Sam Curran is taken for five off his first over.

Alex Lees is 25* in this 13-run partnership with Emilio Gay, some way yet to go to match their following on partnership at the Oval from just a few weeks back.

Tom Lawes is the other new bowler, Surrey as always have so many bowling options to call upon in this match.

Five overs, three maidens, 2-6 for Mo Abbas, he will continue, but Brett Hutton will not take a first morning wicket on his 100th appearance as he comes off to give Dillon Pennington a first trundle.

James Rew's playing himself in whilst Josh Davey's looking his solid self, until the former gets a nice juicy half volley from the former Pakistan international bowler.

Remember Rew scored a double ton at Taunton vs Abbas in Hampshire colours not so long ago in his still young career.

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We're still waiting for the first wicket to fall in Division Two.

Leaders Leicestershire are 34 points clear at the top and that's the score they've moved to this morning at Kent. 34-0 with Sol Budinger and Rishi Patel going well.

At Old Trafford, Glamorgan have settled in on what might be another very flat pitch - they're 26-0 against Lancashire, who once again have James Anderson leading the attack.

Derbyshire are 25-0 at Northants, and there is a delayed start between Gloucestershire and Middlesex at the College Ground in Cheltenham.

Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

There's a little bit in this pitch from what we have seen so far.

Abbas has got the odd one to go off the seam, a little bit of variable bounce.

And now Jack White is doing the shouting after beating Tom Haines's outside edge... this time it is umpire Peter Hartley refusing the appeal.

The slip cordon were very interested and very vocal but that probably missed everything again.

Dave Bracegirdle
BBC Radio Nottingham commentator

Both sides know they need to get wickets early on with this Kookaburra ball.

You need to strike in the first 20 overs.

Matt Milnes has a big shout for a nick as he whistles one through the defences of Daniel Hughes.

But both batsman and, more importantly, the umpire Richard Kettleborough remain unmoved.

Replays suggest that missed everything.

Despite the two men that have been dismissed in the entire County Championship so far this morning both being Somerset men who have generally batted above Josh Davey in his Somerset career, he is the one stabilising the ship again.

That is now 61 innings without a duck for the Suffolk-educated Scotsman, the longest run on the current Championship circuit, and from a man who has generally batted nine or 10 since his Middlesex opening days over a decade ago!

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Dean Elgar and Paul Walter will be pleased to have negotiated this opening five and a half overs against Oli Hannon-Dalby and Ethan Bamber on a strip which has a distinct green tinge to it.

OHD has got a couple to leap at the batsmen but Elgar and particularly Walter have looked comfortable enough, the latter cracking a short one from Bamber through the covers for his third boundary.

Slight controversy at Chester-le-Street.

Surrey paceman Dan Worrall thinks he has Ben McKinney caught by Ryan Patel at short midwicket, there is an awkward standstill, but nothing given.

Rory Burns cannot persuade either umpire to give it, benefit of the doubt goes to the batter.

Not quite carried is the verdict.

Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

Calvin Harrison takes a comfortable catch at second-slip.

A disastrous start for Somerset, Lammonby played a firm shot for an easy catch.

A great start for Notts.

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Oli Hannon-Dalby and Ethan Bamber have both got an over under their belts and Essex are off the mark.

Paul Walter nudges a boundary into the off side in the second over to kick off proceedings for the hosts.

Hopefully this is not a repeat of the bore draw at The Oval a few weeks ago when Surrey racked up over 800 after Alex Lees opted to watch them bat for two days on a pitch as flat as the M25, with that same Kookaburra ball we are using for one final round now.

Lees tries a different method this time, having won the toss again, this time he will face up first with his old, young partner Ben McKinney back with him at the top.

Dan Worrall and Jordan Clark open the bowling with Jamie Overton having been called up to the test squad.

Curran, Foakes and Lawes return to the XI whilst Surrey also have the dual spin of Cam Steel and Sai Kishore.

Jack White has the ball in hand and Sussex have their first boundary of the match with the fourth delivery, Tom Haines flicks that off his legs and the ball races to the rope.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore misses out due to the impending birth of his child, so Lewis Gregory and Josh Davey combine again at the top, while Migael Pretorius returns from a minor injury.

It's a first County Championship appearance of the summer in Notts whites for Calvin Harrison after a very successful loan spell at Northants.

Play in six of our nine games is getting under way on time.

Let's go...