Thank you for your company during another enthralling day of county cricket!

Once again, batters around the country held the upper hand - but will tomorrow be time for the bowlers to have their say?

Join us again for all the action from 10:45 BST onwards. Until then, good night!

Division One:

Chelmsford: Essex 530-7 dec v Kent 245-1

Utilita Bowl: Hampshire 367 v Lancashire 233-4

Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 399 v Worcestershire 220-6

The Kia Oval: Surrey 358-6 v Somerset 285

Edgbaston: Warwickshire 698-3 dec v Durham 178-3

Division Two:

Cardiff: Glamorgan 237 & 74-4 v Derbyshire 198

Bristol: Gloucestershire 263 v Yorkshire 326 & 57-0

Leicester: Leicestershire 338 v Sussex 282-6

Northampton: Northamptonshire 552-6 dec v Middlesex 128-1

After day two v Kent, Matt Critchley spoke to BBC Essex about the Kookaburra ball.

"It’s definitely different but I don’t think it’s a bad thing," he said.

"If it’s a good wicket you should be able to score runs. But we also saw last week (at Trent Bridge) if you get on a wicket which is doing something you can take wickets.

"We’ve had four games with it now and won three so we must be doing something good with it."

That's it for day two at Bristol, where Yorkshire have extended their lead over Gloucestershire to a healthy 120 with all 10 second-innings wickets intact.

Openers Adam Lyth and Finlay Bean have guided the visitors to 57-0 at stumps after Gloucestershire were bowled out for 263 earlier in the day.

Andrew Radd
BBC Radio Northampton

James Sales told the BBC his achievement in scoring a maiden first-class hundred against Middlesex at Wantage Road "hasn't really sunk in yet."

The 21-year-old was a late call-up for the match following an injury to George Bartlett, and grasped his opportunity with an unbeaten 113 - watched by his father David, one of Northamptonshire's all-time batting greats.

"I'm really happy to get the first one out of the way, and happy to contribute something for the team," he said.

Sales and Emilio Gay (261) shared a fifth-wicket stand worth 181, a county record against Middlesex, to boost the home side to 552-6 declared - and 19-year-old seamer Raphy Weatherall claimed the wicket of Mark Stoneman with his eighth ball on first-class debut as the visitors closed on 128-1 after another run-heavy day.

Dave Bracegirdle
BBC Radio Nottingham commentator

A day of disappointment I guess for a couple of players, Lyndon James out for 96, he'll be heartbroken about that, so too Rob Jones out for 90 in the Worcestershire innings that's a top score for the Pears.

They could do with the lower order sticking around tomorrow morning and getting as close as they can to the Nottinghamshire first-innings score.

We've had two full days here at Trent Bridge and the third day tomorrow also expected to be largely dry so we can see this game move on nicely with both sides pretty much in contention.

We began the day wondering who was on top. We end the day wondering who is on on top.

Hampshire added 62 runs for the last four wickets this morning.

But at 211-2, it looked like Lancashire were set to grab control only for two wickets in two balls from Ian Holland to wrestle it back.

They will resume tomorrow 134 runs behind with six wickets left and Keaton Jennings on 85.

The Lancashire captain's wicket could be the decisive one of the match.

Bad light has intervened at Cardiff to halt the game with Glamorgan on 74-4 in their second innings.

Colin Ingram (10) and nightwatchman Mason Crane (3) are the not-out batters after Alex Thomson picked up three wickets for the visitors and Glamorgan will resume 113 ahead on day three.

Into the final three overs of the day in Southampton.

George Bell is battling hard alongside captain Keaton Jennings to try to get to the close only four down.

Martin Emmerson
BBC Radio Newcastle

It could have been worse, it could have been better, but Durham are not out of this by any stretch of the imagination.

Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

It's been an absorbing day with good batting from Rory Burns, Dom Sibley, Ben Foakes and Jamie Smith with an elegant 50 as well.

Somerset's bowlers have stuck to their task commendably.

Brett D'Oliveira and Nathan Smith see Worcestershire safely through to stumps after that double strike by Calvin Harrison, but they still need another 30 runs to be sure of avoiding the follow-on.

Harrison, who has figures of 3-78, earlier hit his maiden first-class half-century while Lyndon James was last man out for 96 after the pair had shared a seventh-wicket stand of 146.

D'Oliveira ends the day on 29 not out, with Smith on 15.

Alex Hoad
BBC Radio Kent commentator

Ben Compton bringing up his century from the final ball of the day, joining skipper Daniel Bell-Drummond in three figures at Chelmsford. If a certain beer company did Saturday afternoons for Kent fans...

The 218-run partnership from 426 balls and lasting more than two sessions has taken any jeopardy out of the game for Kent and meant an opportunity for them to chase down batting bonus points tomorrow.

Intriguingly the visitors could potentially even end this game with more bonus points than Essex, should they put their foot down and also avoid losing wickets in the 30 overs remaining for the accrual of bowling points.

It is 13 April, but we have a 10-wicket haul to celebrate for a spinner!

Step forward Derbyshire's Alex Thomson. After a career-best 7-65 yesterday, he removed the first three Glamorgan wickets in this second innings.

Sadly, Sam Conners has just bowled Billly Root, so Thomson's chance of 10 in the innings has gone!

Glamorgan lead by 108 with six wickets remaining.

The players leave the field at Edgbaston and there will be no century tonight for Alex Lees.

He goes to bed on 94 not out as he anchors this Durham reply to Warwickshire's mammoth score.

They trail by 520 and basically have to bat for the rest of this match to escape with a draw.

A good, hard day's cricket is a fair description for today at The Oval.

Kasey Aldridge gives up just a single from the final over as Cameron Steel and Jordan Clark make it to stumps.

Surrey lead by 73 thanks to Dom Sibley's 100 and half-centuries from Rory Burns, Jamie Smith and Ben Foakes.

But the visitors have kept at it and a word for Shoaib Bashir, who has now bowled 31 overs in this innings and gone at little more than two runs per over.

Remember, Bashir is still learning his craft as a spinner.

Scott Read
BBC Radio Lancashire

Lancashire might look at this period now when the ball is not doing much because it's 60 overs old, it's the end of the day and maybe one or two bodies are tired. They might look at this as a chance to try and counter attack a little bit, press on and that's what we've seen with the two quick wickets.

All of a sudden Hampshire are up again and thinking actually this could be a very, very awkward nine overs left tonight for Lancashire to try and bat.

Another day dominated by the batters comes to a close at Wantage Road.

Middlesex opener Nathan Fernandes goes to stumps on 65 with Max Holden unbeaten on 40.

But the day has belonged to Northants Emilio Gay, who scored 261, while James Sales also made a maiden first-class century.

Worcestershire are edging closer to that follow-on target of 250, with four overs remaining to be bowled tonight.

Nathan Smith takes the Pears' total beyond 200, cutting Liam Patterson-White to the boundary.

Smith is on nine, with skipper Brett D'Oliveira at the other end on 23.

Glenn Speller
BBC Essex sport

Difficult to see where a positive result is going to come from in this one.

After piling-up 530-7, Essex will have hoped to put pressure on the Kent batting but they have discovered just why the visitors found it so hard to take wickets.

The ball gets soft quickly and the low and slow pitch is making it comfortable for the batters who just have to concentrate.

And concentrate Daniel Bell-Drummond and Ben Compton have, to both make well constructed centuries.

A draw looks the favourite but batting averages are there to be boosted…