Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

A disappointing morning for Somerset in front of a crowd swelled by some 1,300 schoolchildren, from primary schools as far away as Land's End, as they lost their last four wickets for 76, conceding a first innings lead of 128.

Craig Overton batted with controlled aggression for a not out 35, but Tom Abell, Kasey Aldridge and James Rew all lost their wickets to poor shots, rather than especially good bowling.

But the follow-on was saved and a batting point secured, giving the cricket fans of the future something to cheer about before going out onto the outfield to play games of cricket of their own - a joyful sight!

To nobody's great surprise, we won't be resuming play on time.

The sky above the ground is still strewn with dark cloud and the covers are currently back in place.

With Sussex wrapping up victory at Northampton, eyes turn to Leicester where Middlesex have begun their mammoth chase.

They lost Sam Robson early and hen lost Mark Stoneman for 30 before Max Holden (26 not out) and Leus du Plooy (10 not out) steered them to 74-2 at the break - still needing a further 392 to win.

Yorkshire look to be cruising to a second championship win of the season after declaring on 451-9 at Chesterfield.

Both openers fell without scoring and Wayne Madsen (23) and Brooke Guest (8) then followed as Vishwa Fernando and Ben Coad shared two wickets apiece.

At Cheltenham,Gloucestershire have continued to pile up the runs and further demoralise Glamorgan.

James Bracey has an unbeaten 167 and Beau Webster is on 26 as the hosts lunch 516 ahead with five wickets in hand.

Division One

Chester-le-Street: Durham 190 & 148-9 v Worcestershire 112 & 87-3

Worcs need 144 more runs to win with seven wickets in hand

Southampton: Hampshire 505-8dec v Kent 305-8

Kent trail by 200 runs with two wickets in hand

Southport: Lancashire 344-8 v Nottinghamshire 74-6

Notts trails by 279 with four first-innings wickets in hand

Taunton: Somerset 284 v Warwickshire 412 & 25-0

Warwicks lead by 153 with 10 second-innings wickets in hand

The Oval: Surrey 262 & 72-3 v Essex 180

Surrey lead by 154 with seven second-innings wickets in hand

Division Two

Chesterfield: Derbyshire 76 & 57-4 v Yorkshire 451-9 dec

Derbys trail by 318 with six second-innings wickets in hand

Cheltenham: Gloucestershire 179 & 534-5 Glamorgan 197

Glos lead by 516 runs with five second-innings wickets in hand

Leicester: Leicestershire 179 & 372 v Middlesex 86 & 74-2

Middx need 392 more runs to win with eight second-innings wickets in hand

Northampton: Northamptonshire 97 & 220 v Sussex 143 & 237

Sussex beat Northants by 63 runs

Jack Leaning's gritty century, his second in as many appearances, albeit separated by seven weeks due to a broken bone in his left hand, has kept Kent alive in this one, just.

He and Matt Parkinson have 50 runs to find to avoid the follow-on and if they can do that in 24 overs they would also secure a precious third batting bonus point for the basement-boys.

Leaning has 111* from 218 balls in five hours and 12 minutes in the middle.

His vigil will resume at 13:50 BST.

He's a bit too bashful to lead the Lancashire players off the field, but James Michael Anderson, 41-years-old, potentially in his last appearance for Lancashire, has taken 6-19 from 10 overs to put his beloved home club in a commanding position, 279 ahead.

Notts opener Ben Slater has 41 amid the madness, but it's been Anderson's session, not for the first time and hopefully not the last...

Worcestershire made a fine start to a chase of 231 at Chester-le-Street after quickly cleaning up the Durham tail this morning.

Openers Gareth Roderick and Jake Libby put on 56 for the first wicket to boost hopes, but once Ben Stokes removed Roderick for 38 the floodgates have opened.

Peter Siddle outthought Jake Libby (19) and Stokes ripped out Rob Jones' off-stump with a snorter as the Pears lost three wickets for nine runs.

Kashif Ali (13 not out) and Adam Hose (5 not out) have steadied the ship against probing bowling from England man Matthew Potts (0-19 off seven), and the visitors go into lunch needing 144 more to win.

Jack Leach is given the spinner's obligatory pre-lunch over and delivers a maiden that includes a couple of rather ambitious lbw appeals against Alex Davies.

No joy for Leach, though and Warwickshire will be pleased with their efforts in the 10 overs they've faced so far.

The visitors lead by 153, with Davies on 12 and Rob Yates 11 as they head in for a spot of refuelling.

Nathan Lyon gets a whirl before lunch.

Between them, Lyon and James Anderson have 1,230 Test wickets, which makes today's Lancashire XI the side with the most combined Test wickets in history.

Lancashire and Sussex had a combined 1,046 during their match in 2007 which was the previous best - with Muttiah Muralitharan accounting for well over half of those.

BBC Radio Lancashire's Scott Read is teaching us all some interesting new things this morning!

Annie Chave
BBC Somerset

It looks a bit of of a different game to when Warwickshire were bowling.

Andy Umeed hasn't had a great game, I have to say. It's probably too much pressure in some ways against former team-mates.

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Hampshire 505-8d v Kent 301-8

A second batting bonus point for the visitors. They had only mustered seven in total across their eight previous matches.

54 runs to find to insert Hampshire back in for their second innings.

Nathan McAndrew has a five-wicket haul!

Justin Broad has done superbly this morning to stoke Northants victory hopes after a flurry of early wickets, but is caught at fine leg for 45 by James Coles trying to sweep another boundary.

The brave chase ends 63 runs short.

The leaders go into the season break with a huge win - a fifth of the season.

With nearest challengers Middlesex faltering at Leicester, they will open up a sizeable gap at the top come the end of this round.

Sussex take 19 points, Northants collect three.

Ben Slater and Calvin Harrison have steadied the ship with a partnership of, er, 21. Which is the best of the innings by some distance for Notts.

Slater has kept his head while all around him were losing theirs and is on 30, out of his side's 61.

Four overs to come before lunch. The rain looks to have eased and the brolleys have been folded away.

Nice shot by Alex Davies, steering Josh Davey through midwicket for a couple as Warwickshire continue to make steady progress in their second innings.

Plenty of time left in the game and the Bears lead by 147 overall, with Davies on 12 and Rob Yates on seven.

Trevor Owens
BBC Hereford & Worcester

Ben Stokes is at it again.

He knocks out Rob Jones' off stump and Worcestershire are 65-3.

The Pears have lost three wickets for nine runs and the new man in, Adam Hose, and Kashif Ali will be very keen to get through to lunch without any further loss.

Durham in the box seats at Chester-le-Street as Stokes finishes off a wicket maiden.

Martin Emmerson
BBC Radio Newcastle

It took Worcestershire just 11 minutes to take the final Durham wicket this morning, as the hosts were dismissed in their second innings for 152. That set The Pears a target of 231.

I thought that was probably too much, on a track which has delivered 30 wickets in little over four sessions.

However, the reply got off to a decent start as Gareth Roderick and Jake Libby steered them to 50 without loss.

But then the England skipper Ben Stokes broke the deadlock. Roderick was caught behind, trying to hook a bouncer on 38. I am told it was his 100th FC wicket for Durham on the ground.

Worcestershire then went from 56-1 to 60-2, as Jake Libby pulled a ball to substitute Dan Hogg. Hogg was at mid-wicket. He's also 6ft 7ins. The bowler was Peter Siddle.

Stokes then took Rob Jones' off stump out the ground when he was on one. It was a wicket maiden.

Durham have moved into the box seat once again. And it's clouded over once again. Batting remains tricky.

Unsurprisingly, they've decided to take lunch early and - as long as there's no further rain, play will begin for the fourth time today at 13:25 BST.

Keep everything crossed!

At present it's only the kind of rain where you carry on playing, but the ground staff head to be next to the covers, in case it gets any worse...

Let's hope it doesn't.

Only looks to be a shower on the radar. Lunch is 14 minutes away so let's hope they can get there.