Worcestershire looked in big trouble in the early stages of the innings as Mohammad Abbas reduced them to 30-4 but the counter attacking partnership of Gareth Roderick and Ethan Brookes has given the Pears a route back into the match.

Brookes (76*) and Roderick (72*) have put on 118 together and Hampshire will want to remove one of them very quickly after the interval.

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Joey Evison plays and misses at a Lyndon James ball which moves away a little off the seam.

But there it is. He turns the next ball into the legside and takes a couple which brings up his 10th first-class half-century.

He came in with Kent subsiding and has dug in well, bringing up the landmark off his 73rd ball against his former side.

Gloucestershire get to tea with one loss - Joe Phillips going lbw to Jaydev Unadkat - and Chris Dent will continue after tea with Ollie Price.

The hosts trail by 149.

Earlier on this afternoon we saw John Simpson and Jack Carson help Sussex to 311 all out, as Zafar Gohar bowled excellently for the hosts - taking 6-76.

Painful for Somerset. Lewis Gregory angles one outside leg stump, James Rew can't gather and it runs away for four byes.

The next is a bouncer heading in the same wayward direction, but Rew gets a glove to it and keeps it to one bye.

Callum Parkinson almost has another as Ryan Patel misses a straight ball, but gets a vital inside edges on to his pads. Otherwise he's a goner!

Chemar Holder will have the last crack before tea.

A Ryan Patel single takes him to 84 and a leg bye follows before the session ends with the luckless Holder beating Patel with pace and movement.

A good end to a pivotal session in which Durham had threatened to take a first innings lead.

They may well have done so had several chances been held, with Patel (84) dropped on 70.

Jordan Clark is unbeaten on 17 and Surrey take a seven-run lead into tea.

Luke Wells pushes the ball past the left hand of silly mid-off and Jack Leach has to field off his own bowling, allowing the Lancashire batter a single. The lead is exactly 200.

The hosts beginning to motor before tea and back-to-back boundaries for Jordan Clark off Callum Parkinson have moved them beyond Durham's first innings total.

Durham have bowled well but shelled five chances.

What do they say about catches and matches?

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Oh no, no, no.

Bas de Leede sets the trap for Ryan Patel to hook a short ball and he does just that.

It goes straight to sub fielder Stanley McAlindon on the deep square leg boundary who makes a hash of the catch.

The ball bursts through his hands and goes for six.

Ground open up!

To add insult to injury Patel then drives the next ball through the covers for four.

That's a first batting point for Surrey.

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Somerset will want at least one more wicket before the tea interval and they have seven overs in which to achieve it.

George Bell pulls for four as Craig Overton drops short to take the total past 200 but is then beaten by a good one outside off stump.

And there is the 100 partnership for Gareth Roderick and Ethan Brookes for Worcestershire.

Mohammad Abbas started with a rip roaring spell of bowling which reduced the Pears to 30-4 and then Liam Dawson's wicket left them on 61-5.

But since then they have counter attacked very well with Roderick and Brookes at the helm.

Josh de Caires has batted nicely but may be running out of partners as Middlesex look to secure a third batting point.

The visitors lead by 153 but need another 24 to bag that extra point.

Callum Parkinson has bowled beautifully this afternoon and strings together his fifth maiden.

Jordan Clark tries to smack the fifth ball with an expansive drive, but misses and it;s through to wicketkeeper Ollie Robinson.

Parkinson's 19 overs have gone for a miserly 28 runs.

Five overs to tea - and nine to the new ball.

Bas de Leede strays down the legside and Ryan Patel tucks it down to fine leg for his seventh boundary.

And when de Leede offers a bit of width, Patel hammers it off the back foot through the offside for a glorious four.

The stroke moves him into the 70s and reduces the Durham lead to 18.

Gareth Roderick and Ethan Brookes are putting on an invaluable partnership for Worcestershire - worth 93 now.

Brookes is now on 64 - his highest total for the Pears - and Roderick is on 63.

Motown: "A word of praise for Gareth Roderick who is on the verge of his stated goal of playing in every single Worcestershire game this season. Opening the batting, keeping wicket and maintaining his form to the end - a superb effort."

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Akeem Jordan collects his third boundary and then picks up another two off Farhan Ahmed.

Almost disaster as Jordan turns one into the legside and Joey Evison sets off for a single.

He's almost halfway down the track when he's turned back and narrowly makes his ground as the throw comes in to the bowler's end.

Evison then clips Lyndon James for four to bring up the 50 partnership from a brisk 70 balls.