County wrap: Anderson shines amid run feast

Somerset's Chris Rogers reached a milestone in a milestone match but it was his former Ashes foe James Anderon who had the decisive say as Lancashire seized the advantage in their Division One County Championship match.

Rogers, celebrating becoming one of an exclusive list of Australians to have reached 300 first-class matches, survived the morning and made a typically resilient 55 in doing so, as Somerset looked to muster a meaningful reply to Lancashire's 9-493 declared.

After lunch however, Anderson produced a withering spell that snared Rogers and middle-order pair Roelof van der Merwe and Peter Trego in the space of five balls.

The Australian played a tentative shot that landed in the hands of the cover fieldsman, before van der Merwe fell the very next ball, and Trego three balls later.

Both batsmen failed to score, and both were trapped lbw by Anderson, who finished with 3-72 and looks capable of inflicting no shortage of pain on the touring Sri Lankans when the first Test begins on May 19 at Headingley.

At stumps, Somerset were following on at 0-0, having surrendered a 180-run first-innings lead that was only limited to that by a superb 130 from James Hildreth.

County Championship Division One: Table and scorecards

At Trent Bridge, Nottinghamshire battled to 5-151 in their second innings to hold a 122-run advantage over defending premiers Yorkshire. 

Notts paceman Jake Ball finished with 4-57 after his day two fireworks and Australia Test quick Jackson Bird finished with 2-76, while Samit Patel's 51no was crucial in extending their lead after Yorkshire were bowled out for 290 – 29 runs ahead on the first innings.

Incumbent England opener Alex Hales posted scores of 36 and 34 for the match, the latter a circumspect effort across two-and-a-half hours before he was unlucky to be bowled by a low-shooting delivery from Jack Brooks.

In London, 19-year-old Durham batsman Jake Burnham made his maiden first-class hundred, a superb 135 to lead his side to 7-543 and an 86-run lead over Surrey going into the final day.

In Division two, Brett D'Oliveira followed in the footsteps of his father Damian and grandfather Basil to register a maiden first-class hundred, but at 5-266 in a rain-interrupted match, Worcestershire still trail Essex by 225 runs.

County Championship Division Two: Table and scorecards

There was some heavy lower-order hitting at the County Ground as hosts Northamptonshire piled on 7-438 in response to Derbyshire's 324.

After 23-year-old opener Jake Libby laid the platform with a measured 102, South African pair Richard Levi (84no from 104 balls) and Rory Kleinveldt (97 from 69) wielded the willow with abandon, the latter reaching his 50 from 20 balls in an explosive display of power hitting.