Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire is abandoned on day one owing to concerns from the umpires over player safety on a hybrid pitch.
The County Championship Division Two match between Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire was abandoned on day one owing to concerns from the umpires over player safety on a hybrid pitch.
Gloucestershire scored in excess of 500 runs on a neighbouring pitch against Leicestershire earlier in the week, but were unceremoniously shot out in just 36.1 overs on this occasion. Northants will collect 11 points for a draw, including three bowling bonus points, but Gloucestershire will receive none. It remains to be seen whether or not the county will face any further sanction.
Of the Gloucestershire batsmen, only Ollie Price managed to cope with exaggerated nip and seam off the pitch, top-scoring with 52 and staging a stand of 60 for the fifth wicket with Graeme van Buuren, whose dismissal for 40 sparked a collapse which saw the home side lose their last six wickets for 22 runs in 11.1 overs.
Procter struck again in his next over, Miles Hammond swishing at a ball outside off stump and nicking to second slip as Gloucestershire slipped to 16-3.
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