The holders have been crowned champions for the 21st time.
Warwickshire maintained their hopes of victory over Somerset at Edgbaston after Ed Barnard impressed with bat and ball following another day heavily impacted by the weather.
Josh Davey and Neil Wagner both claimed three wickets, Barnard’s patient 73 helped give Warwickshire a first-innings lead of 58 before then taking a couple of wickets himself. Play eventually got under way after lunch in the afternoon, when Durham managed to claim the remaining four wickets of the Leicestershire first innings for 143. Ben Raine finished with season-best figures of five for 51.Durham skipper Scott Borthwick enforced the follow-on, but attempts to make inroads into the Leicestershire second innings were blighted by bad light as the visitors finished 13 without loss.
James Coles produced his third century of the season in Sussex’s 505 for seven declared and then made inroads into the Gloucestershire top order, taking five wickets before bad light intervened with 14 overs not bowled. Graeme van Buuren was 46 not out.
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