County Championship, day one - Notts, Surrey & Somerset all on top, Anderson skippering Lancs
Date: 16:26 BST
Title: 200 up for Kent
Content: Lancashire v Kent 202-2
James Anderson is finding out this captaincy lark is no walk in the park.
Lancashire simply cannot break this third-wicket stand of 120 and counting between Ben Compton and Tawanda Muyeye.
Compton, on 81no, will be eyeing a century.
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Date: 16:25 BST
Title: Post
Content: Essex 208-6 v Hants
Eddie Jack drops slightly short and Simon Harmer climbs in.
Four to the South Africa international, who moves on to 14.
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Date: 16:18 BST
Title: WICKET
Content: Allison c Burns b Fisher 3 (Worcs 153-8 v Surrey)
A third wicket for Matthew Fisher.
He's been excellent today and Fisher has Ben Allison edging to Burns who snaffles his third catch of the day.
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Date: 16:15 BST
Title: 50 for Pears' Matthew Waite
Content: Worcs 153-7 v Surrey
He's playing a lone hand for Worcestershire and he's playing it very well.
Matthew Waite has been the man standing on the deck while the ship goes down.
He scampers a single and gets to 50 from 80 balls with six fours.
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Date: 16:11 BST
Title: WICKET
Content: Simpson c O Robinson b Conners 40 (Durham v Sussex 220-5)
Straight after tea.
An 80-run partnership comes to an end and John Simpson is livid with himself.
He's already played a nice shot for four and when he tries to repeat it he edges behind off Sam Conners and Ollie Robinson does the rest.
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Date: 16:11 BST
Title: Tea at Edgbaston
Content: Warwickshire v Somerset 195-2
Corey Rocchiccioli bowls around the wicket for the penultimate over before tea before Jacob Bethell takes the last to no major event.
So, 37 overs to be bowled in the last session, though it should not take as long as some may fear if the West-Australian offie and English left-armer continue to bowl a fair amount, at least to the new ball 31 overs away.
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Date: 16:09 BST
Title: 150 up for Worcestershire
Content: Worcs 150-7 v Surrey
Matthew Waite is helping Worcestershire eke out every possible run but you just feel whatever they get it won't be enough.
Anyway they now have 150 on the board as he nudges a single which is greeted by a ripple of applause by the home crowd.
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Date: 16:03 BST
Title: 50 for Muyeye
Content: Lancashire v Kent 189-2
Just 66 balls required for Tawanda Muyeye to bring up his 50.
Kent bottom of Division Two despite winning two of their seven games thus far.
They'll be fancying their chances of leapfrogging Lancashire, who are a point better off despite not having won a Championship game this summer, the way things have gone today.
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Date: 16:02 BST
Title: Tea at Trent Bridge
Content: Notts 196-3 v Yorks
Nottinghamshire go to tea in a handy spot, with opener Ben Slater unbeaten on 78.
Yorkshire will feel they are firmly in the game if they can nip out one or two quick wickets in the evening session.
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Date: 15:58 BST
Title: Teatime scores
Content: Division One
Division Two
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Date: 15:56 BST
Title: WICKET
Content: Kohler-Cadmore c Davies b Simmons 104 (Warwickshire v Somerset 187-2)
One brings two and all that...both to Che Simmons whose extra pace also has Tom Kohler-Cadmore out attempting the hook shot.
It is a high risk shot whether fielders are out on the boundary or not - they were not required as skipper Alex Davies takes the catch this time.
Still a top knock, a rare hundred from a Somerset red-ball opener and particularly impressive being his first time doing so this year.
Two left-handers in now as James Rew comes to the middle and is also off the mark first ball with a single dropped into the off side off the back foot.
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Date: 15:51 BST
Title: Tea at Northampton
Content: Northants v Middlesex 250-6
And the refreshments will taste just that tad sweeter for Middlesex after they secured their first batting point of the game just before the break.
Luke Hollman (46) and Joe Cracknell (43) take the seventh-wicket stand to 90. Middlesex were 33-3 after eight overs - but that will seem a very long time ago now to the Northants attack.
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Date: 15:50 BST
Title: Tea at New Road
Content: Worcs 149-7 v Surrey
Surrey's session but Worcestershire are hanging on, mainly thanks to Matthew Waite's unbeaten 47.
The home side were 79-4 in that afternoon stint with the sheer relentlessness of the visitors' attack giving them little respite.
Waite has watched wickets fall from the pavilion and at the non-striker's end - this is bottom against the defending champions and the gap is clear to see.
Former Pear Nathan Smith has also taken a wicket on his return to New Road.
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Date: 15:50 BST
Title: WICKET
Content: Davey c Barnard b Simmons 64 (Warwickshire v Somerset 186-1)
Che Simmons bounces Josh Davey and tucks him up, some decent pace from the Barbados born quick.
His attempted pull shot is pouched by Ed Barnard (still yet to bowl) at fine leg.
I do not think Tom Lammonby has ever come in at 186-1 in his career...he is nearly run out later in the same over, Tom Kohler-Cadmore again not fancying a quick single, but again his partner survives.
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Date: 15:50 BST
Title: Tea at Chelmsford
Content: Essex 193-6 v Hants
The players head off for a breather with the match finely poised.
Charlie Allison is the key man for Essex, unbeaten on 50, while Kyle Abbott has bowled magnificently for his three wickets.
The home side will want to push on after tea and set a challenging total, while Hampshire will fancy having a bat before the close.
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Date: 15:47 BST
Title: WICKET
Content: Clarke c Revis v Moriarty 31 (Notts 186-3 v Yorks)
A stunning catch from Matthew Revis brings Joe Clarke's time at the crease to an end.
Clarke tries to take Dan Moriarty over Revis at mid-on, but the big man sticks up his left hand as he backpedals and the ball sticks.
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Date: 15:46 BST
Title: Tea at the Riverside
Content: Durham v Sussex 209-4
A good session for Sussex who have rebuilt from 140-4 with James Coles and John Simpson going along comfortably.
Skipper Simpson was dropped in the slips off Matthew Potts early in his innings and has since moved to 30 while Coles was put down when flicking at one on the leg side.
Coles has struck 10 fours in his unbeaten 70 and will feel there are plenty more runs out there.
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Date: 15:46 BST
Title: 50 for Allison
Content: Essex 193-6 v Hants
Charlie Allison punches a single to long-off and moves to 50 from 99 deliveries.
A fine knock from the 20-year-old.
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Date: 15:44 BST
Title: Dropped catch
Content: Lancashire v Kent 153-2
Not a dolly by any means but the sort of chance Lancashire have to take if they are going to end their win drought.
Ben Compton gets a toe-end nick off Chris Green and it just about carries to Keaton Jennings, the sole slip fielder, but he can't grasp it diving forward and the half-chance, perhaps better, goes begging.
Kent have really stepped up the run rate since the resumption after that rain break, Compton up to 57no and Tawanda Muyeye up to 36no off 50 balls.
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Date: 15:44 BST
Title: Tea at Grace Road
Content: Leicestershire v Glamorgan 178-3
A quieter period leading into the tea interval as Kiran Carlson has reached 18* off 51 balls allowing Colin Ingram to get in alongside him.
They will return in the East Midlands in 20 minutes for the evening session.
Asa Tribe's maiden hundred the main talking point of today as away fans were sad to see him depart in the last hour, with the ball and field seemingly at his mercy otherwise.
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