Kiwi Michael Rae has raced to 14 off seven, taking boundaries at will off Craig Overton with the new ball which has slightly ruined the skipper's otherwise buoyant mood this morning.

Josh Davey earns a few dots and even plays and misses from Chris Rushworth (who somehow still has as many Durham first-class half centuries as Ben McKinney!)

Even Rushworth is striking at more than a run a ball.

Nice start by Adam Lyth, who eases England's Ollie Robinson through mid-off for four in the opening over of Yorkshire's first innings.

Jaydev Unadkat will share the new ball after returning to Sussex for the final five games of the Championship campaign.

Tight bowling by Gloucestershire in the initial stages at Bristol, but Leicestershire have advanced by five runs to 296-7 in the 73rd over.

Harry Came hits two successive fours off Ned Leonard as Derbyshire advance to 142-2, just 26 behind Glamorgan's first-innings total. He is 74 not out and Wayne Madsen has 48.

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Worcs 154-2 v Kent 171

Where did that come from?

George Garrett finds extra lift from just short of a length and strikes Gareth Roderick a nasty blow on the fingers.

In the chaos, a shy at the bowler's end misses as Rob Jones back up too far.

Roderick will be ok to soldier on but is fortunate when a leading edge flies down to point and he moves to 60 not out with three runs.

Poor Robin Das, that is almost unplayable.

Mo Abbas gets the ball to nip in, stay a little low and cannon into the batter's shins. Plumb.

A couple of singles apiece for Rory Burns and Dom Sibley off debutant left-armer Josh Boyden and Surrey are up and running for day two.

After New Zealander Will Williams, it's a very inexperienced Lancashire attack.

Even Indian all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer, 29, has only played 20 first-class matches.

By contrast 23-year-old George Balderson already has 42 games under his belt.

Mo Abbas takes the new nut and within three balls has it singing.

Facing up is Robin Das on just his second Championship appearance, and first time opening. Talk about the deep end. He negotiates it well.

Das is getting his chance instead of Nick Browne or Feroze Khushi after finding a bit of form in the One Day Cup - including a century against Notts.

Because of yesterday's rain, we are going to have 104 overs today at North Marine Road - in theory.

Tom Alsop has passed 50 five times this season without registering a century. Can Sean Hunt stay with him long enough to enable him to do so this morning?

Alsop picks up a single off Matthew Revis and is 85 not out.

Craig Overton, stand-in skipper again for this game in Lewis Gregory's absence, takes the first over, just warming up for the new ball in now three overs time after his first six went for just one streaky four.

The two Bs both in the 60s, former Gloucestershire loanee Jacob Bethell 60* and wicketkeeper Michael Burgess 67*.

Josh Davey will take the second over of the morning, the successful Bob Willis Trophy opening pairing, likely to bowl the first four with the old ball then the first few with the new ball this morning.

Akeem Jordan will bowl the opening over for Kent.

After a tidy start, he strays onto the pads of Rob Jones and is clipped through mid-wicket as Rob Jones adds three to the total.

Preamble done. Let's have some cricket, shall we?

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Division One leaders Surrey have laid the foundations for another victory after a successful opening day against an inexperienced Lancashire side at The Oval.

They bowled the Red Rose out for 204 - with Jordan Clark taking 4-57 against his former club - and openers Rory Burns and Dom Sibley survived 21 overs to the close without being parted.

"Four-day cricket is all about bouncing back. It gives everyone opportunities and that's what we need to do now," said Lancashire head coach Dale Benkenstein.

On the first Championship innings of 16-year-old Rocky Flintoff, who made 32, he added: "It's a tough place to make your debut on a pretty sporty wicket and he looked really good, so that was a real positive."

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After a rain-delayed start, Somerset inserted Warwickshire on a green looking surface that did not turn out to be quite so green by the time Rob Yates and Alex Davies were permitted to take guard on it.

The opening partnership of 52 was only bettered by the unbroken partnership of 112 between Jacob Bethell (60*) and Michael Burgess (63*).

Burgess hit Jack Leach into the stands with ease last night, again scoring runs for fun vs Somerset, further proving his claim to be the best number eight in the country.

Somerset made a late call to prioritise a fourth seamer in Josh Davey over the part-time spin option of Sunday's semi-final centurion Lewis Goldsworthy, will they regret that today or will Andy Umeed maybe come to the fore as a second spinner on his old home turf?