Ishan Kishan certainly is timing it well.

Kasey Aldridge is a fraction too full and, with a full flourish, the Indian puts bit away for four to extra cover.

He is 60 not out - but almost departs when he leg glances and keeper James Rew is unable to hang onto a diving chance.

Ashton Turner gets a thick edge to a cover-drive and sends the ball flashing through the vacant slips and across the parched Queen's Park outfield to the rope at third for four, his eighth, to move to 75* and take Lancashire's lead to 402.

He and George Balderson are not exactly hurrying, but are moving at concerted pace, let's say.

Archie Vaughan drops short and Jack Haynes pulls to mid-wicket for four. He moves into the 90s.

A glorious front-foot punch down the ground from James Coles races away for a boundary off Ed Barnard to take him to 119* - one of the best shots he's played in his five hours and 19 minutes at the crease.

Sussex are moving steadily towards parity, but they'll need to put the pedal down at some point if they are to build a lead big enough, as well as allowing time enough to take 10 wickets.

Sam Curran bowled beautifully this morning, picking up the wicket of Colin Ackermann, and the left-armer launches the afternoon session as Surrey seek further inroads.

However, Curran overpitches one that Alex Lees gratefully propels to the cover boundary to move on to 64.

A lot of declaration chat at the interval, but when might that happen, or can Derbyshire take the decision away from James Anderson with five quick qickets?

Ashton Turner and George Balderson are back out there and now 380 ahead with five wickets and five sessions to play with.

Shane Snater hasn't taken a five-for yet this season, but he'll fancy his prospects of changing that statistic this afternoon.

Snater has three so far in this Yorkshire innings and the Essex seamer gets the second session under way, charging in to Will Sutherland with a virtually new ball.

Ed Barnard is bowling to John Simpson to begin the afternoon session.

James Coles has 110* at the other end, but what is Sussex's plan this afternoon?

Fascinating to find out.

Tilak Varma and Tom Prest stride back out in the muggy conditions of the Utilita Bowl.

Callum Parkinson, on loan for this game from Durham, will bowl the first over of the afternoon.

Pears need five wickets to give themselves a real chance of a victory nobody would have predicted before play on Sunday.

Can they find them?

This has been a really cracking match so far.

Both teams are fully committed despite the conditions, but Notts now have an opportunity to put some pressure on Somerset.

If Jack Haynes and Ishan Kishan can significantly extend this partnership and Notts can build a lead, it will bring their spinners, Liam Patterson-White and Farhan Ahmed, into the game for the third innings.

Kasey Aldridge will start things going after lunch - Haynes cuts his first ball for four.

A spirited fightback from the Leicestershire tail finally comes to an end as last man Sam Wood is caught behind off Ryan Higgins - having added 64 for the final wicket with Roman Walker.

Walker ends unbeaten on 40, with Wood and Chris Wright before him helping to usher the Foxes from 99-8 to a vaguely respectable total.

They still trail Middlesex by 329, however - and you'd think the follow-on will be enforced.

Nick Webb
BBC Radio Wales

Colin Ingram and Ben Kellaway have posted a record fifth-wicket stand against the Shire after Glamorgan started the day on 228-4 and milked 11 overs of spin before the new ball.

There was no change in Gloucestershire's fortunes with the harder ball as the pair kept the scoreboard ticking over without a chance.

Kellaway, 21, showed mature judgement as he reached the second hundred of the season and his fledgling career off 180 balls, while Ingram took 176 balls to notch up his 16th ton in 59 first-class matches wearing the daffodil badge.

Just 15 behind going into the afternoon, Glamorgan have every chance of securing a fourth batting point and aiming for a three-figure lead to put pressure on the visitors tonight and tomorrow.

Mike Taylor
BBC WM commentator

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James Coles has played a surprising number of red-ball games for a man of 21 in this era. Watching him bat makes that seem less surprising.

In making his second century in nine days, he has seldom looked hurried either in the act of making his strokes, or in the general demeanour of his innings.

The mood may have to change a little this afternoon if Sussex are to convert a strong position on the scoreboard into a serious platform for victory.

Route one to winning might well be to only bat once, but for that to work they would surely want to build a substantial lead, and at lunch – having added 107 this morning while losing only Daniel Ibrahim – they are still 30 behind.

Any sense of drift was interrupted by an amusing spell before lunch as Warwickshire worked through a series of baroque field arrangements, perhaps as much as anything to jolt the batters' concentration. It was well worth a try, and a good sign that though the Bears may have tiring bodies at this point, they still have lively minds.

Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

Nottinghamshire's morning.

Somerset did take the wicket of the overnight centurion Ben Slater, neatly caught behind by James Rew off Jack Leach, but Jack Haynes and Ishan Kishan have defied both the new ball and the spin of Leach and Archie Vaughan to take the visitors to within striking distance of a third batting point and a first innings lead.

The 2,000 or so schoolchildren watching on for the second day in a row have been chanting their support for the home team, but will probably have most enjoyed Kishan's two big sixes.

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Division One

Hampshire 140-5 v Worcestershire 679-7 dec

Somerset 379 v Nottinghamshire 322-4

Surrey 820-9 dec v Durham 138-3

Sussex 385-4 v Warwickshire 415

Yorkshire 236-6 v Essex 368

Division Two

Derbyshire 261 v Lancashire 367 & 271-5

Glamorgan 365-4 v Gloucestershire 380

Kent 566-8 dec v Northamptonshire 255-2

Leicestershire 189-9 v Middlesex 534 - still in play

We have an extended session at Grace Road because of the defiant efforts of Leicestershire's final-wicket pair.

Roman Walker and Sam Wood have so far added 48 together in 21 overs since Chris Wright was caught behind off Tom Helm for 16.

A dominant session by Glamorgan, who go into lunch just 15 runs short of first-innings parity with Gloucestershire.

Ben Kellaway and Colin Ingram have batted superbly to extend their fifth-wicket partnership to 244.

Kellaway was first to his hundred and is 129 not out at the interval, with his experienced South African partner on 113.

Glamorgan have time left in the day, with six wickets in hand, to push on well beyond 500 and thereby create an opportunity to try and force a victory.

Hampshire still have a lot of work to do.

The hosts have added 72 runs this morning but lost two further wickets as the Pears try to force themselves into a position to potential win the match.

Ben Brown and Liam Dawson fell in the session but Tilak Varma remains on 36* with a blend of stoic defence and breathtaking shot-making. The 22-year-old is some player.

Tom Prest will resume on 14* as they bid to bat through the afternoon session to stave off any threat of beginning their second innings today as they remain 389 shy of the follow-on target.

Exactly the sort of session Northants would have wanted when they resumed on 140-1 this morning, needing to score 417 to avoid the prospect of following on.

Ricardo Vasconcelos fell to Wes Agar immediately after reaching his first hundred of the season.

He put on 146 with Calvin Harrison, who has batted through the morning for 108 not out, his maiden century in first-class cricket.

Harrison has so far added 84 with James Sales, who is 27 not out following his hundred against Middlesex last week.

That double burst with the new ball from Shane Snater ensures that it's Essex's morning - they have the home side six down and still 132 behind.

Yorkshire needed a big score from Jonny Bairstow, Adam Lyth or both - but, although the latter contributed 84, they are now looking to Matthew Revis - who's batted well for his 37 not out - to steer them somewhere close to Essex's total.