Oh dear, here we go again.

Hampshire, who haven't threatened a second wicket with their two spinners, want to put a seamer back into the attack - a request which is denied by the umpires following a short conversation.

Spin didn't suit the hosts, and in fact they were allowing Somerset the chance to whittle down the deficit rather comfortably, and the players are going back off the field for bad light for the second time today.

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Five Championship innings for Derbyshire - five half-centuries. Not bad.

Caleb Jewell reaches his latest off 68 balls by pulling Dom Leech for four.

Can he convert this into his first three-figure score for the county?

We haven't had many boundaries of late at Chelmsford, but there's one for Matthew Waite to extra cover - the first of his innings - off Shane Snater.

Snater tries him out with a bouncer and the batsman gloves it over the keeper for another boundary.

Grace Ballinger
The Blaze bowler on BBC Radio Nottingham

That was a big, big wicket Sam Hain has looked good so far.

His strength was his downfall, he got tempted again outside off stump and he nicked it through to the keeper.

A single from Tom Lammonby means Somerset are in to triple figures.

The visitors still trail Hampshire by 53 runs.

Matthew Waite is given the hurry-up by the final ball of Shane Snater's latest over, which lifts off the pitch and he can do no more than fend it off.

Brett D'Oliveira clips the first ball of the next from Jamie Porter into the gap at mid-wicket and takes two.

Some good news to tell you about.

We are back under way at The Utilita Bowl after bad light delayed the restart to the final session of day three between Hampshire and Somerset.

Nick Gledhill
BBC Essex

These two have got to hang in and try and build.

It's not quite last chance saloon for Worcestershire but you feel that they played well in the first innings have got to do it again here.

Matthew Waite is beaten by an excellent Jamie Porter delivery which leaves him off the pitch.

Essex not offering up any freebies in this immediate post-tea period.

How did that miss? Waite connects with nothing but air as Porter cuts one back the other way.

A superb final delivery of the over from Nottinghamshire's Lyndon James somehow misses both the edge of Hamza Sheikh's beaten bat and the top of off stump.

The dictionary definition of a jaffa from James.

Melinda Farrell
Sports broadcaster/journalist on BBC Hereford & Worcestershire

Big blow for Worcestershire losing Kashif Ali just before tea and he was looking so good as well.

He really looked to be rediscovering the touch, the form that he'd maybe been struggling with, but some encouraging signs for him

A thick edge from Brett D'Oliveira falls just short of third slip.

An anxious moment for Worcestershire's skipper, but he survives.

With Dan Lawrence and Ben Foakes seeing it like a beach ball and scoring at well over four and a half an over the umpires decide the light is that bad that they cannot continue.

We are back underway in the final session of day three at Edgbaston.

Warwickshire's Sam Hain smacks the second ball after tea for four on the back foot to get off the mark.

Nick Gledhill
BBC Essex

For the second time today Worcestershire lost a crucial wicket just before an interval to maintain Essex’s increasing grip on this match.

Kashif Ali was the man to go shortly before tea, edging Simon Harmer to slip after constructing a fine counter-attacking 50 with nine fours.

Worcestershire really needed him to convert that into a century to have a hope of reaching 295.

As it is they are now reliant on Brett D’Oliviera and Matthew Waite, who have just resumed after tea. Both looked good in the first innings but this is a big ask for the visitors.

Bad news in Southampton as bad light has delayed the restart to the final session of day three between Hampshire and Somerset - with the visitors still trailing by 61 runs.

We will let you know if we get back underway at The Utilita Bowl but, at the moment, it is looking unlikely.

The light has deteriorated over tea at the Spitfire Ground so we will have to wait for the re-start - in fact, it has now started raining.

Gloucestershire lead by 191 with Ollie Price and Miles Hammond the not out pair.