James Taylor has hit his straps quickly here and Hampshire skipper Ben Brown is fully on the defensive.

He defends the first four balls but the fifth is a ripper and Brown ends up on his knees, think it hit his pads outside the line.

Brown drives past Taylor, who gets a hand on the ball, to pick up a single to mid-off from the final ball to move on to seven.

Mark Church
BBC Radio London commentator

Nice afternoon for watching cricket now. Best weather we've had of the game, without a doubt.

Jake Lehmann has played some glorious shots but he's also played plenty of false shots and this is another play and miss against Jordan Clark in his latest over, a maiden.

Surrey have reduced the run rate significantly today, from a hair under five-an-over last night to 3.6 or so now. Buys them more time in the big picture.

Webby might be on to something... we wouldn't even need intervals at all and they could just plonk their lunchbox on the boundary rope at long leg and take it in turns to go and tuck in between deliveries?

Mark Church
BBC Radio London commentator

He stays in the crease Ben Brown. But we've seen balls climb so I think height will always be an issue.

Nicely bowled by James Taylor.

James Taylor sends down a no-ball from his second delivery before thumping Ben Brown infront from the next.

Big appeal. He's not far forward, Paul Pollard thinks it's too high, however.

Brown replies with a lovely shot to the long-on rope for his first four to bring the follow-on target within 100 runs.

Taylor beats the edge as Brown gets down on one knee to drive the next but he shoulders arms for the penultimate delivery and then watches the final ball down the leg side.

Kevan James
BBC Radio Solent commentator

[We've had] 14 overs in total, spread over three periods of play. Hampshire 43 for those two wickets and Jake Lehmann passing 50 for the sixth time this season including that 100.

In fact, these are the two main batters that are in the middle for Hampshire.

Ben Brown is averaging 46, Lehmann 62 and [Nick] Gubbins to a certain extent is having a decent season.

Change of bowling at the Pavilion End and James Taylor, fresh from a successful loan with Kent, is into the attack, headband and all.

Ben Brown digs out a Jordan Clark yorker to pick up a single to fine leg for the only run of the over, though Jake Lehmann goes fishing for one outside off, not for the first time in this innings, and then misses an attempted cut to complete the over.

Right then, this is the big session of the match, you feel...

Ben Brown on strike, on 1*, with Jake Lehmann 50* at the other end and Jordan Clark bowling the opening over of the afternoon.

85 needed for a batting point, five wickets required by Surrey before 272 to enforce the follow on.

To lunch or not to lunch when rain interrupts the day's play?

I have a feeling Alex might be involved in the hospitality industry and I do have my sympathies... seems cricket will have to remain imperfect until someone thinks of a solution.

While the players take a break, we'll do the same... back in just under half an hour.

We've had 53 minutes of cricket this morning, in which time Surrey have picked up the wickets of nightwatch Sonny Baker and Tom Prest, while Jake Lehmann has posted a half-century to guide Hampshire towards the prospect of a second batting point of the season, and potentially avoiding the follow-on.

I'm going to have a rant now... the sun is out, the skies are blue, we've lost nearly 100 overs over the past three days and now the players are off for lunch for 40 minutes during the best conditions of the entire match.

Cricket just can't get out of its own way sometimes...

Anyway, Hampshire are 256 in arrears, need another 157 to make Surrey bat again, have five wickets in hand, 66 overs left to find 85 runs for batting points and there are 71 overs remaining on day three.

Ben Brown stands firm, despite one ball spitting up at the shoulder of the bat, narrowly getting his fingers out of the way, and gets off the mark from the final ball of the session from Reece Topley with a single to fine leg.

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Surrey 421 v Hampshire 163-5

Jake Lehmann glances off his hips for a single off Reece Topley to pick up his 34th First Class half-century.

75 balls, eight fours, and he's going to be vital to Hampshire's push for batting points, and avoiding the follow-on target here.

Ben Brown does what Tom Prest couldn't and shoulders arms to get out the way of Jordan Clark's fourth ball of his over.

Brown defends the fifth and sixth back to the bowler.

One more over before lunch...

Tom Prest guides Reece Topley's first ball to long leg off his pads for a single to return Jake Lehmann to the strike.

He goes fishing from the next ball outside off and Topley appeals for an edge, but he's the only one, the cordon stay silent. I think it just swung late, as it has all week.

The next ball is driven to mid-off, no run, and the fifth and sixth are defended.

Jordan Clark returns and sees Jake Lehmann pull a single from the first ball to square leg to reach 45*.

Tom Prest drives the third ball past the despairing boot of Clark and scampers a single to mid-off.

Lehmann then steps across his stumps and creams a glorious back-foot punch through the covers for four runs.

He thinks about a single to backward point from the next ball but opts against it and will have to wait for another opportunity to reach his half-century.

Reece Topley begins an over with a no ball, not for the first time this morning.

Some smart fielding from Dom Sibley at backward point denies Tom Prest runs before a flying catch down the leg side from Ollie Pope to save four byes down the leg side.

The fifth ball almost cuts Prest in half but he manages to keep his inside edge away from the ball as it nips back before finishing the over with a dab back down the track to the bowler.