Roundup: Durham sanguine over wait for win<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n
The only result from this round of championship matches came 1min 45sec into the day when Matthew Potts cracked the four required to give Durham<\/strong> a 10-wicket win against Gloucestershire<\/strong> at Chester\u2011le\u2011Street. Gloucestershire<\/a>, who had refused to bowl spin on Saturday night amid bad light, therefore extending the game into yesterday, chose to open with Ollie Price\u2019s fruity loops, with the winning runs coming off his sixth ball.<\/p>\n Durham\u2019s head of cricket, Ryan Campbell, was phlegmatic. \u201cI guess it\u2019s a bit ironic that they opened the bowling with a spinner this morning, but these things happen. We don\u2019t worry about the opposition. We do things our way, and it was delayed, but same result.\u201d<\/p>\n Durham cement their place at the top of Division Two, 40 points clear with four rounds left. Things have more of a wooden-spoonish tinge for Gloucestershire, bottom with nine defeats in 10 games.<\/p>\n Olly Stone continued his storming late-summer form, reducing Warwickshire<\/strong> to 43 for three in a swinging seven-over opening spell. He finished with five wickets, to go alongside the 10 he collected against Surrey last week. Earlier Joe Clarke had reached 150, to add to his achievement as the first batsman to pass 1,000 runs this season. Nottinghamshire<\/strong> remain top of Division One, by four points.<\/p>\n At Chelmsford, Ben Foakes played one of his finest innings for Surrey<\/strong>, lifting them both away from defeat and the relegation zone. Essex<\/strong>, though, will be cursing the two early lives they gave him, a tricky missed stumping and a fluffed caught-and-bowled. Foakes batted from the start of the day till handshakes just before five o\u2019clock, 120 not out from 226 balls.<\/p>\n After a draw at Wantage Road, the Division Two promotion rivals Northamptonshire<\/strong> and Kent<\/strong> are level, Kent staying second because of an extra win. Hundreds from Ricardo Vasconcelos and Nathan McSweeney ensured Northants pocketed maximum batting points.<\/p>\n Despite Middlesex<\/strong> forfeiting an innings in an attempt to force victory, rain was the only winner at Derby. There was just time for young Naavya Sharma to grab four for 36 in Derbyshire<\/strong>\u2019s sketchy 131 all out.<\/p>\n