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Northants (5 pts) trail Derbyshire (6 pts) by 311 runs with 10 wickets standing

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Nick Potts' maiden half-century rescued Derbyshire at Wantage Road as they threatened to derail Northamptonshire's promotion challenge in the County Championship.

Derbyshire were struggling at 177-7, despite Martin Andersson's 62, when Potts – drafted in the previous day as an injury replacement for Ben Aitchison – joined forces with fellow seamer Brett Randell.

The eighth-wicket pair shared a partnership of 99, with Potts hitting 57 and Randell 45 to stretch the total to 286 and set the home side a target of 349, which would be a county record fourth-innings chase against Derbyshire.

Northamptonshire, whose openers reached 37 without loss at stumps, need a victory to regain second place in the table from promotion rivals Kent going into next week's final round of fixtures.

Despite an early morning shower, Derbyshire's second innings began on time and Harry Came was fortunate to avoid a pair, steering Harry Conway low to third slip where George Bartlett shelled the chance.

But the home side repeated their first-day tactic of bringing on Liam Guthrie (3-61) for the ninth over – again a successful one as the left-armer unleashed a pinpoint yorker that splayed Came's stumps.

Guthrie trapped Matt Montgomery in front for a duck in his next over and then claimed the prize scalp of Derbyshire captain Wayne Madsen, caught in the slips as he attempted to pull the bat away.

Almost immediately, the visitors lost their fourth wicket as Yousaf bin Naeem slapped Luke Procter straight to gully – part of a fiery six-over stint from the home skipper, who beat the bat several times.

However, Andersson looked more composed in the middle than his predecessors, driving and pulling cleanly to the boundary as he and Luis Reece built a chanceless partnership of 73 either side of lunch.

Derbyshire's overall advantage was nearing 200 by the time Ben Sanderson returned to remove Reece lbw and Andersson enjoyed a slice of luck soon afterwards as his straight drive slipped through the grasp of bowler Calvin Harrison and continued to the rope.

Andersson progressed beyond 50 for the third time in four innings, but Harrison – having also bowled Brooke Guest around his legs – got his man eventually, lbw to one that kept straight and low.

Yet Northamptonshire's hopes of a swift mopping-up job were thwarted by Potts, who struck a series of crisp boundaries off seamers and spinners alike, gaining solid support from Randell.

The pair looked comfortable as they ushered the Derbyshire total beyond 250 shortly after tea and it needed another bowling change to break the partnership as James Sales (2-13) had Potts taken low at slip.

Mohammad Abbas edged a couple of fours before he fell to a tumbling catch by Bartlett at midwicket and, with Randell holing out off Harrison (3-74), Northamptonshire were left to face 16 overs prior to stumps.

Abbas promptly sent down 22 dot balls in succession to put pressure on Procter and Ricardo Vasconcelos, but the latter began to settle into the groove with back-to-back boundaries off Potts.

Spinner Shoaib Bashir found the edge of Procter's bat during his brief spell before the close, but the ball dropped short of slip to ensure the promotion hopefuls will go into the final day with all their wickets intact.

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"As a lifelong gamer, suffice it to say that yes, I've thought about this a lot.

"The key will be the right partner. Video games, even the smaller indie games, are huge investments these days.

"Mistborn would almost certainly be the first thing I would try, as the mechanics of the magic and world very naturally lend themselves to such an adaptation – but again, I'd need the right partner."

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Developed by Brotherwise Games in close collaboration with Brandon Sanderson himself, the initial offerings for the Cosmere RPG focus solely on Roshar and the systems of the Stormlight Archive books. Now, Mistborn is joining the ranks with its Handbook, Campaign Guide, and Welcome to Scadriel guide which are all available to preorder now.

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You can read more of the big Brandon Sanderson interview here on IGN, where we've discussed the Wheel of Time cancellation, potentially finishing Game of Thrones, and his current progress on the Mistborn movie.

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Nottinghamshire (3 pts) lead Sussex (6 pts) by 31 runs

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Sussex's Ari Karvelas took four wickets either side of tea to leave Nottinghamshire's chances of retaining their County Championship title hanging by a thread.

The 32-year-old answered an SOS from his old county last month and delayed taking up a new job teaching cricket at Solihull School.

And it looked like a good decision during a spell of 3-17 from 10 overs which included the in-form Joe Clarke for the second time in the match.

Karvelas finished with 4-34 and Nottinghamshire closed on 149-7 - a lead of just 31 - after Jaydev Unadkat collected three late wickets in 14 balls.

Until Karvelas came back into the attack, Nottinghamshire had enjoyed a period of superiority for the first time in the game.

They picked up a third bowling bonus point from the last available ball in running through Sussex's last four wickets for just eight runs in 23 deliveries to keep their first-innings deficit down to 118.

The loss of 36 overs to rain before lunch did not help their efforts to keep the pressure on leaders Warwickshire, who had their feet up after beating Essex in two days.

Similarly, a win for Sussex gives them a great chance of a top-three finish and Karvelas, challenging both edges of the bat and finding bounce from the Cromwell Road end that has eluded the other seamers in this match, has certainly boosted their hopes.

Nottinghamshire had no choice but to start their second innings positively and openers Haseeb Hameed and Ben Slater serenely added 52 but there was nothing Slater could do when Karvelas got one to lift alarmingly off a good length and wicketkeeper John Simpson did the rest.

Hameed was reprieved on 23 when George Thomas put down a straightforward chance at backward point off Sean Hunt.

But Hunt and Tom Price built pressure before Karvelas returned to make the key incisions.

Hameed cut to gully on 43 and Karvelas' ability to find extra bounce was evident again when Clarke edged to second slip off the shoulder of the bat - Karvelas' 100th first-class wicket.

Freddie McCann became his fourth victim courtesy of a fine diving catch by Simpson off an expansive drive with Notts still in arrears and when Karvelas came off there was no respite.

His replacement Unadkat struck with his first ball which Jack Haynes wafted to backward point before he took out Olly Stone's middle and leg stumps in his next over.

Simpson then dived full length to his right to take another superb catch off Liam Patterson-White's inside edge.

Earlier, it had been a decent effort by Nottinghamshire's bowlers to make relatively short work of the Sussex tail when play started at 13:30 BST, especially as Price and Jack Carson, who both made half-centuries, had extended their seventh-wicket stand to 92 in 25 overs.

Price's 72 contained nine fours and looked good for a few more when he tried to run Stone off the bat face to third man but edged to first slip.

Carson hit nine fours in his 53 but in trying to steer Brett Hutton into the leg side he got a leading edge to point.

There were extended celebrations when Notts struck with the final ball of the 110th over to claim the ninth wicket and a third bowling point when Karvelas drove Hutton to mid-on where Hameed took a good low catch.

In the next over, left-arm spinner Patterson-White got one to turn sharply off a middle-stump line and bowl Unadkat.

Hutton finished with 4-59 but his side are up against it going into the final day.

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Worcestershire 458: Hose 105, D'Oliveira 82, Taylor 61, Libby 55; Stokes 6-94

Durham (6 pts) lead Worcestershire (4 pts) by 178 runs with four second-innings wickets intact

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Worcestershire seem well-placed to inflict a first defeat of the season on promoted Durham after their seamers took six wickets in the evening session at Chester-le-Street.

After Adam Hose had completed an invaluable century to help his team reach 448, in reply to Durham's 465, the Pears then reduced their hosts to 119-6, only for Ollie Robinson and Kasey Aldridge to put on 42 late in the day to leave the Division Two champions with a lead of 178.

The star of the evening session was 22-year-old debutant George O'Connor, from Oxfordshire, who was making his first-class debut as a substitute for Ben Gibbon.

After bowling India's Mayank Agarwal cheaply in his first spell, he topped it by having ex-England captain Ben Stokes caught on the cover boundary for 12.

In the morning session, Worcestershire lost two wickets but saved the follow-on with ease to reach lunch on 376-7, just 89 in arrears, thanks to Hose bringing up his first century of the season.

Both Durham wickets were taken by Stokes, who had Henry Cullen caught at slip before dismissing Hose.

Tom Taylor and Matthew Waite put on 85 in untroubled fashion either side of lunch.

But, after Waite was leg-before to Ben Raine for 28, Taylor reached his first fifty of the season before Stokes dismissed him, also leg-before, for 61 to earn his first five-wicket haul in first-class cricket at Chester-le-Street since 2014.

Stokes then completed his best bowling figures in nine years when he had Pears substitute Fateh Singh - on for Usama Mir - caught at long leg by Will Rhodes for 26.

In the fourth over after tea, the Pears broke through when Waite bowled Ben McKinney for 38 with a ball before removing Alex Lees' off stump off another grubber.

But the highlight came in O'Connor's sixth over from the Finchale End when he knocked out Agarwal's off stump.

Ackermann played around a ball from Ben Allison and was leg-before and Warwickshire old boy Will Rhodes lost his off stump to Taylor on 25.

Stokes then came down the pitch and attempted to hit debutant O'Connor over the off-side field, only to sky a catch to Dan Lategan.

But Aldridge (25*) and Robinson (19*) flayed seven boundaries between them to ensure no further damage on 161-6.

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