22-09-2021, 14:41
After losing by one run for the first time ever back in May, Northants are making history for all the wrong reasons again. Their match against Essex has just become the shortest ever completed County Championship game of the four-day era, with them losing in 96.3 overs, beating the previous record from 1999 by 13 overs. Northants were 81 all out on the first day, Essex 170 all out in reply, Northants then bowled out for 45 in the first hour of the second day for an innings defeat.
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