Conditions at The Oval are very bowler friendly. Heavy and overcast, but no sign of rain.

Jack Carson whips a shortish ball from Sean Abbott of his hip for four, but it's a rare success for the batters.

Sussex bat deep, and we will see what they decide to do about Tom Haines (see 11:18), but, if they have serious ambitions to save this game, Charlie Tear and Jack Carson have to survive through to lunch and beyond you would feel, with showers forecast for later this afternoon.

Liam Patterson-White with a big shout for lbw against Ben Green but it is not given and replays suggest it was missing leg stump.

Leics No 11 Josh Hull has yet to score despite facing 37 balls.

It is safe to say he probably has got his eye in now but could do with adding a few shots.

He drives nicely off Olly Stone but it goes straight to cover where it is stopped.

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Hants 214 & 171-6 f/o v Glam 536-7d

Defiant innings from the Hants captain and Ben Brown cuts Zain-ul-Hassan to the point boundary to bring up his half-century.

It has taken him 63 balls to get there and has contained eight fours.

It may be in a losing cause with Hants following on and still trailing by 151 runs but you can but set an example.

Dom Bess's first over passes by without undue alarm for his former county. It's a maiden.

Only 13 runs scored off the first 10 overs so far.

Huge kick out of the footmarks outside off stump from Liam Patterson-White and everyone misses it.

Josh Hull's big swish is nowhere near, Kyle Verreynne has no chance of stopping it as it flies past his right hand and it rolls all the way for four byes.

If Patterson-White can locate that length again it is surely only a matter of time before this last wicket falls.

Massive appeal from Jack White as Josh Thomas tries an agricultural pull across the line and misses - but probably a little too high.

Some early spin, now, as Dom Bess comes on to bowl, nine overs in.

He knows his way around the Taunton surface.

Little bit of a rugby passing drill from the Glamorgan fielders as the helmet goes through three sets of hands to Asa Tribe who assumes the position at short-ish square leg.

It is the energy of a team who expect to be travelling back home with a first win of the season and only a fourth ever Division One victory in the bag.

Ben Brown, who has scuttled along to 41 from 56 balls and Scott Currie (16) are currently frustrating them for the seventh wicket stand which is now 27 runs.

Dan Lawrence, who picked up the wicket of John Simpson yesterday, is on to bowl.

Fynn Hudson-Prentice drills him down the ground for four, and then gets a single off the last ball.

Sussex know they need to bat most of the day at the very least. Trouble is, they are five wickets down.

Surrey think they have got Fynn Hudson-Prentice, with the Sussex man wrapped on the pads by Sean Abbott, as he moves across to off stump.

The umpire says no. Replays suggest probably only height could have been an issue.

Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

If the pitch plays true to form, it'll be pretty placid, almost dead and not offering very much.

There will be a little bit of turn from the bowlers' foot-marks in the rough, either side of the stumps, but probably not from the meat of the pitch itself.

The one that Archie Vaughan bowled to get Logan van Beek yesterday turned pretty sharply. One feels Dom Bess is going to have a big part to play.

Fynn Hudson-Prentice gets a couple to take Sussex past 100.

Charlie Tear, playing his first County Championship match in almost three years, remains there on 24.