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Durham know only too well how good a batting track this is, having made 587 runs on it - and they also know how difficult it will be to take 20 Essex wickets.
Durham's first innings lasted four sessions and despite reducing their hosts to 120-4 in the 34th over, Paul Walter and Matt Critchley have now put on 129 runs for the fifth wicket.
Walter, who has returned following a toe injury, has 74 and Critchley 51.
It's been another hot day in Chelmsford and they trail Durham by 338.
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Durham's total of 587 was their highest against Essex. They had Essex in the field for four sessions in the heat before they were out just before lunch.
The follow-on target is 436 and at the moment that looks a long way off with the hosts four down at tea. But in this heat, would Durham bowl two innings straight off anyway?
Nick Browne, who was dropped in the slips on 10, eventually perished eight runs later, caught behind off Matty Potts for 18. Potts later bowled the dangerous Jordan Cox for 32 as well.
There were big celebrations among the Durham players when Dean Elgar was out for 40, caught at first slip by Scott Borthwick off the bowling of Peter Siddle.
The other wicket saw skipper Tom Westley fall lbw to Ben Raine for 24.
Ollie Robinson looked set to reach 200 for the first time in his career, but when on 198 he edged a ball from spinner Matt Critchley to the keeper.
The wicket-keeper batsman is being talked of by many in the game as a possible call-up for England this summer and he has been in fine form with the bat. He got a great ovation from the crowd as he walked off.
He started the season with five half centuries in a row and then made a career-best 171 not out at Blackpool in May. Here in the heat of Chelmsford, he also broke the Durham fifth-wicket stand record against Essex, putting on 175 with Colin Ackermann.
Ackermann was out for 73, caught at short leg by Nick Browne off Simon Harmer. Two balls later the same thing happened to Bas De Leede who was out for a duck.
This is Durham's highest score against Essex, beating their 505 in an innings win at CLS in 2005.
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Durham know only too well how good a batting track this is, having made 587 runs on it - and they also know how difficult it will be to take 20 Essex wickets.
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Durham's total of 587 was their highest against Essex. They had Essex in the field for four sessions in the heat before they were out just before lunch.
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He started the season with five half centuries in a row and then made a career-best 171 not out at Blackpool in May. Here in the heat of Chelmsford, he also broke the Durham fifth-wicket stand record against Essex, putting on 175 with Colin Ackermann.
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