COUNTIES CRICKET Championship day 2 round-up July 27
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The pair added 115 with Cox making 80 and Ammonds 45 which lifted Herefordshire from 91 for eight to 206 all out.
They still trailed by 203 on first innings but Wiltshire captain Ed Young did not enforce the follow on, instead opting to pile on more runs before declaring to set Herefordshire a target of 522.
Wiltshire’s 323 for eight came in 46.4 overs with half-centuries from Cyrus Shafi, who added 54 to his first innings 146, and Will Naish (70) and Tom Cheater (45) and Jake Goodwin (40) scoring at more than a run-a-ball.
Slow left-armer Taylor Cornall took five wickets although they came at a cost – 110 runs from 18 overs – before he opened the batting and made a quickfire 42 in an opening stand of 82 with Ben Chapman-Lilley.
But after Cornall departed, caught behind off Naish, Herefordshire slipped to 108 for four, eventually ending the day on 122 for four with Chapman-Lilley unbeaten on 57.
Oxfordshire opener Amogh Karpe missed out on a maiden century by just one run against Devon at Banbury.
Karpe left his previous Championship best – 12 – behind and went into lunch 99 not out from 147 balls. But he could not find the single he needed to get to three figures from the first five deliveries he faced in the afternoon session and edged the sixth to slip off slow left-armer Callum Harvey.
Harvey’s five wicket haul earned Devon a first innings lead of 21 which they extended by 148 for the loss of five second innings wickets. They were 65 for four at one stage but the experienced Matt Thompson steered them into calmer waters with 38 not out.
Shropshire closed in on a first Championship win in two years against Wales NC at Bridgnorth in Western Division Two.
After half-centuries from Harry Chandler (71) and Seb Scott (60) took Shropshire to 348 in their first innings, and a lead of 182 a two-day finish was in prospect when they had Wales 128 for five.
But Rhodri Lewis (40 not out) and Luke Griffiths (22 not out) dug in for the final eight overs of the day to take Wales to 164 for five, still 18 behind their hosts.
An intriguing final day is in prospect at Wimborne where Dorset’s Finn Gordon replied to a first day century from Cheshire’s Sam Perry with a career-best 172.
Gordon faced 225 balls and struck 21 fours and two sixes and shared a third wicket partnership of 108 with his captain, Luke Webb (50) which took Dorset to 364 all out.
That restricted Cheshire’s first innings lead to 41 which they extended to 151 for the loss of three wickets with in-form Perry back at the crease at the close.
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