Dan Whiting
BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

At the moment the game's just drifting from a Somerset perspective.

I wonder if they need to be a bit more attacking.

Leave some holes in the field and maybe the old rope a dope.

At last runs!

Dom Sibley breaks a chain of 39 consecutive dots with a single off Archie Vaughan.

More runs next ball as Ben Foakes gets off the mark with a single off his ninth ball.

Jack Leach restores order and continues to tie down the Surrey batters as Ben Foakes survives a tricky tests.

Fourth straight maiden for Leach.

Jack Leaning hooks hard but doesn't quite middle it.

Bowler James Fuller is very very excited as he waits for his fielder on the ropes to catch it, but the ball just has enough on it to clear the boundary.

That really wasn't far away.

Ged Scott
BBC Sport at Worcester

All done at Worcester as umpires Ben Debenham and James Middlebrook officially call time on this game - and declare it a draw.

Both Worcestershire and Warwickshire are almost safe.

This second rain-hit draw of the season against the Bears gives the Pears 13 points to lift them now 40 points clear of trouble.

The Bears are just behind, 36 points ahead of second-to-bottom Lancashire, having taken 11 points from the game.

Worcestershire had the better of it, forcing their Midlands neighbours to follow on - but the Bears had the more eye-catching individual highlights against the Kookaburra ball. Current captain Alex Davies reached his 1,000 runs for the season and former skipper Will Rhodes made his third ton of the summer.

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Notts captain Haseeb Hameed speaking to ECB Reporters Network:

“It was disappointing. We didn’t play to the level we wanted to play at. It has been a combination of good bowling from Essex and us losing wickets in clusters. That session yesterday was one when they took control.

“As a group of players we are disappointed in how we’ve performed. But we’re ready to take on the challenges to come, starting at Kent on Tuesday and Warwickshire at home to finish off the season. Now our full focus is on Kent."

James Bracey gets a single off Luke Hollman and Miles Hammond smashes a lofted drive over the bowler's head to long on for four!

He'll get three off the next ball, dabbed fine round the corner.

Eight off the over.

Kevin Howells
BBC Radio 5 Live

Sibley and Foakes look so much more assured, even Foakes early on, for me.

And this is Leach at the top of his game so this is going to be a battle.

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Essex director of cricket Anthony McGrath speaking to BBC Essex and ECB Reporters Network:

“It was a pretty comprehensive victory. After losing the toss in difficult conditions, I thought we did well to get that score (457) in the first innings. There were some great innings played individually and then we bowled superbly.

“We had to come off the pitch countless times whether we were batting or bowling and that is not easy. But whenever we did restart after the breaks, I thought we started well and that contributed to our big win. I thought that overall, we were superb and somewhere near back to our best.

“We’ve got two games left this season and the intent is to win both games. They are obviously two tough games, Warwickshire and Surrey, and the motivation is to finish as strongly as possible.”

Josh de Caires is back in the attack from the Nursery End and a short ball is punched to deep extra cover by Miles Hammond for one.

Single to James Bracey clipped to deep mid wicket.

Hammond is forward to sweep and the ball is pinged away square along the ground for four.

Four more swept square. Little turn evident in the surface and Gloucestershire are romping home at the moment.

That's the 100 partnership for the fourth wicket in 174 balls.

Gloucestershire pass the 150-mark in the 46th over via James Bracey, running the ball past slip and through to third man for four.

Miles Hammond is keen to get after the bowling of Luke Hollman but misses with an attempted slog sweep.

He edges a drive but there's no second slip and the ball runs away to third man for three.

77 to win.

Ben Foakes joins Dom Sibley with much work to do to stifle this Somerset momentum.

He safely negotiates the final two balls from Jack Leach who now has figures of 1-15 from 15 overs.

Plenty more cries from the Somerset slip fielders as Archie Vaughan bowls to Dom Sibley.

The fifth ball rolls up and hits the former England opener on the chin. The helmet comes off but no damage done.

A fifth straight maiden. Surrey have 46 from 32 overs.

Tom: This is why we love long form cricket. A top of a table clash where an underdog is fighting back against the almost insurmountable champions that will go down to the wire. Even in a rainy September in the west county this is incredible.

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Kent 207 & 199-5 v Hampshire 403

A brilliantly battling innings from Jack Leaning.

His fifty comes in 105 balls, with back-to-back boundaries, and takes his side into the lead.

Leaning's two previous Championship half-centuries have been converted this season...

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Gloucs 146-3 - target 234

Luke Hollman bowls to James Bracey on 48 and Bracey will get one run pushed down to mid on.

Single to Miles Hammond on the back foot to mid off.

There's the 50, coming off the fifth ball cut from the crease for a single through backward point. 80 balls with eight fours.

That's his third 50 of the season in an innings where he passed 1000 Championship runs for the summer.

Bracey also has four centuries in 2024.

Remember, he was dropped on 30.

Tough chance at first slip.

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Kent 207 & 189-5 v Hampshire 403

This has been just the ticket for Kent.

Other than the occasional turn and bounce out of the rough, this has been much easier for the Kent batters.

But take no credit away from Jack Leaning and Harry Finch, this has been high-quality head-down batting, which still ticking off the runs.

They are just seven runs away from parity, and making Hampshire bat again.

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Durham fast bowler Matthew Potts speaking to ECB Reporters Network after taking 9-68:

"That feels really good. Obviously, there was a bit of uncertainty about what the team was going to look like but it was great to come back and deliver for the boys at the end of the season. I felt that was only right that we turned up to do the job.

"It was a pretty flat pitch and that made it hard work. We thought it was going to be a full day but it just so happened that we got an opening and took the chance to push on.

"Scott Borthwick told me after my sixth over that it was time to put my feet on ice but I got a wicket and he said: "Okay, I'll leave you on," and I said: "Good luck taking me off," but after my tenth over I was absolutely goosed. I'd thrown everything I could at them.

"I took the second new ball and threw the old one as far as I could off the field. It's a disgusting thing, I've got it in my pocket and it looks as though I've been throwing it for my dogs for the past hour."