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Join Tanya Aldred for updates from around the grounds on the final day of the latest round of Championship matches.

Warwickshire’s Chris Benjamin and Danny Briggs batted stoutly to deny a Lancashire team on the charge at Old Trafford. The game seemed to be limping to a draw when five wickets toppled between lunch and tea as Matt Parkinson wheeled out three leg‑spinners: first Dom Sibley pushed forward and edged behind for 41; then Will Rhodes helped another into the hands of leg slip and Michael Burgess was bamboozled for a duck.

But despite marching out after tea with spicy vigour, Lancashire could not push on, and the session was enlivened when, with an enormous bang, one of the huge glass windows in the Old Trafford press box spontaneously shattered, the hover cover below swiftly wheeled away to safety.

Hampshire came out on top in the nip and tuck game at the Rose Bowl, pinching the last wicket in the final session. Gloucestershire had got within dreaming distance of a target of 368, after fifties from George Scott and Miles Hammond. But the new ball wriggled past defences, as it had all game, with Mohammad Abbas finishing with nine wickets in the match.

Glamorgan romped to a six-wicket victory over Leicestershire at Sophia Gardens, despite the best efforts of stand-in captain Callum Parkinson.

He and Ben Mike (64) frustrated the Glamorgan bowlers with a partnership of 88, and Parkinson wangled another 20 runs out of the tail. Parkinson then took three wickets cheaply but Leicestershire didn’t have enough runs to play with, and another smartly-stamp-the-envelope-and-send-it-on its-way innings from Sam Northeast saw them home.

It may have been a tedious four days for the Chelmsford