The rain continues to tumbles in the West Country and there is no more play possible today.

Ollie Price and James Bracey both fell to young Northants seamer Ben Whitehouse in the play we did manage, but Gloucestershire still managed to reduce the deficit to 48 runs thanks to Jack Taylor and Graeme van Buuren.

Eleven overs of the Lancs first innings in the bag so let's have a 20-minute break.

Aside from a couple of warnings for running on the wicket, Luke Wells (17) and Keaton Jennings (21) are going along okay.

The bat has been beaten a few times and Ryan Higgins is shaping it back into the left handers threatening an lbw but no breakthrough for Middx yet.

Hampshire lose their fifth wicket as Nancy Harman is lbw to Phoebe Franklin. They are 134-5 in the 21st over, facing a target of 288 to beat Surrey and reach Sunday's final.

It's an uphill task but Georgia Adams is still there on 42 not out.

Martin Emmerson
BBC Radio Newcastle

Given the amount of time lost in this game to the weather, I was hoping Worcestershire would pull the plug on their first innings at tea.

The track is flat and slow and Durham don't look like they will bowl them out any time soon.

I can't see the point in them batting on. They can't stay up. They were relegated earlier this afternoon. So why plod on at three runs an over?

If they want to go down fighting their best hope of victory would have been to give themselves four sessions to try and bowl Durham out twice.

Gareth Roderick has 140 and Ethan Brookes 40. But it's all desperately dull.

The groundstaff are now doing a co-ordinated lap of the field, rather slowly, a bit like the pace of this game. Commentator Melinda Farrell says it's a funeral march to commemorate the death of this pitch!

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Sussex 231-8 v Yorks 194

Dom Bess squeezes a yorker length delivery under Ollie Robinson's bat but it just misses off stump.

It's very gloomy at Hove and the players leave the field as rain arrives.

Jonny Bairstow removes the stumps at one end. Very helpful of him.

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Durham v Worcs 447-6

Gareth Roderick hammers a full delivery from Will Rhodes back at the bowler.

Rhodes gets a hand to it, but it bursts through and goes to ground.

Unconvincing by Sean Hunt as an outside edge off George Hill skews away past third slip and down to third man for four.

Gareth Roderick and Ethan Brookes continue to tick along nicely for Worcestershire.

They look as untroubled after tea as they did before the interval.

While Jonny Bairstow receives a bit of treatment after a bang on the hand (he's taping up his fingers), the umpires take the opportunity to take a light meter reading.

Bairstow - and the game - will carry on. For now.

Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

Batting is looking no easier in this second Hampshire innings than it did in the first.

But these two openers are getting their heads down and grinding it out.

Nothing doing for Jack Leach so far but Hants are not exactly breaking free either.

The Somerset man has Hants opener Ali Orr lined up and is targeting the same patch of rough outside off stump as did for him in the first innings.

The best he can do is a big shout for lbw which is rightly turned down given it was missing the top of the stumps by around a foot.

There's an inspection scheduled for 16:15 BST at Bristol, but it's still raining and the covers are firmly in place.

Adrian Harms
BBC Sussex

Despite low cloud a gloomy day and the floodlights on Sussex added 106 runs in the session in bowler friendly conditions.

Not for the first time this season John Simpson led from the front his half century being the highest score in the match so far

The belated introduction of Dom Bess brought immediate success for Yorkshire turning the ball sharply to dismiss Simpson and Hudson Prentice, and with four sessions remaining, this game is far from over.

We still have bad light preventing a resumption at The Oval.

The umpires took a reading when bringing the players off at 15:06 BST and the players took an early tea.

I think we're all itching to get going again...

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Lancs have issued an update on captain Jimmy Anderson who bowled just four overs on day two and has been absent from the field in the Middx first innings.

A spokesman for the team said Anderson was absent from the field "due to some awareness in his side felt yesterday" with the veteran seamer awaiting the results of a scan.

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Jack Leach will have plenty more work to do in this match but his 7-69 are his season's best figures and take him to 48 for the season.

The left-armer has drawn level with Kyle Abbott and sits one behind Worcs Tom Taylor in the race for leading wicket taker.

It would be a brave soul taking bets on Taylor being in that position by the end of play tonight.

Gareth Roderick and Ethan Brookes safely navigate Will Rhodes' latest over which takes us through to tea.

Durham have huffed and puffed for little reward today, with Shafiqullah Ghafari taking the only wicket to fall.

Worcestershire continue to bat leisurely at Chester-le-Street as tea approaches.

Gareth Roderick has 131, with Ethan Brookes on 29.