Wins for Kent, Derbyshire and Lancashire
Kent's Jordan Cox (238*) & Jack Leaning (220*) put on 423
Record partnership for any wicket for Kent who end on 530-1
All 18 counties split into three regional groups of six
Each side will play five games
Two teams with most points contest five-day final
Middlesex 252 & 34-1 v Hants 296
Image source, Rex FeaturesMiddlesex have just lost their first wicket in the second innings - Max Holden nicking the evergreen Keith Barker behind for a rapid 26.
Nick Gubbins is in at three with the deficit just 10.
Durham 180 & 3-1 v Lancs 308
The worst possible start for Durham as a Tom Bailey's yorker takes out Alex Lees' off stump.
The opener falls for a nine-ball duck.
Looks like we're going off too. Some light rain comes in and the umpires call for the covers. Durham are trailing by 125
Notts 355 v Yorkshire 264 & 44-1
Jonny Bairstow you lucky boy.
Matthew Carter nearly has the England man caught behind, but Bairstow's thick edge bursts past Steven Mullaney in the slips.
Yorkshire's number three moves on to 20. The visitors trail by 47.
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Cook lbw b Atkinson 42 (Essex 262 & 69-2 v Surrey 187)
Image source, Rex Features"You'd put your house on Alastair Cook making a big score today".
Well, I guess it depends on what your definition of big is... I'd be happy with 42.
But the former England captain is on his way for not as many as he would have liked - pinned lbw by Surrey seamer Gus Atkinson.
It looked mightily close to pitching outside leg stump, but up goes the finger and Cook has to go.
And now a wicket at Chelmsford...
Dent b Bresnan 0 (Gloucestershire 210 & 2-1 v Warks 247)
An early wicket for Tim Bresnan.
Captain Chris Dent departs for 0 as he edges onto the stumps.
Gloucestershire are 2-1, 35 behind.
Essex 262 & 68-1 v Surrey 187
You'd put your house on Alastair Cook making a big score today.
The 35-year-old glides his way to 42 with a sixth boundary - a nice push through the covers off Surrey spinner Amar Virdi.
Essex's lead is growing - 143 at the moment.
Slater c Madsen b Barnes 0 (Leicestershire 199 & 34-2 v Derbys 408)
Another for Barnes.
Four balls later and Ben Slater goes for a duck.
A double-wicket maiden for the youngster.
Parkinson b Barnes 13 (Leicestershire 199 & 34-1 v Derbys 408)
Breakthrough for Derbyshire and it's a maiden first-class wicket for Ed Barnes (born 1997), as he bowls Callum Parkinson.
Leicestershire still 175 behind. Ben Slater is the new man in.
Worcestershire 455-8 v Glamorgan 203-6
FOUR wickets for Joe Leach!
Dan Douthwaite is the latest Glamorgan batsman to fall to a ropey hook shot.
The visitors have lost four wickets for 18 runs this morning at New Road.
Cricketers born after 2000
James McCaghrey: Priyam Garg was born 30th November 2000, and he scored a first class double hundred for Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy, on December 23rd 2018.
You learn something new every day.
Kent 401-1 v Sussex 332
Maximum batting points for Kent. Maximum toil in the field for Sussex.
Jordan Cox and Jack Leaning go on and on, with teenager Cox now 12 away from a double hundred.
Gloucestershire 210 v Warks 247
The Bears reach 247 after Oliver Hannon-Dalby edges to first slip off the bowling of Ryan Higgins to fall for a 12-ball duck.
Warwickshire's lead is 37. Higgins finishes with 4-54.
Worcestershire 455-8 v Glamorgan 203-5
Pears skipper Joe Leach is continuing to run through Glamorgan's middle order.
The paceman picks up his third wicket of the morning as Tom Cullen nicks him to slip.
Glamorgan are in a bit of trouble.
Durham 180 v Lancs 308
Last man Richard Gleeson is trapped lbw by Matthew Salisbury and falls for 6.
Some useful runs at the end from Tom Bailey who finishes on 38 not out.
Lancashire have a first innings lead of 128.
Salisbury finishes on 4-57.
Kent 397-1 v Sussex 332
It's milestone after milestone at Canterbury.
Leaning brings up his 150 in what is now a career-best innings from the former Yorkshire man.
Leicestershire 199 & 29-0 v Derbys 408
A good start for Leicestershire as openers Callum Parkinson (11) and Hassan Azad (14) navigate the first 10 overs.
The hosts need this partnership to last if they want to save this match.
They trail by 179 runs after Derbyshire's mammoth 408 yesterday.
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Jack Palmer-White: Dom Sibley famously holds the record for the youngest double centurion in English first-class cricket. If he reaches his 200, surely Jordan Cox will be the first player born in the 21st century to reach the landmark?
I think you're right Jack. Cox moves to 181 not out, just 19 away now.
Essex 262 & 49-1 v Surrey 187
Image source, Getty ImagesAfter losing Nick Browne early doors, it's been all Essex since then.
Alastair Cook (27*) and captain Tom Westley (15*) are scoring freely and finding plenty of boundaries at Chelmsford.
Essex lead by 124.
Middlesex 252 v Hants 296-9
Image source, Rex FeaturesHampshire lose their ninth wicket as Ryan Stevenson nicks Tim Murtagh behind, but that's the innings done.
As you may have read earlier, Hampshire all-rounder Liam Dawson is out for the season with an achilles injury and will therefore not resume his innings.
Hants have a handy first-innings lead of 44.