D1 leaders Somerset bowl out Hampshire for 104 to win by 313 runs
Simon Harmer takes 4-35 as Essex beat Notts by an innings and 123 runs
Yorkshire beat Surrey by 123 runs with just 10 balls to spare
Warwickshire's Dom Sibley finally out for 244 in their draw with Kent
Injured James Anderson bats with runner as Lancashire draw with Durham
Glamorgan's Marnus Labuschagne makes second 100 of game in draw with Worcestershire
Middlesex's Dawid Malan out for 199 in draw against Derbyshire
Yorkshire 327 & 352 v Surrey 362 & 43-0
Yorkshire coach Andrew Gale said last evening that he believed the spin of Keshav Maharaj could be key to his side's hopes of victory on the final day.
The South African has now been given the ball and a single by Dean Elgar is the only scoring stroke from his opening over.
Surrey need another 275 to win.
Somerset 408 & 358-8 dec v Hampshire 349 & 68-4
Hampshire skipper Sam Northeast appears to be settling in for the long haul at Taunton.
After scoring three runs from his first 38 balls faced, he clipped Tim Groenewald through mid-wicket for four.
And Northeast has just put the Somerset seamer away through backward square leg to move into double figures before cover driving the next for four.
All three were risk-free strokes - and the avoidance of unnecessary risks is going to be crucial if Hampshire are to somehow escape with a draw.
That's something partner James Fuller might reflect on after a lucky escape when Steven Davies missed a stumping chance.
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Lancashire 337 & 247, Durham 281 & 7-1
Saqib Mahmood strikes for Lancashire.
Durham opener Alex Lees is bowled playing no shot off the fifth ball of the second over - his fourth duck of the season.
It came just two balls after Mahmood had Durham skipper Cameron Bancroft put down at slip by Steven Croft.
But Mahmood, filling in for the injured Jimmy Anderson, got an immediate consolation prize.
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Kent 585-7 dec, Warwickshire 439-5
Not that there was any real danger of it happening, given the way Dom Sibley has been batting, but Warwickshire are now officially beyond the follow-on target against Kent, having reached their initial target when this innings began on Monday, of 436.
Sibley is on 235. Tim Ambrose is the new man in.
Brett D'Oliveira now has nine wickets in the game for Worcestershire after bowling Nick Selman for 58 and Glamorgan are 196-4 in their seond innings, a lead of 275.
Middlesex have lost another wicket at Derby with Tom Helm lbw to Leus du Plooy, but have progressed to 505-9 - just 52 behind the home side's first-innings total.
Kent 585-7 dec, Warwickshire 433-5
With still three runs needed to avoid the follow-on, Warwickshire have lost their second wicket of the morning, as Matt Lamb is leg before wicket to Grant Stewart.
Dom Sibley is now on 230 - and that is now the highest score made in the County Championship this season, taking him past Billy Root's 229 for Glamorgan against Northants in June.
Sibley now needs just 13 more to beat his own career-best, his 242, made against Yorkshire at the Oval in only his third first-class game with Surrey six summers ago.
Yorkshire 327 & 352 & Surrey 362 & 14-0
Surrey probably weren't expecting to have to chase a target of over 300 when they arrived at North Marine Road this morning - but that is the reality of the situation after that last-wicket stand by Ben Coad and Duanne Olivier for Yorkshire.
They are now in tandem again with the ball, but Surrey have avoided any damage so far and Mark Stoneman forces Olivier away through the off-side for four in his latest over before flipping his final delivery to square leg for another.
He is now 16 not out, Dean Elgar has six and Surrey need another 296 to win.
Image source, Rex FeaturesLancashire 337 & 247, Durham 281
Jimmy Anderson's appearance as last man batting with a runner takes up 17 minutes - and helps to add 11 runs - before he is last out.
Recalled Australian Nathan Rimmington, coming in round the wicket, bowls the left-hander with an inswinger that removed Anderson's off stump to finish with 4-42, for career-best match figures of 8-116, after his 4-74 in the first innings.
Lancashire have a lead of 303, with no Anderson to help them defend it, following his pre-Ashes calf strain scare on Tuesday. But could those 11 runs come in handy later?
Anderson got four of them, while helping Saqib Mahmood move on to 31 not out.
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Notts 213 & 115-7, Essex 519-9 dec
Simon Harmer strikes again as Luke Fletcher is also caught behind.
Ravi Ashwin comes in to join Tom Moores,
Somerset 408 & 358-8 dec v Hampshire 349 & 51-4
Image source, Getty ImagesAfter the initial burst by Jamie Overton and Lewis Gregory, Somerset have now turned to the left-arm spin of England's Jack Leach.
His first over yields only a single to James Fuller, who is 19 not out, while Sam Northeast has two from 26 balls so far.
Lancashire 337 & 240-9, Durham 281
Saqib Mahmood hits his second boundary of the innings - and it gets reported on with more detail than the other as it ends up in the press tent.
It narrowly evades the BBC local radio team and the Rev Malcolm Lorimer, Lancashire's revered club historian. And it eventually ends up, after rearranging the coffee tray, in a bowl of sugar.
"No point crying over spoilt milk though," quips Kal Sajad, one of the commentary team.
Derbyshire 557-6 dec v Middlesex 488-8
Leus du Plooy doesn't bowl very often - and he was the eighth Derbyshire player to turn his arm over in this innings - but he has a wicket as he bowls John Simpson, who hit 12 fours in his 242-ball innings.
Middlesex are 69 behind as Tom Helm joins Nathan Sowter in the middle, but that's all academic at this stage of proceedings.
Lancashire 337 & 236-9, Durham 281
A pair for Graham Onions against his old county Durham as he bags his second duck of the game.
After his third-ball 0 in the first innings, he lasts a ball longer in the second before going the same way, caught behind, this time off Ben Raine.
Jimmy Anderson comes out to bat, to at least answer the question of whether he would appear or not.
Anderson will now be bowling for the rest of this game. But The Burnley Lara is allowed to come out to the middle to bat with a runner, Josh Bohannon.
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Derbyshire 557-6 dec v Middlesex 474-7
Image source, Rex FeaturesEngland Dawid Malan falls one run short of what would have been his first double century as he gives a return catch to spinner Matt Critchley.
It is, though, his highest score in first-class cricket, and he and John Simpson added 224 for the seventh wicket.
Malan batted for over eight and a half hours, faced 373 deliveries and hit 22 fours.
Notts 213 & 110-6, Essex 519-9 dec
Simon Harmer strikes at Trent Bridge.
The country's leading wicket taker has Ben Duckett caught behind.
He simply picked the wrong ball to cut at. Poor shot.
You'd think that this might be over by lunchtime now.
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Yorkshire 327 & 352 v Surrey 362
After a superb straight six off Gareth Batty, Ben Coad misses out on a maiden first-class fifty as he tries to late cut in the spinner's next over and edges to keeper Ben Foakes.
It's a career-best score, though, for Yorkshire's number 10, and his last-wicket stand of 57 with Duanne Olivier - who is 11 not out - has extended their lead to 317.
Plenty of time for Surrey to get the runs for a second successive win - but it is definitely game on!
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Kent 585-7 dec, Warwickshire 416-4
A wicket at Canterbury. But it's not Dom Sibley!
Adam Hose, having survived an LBW appeal two balls earlier, plays the same shot again - and is given out.
He departs for 21, having added just three to his overnight score, pointedly looking at his bat, suggesting that he thought he might have got some bat on it.
It'll still say 'Out' in the book though.
Matt Lamb is the new man in. Dom Sibley is on 220.
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Lancashire 337 & 229-8, Durham 281 all out
First wicket of the day, as home skipper Dane Vilas returns a catch to Nathan Rimmington to end his 55-run stand with Saqib Mahmood.
Lancs, without the injured Jimmy Anderson, lead by 285.
The top three individual scores in this game have all been made by the respective captains. 72 and 85 for Vilas. And 77 for Cameron Bancroft in Durham's first innings.
Lancashire 337 & 229-7, Durham 281
Dane Vilas (85) and Saqib Mahmood (17) have put together the 10th half-century stand of the game at Sedbergh. But none of them have yet gone on to make it a hundred . . .
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Somerset 408 & 358-8 dec v Hampshire 349 & 32-4
Rilee Rossouw cuts, Tom Banton takes the catch at gully and Jamie Overton has his second wicket of the morning.
James Fuller is in at six for Hampshire - effectively five as they have already used Kyle Abbott as nightwatchman - because Joe Weatherley and Tom Alsop are both injured.
At this rate, this will be over before lunch.
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