Steven Davies and Lewis Goldsworthy have posted a fifty partnership for Somerset and it looks like they may be on the path to victory now - though their fans may not thank us for tempting fate in that cavalier way.

Davies advances to 29 not out with a cover drive for four and follows that with an easy glance to fine leg from a wayward Martin Andersson delivery.

Can Middlesex conjure up a miracle from this position? Who is the man to produce a magic spell for the visitors?

Only 44 runs needed for Lancashire now.

Keaton Jennings has moved on to 80 while Josh Bohannon is sitting pretty on 31.

In theory, both could reach their respective milestones, as a neutral I'd quite like that to happen.

Their partnership also stands at 56 runs.

Streaky.....

Lewis Goldsworthy gets away with one as he tries to drive Steven Finn and edges past second slip for four.

Mind you, the 20-year-old Cornishman did produce one of the shots of the morning earlier on, with an authoritative pull off the ex-England paceman.

Goldsworthy has 22, Steven Davies is 23 not out and together they have added 46 valuable runs for Somerset.

Northants want to see these two still together at lunch, with only Simon Kerrigan and Ben Sanderson to come.

A single for Wayne Parnell is the only run added in the latest over bowled by Jordan Thompson, and the South African is now 14 not out.

Just 60 runs required now for Lancashire and worryingly for Sussex, Josh Bohannon looks just as set as Keaton Jennings in the middle.

Bohannon has moved to 20 off 30 while Keaton Jennings may be thinking about a century with 75 from 156.

Henry Crocombe has just returned to the attack for Sussex.

Steven Davies breaks the shackles with two boundaries in the same Martin Andersson over for Somerset.

The first is steered away past backward point off the back foot, and the second is a glorious drive wide of mid-off.

The left-hander now has 21, partner Lewis Goldsworthy is on eight, and the home side need only 54 more to win.

Simon Harmer's fingers might be a little sore at the end of this Worcestershire first innings. The off-spinner has just completed his 46th over for Essex - but there is still a 'five-for' available to him as they strive to separate the home side's last-wicket pair, Harmer's figures are now 4-81.

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Josh Bohannon finally gets off the mark with two brilliant cuts for four.

The runs are starting to flow again with Bohannon on nine not out and Keaton Jennings unbeaten on 66.

Lancashire are only 80 runs away now.

Attritional fare now at Taunton. A battle of skills and wills.

Steven Davies and Lewis Goldsworthy have added only 15 in nine and a bit over since coming together for Somerset.

Steven Finn - who perked Middlesex up with the wicket of nightwatchman Jack Leach at the end of day three - is now operating in tandem with Martin Andersson for the visitors.

Maidens from Jack Carson and Jamie Aitkens.

The pressure is building at Hove. Still 93 more runs required for Lancashire.

Gloucestershire openers Kraigg Brathwaite and Chris Dent walk out to the middle.

Chris Wright has three slips in for West Indian Brathwaite. The Barbadian has made just one 50 for Gloucestershire so far this summer.

Northants have lost another wicket since last we checked on Headingley.

Tom Taylor was the man to go, lbw to ball from Steve Patterson which may have jagged back a little off the seam.

Taylor only made one, but new batsman Wayne Parnell has just cracked David Willey away for four after joining Saif Zaib.

Two more wickets in successive deliveries as Ryan Higgins gets a five-for with a caught and bowled to remove Chris Wright for three.

Number 10 Alex Evans is then run out for a duck the very next ball.

Leicestershire seem happy with their lead. The hosts will need 348 with 82 overs remaining in the day.

Six wickets for 76 in the morning session so far.