Dom Sibley – Warwickshire
43 & 6 v Surrey
A frustrating game for Sibley against the county he’ll represent once more next season. Out leaving the ball in both innings, he failed to make the most of his first-innings start, guiding a Tom Lawes delivery straight to first slip before falling to a firing Kemar Roach in the second. In a high-scoring summer, his season average of 36.76 does not stand out from the pack.
Rory Burns – Surrey
27 & 61 v Warwickshire
A decent game for the Surrey skipper whose side extended their lead over Hampshire at the top of the table. His second-innings 61 consolidated the platform for an ultimately comfortable chase. Burns is enjoying a quietly impressive season away from the England team, averaging just over 45 for the Division One pace-setters.
Ollie Pope – Surrey
65 & 52 v Warwickshire
A pair of unconverted fifties probably counts as a below par performance for Pope at The Kia Oval but it was another impressive outing for the England No. 3 in this year’s County Championship.
Ben Foakes – Surrey
31 & 2 v Warwickshire
A quiet game for Foakes whose second-innings dismissal came with Surrey only requiring a handful of runs more for the win. He did, though, complete a sharp stumping off the bowling of Will Jacks.
Jamie Overton – Surrey
2-50, 38 & 0-0 v Warwickshire
A pair of important contributions in the first half of Surrey’s win over Warwickshire before an injury to his left foot curtailed his involvement in the fixture. There is no word yet on the severity of the injury.
Matt Parkinson – Lancashire
Not selected against Kent
The leg-spinner, who famously made his Test debut as Jack Leach’s concussion substitute earlier this summer at Lord’s, was left out of Lancashire’s squad against Kent despite being available for selection. Twenty-one-year-old left-arm spinner Jack Morley – who took a five-for in his previous County Championship appearance – was preferred to Parkinson in the XI, while Tom Hartley – who took a six-for and scored a double hundred for the second team last week – was selected as the squad’s spare spinner.
Zak Crawley – Kent
0 & 4 v Lancashire
A game to forget for Crawley whose quest to regain form ahead of the South Africa series has not gone well; Crawley has failed to pass 35 in all six of his Kent innings since the India Test at Edgbaston. His career first-class average is now less than 30 after 83 games; an almost unprecedentedly low first-class average for a specialist England Test batter in the modern era.
Dan Lawrence – Essex
35 v Somerset
Lawrence looked promising for England in the Caribbean earlier in the year but is now some way off reclaiming a place in the side. He fell for 35 to the part-time off-spin of Matt Renshaw in a run-fest at Chelmsford.
Craig Overton – Somerset
2-65 v Essex
Numbers that don’t leap off the page but his figures fared well in comparison to most of the other bowlers on display as just 16 wickets fell across the four days.
Jack Leach – Somerset
0-106 & 0-0 v Essex
Leach was wicketless but he was not alone in lacking penetration. His opposite number, Essex’s wicket-taking machine Simon Harmer, took just two wickets from the 57 overs he delivered in Somerset’s innings.
Alex Lees – Durham
46 & 22 v Middlesex
A steady outing for Lees in another high-scoring affair. He was somewhat more watchful than he was in England’s fourth innings run chase at Edgbaston; his strike rate across the game was just 33.
Matt Potts – Durham
1-95 v Middlesex
A quiet return to Durham action for Potts, who took just one wicket, that of the left-handed Luke Hollman leaving a delivery that tailed back into him from around the wicket.
Haseeb Hameed – Nottinghamshire
5 & 94 v Sussex
Hameed continued his rich vein of form, falling just short of what would have been his fourth hundred of the County Championship season. A notable change for Hameed in 2022 has been the rate of his scoring. His strike-rate for the season is 64.95 and his 94 against Sussex came off just 115 deliveries.
Ollie Robinson – Sussex
4-44 & 5-60 v Nottinghamshire
A superb return for Robinson after two months out through injury. Questions linger around his fitness but Robinson got through 36.1 overs untroubled and claimed big wickets; seven of his nine wickets in the match were members of Nottinghamshire’s impressive top four – Ben Slater (twice), Hameed, Joe Clarke (twice) and Ben Duckett (twice).
