YORKSHIRE LEADS IN COUNTY MATCHES

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27396, 8 July 1954, Page 13

YORKSHIRE LEADS IN COUNTY MATCHES

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, July 6. Yorkshire maintained their slender twopoints lead over Warwickshire in the county cricket championship today with a win by 54 runs over the champions, Surrey.

Yorkshire now have 122 points from 15 games, against V/arwickshire’s 120 points. Middlesex, which had no fixture, is in third place with 104 points. Results:— Glamorgan.—First innings 232 for eight declared (Tyson five for 54); second innings 212 for four declared. Northamptonshire—First innings 127; second innings 100 (Woolier five for 15, Watkins four for 20). Glamorgan won by 217 runs. Derbyshire—First innings 213 (Hamer 81); second innings 85 (James five for 31, Wood four for 23). Sussex—First innings 148 (Cato four for 18); second innings 74 (Jackson five for 30). Derbyshire won by 76 runs. Yorkshire—First innings 361 for five declared (Lester 142); second innings 121 for eight declared. Surrey—First Innings 210; second Innings 218 (Illingworth eight for 69). Yorkshire won ■. by 54 runs. Warwickshire —First innings 130 (Cook five for 25); second innings 207 for nine declared (Spooner 111; Cook four for 41). Gloucestershire. —First innings 174; second innings 135 (K. Dollery four for 15). Warwickshire won by 28 runs. Hampshire.—First innings 239; second innings 35 for four. Lancashire—First innings 190 (G. Edrich 76). Match drawn. Nottinghamshire.—First innings 179 (Walsh four for 43); second innings 217 for nine declared (Munden five for 88). Leicestershire —First innings 224; second innings 68 for six (Smales four for 22) Match drawn.

Kent.—First innings 353 (Pettiford 133); second innings 83 for four declared. Essex —First innings 204 for seven declared (Insole 123 not out); second innings 86 for two. Match drawn.

Somersetshire.—First innings 380 (Lomax 95, Stephenson 109); second innings 204 for seven. Worcestershire—First innings 453 (Richardson 185). Match drawn. Oxford—First innings 401 for three declared (Allan 86, Smith 201 not out); second innings 148 for nine declared. Cambridge—First innings 244 for nine declared (Silk 118, Pretlove 73); second innings 160 for eight (Birrell five for 20). Match drawn.