If the shot in the previous over was all power, this is about the timing. A gorgeous straight drive off Ajeet Singh Dale.

The target is down to 52 with six wickets left.

Yes, we are still here at Wantage Road - but not for much longer.

Following an inspection at 1600 BST umpires Graham Lloyd and Sue Redfern have ruled that no play is possible today and the match has been abandoned as a draw.

Northamptonshire take 15 points and Glamorgan 10.

That is a big shot!

John Simpson with a powerful sweep to midwicket for four. That helps to alleviate some of the pressure.

With three other singles, that is a good over for Sussex.

Pujara is the key wicket here.

Just to reiterate for those who perhaps don't know, floodlights cannot be used this season at Hove.

It's a decision that's been made by the club.

Cheteshwar Pujara adds two more to the total with a pleasing cover drive off Ajeet Singh Dale.

He has 28 and the target is down to 64 with six wickets left.

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In what's becoming a recurring theme today, play has been abandoned without a ball bowled on day four in Northampton.

Northants had high hopes of chasing down a final day victory, needing to take seven wickets, while the visitors needed another 230 runs just to make the hosts bat again.

Glamorgan will return to Sophia Gardens for the next match against Middlesex, starting on Friday, while Northants are away to Leicestershire.

It's really exciting in the gathering gloom at Hove.

Sussex are making hard work of scoring these 144 runs.

The big question is, can they beat the rain?

Is that out?

No. John Simpson sees the ball land in first slip's hands from a Zafar Gohar ball, but the umpire is not interested.

May have been the thigh pad.

Now the ball ends up at first slip. Again, not out! Thigh pad again.

Hopes of an exciting finish at the Utilita Bowl are ended by the weather as the umpires call the game off because of rain.

Warwickshire added 159 to their 46-0 at the start for the loss of four wickets, with in-form Rob Yates making an unbeaten 84.

Spinner Liam Dawson claimed two wickets for match figures of 7-218.

Hampshire will face Surrey at The Oval on Friday, while Warwickshire take on Notts at Edgbaston.

A target of 144 in T20 would be a doddle. In 50-over cricket? No problem.

But in the red-ball game, there is always that little bit of jeopardy.

Shots like that, however, from Cheteshwar Pujura reduce that as he drives handsomely for four.

Sussex are halfway through this chase and Gloucestershire have thrown the ball to the raw slingy pace of Ajeet Singh Dale.

Sussex captain John Simpson and Cheteshwar Pujara are out in the middle for the final session of this game.

Simpson adds a single off his first ball from Zafar Gohar and is off the mark.

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Rain curtailed Joe Clarke's pursuit of further batting records and left him 17 runs shy of a best first-class score as he finished with an unbeaten 213 in Notts draw with Somerset at Taunton.

The 26-year-old followed up centuries against Essex and Worcestershire to take his average to 96 from six innings this season.

Clarke's fine start may well be enough to spark talk of an England call-up.

“For the last three years I haven’t thought about it at all," Clarke told BBC Nottingham.

"Whether that’s because I haven’t scored enough runs or just subconsciously tried to ignore conversations about it, I’m not sure, but right now I feel my game is in a good place.

"I want to carry on scoring runs for Nottinghamshire and better the 1,000 I got last season."

He added: "I’ve had Ben Duckett in my ear all week telling me to stop getting out after getting to a hundred. He told me to go on and get a proper one here and he’s right."

Only four days to wait for another round of County Championship games - we will have full coverage for you, as usual, on Friday.

Division One

Chester LS: Durham v Essex

The Oval: Surrey v Hampshire

Edgbaston: Warwickshire v Nottinghamshire

Kidderminster: Worcestershire v Somerset

Division Two

Bristol: Gloucestershire v Middlesex

Leicester: Leicestershire v Northamptonshire

Headingley: Yorkshire v Derbyshire

There will be a few jitters for Sussex as they make their way back in for tea.

And that wicket is the cue for the players to leave the field for a 20-minute break.

A great session of cricket as Sussex picked up the four Gloucestershire wickets needed to conclude that innings.

But their chase of 144 is not going so smoothly with four wickets to Zafar Gohar keeping things interesting.

Too straight from Zafar Gohar to James Coles and it's a second four in as many overs as a poor leg-stump ball is turned away to the boundary.

Gohar is straining hard for wickets...

A good Tom Price over is ruined, but in fairness, James Coles' on-drive is worthy of four runs as he brings the target down to 79.

And Coles adds one more to the total.

You don't think of Pujara necessarily as a quick scorer and when you seen him play in one day cricket this is what he'll do.

He'll put the bad balls to the boundary and then he'll hit the good ball for singles.