Here’s  a look at how England players – those who have played Test cricket since the start of 2021 and/or were part of the squad on the recent tour of the Caribbean – fared in the most recent round of the County Championship.

Rory Burns – Surrey

21 v Hampshire

With Surrey beating Hampshire by an innings, Burns was required with the bat only once, hitting 21 before a loose drive induced an outside edge to second slip off the bowling of Ian Holland.

Ollie Pope – Surrey

127 v Hampshire

Pope’s domination at The Oval continued. His 215-ball 127 lifted his first-class average at the ground to 101.36, with 24 innings having produced nine hundreds – more than twice as many as he has made outside The Oval.

Ben Foakes – Surrey

45 v Hampshire

Foakes joined forces with Pope for a 107-run fourth-wicket stand and took a flying catch in Hampshire’s second innings to deny Joe Weatherley a century.

James Bracey – Gloucestershire

5 & 177 v Yorkshire

Bracey hit his third hundred in three first-class matches to continue his excellent start to the season. Against an attack featuring Pakistan quick Haris Rauf – who landed a couple of blows on the left-hander’s helmet – Bracey held together Gloucestershire’s second innings in a six-wicket defeat to Yorkshire.

Dom Bess

1-25 & 1-61; 36 v Gloucestershire

Bess went at less than two an over in Gloucestershire’s first innings before putting on a 71-run stand with centurion Harry Brook in Yorkshire’s reply.

Dawid Malan

39 & 65 v Gloucestershire

Malan marked his first competitive fixture since the Ashes with a match-winning hand; his run-a-ball 65 helped Yorkshire chase down 211 on the final day.

Matthew Fisher

4-19 & 1-74 v Gloucestershire

Fisher, who made his England debut last month in the Caribbean, was Yorkshire’s standout bowler in Gloucestershire’s first innings, going at less than two an over while dismissing three of the top six.

Craig Overton

7-57 & 6-30 v Essex

A stunning display from Overton, who collected 10 wickets in a match for the first time in his first-class career. The right-arm quick very nearly bowled Somerset to an extraordinary win; Essex, who required just 84 in the fourth innings, were 83-9 before the final pair scampered through for a leg bye off Overton’s bowling.

Jack Leach

v Essex

Leach wasn’t called upon to bowl his left-arm spin in a low-scoring affair at Taunton.

Dan Lawrence

17 & 0 v Somerset

Lawrence continued his quiet start to the season. He fell lbw to Peter Siddle in his first innings and the former Australia quick found the right-hander’s edge in the second.

Matt Parkinson

4-66 & 3-92 v Kent

The uncapped Parkinson bowled England colleague Zak Crawley and found ripping turn to beat Daniel Bell-Drummond’s defence on his way to a four-wicket haul in Kent’s first innings. In the second, he lured Jordan Cox with flight before clipping the bails, but endured a muted final day during a heroic Kent rearguard.

Zak Crawley

54 & 5 v Lancashire

A half-century kicked off the opener’s English summer before Parkinson intervened. Phil Salt then took a fantastic diving catch to his right behind the stumps to end Crawley’s second innings on 5.

Haseeb Hameed

34 & 0 v Glamorgan

Was unfortunate to be run out at the non-striker’s end on 34 after a Ben Duckett straight drive deflected off the bowler.

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