Richard Rae
BBC Radio Leicester Sport

I'm afraid that we will not get through the rest of the day without interruptions, almost certainly, judging by the forecast.

Interesting.

Gloucestershire call up Matt Taylor and Stevie Eskinazi meets his second delivery two steps down the pitch and deposits it over mid-wicket for four. He goes to 21 not out.

Single to Gareth Roderick.

Ominous clouds are sadly gathering around New Road.

Tom Taylor plays and misses a pull shot. Too early!

The ball rolls on the floor to the keeper.

Taylor cuts but is picked up at extra cover.

He gets a single off the fifth ball Roderick is on the back foot, guiding the last ball through point for one.

After 13 balls without scoring, Michael Pepper gets off the mark with a glorious cover drive off Sam Conners, the first bowling change of the morning.

Noah Thain is at the other end as Essex seek to find a way of rattling off the runs required for a fourth batting point, which might prove crucial.

We're back under way and Jaydn Denly has moved to 72* with a leg-side glance for four off Will Williams. The lead is 126.

But they are now two-down, after picking up a couple earlier in the over, Denly has been beaten by one which nipped back from Tom Bailey, losing his off stump and departs for 74.

Joey Evison joins Ekansh Singh in the middle.

It remains to be seen whether Ben Compton will bat, and where concussion sub Joe Denly will bat in the order.

The rain has stopped at the County Ground and the covers are being removed in the hope of resuming the match at 12:10.

You would assume Somerset will be looking to declare at some point, unless Yorkshire can pick up these last four wickets.

Lyndon James is looking for his fifth wicket of the innings and Gareth Roderick blocks him down the ground.

Roderick is forward to one ball and gets a thick outside edge into the off side which rolls safely to third slip.

The next ball is turned to mid wicket for one.

Leg side again and Tom Taylor whips the ball away for two.

Nick Gledhill
BBC Essex

As often happens with big partnerships, both the protagonists go in quick succession.

Now perhaps it's a little bit less likely that Essex will get another batting point and maybe more likely that Durham will get one themselves.

Lunch will be taken at 12.30. Indoors, hopefully.

Ten overs have been lost from the day's allocation because of the rain which prevented a prompt start at Grace Road.

Division Two leaders Leicestershire have another 41 available to try and add some batting bonus points to their tally.

Shan Masood will face Ollie Price, on 80 not out.

Dillion Pennington gets the ball to nip away from Gareth Roderick but that ball is left alone safely.

He is squared up and close to edging the second ball though.

How many runs would make for a testing target? Surely more than the current lead of 101.

Pennington drifts down the leg side and runs off the thigh pad for four leg byes.

105 ahead.

Lyndon James to continue. He has busted this game wide open this morning.

A bit of luck with a short and wide one to dispatch Ethan Brookes but that Matthew Waite wicket was a great ball, pitching on middle and seaming a touch to off.

Gareth Roderick thinks he's edged the ball as he appeared to be on his way off the square! Not out.

He gets a single nudged to the leg side.

Play will restart at 11:45 if there is no further weather interruption at Canterbury.

Five overs have been lost, meaning we will have 84.3 overs remaining in the day's play.

Leicestershire are due to resume their game against Gloucestershire at 11:40 if there is no further rain.....the exact same time that an inspection will be carried out at Lord's, where we had a brief spell of play at the start of the morning between Middlesex and Derbyshire.

Can Notts wrap it up from here? It would be a cruel twist of fate if the weather intervened now.

Dillon Pennington bowls short and Tom Taylor cuts to point for no run.

Pennington bowls length but it is a bit wide and Taylor leaves it.

Short again and Tom Taylor smacks the ball over mid on for four.

A bit of an ugly shot but plenty of power.

That takes the lead up to 100.

Matt Critchley picks up a single off Ben Raine's opening delivery of his latest over to bring up the 350 and move to 125*.

That run ensures the bonus point which takes Essex 15 points ahead of Durham in the live table.

They need 50 more runs from just under 12 overs to make that 16. Durham can answer back with two... or even five wickets of their own in that time.

Lyndon James goes full and Tom Taylor safely drives for no run.

Hat trick averted.

James gets one to really fizz past the outside edge and this is a very tense passage of play.

Taylor works the last ball away leg side for one.

Worcester led by only 98.

Jim Dale
BBC Hereford and Worcester

That's a vital breakthrough for Nottinghamshire. It was a wide delivery, it started wide and went even wider and he couldn't have offered up an easier catch.

Ethan Brookes will be absolutely heartbroken with that. He was set and doing a good job for his side but he has to go.