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  • Div One: Somerset tail ekes out 50-run first innings lead against Hants

  • Hampshire wipe out deficit and reach 149-1 at close

  • Essex close on 110-3 replying to Warwicks 190 after Sam Hain's 88

  • Div Two: Glos close on 58-3 in their second innings, needing 47 more to avoid innings defeat

  • Nathan McSweeney and James Sales pass 50 before bad light stops play as Northants close on 229-4 against Middlesex

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  1. Overnight scorespublished at 10:46 BST 18 April

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    Division One:

    Southampton: Hampshire 238 v Somerset 154-3

    Edgbaston: Warwickshire 113-7 v Essex

    Division Two:

    Bristol: Gloucestershire 124-6 v Lancashire

    Northampton: Northamptonshire v Middlesex 284-6

  2. Welcomepublished at 10:45 BST 18 April

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    Good morning and welcome to round three of this season's County Championship.

    We were a bit hampered by the weather yesterday, but the forecast today looks cracking so we look set for a full day of red-ball action.

    And a bit more as well as three of our matches make up for time lost to Mother Nature yesterday.

    So let's get started by looking at the state of play.