'We've been waiting for the match to make a move'published at 17:30 BST 5 May 2024
Middlesex 357-5 v Leics 306
Guy Swindells
BBC Radio London
We've been waiting for the match to make a move in many ways and that's exactly where we are.
Four matches in fifth round of County Championship season
Kent chase 164 to win at Old Trafford
Jayden Seales takes 5-29 as Sussex beat Derbyshire by innings and 124 runs
Joe Root hits 158 and Finlay Bean makes 173 as Yorks declare on 519-7
Mason Crane takes 5-152 for Glamorgan
George Bell makes 65 and Matty Hurst 50 in Lancs' second knock
Sam Robson hits 162 and Les du Plooy makes 131 as Middx reply
Div One: Lancashire v Kent
Div Two: Derbyshire v Sussex, Middlesex v Leicestershire, Yorkshire v Glamorgan
Somerset beat Essex by three wickets on day two
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Middlesex 357-5 v Leics 306
Guy Swindells
BBC Radio London
We've been waiting for the match to make a move in many ways and that's exactly where we are.
Yorkshire 519-7 dec v Glamorgan 221 & 118-3 - trail by 180
Dan Moriarty sinks down to his haunches again, ruing his luck.
He gets one to turn back into Colin Ingram and it keeps devilishly low, skidding just past the off stump into the pads of keeper Jonathan Tattersall.
Ingram then rubs salt in the wounds three balls later, paddling one around the corner. It beats the diving fielder and reaches the third man boundary.
The deficit is 180.
Lancs 92 & 332 v Kent 261 & 31-1 (target 164)
Goodness me. How are your nerves? Riveting cricket.
Nathan Lyon is coming on to bowl, just seven overs into the innings.
He replaces Tom Bailey. One slip and a forward short leg are in.
Compton is forward, working the second ball leg side for one.
Daniel Bell-Drummond drives down the ground for one.
Good flight and control from Lyon. Just two off the over.
Middlesex 350-5 v Leics 306
Steve Eskinazi takes three off Ben Green to bring up the Middlesex 350 and a third batting point in the 94th over.
They have 16 more overs to get the 100 needed for a maximum haul.
Lancs 92 & 332 v Kent 261 & 29-1 (target 164)
Kent are rattling along at five an over here. We can't completely rule out a result tonight.
Ben Compton nudges a George Balderson ball leg side for one.
Big appeal from keeper Matty Hurst for caught behind off the inside edge of Daniel Bell-Drummond's hastily withdrawn bat, but it's just missing. Flicked the pad only.
Bell-Drummond is forward and across, flicking the fifth ball leg side for two.
Middlesex 346-5 v Leics 306
Guy Swindells
BBC Radio London
It's a brilliant catch but Ben Green who has bowled really well, bowls a wide half-volley that deserves to go. Thank you very much.
Sam Robson - who has survived all of the best bowling that Leicestershire could send his way, probably picks one of the worst balls that they've bowled but the catch... well I'm glad we are here to see it because it was absolutely outstanding.
How he's snatched that because that was four runs all the way.
Yorkshire 519-7 dec v Glamorgan 221 & 110-3 - trail by 188
Dan Moriarty floats one down and Colin Ingram gets down well to sweep it through square leg for a boundary which brings up three figures for Glamorgan.
Sam Northeast is under the pump and almost balloons one up to Jack Brook.
Next ball he misses a sweep and it thuds into his pad. Nervy moments.
Colin Ingram then goes aerial and almost picks out Brook at cover. It finds the boundary instead.
It's not easy out there.
Lancs 92 & 332 v Kent 261 & 26-1 (target 164)
Daniel Bell-Drummond stays in the crease and cuts to point for no run off Tom Bailey.
A big appeal for caught behind is turned down. The ball missed the outside edge by a whisker. Pretty close to off stump too.
The fourth ball is a tad short and swivel-pulled well in front of square for four runs.
Lancs 92 & 332 v Kent 261 & 22-1 (target 164)
Three slips in for George Balderson, bowling wide of off stump.
Ben Compton leaves the ball.
Maiden over.
20 overs left tonight.
Middlesex 342-5 v Leics 306
Sam Robson flicks Ben Green over the deep square boundary for six as Middlesex chase further batting points.
Now he's gone - what a catch!
He stretches to get to a wide ball from Green and it slams off the edge to point where Peter Handscomb who takes a stunning two-handed catch leaping high to his left.
It was going to take something special to end Robson's 273-ball knock.
Nathan Fernandes is in.
Lancs 92 & 332 v Kent 261 & 22-1 (target 164)
Ben Compton runs a leg bye and Daniel Bell-Drummond has four more, clipped through mid wicket as Tom Bailey bowls too full.
A leg side ball from Bailey and that's going to be four leg byes.
Lancs 92 & 332 v Kent 261 & 13-1 (target 164)
An eventful first over from George Balderson as Dan iel Bell-Drummond is off the mark straight away with four runs driven through long off.
A single run off a no ball follows and then Ben Compton pushes forward and gets an inside edge on the ground to square leg.
He'll keep the strike with a single driven down the ground.
Lancs 92 & 332 v Kent 261 & 5-1 (target 164)
Scott Read
BBC Radio Lancashire
That's the key wicket of Zak Crawley.
Just the start Lancashire were hoping to make.
George Balderson with the chance with the new ball and he pins Crawley lbw.
Middlesex 330-4 v Leics 306
Steve Eskinazi faces his first ball as we restart following a brief delay for bad light.
We've lost six overs.
Yorkshire 519-7 dec v Glamorgan 221 & 93-3 - trail by 205
Nick Webb
BBC Radio Wales
That was something of a freak dismissal.
Kiran Carlson got a lot of bat on that but the ball seemed to dribble backwards and he couldn't recover quickly enough.
In fact it's rebounded off Joe Root and that will go down as a run out rather than a stumping I think.
I thought it was bottom edge, it all happened so quickly but Carlson drove firmly against Root's thigh.
That's a very, very tight decision to give out with the naked eye.
I'm surprised that was given out to be honest.
Lancs 92 & 332 v Kent 261 & 5-1 (target 164)
Early breakthrough.
George Balderson strikes first ball.
Full, straight and Zak Crawley misses with a push to mid on as he plants his front leg.
Struck on the knee roll in front of off stump.
Kent captain Daniel Bell-Drummond is in at three.
Lancs 92 & 332 v Kent 261 & 5-0 (target 164)
A bit of width from Tom Bailey and Zak Crawley is off the mark straight away, driving into the off side for one.
Bailey is round the wicket to Ben Compton, who defends.
Not a huge target, one might think. But Kent's last win at Old Trafford in the Championship came back in 1997 - and this is a very good Red Rose attack.
Bailey's fifth ball is full on leg stump and clipped away for four.
Yorkshire 519-7 dec v Glamorgan 221 & 93-3 - trail by 205
A third wicket and it's a freaky one.
Kiran Carlson advances down the pitch to Dom Bess and connects well, but it rebounds back off the thigh Joe Root, fielding close in, and back to Jonathan Tattersall.
The wicketkeeper breaks the stumps as Carlson dived back into his crease.
It looks so so tight. Carlson may consider himself unlucky there.
Colin Ingram joins Sam Northeast.
Yorkshire 519-7 dec v Glamorgan 221 & 93-2 trail by 205
Sam Northeast takes a chance and it pays off. Just.
He looks to square cut Dan Moriarty but doesn't quite get it right. A thick outside edge flies past the sole slip to the third man boundary.
A single brings Kiran Carlson to face who survives two near things.
Moriarty gets some nice turn and almost takes the outside edge of Carlson's forward defensive prod. He then slides another past the off stump.
Lancs 92 & 332 v Kent 261 & 0-0 (target 164)
Great mini session for Kent after tea, snaring the last three Red Rose wickets inside of one hour.
Now the focus is on Kent openers Ben Compton and Zak Crawley to get the visiting team off to a good start.
24 overs left before stumps tonight.
Dare they try and knock them off in 24 overs? Surely not.
Not easy at all against Lancashire's attack.
Crawley is on strike - facing Tom Bailey.