Yorkshire thrash Hants to move second, Lancs beat Middlesex – as it happened

Yorkshire beat Hampshire by an innings and 44 runs Lancs ease to seven-wicket win at Lord’s 6.15pm BST Cold air from the Baltic brought a chill to the final day of Championship cricket before mid-May. Surrey and Essex at The Oval trundled to a draw, with Surrey declaring at 324-6 at 4.40 in order for Rory Burns to bowl six balls to give the over rate a boost. Burns had made a nuggetty 98 before squeezing Simon Harmer into the hands of Ryan ten Doeschate and hammering his bat into the turf