The threes keep coming and Matt Parkinson finishes another over.

Middlesex need 20 runs from 42 balls with two wickets still up and they are favourites now surely.

Kashif Ali is back for Kent as the visitors look for a significant breakthrough.

This is the game.

Derbyshire have understandably abandoned their run chase now.

Five overs to go. Two wickets to protect.

Three off the over from Joey Evison and stand-in Kent skipper Jack Leaning is going to have to have a think about whether he changes the bowler.

Matt Parkinson is keeping things very tight at the other end but Kent need a wicket.

Lancashire have batted out the day to secure the draw.

At 160-6 and with a small lead they looked in trouble, but crucial knocks from Luke Wells and Tom Hartley took overs out the game and gave them enough of a lead.

The game will be remembered for Ollie Price's superb 253 not out for Gloucestershire.

Matt Parkinson is down on his knees imploring for an lbw but the umpire is unmoved, seeming to indicate he thought it was going down leg.

Zafar Gohar had got a big stride in and it was turning sharply so he might have a point. Very, very close though.

A single off the final delivery to bring the runs needed to 26. Nine overs left.

Scott Read
BBC Radio Lancashire

Tom Hartley's epic effort has come to an end. If it ends in a draw then he's played his part with the bat today.

Ajeet Singh Dale to his credit right at the back end of the match has come steaming in and has managed to find another wicket from somewhere.

Edged off Joey Evison by Toby Roland-Jones and it flies past the dive of second slip to bring a much needed pressure release.

Five from the over and it is 27 runs needed now.

Alex Thomson survives Ben Kellaway's hat-trick ball playing a solid defensive shot.

60 off 51 balls now seems a long way away with only three wickets in hand.

Dave Fletcher
BBC Radio Derby Sport

Ben Kellaway gets through him, it's two in two and all of a sudden the pendulum swings again.

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Middx 238 & 333-8 (target 365) v Kent 129 & 473

Zafar Gohar has a swipe at Matt Parkinson and the ball flies to Tawunda Muyeye at the squarer of the two short legs fielding close.

It flew at him and didn't really give a chance rebounding off his knee. Chance but harsh to even call it that.

Two off the over. Middx need 32 from 66 balls.

Joey Evison fires one down the leg side that wicketkeeper Chris Benjamin does well to take standing up to the medium pacer.

He then gets one past the edge of Zafar Gohar's bat.

Dots follow and it's one from the over. It is very tense out there. Middx need 34 from 72 balls.

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Derbyshire need 60 off 54 balls.

What a brilliant knock this has been from Martin Andersson - 78 off 94 deliveries.

Anuj Dal has also raced to 31.

Are Derbyshire now favourites?

Just two singles off Matt Parkinson's over

So the numbers that matter are... Middlesex need 35 runs from 78 balls with two wickets remaining.

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Huge credit has to go to Lancashire's Tom Hartley here, who's batted for almost two hours.

He's taken the hosts out of trouble at Old Trafford.

11 overs to go, 106 the Lancashire lead.

Just another single from the over from Joey Evison who needed some sharp fielding at midwicket to keep it that way as Toby Roland-Jones tried to bully one to the rope.

Middlesex need 37 runs. Kent need two wickets. We all need a lie down.

Scott Read
BBC Radio Lancashire

Not a lot happening for Graeme van Buuren with the second new ball from this Brian Statham End to the delight of Lancashire.