Matthew Potts strays just a tad into the pads of Dean Elgar and that's all it takes.

He unfurls a super drive off his pads, wide of the man at mid-on, for his second boundary.

The Durham paceman then overpitches and Elgar pushes an on drive back past Potts' despairing reach for a second boundary of the over to move to 16.

50 stand for Surreypublished at 14:12 British Summer Time 24 June

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Dan Lawrence flicks a single off Tom Taylor and brings up a 50 partnership for the 10th wicket with Dan Worrall, whose contribution to it is exactly zero.

It has taken just 29 balls, helped in large part by those five consecutive sixes off Shoaib Bashir, who has retired to the outfield to lick his wounds, with figures of 2-162.

Jacob Bethell will keep the strike, squeezing the last ball of the Muhammad Abbas over to wide mid on for one.

Keith Barker begins his next over gun barrel straight, then gets good lift and carry wider of off stump.

Bethell is stuck on the crease and surprised by the bounce of the last ball, which whizzes just past the outside edge.

Pressure mounting.

That is amazing.

A perfectly respectable ball from Tom Taylor is whipped over mid-wicket for six by Dan Lawrence, with a flourish worthy of Viv Richards or Kevin Pietersen.

The next one is a half-volley and it's four easy runs for the England batter.

Victoria Polley
BBC Essex

Essex will need to fend off pressure from the Durham bowlers with the new ball but we’ve seen from the visitors’ innings how well this pitch is playing for the batting team.

It was the spinners who did the damage for Essex in the morning session, eventually dismissing Durham for 587 but they scored quickly and piled on what could be a vital 142 runs to their overnight score.

What can Essex do with the bat?

Over pitched by Charlie Stobo and Josh Bohannon is forward, driving through mid off for four.

Just a couple of runs come from Matt Parkinson's over at the other end.

Kevan James
BBC Radio Solent commentator

There's still some clouds above us, which one suspects is just helping the bowlers a little bit.

The forecast is high temperatures around the country but that doesn't necessarily mean total blue sky - here we've got sort of half and half.

With that being the case for most of this game, it's probably helping the bowlers just get a little bit of shape on the ball in the air and just the odd one that moves off the pitch as well.

It will be interesting to see if we have an all-blue-sky day to see if the pitch changes nature.

Lawrence hits five successive sixespublished at 13:56 British Summer Time 24 June

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Wow. With only number 11 Dan Worrall for company, Dan Lawrence decides it is time to turn on the afterburner.

Two glorious straight sixes off Shoaib Bashir are followed by a third pulled over mid-on from outside off-stump as he reaches 150 not out.

The fourth disappears over long-on and the fifth to mid-wicket - are we going to see six maximums in an over?

No. Bashir's sixth delivery costs five wides, followed by a no-ball, from which Lawrence rotates the strike with a single.

38 OFF THE OVER!!

Four runs to Josh Bohannon, driving Charlie Stobo through the off side on the back foot.

Seven runs off the over in total.

There's a hint of turn for Matt Parkinson's leg breaks at the other end and Luke Wells is back to punch the ball down the ground for one.

Single to Bohannon on the leg side.

Dropped catchpublished at 13:53 British Summer Time 24 June

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That should have been the breakthrough for Durham.

Ben Raine concedes a boundary off his third ball to Nick Browne, but the Durham bowler almost gets swift revenge.

A beautiful delivery leaves Browne off the pitch and takes the outside edge of his bat. It flies at a nice bread basket height to second slip who gets both hands to the ball, but out it pops.

Keith Barker is on from the City End and Dan Mousley takes the Bears to 150 with a clip to square leg on the front foot.

Mousley keeps the strike, turning the last ball behind square leg for a single.

Just the one run from Charlie Stobo's over and now Matt Parkinson will resume with his leg breaks unchanged from the other end.

Luke Wells is forward and across to defend.

The fifth ball is tossed up on a leg stump line but the Wells sweep doesn't clear the field.

He keeps the strike with a single off the last ball, pushed into the off side from the crease.

Olly Stone returns to the attack after a probing four-over opening spell.

Play gets under way this afternoon with five dots before Tom Kohler-Cadmore nudges a single off the final ball.

Dane Paterson to open at the other end.

Matthew Potts takes the ball for the first over after lunch and it's a lively one.

His third ball to Dean Elgar hits the South African in front and Potts lets out a hearty appeal for lbw. Nothing doing from the umpire as Elgar rubs his leg - that ball caught him behind the pad.

A single brings Nick Browne on strike who is beaten all ends up by a sball which keeps ominously low.

It catches his inside edge and the ball somehow misses the stumps and goes to fine leg for a single.

Ben Raine into the attack.

Dan Mousley is forward to Muhammad Abbas to defend.

There's still a bit of movement off the seam and two slips are in place.

Abbas is round the wicket and Mousley pushes into the off side.

Loose shot from Mousley, who plays and misses a wide one attempting to cut.

Maiden ovr.

Shoaib Bashir continues after lunch at New Road.

His third ball is smeared across the line for four by James Taylor, as short leg sensibly dives out of the way, and he moves to 13 not out.