Kevin Howells
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

They need to be a little bit careful here, Surrey. They've been making life extremely difficult for Hampshire, quite clearly with six wickets down.

But once it gets over that trail by 200, they can't just let it drift towards 150.

It's such an important context and time in the game, it really is for this contest.

Delano Potgieter picks up a single off Will Jacks to move onto 20* and Jake Lehmann milks another before Potgieter tickles down the leg side for a boundary, past the dive of Ollie Pope.

Potgieter cuts a single to end the over and the runs are starting to flow for the visitors. The partnership is 41.

The batting point is looming large. 36 runs needed.

Double change as Matt Fisher is back into the attack from the other end.

He's bowling to Delano Potgieter who defends back to the bowler a couple of times before jabbing to cover and scrambles a single to bring Jake Lehmann on strike.

He negotiates the final three deliveries safely.

Jake Lehmann doesn't hit this particularly hard but the second ball is clipped to the deep mid-wicket boundary, beating the three chasing fielders to the rope for a four to take him to 65*.

Ollie Pope takes the fourth ball cleanly standing up to the stumps and they're the only runs of Will Jacks' first over.

Roushan Alam
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Hampshire will certainly be hoping to avoid that follow-on but it is still some way away.

These two with a bit of a rebuild job to do. The partnership is at 29.

They need to bat through this session to get as close as they can to try and put Surrey back in again just to eat away at the time in this game.

Otherwise, if they follow-on, Hampshire are staring heavily at defeat because the conditions, the way Surrey have bowled, you really would have to put them firmly in the driving seat.

Now then, Will Jacks is going to have a bowl, replacing Tom Curran...

This will be interesting. Hampshire have looked stoic in the past hour so Rory Burns is rolling the dice.

Reece Topley continues with Delano Potgieter on the defensive for the first couple of balls before cutting the third behind point for a couple.

Potgieter has 18* with Jake Lehmann 61* at the other end and they have put on 29 since Ben Brown departed.

The fourth ball rises up at the South African who jams his bat out of the way.

Kevan James
BBC Radio Solent commentator

There's that Lehmann sort of cross-batted shot out on the offside, which when it comes off is great.

But he's played and missed, without exaggerating, eight or nine times.

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Surrey 421 v Hampshire 200-6

Tom Curran almost gets a breakthrough with one which nips back and thumps Delano Potgieter on the thigh, but it's going over the top.

He recovers to bring up the Hampshire 200 with a single before Jake Lehmann plays and misses at another cut-like shot outside off.

50 runs needed for a batting point in 44 overs. 72 to avoid the follow-on.

Jake Lehmann ricks back for another attempted uppercut over the slips - that must be five or six of those since last night - and misses the ball again as it goes through to Ollie Pope.

Hands on head from Reece Topley.

Lehmann follows another short ball again two balls later and again can't get willow on leather as Pope catches above his head.

Topley changes his length and Lehmann defends into the leg side and it's another maiden as the run-rate drops towards three-an-over.

Tom Curran continues from the Vauxhall End with Delano Potgieter on strike.

He swivels to try and pull the third ball away through he leg side but he can't time it right and it dribbles to mid-on. No run.

Curran's 12th over is his third maiden.

The deficit is 222.

Jake Lehmann drives a single off Reece Topley to point before Delano Potgieter defends the second ball and bounces the fourth straight to a fielder at square leg.

The fifth ball rises up at Potgieter who rides the bounce and deflects past the slips to third man for a single, leaving the Surrey fielders with hands on heads, while Jake Lehmann ducks under the final delivery.

Delano Potgieter clearly loves playing off his legs and picks up a boundary off Tom Curran's first ball to fine leg.

Curran responds by drawing a play and miss outside off stump and the South African allows the fourth, fifth and sixth balls to slide by.

Reece Topley gets the ball rolling again, bowling to Jake Lehmann, on 59*.

The third ball is defended off the back foot but squirts into the off-side allowing Lehmann to scamper a single and reach 60 from 110 balls.

Delano Potgieter defends the fourth ball and leaves the next alone before clipping to fine leg from the final one for a single to stay on strike and move into double figures.

Roushan Alam
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

The sun is fully out here at the Oval now.

Hampshire still trail by 230 runs but they'll be eyeing up the 80 runs to avoid the follow-on.

They're now playing to avoid defeat we feel.

I say a minute or two, several Surrey players have headed off the field, presumably for a comfort break.

Come on gents, there's people watching this...

Kevan James
BBC Radio Solent commentator

Tom Curran is convinced he's got an edge off Potgieter. Umpire David Millns isn't.

Time for a drinks break... I'll allow this one, it's only a minute or so.

56 overs remain in the day and here's hoping we get them all in...

Ollie Pope makes a good stop behind the timbers to prevent byes from Tom Curran's first delivery before Jake Lehmann picks up a single into the leg side to rotate strike.

Delano Potgieter defends the third ball and dabs the fourth into the off-side before letting the fifth glide past.

The final ball produces a big celbrappeal from Curran who thinks Potgieter got an edge through to Pope but nothing doing, according to the umpire.

Reece Topley replaces James Taylor, with the left-armer bowling to left-handed Delano Potgieter, who leaves the first delivery alone and then drives the next to the fielder at cover.

You can sense he wants to cut loose but he leaves the third ball alone before flicking a couple off his pads as Topley changes line to end the over. His second maiden.