County Championship: Warwickshire inflict innings defeat on Durham, Sussex chasing third place

Warwickshire took partial revenge for their defeat by Durham in last Saturday's Royal London One-Day Cup final with a crushing LV= County Championship win over the north-east county inside three days at Edgbaston.

Having secured second place behind Division One champions Yorkshire on Wednesday, Warwickshire sealed victory over Durham by an innings and 13 runs to wrap up their eighth win of the season before tea on the third day.

Keith Barker again enjoyed himself against the county he has taken most wickets, following up his first-innings 5-59 with three more scalps.

New Zealand off-spinner Jeetan Patel (3-98) also found plenty of encouragement in a dry end-of-season pitch and took the key wicket of Mark Stoneman, who launched Durham's second-innings with a flurry of boundaries in a knock of 45 which saw him pass the 1,000 run milestone for the season.

But when the left-handed opener then edged Patel to Varun Chopra at slip the innings unravelled with a half-century from Gordon Muchall and 38 from Ryan Pringle the only notable contributions as they slipped to 215 all out.

Sussex are hoping to finish third, ahead of Nottinghamshire, and will do so if they can beat long-relegated Northamptonshire at Wantage Road.

They established a first-innings lead of 74, Rob Keogh (129) adding another 25 to his overnight tally before he was last to go in a total of 294 - and Steve Magoffin finished with 5-51.

Opener Luke Wells (91no) then helped to augment the advantage on 209-3 before play ended early because of bad light.

Champions Yorkshire are in danger of ending their campaign in anti-climax.

Somerset's 437 all out gave them a lead of 184 at Headingley, despite Steve Patterson's 4-54 and Adil Rashid's 4-116.

Yorkshire closed early in poor light, on 148-2, with Adam Lyth top-scoring on 51 and Gary Ballance unbeaten on 50.