County Championship: Northants dig in in opposition to Essex with bat

Essex’s Sam Cook took the important wickets of Ricardo Vasconcelos and Will Young

LV= County Championship Division One, The Cloud County Ground, Chelmsford (day one)

Northamptonshire 233-7: Young 63, Procter 60*; S Cook 2-39

Essex: Yet to bat.

Essex (2 pts), Northants (1 pt)

Scorecard

Opener Will Young personified an obdurate batting performance by Northamptonshire on the first day of their County Championship match with Essex at Chelmsford.

The New Zealand batter followed up his match-saving 96 against Yorkshire last week with a painstaking 63 before Northants lost a clutch of late wickets to creep to 233-7 at the close.

Young’s 100-run partnership for the second wicket with Emilio Gay set the tone for a day of frustration for the Essex attack.

After Young became the second of Sam Cook’s two victims, the cudgels were taken up by Luke Procter, around whom Northants’ middle-order resistance was built.

The left-hander will resume on Friday with a score of 60 from 164 balls.

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