Four runs for Archie Vaughan, glancing a ball away to a very fine leg.

Mohammed Abbas adjusts his line and Vaughan pushes carefully forward to backward point.

Vaughan drives at a ball outside off and misses.

He's squared up by the next ball, which is edged on the back foot wide of the slips for two.

A loose drive on the back foot brings four through the vacant fourth slip.

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Archie Vaughan (19*) and Tom Kohler-Cadmore (22*) are back in the middle, hoping to prolong the Somerset resistance on a seaming wicket for as long as possible.

They were 29-3 at one stage this morning.

Mohammed Abbas will bowl to Vaughan.

Just a reminder of the table heading into this round of fixtures.

A Lancashire win at Worcestershire would put Notts or Warwickshire in danger of going down.

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Notts opener Ben Slater cuts Ed Barnard behind point to open his account.

There are some beefy looking showers heading towards Trent Bridge, but thankfully they're on the field for the moment.

So bored of talking about the weather.

Some good news for Lancashire fans... play will start in 40 minutes in this must win game for the Red Rose county.

Assuming there is no more rain...

The covers are coming off.

We're back with this game in five minutes if the rain does the decent thing and stay away.

As it stands - 73 overs left today. Tea at 15:30.

We have some cricket in the afternoon session!

Haseeb Hameed and Ben Slater are in the middle for Notts, Olly Hannon-Dalby will take the new ball for the Bears.

One of these sides could still go down.

This is a huge game for Middlesex, who need to win emphatically and hope Yorkshire slip up against Northants in Leeds for promotion to Division One.

But it will have to wait until tomorrow. The outfield is waterlogged.

Play abandoned for today.

Rain forced the players off the field before midday and prompted an early lunch at 12:15 BST.

The covers are still on but it isn't raining currently.

Hopeful for more play this afternoon.

A second match falls victim to the weather as play is abandoned for day one at Cardiff without a ball yet bowled.

The skippers will be out for the toss at 10am tomorrow.

Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

Somerset captain Lewis Gregory would have known that he was taking a big risk when he elected to bat, after winning the toss.

In conditions tailor-made for Hampshire’s vastly experienced seam attack of Kyle Abbott and Muhammad Abbas.

His reasoning? Having picked Shoaib Bashir to bowl alongside Jack Leach for the first time in the Championship, the game plan is to spin Hampshire to their doom.

But that also depends on scoring good first-innings runs, and that element of the plan hasn’t worked out so well, with Tom Lammonby, Andy Umeed and Tom Abell all out early on.

Archie Vaughan has hung in grittily and Tom Kohler-Cadmore has started brightly but, when the players went off for rain at 11.30 BST, it was Hampshire who were much the happier team, with Gregory’s master plan in serious danger of coming apart at the seams.

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At 13:10 BST.

IF it isn't raining at that point.

It's looking grey out there, plus there was a lot of rain in Leeds last night - so there are bound to be concerns about the state of the outfield.

Lancashire need to win to stand any chance of staying up, but their hopes have been frustrated so far by a wet outfield.

There is at last a glimmer of hope as the umpires have announced an inspection at 1pm.

A 1pm inspection is also due at Grace Road where Leicestershire are taking on Derbyshire in an East Midlands derby.

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Rain stops playpublished at 12:25 British Summer Time 26 September

12:25 BST 26 September

Essex 116-1 v Surrey

No, no, no, no!

Not entirely sure if it's rain or bad light - could be either - but the players are taken from the field and that will be a slightly early lunch.

The sunshine has given way to threatening skies and spots of rain.

It's been a great recovery from Essex who lost Robin Das - to Tom Lawes - in the second over with the score on four.

But Dean Elgar (54) and Tom Westley (52) have put on 112 and laid a nice platform.

As Ged just mentioned, we have had some sunshine at New Road but overnight rain has given the ground staff plenty to worry about on the outfield.

No play before lunch.

Dropped catchpublished at 12:22 British Summer Time 26 September

12:22 BST 26 September

Essex 116-1 v Surrey

Harsh to call that a drop - it would have been a worldie.

Yousef Majid comes close to his first-ever first-class wicket as an arm ball flies off an edge from Den Elgar, on 53.

A diving Dom Sibley almost takes it one-handed at slip, but juggles it and can;t cling on at the second attempt.

Early lunch at Trent Bridge.

Toss at 12:40 BST and start half an hour later.

This is all weather permitting.