Day two’s play in five County Championship games has been abandoned due to rain – three of them for the second day running in the season’s final round of fixtures.
The Durham-Kent, Worcestershire-Lancashire and Essex-Surrey matches in Division One and the Leicestershire-Derbyshire and Sussex-Middlesex games in Division Two were all called off.
The game at Leicester was abandoned an hour and a half before play was due to start, rapidly followed by Durham’s game with Kent at Chester-le-Street.
Day two of promoted Sussex against Middlesex in Division Two was then called off at noon, before the games at Worcester and Chelmsford followed suit.
That followed a first day when Durham-Kent was rained off – along with all four Division Two games.
Lancashire, battling to avoid the drop in Division One, are the worst affected by the weather as it badly affects their hopes of earning the win they need to stand any chance of staying up. They have so far managed just 26 overs in the match.
