RESULTS OF COUNTY CRICKET

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25580, 23 August 1948, Page 7

RESULTS OF COUNTY CRICKET

LONDON, August 20. Harold Gimblett, the Somersetshire

opening batsman, made 310 against Sussex. This was the highest individual score in England since 1939. Results in county games were:— Sussex.—First innings nine for 434 declared (John Langridge 78, James Langridge 100); second innings two for 19. Somersetshire.—First innings eight for 584 declared (Gimblett 310). The match was drawn.

Essex.—First innings 299 (Dodds 124, Avery 103); second innings eight for 166 declared. Derbyshire.—First innings 194;. second innings four for 138. The match was drawn.

Middlesex.—First innings 169 (Pritchard five for 51); second innings 192 (Robertson 92; Pritchard five for 40). Warwickshire.—First innings 346 (Ord 92. Donnelly 62); second innings none for 19. •Warwickshire won by 10 wickets.

Glamorganshire.—First innings 230 (Woolier 89: Laker five for 86). Surrey.—First innings 50 (Clay five for 15), and followed on 165 (Clay five for 51). Glamorganshire won 4jy an innings and 24 runs. Nottinghamshire.—First innings 179 (Winrow 83; Knott eight for 79); second innings 174 (Shackleton four for 42). Hampshire.—First innings 141 (Butler five for 34. Jepson four for 40); second innings eight for 214. Hampshire won by two wickets. Lancashire.—First innings 283 (Ikin 81. Sperry six for 69); second innings. 122 (Sperry four for 38). Leicestershire.—First innings 282; second innings 119 (Pollard five for 60). Lancashirewon by four runs.

j Gloucestershire.—First innings 293 (Barnett 111); second innings, m»e for 216 (Allen 83). Kent.—First innings 434. The match was drawn.

Worcestershire. First innings 231 (Ainsworth 85: Robinson five for 70); second innings five for 133. Yorkshire. —First innings 218 (Sellers 79). The match was drawn.