Hutton and Sanderson lead Northamptonshire surge towards first victory
Sanderson's 5 for 16 helped bowl Gloucestershire out for just 62 in the morning session, their third-lowest total against Northants in the Championship
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Gloucestershire 62 (Sanderson 5-16) and 245 for 8 (Higgins 63, Hutton 6-57) lead Northamptonshire 282 by 257 runsScorecardBrett Hutton and Ben Sanderson bowled Northamptonshire to the cusp of their first Specsavers County Championship victory of the season as Gloucestershire closed the second day 245 for 8 in the pink-ball match, leading by only 25 runs.
Sanderson's 5 for 16 helped bowl Gloucestershire out for just 62 in the morning session - their third-lowest total against Northants in the Championship - to conceded a lead of 220. Then having been asked to follow-on, Hutton took six wickets as Northants looked like winning inside two days.
Thankfully for the visitors, they found two solid partnerships to avoid the ignominy of an innings defeat and extend play into a third day. Gareth Roderick and Ryan Higgins shared 100 for the sixth wicket before Craig Miles and Matt Taylor - who added an unbeaten 73 - nudged Gloucestershire into a lead.
The wickets began to fall in the first over of the day. Sanderson had the pink-ball on a string and struck first to remove Benny Howell caught behind before nipping two deliveries into Gareth Roderick, pushing forward, and Graeme van Buuren, shouldering arms, to win lbws.
One bounced on George Hankins to bowl him via his gloves and when Ryan Higgins got a feather edge behind, Sanderson completed his first five-for of the season.
Rory Kleinveldt took out James Bracey's leg stump with a full ball that nipped back, Steven Crook had Craig Miles well caught at mid-off trying to pull and removed Matt Taylor's middle stump before Hutton finished the job by bowling No. 11 Chris Liddle.
Gloucestershire lost 9 for 37 in 18.1 overs and having been bowled out for their third-lowest total against Northants in the Championship, were asked to bat again and in the final over before lunch, Howell hooked at Kleinveldt and gloved a catch to Adam Rossington.
Hutton then began his second-innings burst and at 72 for 5, Gloucestershire were staring down the barrel of a hammering. Bracey was lbw for 13, Chris Dent tried to cut and edged to second slip, Hankins drove at a wide one and also edged to Levi in the cordon before van Buuren was lbw first ball - completing a three-ball pair in the space of a few hours.
But finally, Gloucestershire found a partnership as Roderick and Higgins repelled Northants for 25 overs either side of tea. Higgins, after being dropped by Levi on 4, went through to a career-best 63 - just his second first-class fifty - with 10 fours.
Higgins eventually edged a lifter from Hutton through to Rossington as Gloucestershire lose three wickets in nine balls without scoring. A beauty from Crook seamed away to take Roderick's edge to first slip before Kieran Noema-Barnett pushed at Hutton and edged behind for a duck.
At 172 for 8, still trailing by 48, a two-day finish looked likely, only for conditions to settle as the ball went out of shape and was changed and Miles and Taylor battled Gloucestershire through to the close.
Sanderson's 5 for 16 helped bowl Gloucestershire out for just 62 in the morning session - their third-lowest total against Northants in the Championship - to conceded a lead of 220. Then having been asked to follow-on, Hutton took six wickets as Northants looked like winning inside two days.
Thankfully for the visitors, they found two solid partnerships to avoid the ignominy of an innings defeat and extend play into a third day. Gareth Roderick and Ryan Higgins shared 100 for the sixth wicket before Craig Miles and Matt Taylor - who added an unbeaten 73 - nudged Gloucestershire into a lead.
The wickets began to fall in the first over of the day. Sanderson had the pink-ball on a string and struck first to remove Benny Howell caught behind before nipping two deliveries into Gareth Roderick, pushing forward, and Graeme van Buuren, shouldering arms, to win lbws.
One bounced on George Hankins to bowl him via his gloves and when Ryan Higgins got a feather edge behind, Sanderson completed his first five-for of the season.
Rory Kleinveldt took out James Bracey's leg stump with a full ball that nipped back, Steven Crook had Craig Miles well caught at mid-off trying to pull and removed Matt Taylor's middle stump before Hutton finished the job by bowling No. 11 Chris Liddle.
Gloucestershire lost 9 for 37 in 18.1 overs and having been bowled out for their third-lowest total against Northants in the Championship, were asked to bat again and in the final over before lunch, Howell hooked at Kleinveldt and gloved a catch to Adam Rossington.
Hutton then began his second-innings burst and at 72 for 5, Gloucestershire were staring down the barrel of a hammering. Bracey was lbw for 13, Chris Dent tried to cut and edged to second slip, Hankins drove at a wide one and also edged to Levi in the cordon before van Buuren was lbw first ball - completing a three-ball pair in the space of a few hours.
But finally, Gloucestershire found a partnership as Roderick and Higgins repelled Northants for 25 overs either side of tea. Higgins, after being dropped by Levi on 4, went through to a career-best 63 - just his second first-class fifty - with 10 fours.
Higgins eventually edged a lifter from Hutton through to Rossington as Gloucestershire lose three wickets in nine balls without scoring. A beauty from Crook seamed away to take Roderick's edge to first slip before Kieran Noema-Barnett pushed at Hutton and edged behind for a duck.
At 172 for 8, still trailing by 48, a two-day finish looked likely, only for conditions to settle as the ball went out of shape and was changed and Miles and Taylor battled Gloucestershire through to the close.
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