Excellent use of the feet by Ryan Patel as he comes down the track to Farhan Ahmed and lofts him straight for four.

Second boundary of the morning and the lead is now 150.

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Glamorgan 550-9 dec v Leicestershire 251 & 148-3

The veteran former India Test captain has his 58th first class half century... he crunches his seventh four off Timm van der Gugten to bring up the milestone from 109 balls.

What his side would give to see him post a 40th first class ton in this scenario.

The Foxes deficit is under 150.

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The Yorkshire spinner has certainly deserved this five-for - the 16th of his first-class career - after getting through 65 overs in this innings.

Luke Hollman is the man to depart for 21, edging to second slip where Jonny Bairstow performs a bit of juggling and finally clasps the ball safely to leave Middlesex six down.

As ever in this match, we are whizzing through the overs.

Two bowled in less than five minutes! Farhan Ahmed scoots through a maiden before Rory Burns and Ryan Patel milk half-a-dozen off Liam Patterson-White.

The Brown Caps lead by 139.

Sussex are allowing free entry into Hove this morning.

The sun is out, so for anyone in the Brighton area who loves their cricket, get yourselves down there!

India left-armer Jaydev Unadkat gives up a couple of runs from the first over of day four.

The first over of the day is also the first sighting of seam in this Durham second innings, with Craig Overton hurtling in to Callum Parkinson.

Overton has two slips, as well as a short leg and silly mid-off, but Parkinson isn't giving them anything and plays out a maiden.

Timm van der Gugten completes his aborted over from last night first up.

It all ended in a bit of a farce with the players heading off for bad light, coming back for half a dozen balls and then heading off again.

Mason Crane will take the second over - with a point to prove, you'd expect, after those three costly drops in the gloom last night.

Concerted appeal for lbw against Tom Taylor from the very first ball of the day from Sam Cook, who has a fresh ball in hand this morning with which to bowl the 81st over of the innings.

That'll clear those lungs out.

Nothing doing, but the pressure is on the Pears immediately in the Chelmsford sunshine.

Jamie Porter will open up from the other end.

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The final day at Sophia Gardens is fascinatingly poised.

Colin Ingram's unbeaten 257 inspired Glamorgan to a mammoth total of 550 on day three, a lead of 299.

Leicestershire faced the prospect of batting through five sessions to save the game and at 74-3, their hopes looked slim.

However the dangerous Ajinkya Rahane and Peter Handscomb built a vital stand of 70 in the fading light last night, with both being dropped by Mason Crane, and more than 20 overs were lost due to an early finish.

Sam Northeast's men still lead by 155 but need to break this stand early to put themselves back into the driving seat for a win which would keep their promotion hopes alive.

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For Division Two leaders Sussex, today in Hove really offers a big chance in the promotion race.

With the two sides immediately behind them, Yorkshire and Middlesex, looking almost certain to draw up at Headingley, a 24-point victory would open up a more than useful gap at the top.

They resume with Derbyshire trailing by 176 runs with eight wickets to take, but don't expect this to be straightforward.

Captain John Simpson used seven bowlers yesterday in 57 overs and only prised out two wickets, suggesting that the Hove pitch is still a good one.

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Ryan Higgins struck his maiden double century when facing the Kookaburra ball at the start of this season and, if the Middlesex all-rounder plans to chalk up another, today might be his best opportunity.

Higgins’ unbeaten 117 at Headingley has guided the visitors to within 11 runs of saving the follow-on – a landmark that would smother any lingering Yorkshire hopes of victory and keep Middlesex’s noses just in front of their promotion rivals.

So far, only 11 wickets have fallen in the match, with four players making hundreds and the lowest completed individual score is White Rose skipper Jonny Tattersall’s innings of 26 on day one.

Yorkshire off-spinner Dom Bess, who has ploughed through a remarkable 64 overs to pick up four of the five Middlesex wickets, will be hopeful of bagging a five-for – and it’s hard to imagine today’s final act will be about much more than individual achievements.

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Mother Nature played a big part in this match being juuust about in the balance going into the final day.

Essex had their tails up when rain and bad light brought an early halt to proceedings on Saturday and though Jake Libby, Brett D'Oliveira and Adam Hose all passed 50, the Pears are down to their final two wickets.

Their lead is only 165, which Essex would back themselves to rattle off without too much trouble in a session if necessary, however if Logan van Beek and Tom Taylor are able to hang around through the morning session and take the lead past 200, any hopes Essex had of an early finish would likely disappear.

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Day three saw Surrey have to work really hard to finish off the Nottinghamshire first innings, in major part down to a superb 154 from 19-year-old Freddie McCann in only his second match.

But a career-best 7-129 from Will Jacks did at least complete the job as the last four wickets fell for 21 runs.

They lost Dom Sibley before the close to Farhan Ahmed's eight wicket of the match, but the Brown Caps resume with a lead of 133.

Will they try to accelerate their scoring this morning and declare in the hope of bowling out the hosts in the last two sessions?

Or will they decide to accept the draw and hope Somerset don't eat into their 35-point lead too much?

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Somerset’s spinners will be licking their lips this morning after last night’s explosive – and perhaps unexpected – 40-minute blitz of Durham that put them firmly on course to seal victory.

With the Taunton floodlights enveloped by slate-coloured skies, many of the crowd had given up and headed home after play was suspended for bad light, not anticipating a 6pm restart.

Those that stayed were richly rewarded as Somerset knocked over the visitors’ top three in no time at all, leaving them precariously placed on 15-3 and a very, very long way off their target of 420.

Jack Leach claimed his sixth wicket of the match, with teenage debutant Archie Vaughan collecting another following the disastrous run-out of Ben McKinney – and Durham will need to dig deep to deny their hosts today.

They resume with two nightwatchmen at the crease in George Drissell and Callum Parkinson and Somerset will feel confident of taking the seven remaining wickets for maximum points to maintain their title challenge ahead of Surrey’s visit to Taunton in just over a week’s time.

Division One

• Somerset 492 & 263-5 dec v Durham 336 & 15-3 - Durham need 405 to win

• Essex 404 v Worcs 266 & 303-8 - Worcs lead by 165
• Notts 405 v Surrey 525 & 13-1 - Surrey lead by 133

Division Two

• Glamorgan 550-9 dec v Leicestershire 251 & 144-3 - Leicestershire trail by 155
• Yorkshire 601-6 dec v Middlesex 441-5 - Middlesex trail by 160
• Sussex 607-8 dec v Derbyshire 290 & 141-2 - Derbyshire trail by 176

We have made it to day four of this round of Championship cricket with six matches going strong.

Division One's bottom two, Kent and Lancashire, were blown away yesterday, but there is much ahead of us today.

Wherever the action is, we'll be there.

Stick the kettle on, open the biscuit tin, send the children or grandchildren into the garden and keep us company for the next few hours.