Surrey took another significant step on their way towards a first Championship title since 2002 as they bowled Essex out for 126 and enforced the follow-on at Chelmsford

A morning collapse threatened to undo Middlesex's hard work to get back into the game, but on a lively surface the target was too much for Sussex

Once again, Middlesex are staging a second-innings fightback after their bowlers kept the match even

Chris Jordan, Jofra Archer and David Wiese slipped seamlessly back into four-day mode to dismiss Middlesex for 169 in helpful conditions but the home side fought back

The New Zealand fast bowler should be coming into his prime and an extended spell with Derbyshire allows him the chance to impress with the red ball

A career-best haul from Somerset's England spinner saw Essex beaten by 45 runs in a close encounter at Taunton

The defending champions made sizeable inroads into a demanding chase, but still face the prospect of combatting Jack Leach and Dom Bess on the final day

A majority of county chairmen want the Blast to be expanded as part of the changes to English professional cricket from 2020

Jack Leach and Dom Bess have only 14 wickets between them but they will anticipate getting among Essex before this match is through

Ahead of the Vitality Blast quarter-finals later this week, we take a look at some of the influential figures so far

Championship cricket returned to Taunton for the first time in 68 days and Marcus Trescothick wasted no time adding to his enormous runs tally

Aaron Finch was a domineering figure to the end, but Sussex's win at Hove meant that Surrey's rain-affected win was a hollow one

Three wickets for Rashid Khan left Sussex needing to beat Middlesex at Hove on Friday night to reach the last eight

Our latest snippets from the Vitality Blast also include Tom Curran's outburst against Somerset fans, Colin Ingram's weird training technique and Northants' unwanted record

Our snippets from the Vitality Blast include England's white-ball fixation, Gareth Batty's latest sledge and the Jofra Archer hype train

For a reserved character like Ross Whiteley, the only problem with all these sixes must be that he keeps drawing attention to himself

After Essex had been limited to a modest 135 for 9, openers Myburgh and Tom Banton powered the hosts to their third victory of the week

Our snippets from the Vitality Blast include Paul Collingwood's latest feat of endurance, Harry Gurney's economics, and an assortment of English legspinners

Our snippets from the Vitality Blast include England's record run feast, Rory Burns' defunct nickname and the state of Lockie Ferguson's school trainers

Colin Munro crashed his maiden fifty in this season's Vitality Blast as Hampshire finally ended their winless start to the tournament