300 up for Yorkshire.

Josh Shaw is doing a terrific job as limpit/nightwatchman. He's just got off the mark to his 25th delivery after 35 minutes at the crease, clipping a back-of-a-length Jamie Overton ball to the long-leg boundary.

His partner Tom Kohler-Cadmore (91) has hit a few fours himself and is closing in on three figures.

Well, it looks pretty decent. A lovely, warm British summer's day with only a slim chance of rain interruption according to this "expert". By that I mean me, not Helen Willetts who is of course an actual expert.

But just in case you wondering if we are a teeny weeny bit distracted today, for the avoidance of doubt here's Helen's detailed forecast from Lord's for the World Cup final.

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Apart from the Lancashire game at Old Trafford, there are also three other games in Division Two.

Glamorgan start again on in trouble 25-4 in Cardiff replying to Middlesex's Dawid Malan-inspired 384 all out, while Durham and Worcestershire will hope for more luck with the weather after a rain-hit first day at the Riverside, where the hosts resume on 122-6 - a recovery position from Ned Eckersley and Ben Raine after being 47-6.

And Derbyshire start their game against Northants at Chesterfield.

County Championship Division Two leaders Lancashire had one of their best days of the summer as they bowled out Sussex cheaply for 127 before closing on 149-1, for only the loss of Alex Davies.

It did not look that way 20 minutes into the second hour of the morning when Sussex stood at 77-0. But, in the 80 minutes either side of lunch, they lost all 10 wickets as legspinner Matt Parkinson and offspinner Glenn Maxwell - making a rapid reappearance following Cricket World Cup duty - filled their boots.

"Having Glenn Maxwell at the other end is quality, Parkinson told BBC Radio Lancashire. "He took the lads by surprise by how good a bowler he is. He's a gun off-spinner. When you play two spinners there is obviously going to be a bit more pressure on but I just tried to stick to my basics and hope the wickets would come."

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Sussex head coach Jason Gillespie was not quite so please, however.

"There was some decent bowling," he said. "But it's certainly not a 120 all out wicket. No way. Lancashire have shown that. The spinners were getting their lines and lengths right and we found ways to get out.

"We know it's not good enough. The brutal reality is that our top six batters are not doing their jobs and they need to find a way to get the job done. We spoke about the importance of adapting to conditions but we can have time meeting after team meeting after team meeting, If we're getting rissoled for 100 each time, we may as well be banging our heads against a brick wall."

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Despite the fact that England's cricketers have got a World Cup final on their plate at Lord's today, already there is Ashes talk in the air.

Jimmy Anderson's injury scare was the first thing to remind us that the first Test against the Aussies at Edgbaston is now 18 days away. But first up, there's a curtain raiser as England Lions host Australia A at Canterbury.

There are three Test players in there, Somerset spinner Jack Leach and Surrey duo Sam Curran and Ben Foakes, plus several more genuine contenders like Somerset's in-form all rounder Lewis Gregory, who captains the team, and Warwickshire opener Dom Sibley, the country's leading run scorer.

There still could be places on offer in that Test team. So plenty of side issues to look at today in Kent then.

And former England opener Marcus Trescothick was there to dole out all the new caps.

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As the old adage goes, you don't know how good a track it is until both sides have batted. Well on day one at Trent Bridge, India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took 6-69 to help Nottinghamshire bowled Surrey out for 240. All 10 wickets fell to the spinners.

In reply, Morne Morkel got rid of Ben Slater to leave Notts 20-1 at the close. So whose day was it? Both players that were on media duty for their respective sides, said it was theirs.

"We had a very positive day. We knew it was going to turn but we didn't quite expect it to be as much as that," said Notts' Liam Patterson-White, who took 3-62.

"When I started my spell, I felt a little bit more under pressure, like I had to perform. I spoke to Ravi Ashwin and he said that I'd earned the right to bowl, so be relaxed, tie up an end and the wickets will come."

Surrey's Dean Elgar was the only batsman to make a half-century on day one, eventually being dismissed by Ashwin for 59. But he doesn't think 240 is a bad total.

"It was a good day. We would have liked to get to 250 for the extra batting point but we've got the runs on the board," he told BBC Radio London.

"As we could see, the nature of cricket here was quite slow. We've now got about five spinners who are going to put their hands up for a bowl and try to bowl Notts out.

Hampshire batsman Felix Organ had just one word to say how he felt about registering his maiden first-class century - against .Kent at the Rose Bowl.

"It was awesome," the 20-year-old Australia-born Hampshire Academy product told BBC Solent. "I’ve played here since Under- 9s and it all builds up to this. This is what I practice and play for.

“I don’t usually play in front of this many people. I remember the first game I played here and I got a massive clap when I scored a run and thought ‘Oh my word this is awesome, I’ve only scored one run’. So then getting to a hundred was the best feeling ever.

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“You always hope that it will happen but after last week, despite only scoring one, I thought I can do this. Batting with Dutch (Ian Holland) is easy because he scores quite quickly which means I can just bat, which is the same with Rilee (Rossouw). When they score with good pace it means you can hold in there and take your time.”

“It’s an absolute peach of a wicket," said Kent assistant coach Allan Donald. "They played very well and we took half-chances magnificently. I’m proud of how we stuck at it. But that first hour on a day two is key to bowling them out quickly to get batting.”

After overcoming the injury crisis that forced them into fielding a makeshift pace attack at Canterbury just a fortnight ago, it was not actually that much of a surprise that Warwickshire should have bowled out title-chasing Essex on home soil so cheaply yesterday.

Second-placed Essex have won all their home games this season, but the wickets there do offer encouragement to bowlers.

What was a surprise was that it should have been Will Rhodes that did it so stunningly for the Bears as Essex slid from 157-2 to 245 all out.

He had previously only taken 28 first-class wickets, never more than three in an innings - and just one this season. But he sent down 14.3 overs to finish with 5-17 against the county with whom he spelt a short spell on loan in 2016. And he admits that he would like to bowl more.

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"I can't remember the last time I got five wickets in any form of cricket," he told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire. "But, with the injuries that have come about I've been given the opportunity to bowl more.

"They knew I wanted to bowl more. It was just having that opportunity. When you've got the bowlers we've got you're not going to do much bowling. But it's nice to contribute. That's the main thing. I was just batting last year and, if you miss out you always feel like you want to contribute with the ball."

Not much has gone wrong for Somerset this season in their pursuit of a first County Championship title.

There has even been talk of English county cricket's first domestic treble in 25 years since the Cider Boyz pouched the One-Day Cup at Lord's in May.

But yesterday they found themselves without the talismanic Lewis Gregory at Headingley, following his call-up for England Lions duty. And, although they coped all right last time he missed a game, it was a bit of a struggle this time round.

Gary Ballance's century, backed by what looks like another ton to follow this morning from Tom Kohler-Cadmore, was probably their worst day of the campaign so far - and all that after putting Yorkshire in.

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“It was a tough day for us," said coach Jason Kerr. "It wasn’t a case of us missing Lewis Gregory. It was just that the guys as a unit weren’t quite as clinical as they have been.

"We’ve got real depth in the squad. Lewis Gregory has missed games already. And we’ve got Craig Overton back in this game. But inserting Yorkshire, we were hoping for better rewards.

"They played outstandingly well, and we weren’t quite at the races. It was a fresh wicket, and we had a bit of local knowledge in Jack Brooks. We felt there was something in the surface, and there was. But we just didn’t get enough balls in the right areas and ask enough questions."

Most sport-minded eyes in the country might well be trained on London today.

In London NW8 for the mens Cricket World Cup final at Lord's and in SW19 for the Gentlemens Singles final at Wimbledon.

Then there’s also the Formula One British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

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But, if none of that floats your boat, and you're just a cricket lover, and a lover of county cricket in particular, then this is the place to be.

We have eight County Championship matches – and the England Lions v Australia A game - to keep an eye on in the final round of fixtures before the T20 Blast kicks off later this week.