Melinda Farrell
Sports broadcaster/journalist on BBC Radio Somerset

Haseeb Hameed's timing is just so good.

He's got the ball on a string. He able to play it late, play it early, open the face, close the face.

Everything that he is trying is bringing more runs and most of them are coming off Matt Henry.

It's been a very sprightly start for Notts.

Essex have clearly decided to target Dom Bess in this post-lunch session.

Noah Thain struck the off-spinner for successive boundaries and Simon Harmer has also weighed in, swinging Bess over the rope and towards a cluster of spectators in deckchairs for the first six of the game.

The visitors are past 350 now and if they can get up to 400 they'll certainly feel they have something to work with.

We have Anderson on Andersson action at Queens Park as George Balderson has broken the promising Derbyshire partnership at 78, having Brooke Guest caught behind for 19.

Martin Andersson is the new man, joining Wayne Madsen, with Jimmy Anderson trying to find a way to turn one into two.

Mark Church
BBC Radio London commentator

The Dan Lawrence wicket came from absolutely nowhere and could see how disappointed he was.

That now brings Will Jacks to the middle. Not a bad bloke. We talked about having a platform and he's certainly got that now.

Well played Dan Lawrence.

New session, same story so far at Canterbury, where Kent have advanced to 467-5 against Northants - Daniel Bell-Drummond is 129 not out and Harry Finch has 67.

Glamorgan are 12-0 after four overs in Cardiff, having bowled out Gloucestershire for 380 just before lunch - James Bracey making 133.

James Anderson is back in action with the ball at Chesterfield, where Derbyshire are 121-4 in the 34th over, replying to Lancashire's 367 all out, Wayne Madsen is 63 not out.

Ben Geddes is nearing a hundred for Middlesex against Leicestershire, the visitors are 449-6 - and Geddes and Joe Cracknell have now added 80.

Tom Haines survived a big appeal for a catch in the slips off spinner Corey Rocchiccioli, with the ball possibly popping up off his thigh pad, standing his ground and then rubbing salt into the bowler's wounds with a towering six over long-on two balls later, which will prompt a change of ball.

Haines has 36* and his side continue to deal predominantly in boundaries.

Sussex have picked up where they left off before lunch.

Daniel Hughes must feel like he's back Down Under, in these conditions with a Kookaburra, and he's cashing in. Ed Barnard's first two overs have cost 20 runs.

Hughes has 10 fours in his 43*.

A little bit of width from Matt Henry at the start of a new over and Ben Slater cracks it away to the point boundary. He moves into double figures and partner Haseeb Hameed has 20.

Jimmy Anderson did indeed take the other end at Queens Park after lunch.

Three singles came from the over, with Wayne Madsen moving onto 60*.

First boundary of the Notts reply as Haseeb Hameed steers Matt Henry into the gap between slips and gully and the ball rolls down to the rope at third man.

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Surrey 605-3 v Durham

Thoughts are starting to turn to when Rory Burns might consider pulling out and inviting Durham to have a bat.

It probably won't be any time soon, with both Dom Sibley and Dan Lawrence seeing the Kookaburra like the proverbial football and building a potentially impregnable total.

Sibley has now advanced to 250 for the first time in his career in the opening over after lunch, which realised eight runs to the Surrey total.

Jake Libby takes strike on 174* with Gareth Roderick at the other end.

James Fuller takes the first over, seeking to add to his figures of 3-109 from 21 overs.

How he'd like to be off the field this afternoon.

Libby glances a leg-side single to make this Worcestershire's highest ever total against Hampshire.

Warwickshire need wickets, simple as that.

Corey Rocchiccioli begins their quest with the first over of the afternoon, with Daniel Hughes and Tom Haines seeking to build on their good start.

Spinner Jack Leach was given one over by Somerset before lunch.

Back to orthodoxy following the re-start at Taunton as Craig Overton replaces him.

Wayne Madsen and Brooke Guest resume their 74 run partnership as Derbyshire continue the recovery from 35-3.

George Balderson takes the opening over after lunch, but I wonder who'll get the second?

Following the current round of matches, there is another break in the County Championship season until the latter part of July. How satisfied are you with your team's overall performance thus far in the campaign? Get in touch and let us know your thoughts.

Mike Taylor
BBC WM commentator

In another week where the chat around the county circuit is being dominated by the merits or otherwise of the Kookaburra ball, an interesting comparison may unfold here on a pitch which has offered something to both the batters and bowlers, with enough pace to allow strokemakers to flourish and the ball to carry through to the cordon.

This morning, as they did at times yesterday, the Sussex seamers were able to make the ball deviate. Ollie Robinson brought one back in to find Kai Smith’s inside edge, before Gurinder Sandhu shaped one the other way to dismiss Chris Rushworth.

Ethan Bamber showed a willingness to pull the short ball and was given every opportunity to practice the shot, and survived two dropped chances in the outfield before Jack Carson snared him lbw.

Warwickshire’s seamers may be of lesser pace, but are operators of proven high skill. Rushworth, Bamber and Ollie Hannon-Dalby set about looking for the same seam movement, and there was evidence that they found some in a number of inside edges from the left-handers Daniel Hughes and Tom Haines in the hour’s batting before lunch.

But the Bears’ luck was out, and whenever they erred in length – especially too full – both openers showed off a range of straight and cover drives and Rushworth was withdrawn after only three overs.