It’s been a difficult season for Northamptonshire languishing at the wrong end of the table in the first division of the County Championship. But, in between the bad weather that has interrupted the penultimate week of the season, there was some figurative sunshine for the county as they picked up three batting points for the first time in a lean year for runs.
A large chunk of Northamptonshire’s first innings total of 357 came from the bat of Karun Nair, who added a patient and stylish 150 in his second appearance for the county, following on from his half-century on debut for the Steelback...