Northamptonshire win Midlands South County Match Week

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Northamptonshire have won their place in the finals of the English Counties Championship, supported by Virgin Atlantic.
They qualified, with a day to spare, when they won their fourth consecutive point at the Midlands South regional County Match Week at Goring and Streatley.
The team defeated Oxfordshire 5½-3½ and go into the final day knowing they can’t be caught by any of their rivals. In yesterday’s other matches Worcestershire & Herefordshire beat Buckinghamshire 6-3 and Warwickshire defeated Berkshire 5-4.
In the East region County Match Week at West Herts, the hosts, Hertfordshire continued their winning progress. They have four points from four matches after beating Suffolk 7-2 and today play Cambs & Hunts who have amassed 1½ points.
Essex are their closest challengers with three points after beating Norfolk 6½- 2½. In the day’s other match Bedfordshire and Cambs & Hunts halved.
Three of the six County Match Weeks have already been completed and the winners of each go forward to the County Finals at Kedleston Park, Derbyshire, in September. Dorset will represent the South West, Sussex will represent the South and Lincolnshire will represent Midlands North. The North week will take place at the end of the month,

Lyndsey Hewison
Press and PR Officer