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On the day Rocky Flintoff became youngest player to appear for Lancashire in the County Championship, it was another teenager, Durham's Ben McKinney, who took the batting plaudits.

The 19-year-old scored 121 against Notts in only his second Championship appearance - and there was also a century for opening partner Alex Lees.

Flintoff, aged only 16, made 32 as the Red Rose were all out for 204 against Division One leaders Surrey - but that's 25 more than dad Andrew made in his first Championship innings back in 1995.

Join us tomorrow from 10:30 for full coverage of the second day's play in our nine matches.

Division One

Durham 393-5 v Nottinghamshire

Hampshire v Essex - no play on day one

Surrey 83-0 v Lancashire 204

Warwickshire 277-6 v Somerset

Worcestershire 137-2 v Kent 171

Division Two

Derbyshire 119-2 v Glamorgan 168

Gloucestershire v Leicestershire 291-7

Middlesex v Northamptonshire 167-7

Yorkshire v Sussex 187-9

A dab for four by Liam Trevaskis is the final scoring shot of a truncated day at Bristol as Leicestershire reach the close just nine runs short of a second batting point.

After an opening stand of 66 with Rishi Patel, Ian Holland went on to reach his fifth first-class hundred before falling to Ajeet Singh Dale for 104.

Rehan Ahmed weighed in with an enterprising 60 off 75 balls, while Marchant de Lange and Zaman Akhter were the most successful bowlers with two wickets each.

Only 67 overs were possible after a lengthy morning hold-up, so there may be an extension on day two.

Gareth Roderick negotiates George Garrett's final over of the day at New Road which ends with Worcestershire in a very strong position after winning the toss and asking Kent to bat.

After a flurry of fours from Tawanda Muyeye in his 56, three wickets by the returning Joe Leach undermined Kent's hopes of a substantial total and he finished with 6-52 in his first Championship game since May.

Rob Jones took four slip catches and there were three behind the stumps for Roderick, who then made an unbeaten 53 to the close following an opening stand of 89 with Jake Libby.

The Pears are only 34 in arrears and Kent badly need early wickets on day two.

A day of fluctuating fortunes in Birmingham has ended with bad light, Somerset kicking the dust and the hosts feeling they have emerged relatively unscathed.

Somerset found the going tough after putting in Warwickshire after the start was delayed by rain this morning but then made a series of breakthroughs to get their noses in front.

From 165-6 Warwickshire pair Michael Burgess (63no) and Jacob Bethell (60no) have put together a 112 stand for the seventh which has changed the mood of the day.

Somerset will get hold of a new ball after four overs this morning which could yank momentum back in their favour from the finely poised affair we have at this belated end of day one.

When Zak Chappell and Luis Reece had Glamorgan 32-6 you feared the worst.

But Dan Douthwaite and Timm van der Gugten put on 55 for the seventh wicket to bring a bit of respectability.

Van der Gugten ended up unbeaten on 46, following 20 and 30-odd partnerships with the tail as Glamorgan found a way to 168.

Reece and Brooke Guest fell early, but Harry Came (58) and Wayne Madsen (41) put on an unbroken 78 by the close.

Wayne Madsen takes three boundaries off a Dan Douthwaite over but six balls later and the gloom has got, ermm, too gloomy. Off they go.

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It’s decisions like this that give cricket a bad name.

They’ve managed a whole 14 deliveries before the light closes in again - who would have thought that eh?

Anyway, Middlesex chose to field and haven’t come up against much resistance until this eighth wicket stand really.

Emilio Gay with 42 the only batsman to really show for the visitors and three wickets for Toby Roland-Jones.

But Lewis McManus, 26 not out, and Ben Sanderson, 23, have shared a stand of 54 to save Northants from complete oblivion.

Hard to say who would be happier after a day like that.

Yorkshire chose to bowl, got nine wickets and kept Sussex to 187. But with the amount of movement and trouble they were causing the batters, they might expect to be well into their own batting.

Ben Coad and Jordan Thompson were great with the new ball and took two wickets apiece before Matt Revis ended with 3-37 in the pick of the figures.

Tom Alsop batted steadfastly for his 37th First Class half-century. He had a life on nine but was otherwise perfect in his defense. He ends the day unbeaten on 83.

Daniel Hughes, having signed up for another year at Sussex, struck a sweet 53, but otherwise, no one else reached 20.

George Garrett returns for a new spell for Kent, but his first delivery is short and wide and Rob Jones square cuts for four.

A no-ball follows, which Jones plays away for a single and he is eight not out with eight overs remaining.

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Warwickshire 262-6 v Somerset

Fifty for Jacob Bethell in 107 balls with nine fours and now Michael Burgess joins him in 66 balls with a big six off Jack Leach, his second of the over and third in all.

A first batting point for the hosts.

They’re back out in North London and they’ll try for another nine overs.

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Umpires James Middlebrook and Tom Lungley have the light meter out.

It isn't good news. The players are heading off, the umpires are hanging around in the hope it gets brighter.

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Worcs 115-2 v Kent 171

It's taken him 107 balls, but Gareth Roderick reaches 50 with two runs off the back foot from the bowling of Grant Stewart.

He and Rob Jones will be focused now on seeing this through to stumps.

They are back out in the middle in Bristol and the dangerous Louis Kimber puts away a leg-stump half volley from Zaman Akhter.

Three balls later, the same sort of ball receives the same treatment.

Another 13 overs left in the day.

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A day dominated by the bat, or more accurately the bats, of Durham and their two openers Alex Lees and Ben McKinney (above) who both helped themselves to centuries.

The two were contrasting in their construction with McKinney's 121, his debut first class hundred, flashy and not without a chance or two.

Lees was more circumspect, anchoring the Durham effort with a mature accumulation on his way to 145.

Both have helped Durham into a very strong position overnight and within reach of maximum batting points this morning.

Nottinghamshire will have had a different overnight in mind when they put Durham in and only a second win of their Championship season looks a long way off.

After watching a wicket fall in each of the previous three overs, Tom Alsop has decided he's allowed some fun.

He's earned it, as well.

A reverse sweep, a conventional sweep (helped by a misfield on the rope) and a drive give him a trio of boundaries off a Dan Moriarty over.