County cricket: Essex v Kent, Gloucs v Yorkshire, and more – live

County cricket: Essex v Kent, Gloucs v Yorkshire, and more – live

Updates from day two of the latest County Championship roundGet in touch! You can email Taha with your thoughts

Here’s Tanya’s roundup from last night:

It was a day for batting as the sun came out and the Kookaburra ball was placated as it likes to. There were eight centuries around the grounds, one a magnificent 226 by Alex Davies as Warwickshire pinballed 490 for one by stumps at Edgbaston. Davies’s swashbuckling knock was his first double century, and he and Rob Yates pounded 343 for the first wicket until Yates was caught for 191. It was a chastening return to Division One for Durham and for their new overseas recruit Scott Boland, an expert with the Kookaburra. There was one bright spot for Durham, Ben Stokes bowling two practice spells. The hope is that he might return for their match on 24 May.

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