Yorkshire v Somerset, Sussex v Nottinghamshire: County Championship cricket, day four – live

All the latest updates from around the county grounds Middlesex crisis deepens | Email Tanya or post BTL It was a tense day at Headingley, cold enough in the shade for the stewards to wear gloves, but hot on the pitch where Somerset wobbled but just about held on to their Championship dream.

It took more than a session to break Yorkshire ’s overnight partnership of George Hill and Dom Bess, who played with swaggering patience in a seventh-wicket partnership of 166.

Hill finally fell to a top-edged pull for a season’s best 89 to Craig Overton, who chased him to the rope to say well done.

The former Somerset player Bess followed for 77, all material for Tom Abell’s best man’s speech at Bess’s wedding next month.

Set 287, Somerset had a catastrophic start when Josh Thomas was caught behind in the first over, and a couple more wickets followed, the fielders providing regular reminders that the title has never gone to Taunton, before Abell and Tom Lammonby saw things through to the close.

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