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Stuart Law has a seemingly unassailable lead in the PPP Healthcare rankings as the County Championship goes into its final month.

The Essex batsman has assembled seven centuries of high pedigree and tempo and enjoys a 61-point advantage over Nottinghamshire's Paul Johnson.

Jon Lewis, of Durham, is in third place and he is one of three batsmen occupying top-10 positions in both the championship and CGU National League rankings. The others are Jamie Cox, whose century on Saturday guided Somerset into the NatWest Trophy final against Gloucestershire, and Chris Adams.

The Sussex captain is a clear leader of the National League batting table, though Piran Holloway has been showing such purposeful one-day form for Somerset that he may yet make up the 24-point deficit.

Alamgir Sheriyar, the Worcestershire left-armer, remains the bowling pacesetter in the championship, and since second-placed Muttiah Muralitharan is now on international duty with Sri Lanka, Nottinghamshire's Vasbert Drakes is, effectively, the main challenger.

The battle for the National League bowling award could hardly be closer: just four points separate the top four - Steve Watkin, Angus Fraser, Umer Rashid and Andrew Caddick.

The rankings :

Batting :

1 SG Law (Essex) 352
2 P Johnson (Notts) 291
3 JJB Lewis (Durham) 265
4 JL Langer (Middx) 263
5 VS Solanki (Worcs) 251
6 J Cox (Somerset) 250
7 D Byas (Yorks) 246
8 RA Smith (Hants) 244
9 RJ Turner (Somerset) 242
10 CJ Adams (Sussex) 239
11 JE Morris (Durham) 238
12 WS Kendall (Hants) 233
13 DL Maddy (Leics) 226
14 AD Brown (Surrey) 222
 M Burns (Somerset) 222
16 A Symonds (Kent) 217
17 RR Montgomerie (Sussex) 216
 A McGrath (Yorks) 216
 MJ Di Venuto (Sussex) 216
20 DL Hemp (Warwicks) 215
 DJ Sales (Northants) 215
22 RMS Weston (Derbys) 213
23 PN Weekes (Middx) 212
24 A Dale (Glamorgan) 211
25 MA Butcher (Surrey) 210
26 JE R Gallian (Notts) 209
27 MJ Powell (Glamorgan) 199
28 RC Russell (Gloucs) 197
 A Habib (Leics) 197
30 IJ Ward (Surrey) 196

Bowling :

1 A Sheriyar (Worcs) 301
2 M Muralitharan (Lancs) 287
3 VC Drakes (Notts) 271
4 SJE Brown (Durham) 267
5 MP Bicknell (Surrey) 262
6 JBD Thompson (Kent) 245
7 AM Smith (Gloucs) 234
8 AR Caddick (Somerset) 233
9 DG Cork (Derbys) 226
10 PJ Franks (Notts) 223
11 DE Malcolm (Northants) 221
12 ESH Giddins (Warwicks) 217
13 IDK Salisbury (Surrey) 207
 MPL Bulbeck (Somerset) 207
15 J Lewis (Gloucs) 205
16 AJ Tudor (Surrey) 197
17 MM Patel (Kent) 193
18 SJ Harmison (Durham) 191
19 JP Taylor (Northants) 184
20 PJ Hartley (Hants) 179
21 MC Ilott (Essex) 178
 RJ Kirtley (Sussex) 178
23 MA Robinson (Sussex) 175
24 RC Irani (Essex) 174
25 SD Thomas (Glamorgan) 173
 CEW Silverwood (Yorks) 173
27 AP Cowan (Essex) 169
28 JD Lewry (Sussex) 166
29 PAJ DeFreitas (Derbys) 164
30 SR Lampitt (Worcs) 162
 J Ormond (Leics) 162
 Saqlain Mushtaq (Surrey)162

CGU NCL RANKINGS

Batting: 1, C J Adams (Sussex) 143; 2, P C L Holloway (Somerset) 119; =3, B F Smith (Leics), A McGrath (Yorks) 108; 5, M J Di Venuto (Sussex) 106; 6, J J B Lewis (Durham) 105; =7, R C Russell (Gloucs), J P Stephenson (Hants) 100; 9, J Cox (Somerset) 98; 10, A L Penberthy (Northants) 96.

11, M A Roseberry (Middx) 94; 12, M P Vaughan (Yorks) 93; 13, S G Law (Essex) 90; 14, A D Brown (Surrey) 86; 15, D C Boon (Durham) 83; =16, D Byas (Yorks), A Dale (Glamorgan), J P Crawley (Lancs), D L Maddy (Leics) 82.

20, M W Alleyne (Gloucs) 81; 21, P R Pollard (Worcs) 79; =22, P D Bowler (Somerset) 78; V S Solanki (Worcs) 78; 24, P A Nixon (Leics) 77; =25, M A Ealham (Kent), G F Archer (Notts), I J Ward (Surrey), C M W Read (Notts) 76; =29, M P Speight (Durham), C White (Yorks) 75.

Bowling: 1, S L Watkin (Glamorgan) 124; 2, A R C Fraser (Middx) 123; 3, U B A Rashid (Sussex) 122; 4, A R Caddick (Somerset) 120; 5, C White (Yorks) 116; =6, P J Martin (Lancs), M A Robinson (Sussex) 115; 8, R J Kirtley (Sussex) 114; 9, R J Sidebottom (Yorks) 113; 10, C E W Silverwood (Yorks) 108.

11, I D Austin (Lancs) 107; 12, O T Parkin (Glamorgan) 106; =13, J B D Thompson (Kent), R S C Martin-Jenkins (Sussex) 105; =15, M W Alleyne (Gloucs), A M Smith (Gloucs) 102; 17, I J Harvey (Gloucs); 18, R C Irani (Essex) 94; 19, P N Weekes (Middx) 93; 20, M P Vaughan (Yorks) 92.

=21, N C Phillips (Durham), N Killeen (Durham), N A M McLean (Hants) 91; 24, R K Illingworth (Worcs) 89; 25, V C Drakes (Notts) 86; =26, K M Curran (Northants), E S H Giddins (Warwicks), A P Cowan (Essex) 84; =29, P A J DeFreitas (Derbys), A D Mascarenhas (Hants) 83.