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Somerset thrash Essex by 10 wickets; Durham hammer Glos by innings and 225 runs; Worcs beat Middlesex by 57 runs at Lord's
Rain holds up champions Notts and Glamorgan at Trent Bridge; Ben Cox scores 162 as Leics score 691 against Surrey
Sussex end 234-5, needing 94 to beat Warwicks; Yorks 65-5 in pursuit of 426 against Hants
Derbys putting Lancs under pressure at Old Trafford
Kent following-on at home to Northants
Sussex 234-5 v Warwickshire - Target 328
This fascinating match will reach it's denouement on the final morning.
By the close Jack Leaning and Tom Price had completed a half-century partnership and Sussex will be favourites.
All is not lost though for Warwickshire who will get a new ball after 19 overs if the game goes that far.
Wharton lbw b Jack 21 (Yorks 177 & 51-3 v Hants 251 & 351-5d)
Eddie Jack is quite wide on the crease and angles it in towards middle and leg but there was a flash of leg stump on impact and that was probably not a bad decision.
James Wharton is on his way and Yorks are three down.
A Patel b Lawes 0 (Surrey 520 v Leics 685-9)
Two in two for Tom Lawes, who cleans up Ajaz Patel to leave the visitors nine down!
Lancs 351 & 112-6 v Derbys 374
Image source, ShutterstockLancashire batsman Marcus Harris
Marcus Harris clips a single off Zak Chappell and he has his half century to go with a 125 in the first innings.
While all around him collapsed and panicked he has strolled in slippers and a velvet smoking jacket.
This half century has taken 105 balls and contained six fours. His partnership with Paul Coughlin for the seventh wicket looks key to Lancs having hope overnight.
Glamorgan 113-2 v Nottinghamshire - Target 478
Back on, on this stop and start day,
Seven overs left. Can the champions make more progress towards victory.
Middlesex 183 & 204 v Worcs 191 & 253
Tom Taylor seals it for the Pears!
Naavya Sharma prods outside off stump and Gareth Roderick takes the catch to wrap up victory for the visitors - their first at Lord's since 2010.
Joe Cracknell is left unbeaten on 43 - the highest individual score of the game for Middlesex and that, perhaps, was the difference between the sides.
Taylor finishes with 3-50, while Olly Hannon-Dalby and Matthew Waite take two wickets apiece.
Green lbw b Lawes 19 (Surrey 520 v Leics 685-8)
Another leg before as Tom Lawes' inswinging yorker accounts for Ben Green and Leicestershire are seven down.
Ajaz Patel is out there now for the Foxes.
Sussex 224-5 - Target 324 v Warwishire
Tom Price drives Rob Yates through the covers for four and Sussex are 100 away.
One over to go on Day three
Middlesex 204-9 (target 262) v Worcs
Those runs that Gareth Roderick and Matthew Waite added this morning look so, soi vital for Worcestershire now.
Their partnership of 49 enabled the Pears to set Middlesex 262 - and, at the moment, they are exactly 58 short of that with just one wicket standing.
Still, Naavya Sharma has looked comfortable at the crease so far and there's still just that glimmer of faint hope for the home side.
Lancs 351 & 101-6 v Derbys 374
Mo Abbas is back for Derbys but his first ball is loose, wide and smashed disdainfully through point by Paul Coughlin for a boundary.
He straightens his second ball and Coughlin does not make decent contact, running through for a leg bye.
Marcus Harris brings up the Lancs 100 with a single the next ball but Abbas finds the outside edge of Coughlin's bat only for it to fall short of the slips.
Cox lbw b Lawes 162 (Surrey 520 v Leics 676-7)
Ben Cox's marathon knock finally comes to an end as he walks across his stumps and is pinned in front by Tom Lawes.
Applause all round for Cox as he walks off, having made a career-high 162, and Tom Scriven comes out to replace him.
Surrey 520 v Leics 676-6
Six overs remain tonight and you'd assume Leicestershire will have given up on the idea of putting Surrey in again before tomorrow.
They lead by 156, with Ben Cox now 162 not out and Ben Green on 16 at the other end.
Middlesex 189-9 - Target 262 v Worcs
It's a tricky situation for Joe Cracknell, caught between the twin aims of trying to nudge Middlesex nearer their target and shield last man Naavya Sharma from the strike.
Cracknell has turned down a few singles off Olly Hannon-Dalby, then finds he can't beat the field towards the end of the over - despite being handed a juicy full toss to work with.
It means Worcestershire get an over at Sharma and left-armer Ben Gibbon is entrusted with the task.
Williams c Potts b Aldridge 0 (Glos 175 & 225 v Durham 605-5 dec)
There ends one of the most one-sided Championship games you could witness.
After 30 balls of defiance, Will Williams goes for big drive off Kasey Aldridge to get off the mark, but the ball is caught by a flying Matt Potts at gully and his team-mates rush to congratulate him.
It wraps up victory by an innings and 225 runs.
A deserved 24-point success for Durham, just the one point for Gloucestershire as they open the season with successive innings defeats.
Sussex 223-5 v Warwickshire - Target 328
After Warwickshire went bang, bang with two quick wickets, Sussex are rebuilding again.
Dare we say the match is Leaning their way as Jack Leaning moves onto 70 and gets support from Tom Price?
Price c Lees b Potts 38 (Glos 175 & 205-9 v Durham)
Almost done for Durham!
Ollie Price takes on a short ball from Matt Potts, and with the trap set, captain Alex Lees takes the catch in the deep!
Kent 178 & 127-1 v Northants 684-2 dec
Calvin Harrison is appealing for a bat-pad. Not out.
He then hits the stumps with a delivery, but Ben Compton had backed away.
Then Harrison drops short and Compton pulls it away for four and that is his 50.
A first of 2026 for Compton and we know he is a batter who can bat for a long period.
Surrey 520 v Leics 661-6
Yet more to-ing and fro-ing as the rain halts and we're back on for another scheduled 9.4 overs tonight.
Kent 178 & 113-1 v Northants 684-2 dec
A drag down from Calvin Harrison gets the treatment it deserves as Sam Northeast pulls it for four and he has his half-century off 116 balls with six fours.
After 94 last week at Durham, it's a second since his return to Kent.
Hartley b Dal 24 (Lancs 351 & 78-6 v Derbys 374)
Anuj Dal has fired that in full and straight and Tom Hartley has left it, losing his off stump.
It looked as if Lancs had just steadied the ship but that has put a dirty great hole in the hull.
The lead is just 55 runs, there are four wickets remaining and at least another hour in the day if the light holds.