-innings wickets left

Sunday League final table: 1 Hampshire 2 Worcestershire 3 Kent

Kent 358-8d (Luckhurst 119, Denness 90, Julien 65) Surrey 8-0
Hants 453-8 (Greenidge 168, Turner 122, Gilliatt 71, Brain 4-117) Worcs 58-0
Somerset 158-4 v Glamorgan
Yorks 286 (Boycott 92, C Johnson 85, Lever 4-55) Essex 54-2
QPR 1 Man Utd 0; Man Utd remain top of Div 1

Kent beat Sussex (Greig 103, Jarvis 4-62) by 10 wkts
Cowdrey confirms his retirement; will not accept Greig’s offer to play for Sussex next year.
Scarborough Festival: Yorks beat International XI (Carrick 4-32) by 7 wkts

Sussex (1st inns Julien 7-66; 2nd inns Groome 56*, Greig 59*) need 107 to avoid inns defeat with 8 wkts left v Kent
International XI are 8 behind Yorks (Hampshire 82, Carrick 50) with 9 wkts left
Brian Close offered new contract by Somerset, who are yet to decide if captaincy is included.

“For some time Shepherd’s survival could hardly be attributed to anything other than the power of prayer. As Lever beat him outside the off stump again and again, I had visions of specially summoned prayer meetings in all the chapels of Barnstaple and Bideford.” Gibson

Surrey 120 (Perryman 4-19) lost to Warks 123-5 by 5 wkts
Gloucs 156-9 (McVicker 5-19) lost to Leics 157-6 (Gower 54) by 4 wkts
Sussex (Faber 57, Greig 52) beat Lancs 120 (M Buss 4-25) by 69 runs
Notts (Randall 81) lost to Northants 152-4 by 6 wkts