Nick Webb
BBC Radio Wales

Leicestershire openers Paul Horton and Harry Dearden did well to survive the opening hour at Grace Road after being put in by Glamorgan under grey clouds.

It was their best start of the season, though Dearden was dropped on one when Jacques Rudolph could not hold on to a fierce drive, then could have been run out by Andrew Salter.

Salter for Harry Podmore was the only change in the Glamorgan side, while the Foxes made four changes, three of them enforced by injury and suspension.

Cameron Delport, Lewis Hill, Zak Chappell, and Charlie Shreck came into the home eleven with Hill taking over wicket-keeping duties to allow Ned Eckersley to move up the batting order.

Martin Emmerson
BBC Newcastle

Despite the loss of Cameron Bancroft in the seventh over, Gloucestershire have looked comfortable against a Durham attack of Graham Onions, Chris Rushworth, Brydon Carse and Mark Wood. The fast outfield has been a particular help to their batsmen.

Bancroft was bowled for five after getting an inside edge to Rushworth, but Will Tavare and Chris Dent have settled into a nice partnership since.

Dent has 30 and Tavare has 12.

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Warwickshire 67-0 v Surrey (17.2 overs)

And there's Ian Westwood's fifty, brought up with three runs off paceman Mark Footitt. It has taken the left-hander just 51 balls and included 10 boundaries.

In case you were wondering what was happening at the Ageas Bowl, it is what I think you could call attritional cricket. But Jimmy Adams and James Vince have just picked up a boundary apiece in successive overs, so maybe the shackles are about to be unlocked? Yorkshire may have other ideas about that.

At Worcester, England all-rounder Moeen Ali isn't messing around. He smashed Northants bowler Andy Carter's first ball for six and is currently 17 not out alongside Daryl Mitchell in the middle. Worcestershire are 40-1. 

Gloucestershire have steadied things against Durham, with Will Tavare and Chris Dent taking them to 54-1 after the opening hour.

Leicestershire, who have lost their first two Championship matches, have made a solid start against Glamorgan, reaching 43-0.

As Adam Whitty just relayed, Kent are continuing to enjoy their season, with Daniel Bell-Drummond and Sean Dickson posting a fifty partnership at 55-0 against Derbyshire.

Finally, Nottinghamshire are moving better after two are losses versus Sussex, with Alex Hales (35 not out) and Jake Libby progressing the score to 69-2.

Earlier in the week, Warwickshire sport director Ashley Giles was expressing concern about their ageing team. However, his response to two defeats was to bring in another 30 something - opener Ian Westwood, and it has certainly paid off so far. Two more fours off Jade Dernbach have taken him to 47 not out off 42 balls and the first fifty of the morning is looming. 

Adam Whitty
BBC Radio Kent

On a cloudy but dry morning here in Canterbury, Kent have made a solid start to their first innings.

Daniel Bell-Drummond has played some fluent strokes for his 28, and will feel he has a point to prove after a stuttering start to this campaign.

Sean Dickson at the other end is being his usual stubborn, gritty self as he hopes to earn three consecutive fifties.

Derbyshire's bowlers have been a little disappointing in the first hour.

They tend to build a little bit of pressure, and then offer Kent's batsmen the buffet cart to relieve any building tension. Improvement is needed to break this partnership. 

Cloud overhead, April on the calendar, new ball in-hand - the perfect combination for a fast bowler. 

But if you were allowed to choose any two bowlers to take the new ball, who would it be?

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Is there anyone better than England's swing king James Anderson?

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Reigning champions Middlesex must be pleased with this start. Sam Robson and Nick Gubbins have seen off the Essex new-ball pair and Aaron Beard and South African spinner Simon Harmer are now into the attack. Who would have thought it - a spinner bowling after only nine overs at Lord's in April. Nick Gubbins is 21 not out, with Sam Robson on 24.

Clive Eakin
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Sport

Warwickshire, who were bowled out for 91 by Surrey in the opening game of the season at the Oval, have made a solid start at Edgbaston.

The Curran brothers, who've opened the bowling, have caused one or two problems.  Ian Westwood edged a Tom Curran delivery just short of slip and William Porterfield has got away with two miscued attacking strokes.

But both batsman have been productive and they have each got an all-run four to their name to a very long boundary with the pitch being well over towards the Raglan and Wyatt stands.     

It's a tough life being a batsman. 

England bright spark Haseeb Hameed was forced to trudge off for a second consecutive duck after just five balls from Josh Davey this morning. 

He is now on a watching brief, with Luke Procter and Liam Livingstone battling out in the middle.

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Alex Winter
BBC Radio Northampton sport

A very pleasant buzz around New Road with supporters filing in for the first time this season. Cloud overhead and some grass on the wicket, so no decision to be made for Northants to bowl first.

That decision was made - officially - by Josh Cobb, with Alex Wakely absent for family reasons. Ben Sanderson and Rory Kleinveldt are also not here due to injury, with one eye on the 50-over competition that begins next week.

Northants have started well, with Mohammad Azharullah dismissing opener Brett D'Oliveira, to bring England batsman Moeen Ali to the crease early on.  

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I wonder what tickled Alastair Cook's funny bone before play started at Lord's?

Maybe someone told him this joke:

Why did Cook quit as England Test captain?

The ECB decided to cut his celery.

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As is the case across all nine games, the away side are hoping to make the most of the new ball and favourable conditions. 

Sussex have done just that at Trent Bridge, sending Greg Smith and Samit Patel back to the pavilion early on. 

It's tall Australian seamer Steve Magoffin who has done the damage, courtesy of catches by Laurie Evans in the gully and wicketkeeper Ben Brown. Alex Hales and Jake Libby are now looking to knuckle down.

Martin Emmerson
BBC Newcastle

As you can imagine, on a gloomy but warmish morning in Bristol the hosts were always going to be asked to bat by Durham.

It's the first time the sides have met here since 2003 and Durham are looking for their first Championship win at this ground in their fifth attempt; their only victory down this corner of the world against Gloucestershire came at Cheltenham in 1999.

There are only two survivors from that match. Paul Collingwood captains Durham while former team-mate Phil Mustard is now skipper of the home team.

Durham have given a debut to former Middlesex player Cameron Steel. Graham Clark, who has scored three centuries for the seconds in the last week, replaces the injured Jack Burnham, while Paul Coughlin has been left out in favour of Brydon Carse. Gloucestershire are unchanged. 

Middlesex opener Sam Robson made a century in his last two Championship appearances against Essex - 110 in 2009 and 146 two years later. There are few more adhesive batsmen around the county circuit and he and partner Nick Gubbins have managed to resist the new-ball efforts of Jamie Porter and Neil Wagner so far at Lord's. Hope those words aren't the 'kiss of death' for one of them.