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County Championship day three - radio & text

Live Reporting

Alex Hoad, Ben Pheazey, Paul Grunill and Deepak Mahay

Pitch inspection coming at Northamptonpublished at 10:46 British Summer Time
Glamorgan 467 v Northants 309-5

Better news. The inspection will be at 11:30.
Postpublished at 10:46 British Summer Time
Worcs 182 & 104-5 v Notts 207

Good shot from Ethan Brookes, going back to Dillon Pennington and cutting towards the cathedral side of the ground for four.
That's the innings 100 in 39.1 overs.
Pennington goes fuller and Brookes blocks into the off side.
The fourth ball is edged short of keeper Kyle Verreynne, who does well to stop the ball getting away for runs.
Two runs tapped into the off side.
Hoping for a 10:50 BST start at Chelmsfordpublished at 10:43 British Summer Time
Essex 312-3 v Durham 333

This would be very good news indeed.
Postpublished at 10:42 British Summer Time
Worcs 182 & 98-5 v Notts 207

Two slips in for Josh Tongue.
Gareth Roderick presses forward carefully.
He is nearly foxed by a full ball that he just squeezes on to the off side.
Maiden over.
Dom Sibley retires hurtpublished at 10:41 British Summer Time
Surrey 246 & 191-1 v Warwickshire 248

Dom Sibley has just walked off after nudging a delivery from Rob Yates into the leg side seemingly without alarm.
He's on 64* but has retired hurt officially, though not sure what has prompted it. Surrey have described it as a soft tissue injury.
Ben Foakes is the new batter, with Ollie Pope on 64* after a couple of boundaries off Ollie Hannon-Dalby this morning.
'Interesting to see how Somerset go about this'published at 10:41 British Summer Time
Somerset 402-6 v Yorks
Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

It will be interesting to see how Somerset go about this. I spoke to Tom Abell last evening and he said that yesterday evening they were planning to go quite hard towards the end in order to score some quick runs to set up a declaration and maybe the would have declared if the light had been better.
I would expect Somerset to bat for three quarters of an hour and score some quick runs and then put Yorkshire in and try and take some wickets, rack up a few bowling bonus points to go with the three batting points they've got.
Rain stops play at Northamptonpublished at 10:40 British Summer Time
Glamorgan 467 v Northants 309-5

Saif Zaib and Justin Broad can take the pads off for now.
Damp and gloomy at Wantage Road with a full set of covers on and around the square.
No play here so far today.
400 up for Somersetpublished at 121.3 overs
Somerset 400-6 v Yorks

Kasey Aldridge paddles the ball round the corner for a single as Somerset's total reaches 400.
No extra batting point for them, though, as we are well beyond the 110-overs cutoff point.
Postpublished at 10:38 British Summer Time
Somerset 399-6 v Yorks

Ben Green drives the final ball of Matthew Revis' latest over. it doesn't go where he intended, but he makes a good enough contact to find the long-on boundary. Dom Bess will continue at the other end.
Postpublished at 10:38 British Summer Time
Worcs 182 & 98-5 v Notts 207

A Josh Tongue no ball fourth ball and Ethan Brookes pushes a ball down the ground for a single.
Dillon Pennington bowls from the New Road End.
He took four wickets in the first innings but he won't add to that tally here as he spears one down the leg side.
We have heard that Mo Abbas is currently off the field with a twinge of discomfort in his back.
Whoa! Huge leading edge from Ethan Brookes, but the ball lands short of Freddie McCann at deep third. That was quick and shorter than expected.
Brookes keeps the strike with a single to point off the last ball.
Division Two updatepublished at 10:37 British Summer Time
Kent 293 & 97-0 v Lancashire 284

Jaydn Denly picks up a single off the opening over of the morning from Will Williams to move to 56*..
Grey skies over the Garden of England but the earlier showers have skidded over to the North Sea, thankfully.
Postpublished at 10:36 British Summer Time
Middx 298 v Derbys 283 & 18-0

In case you were wondering, play did start on time at Lord's.
Derbyshire have only added a single so far.
Caleb Jewell, we believe, is playing his final innings of the season for Derbyshire, prior to returning home to Australia to prepare for their domestic season.
Listen on smart speakerpublished at 10:35 British Summer Time
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Rain in Chelmsfordpublished at 10:34 British Summer Time
Essex 312-3 v Durham 333
Martin Emmerson
BBC Radio Newcastle

It's been t-shirt and shorts weather so far this week in Chelmsford, but there is a distinctly different feel to things today and we have a delayed start this morning.
The temperature has dropped and we have heavy showers forecast for the majority of the day. This afternoon does not look too good either and I doubt we will see any play after 4.00pm if the radar is correct.
While Durham will be desperate to get on and try and get another bowling point on the board, the chances of them actually doing that, based on what we saw yesterday, seems unlikely.
The bowling attack looks particularly blunt and Dean Elgar and Matt Critchley had little in the way of issues while out in the middle. Their partnership is 154. Elgar has 140 and Critchley 97.
'A tricky equation for Warwickshire'published at 10:33 British Summer Time
Surrey 246 & 186-1 v Warwickshire 248
Mark Church
BBC Radio London commentator

From a Warwickshire perspective this is an interesting one in that they know that they've got to try and keep the runs down but also their best way of doing that is taking wickets and there is still enough in this pitch to cause batters huge problems.
So it's a tricky equation this for Warwickshire this morning.
Play begins at The Ovalpublished at 10:33 British Summer Time
Surrey 246 & 181-1 v Warwickshire 248

Dom Sibley (64*) and Ollie Pope (56*) head out at a very autumnal Oval, after the past couple of days of bright sunshine, aiming to grow their lead of 179 with nine wickets in hand.
Ollie Hannon-Dalby takes the first over of the day...
Delayed start at Leicesterpublished at 69 overs
Leics 270-4 v Glos 482

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Early morning rain means there cannot be an 11:00 start at Grace Road.
When play does resume, Leicestershire's first job will be to add as many batting points as they can - they may have to wait until next week to make certain of promotion.
Day Three begins at New Roadpublished at 10:32 British Summer Time
Worcs 182 & 93-5 v Notts 207

We're underway.
Ethan Brookes will take guard to Josh Tongue on 14 not out.
The overheads are a bit grim but it isn't raining.
Gareth Roderick is 14 not out as well and he's at the other end.
Postpublished at 10:29 British Summer Time
Somerset 391-6 v Yorks

We are going to have a prompt start at Taunton - the ground most affected by rain on the first two days.
Kasey Aldridge (29) and Ben Green (0) are the not out Somerset batters. Green will be on strike as Matthew Revis completes the over halted by bad light last evening.
'It's dry here this morning'published at 10:29 British Summer Time
Surrey 246 & 181-1 v Warwickshire 248
Mark Church
BBC Radio London commentator

The good news for everybody is that there has been a lot of weather talk this morning. There's been talks of showers across London throughout today but it's dry this morning.