County Championship: Relive day three's action as it happened

Summary

Hampshire beat Nottinghamshire by 122 runs to go top of Division One
Lancashire earlier beat Somerset by 10 wickets at Taunton to move into second place
Play abandoned for day at Headingley where Yorkshire need 224 to beat Warwickshire
Division Two: Glam v Gloucs only match to see play
No play possible in all three Division Three fixtures

Live Reporting

Joe Rindl and Adam Williams

Fingers crossed for a restartpublished at 12:30 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
D1: Hampshire (226 & 133-7) lead Nottinghamshire (155) by 204 runs
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Postpublished at 12:26 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Lancashire 373 & 16-0 v Somerset 90 & 314
Next over, and Alex Davies gets in on the act, hitting Ned Leonard for two fours on the off-side.
Halfway there. 16 more needed to win.
WICKET Charlesworth b Smith 44published at 12:25 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Glamorgan 309 v Gloucestershire 310-8
Off stump out the ground - a sight every seam bowler loves to see!
Ben Charlesworth's gritty innings comes to an end as Ruaidhri Smith gets one through his defences to take Gloucestershire's eighth wicket.
Can the hosts find time to pick up all three bowling bonus points?
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Postpublished at 12:22 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Lancashire 373 & 8-0 v Somerset 90 & 314
And another four. It's the same shot. Off the back foot, punching it through the covers.
Postpublished at 12:22 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Lancashire 373 & 4-0 v Somerset 90 & 314
First ball, first boundary from George Balderson off Jack Brooks.
Only 28 needed now.
Glos edge aheadpublished at 12:19 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Glamorgan 309 v Gloucestershire 310-7
Some gritty lower-order resistance from Gloucestershire sees them take a first-innings lead at Sofia Gardens as well as collect a third batting bonus point.
Ben Charlesworth (44 not out) and Tom Price (15 not out) edge the visitors ahead with this eighth-wicket partnership worth 31.
Another look at 12:30 at Ageas Bowlpublished at 12:15 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
D1: Hampshire (226 & 133-7) lead Nottinghamshire (155) by 204 runs
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Somerset 314 all out - Lancashire need 32 to winpublished at 12:11 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Leonard c Davies b Blatherwick 6 (Lancashire 373 v Somerset 90 & 314)
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What a a morning session for Lancashire, they're not chancing it with the weather.
Number 11 Ned Leonard can only hang around for so long, feathering one off his pads straight to the keeper.
Somerset won't lose by an innings like their last two matches but this will still be embarrassing. Lancashire need just 32 to win.
Postpublished at 12:02 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Lancashire 373 v Somerset 90 & 301-9
Number 11 Ned Leonard survives until the end of the over.
WICKET Brooks b Balderson 15published at 11:58 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Lancashire 373 v Somerset 90 & 301-9
Jack Brooks hits a flashy two to bring up the 300 for Somerset, but he's out the very next ball, bowled by George Balderson.
The extra pace is too good for the tailender. Lancashire need one more with Somerset leading by just 18.
Postpublished at 11:51 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
(Lancashire 373 v Somerset 90 & 286-8)
George Balderson finds Jack Brooks' edge, but first slip and second slip think the other is going for it.
Both don't attempt a regulation catch and the ball flies past them for four.
It means Somerset lead by two.
And more of the same across the East Midlands...published at 11:50 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
D3: Derbyshire (156) trail Kent (285 & 147-1) by 276 runs
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Time to get the forks out...published at 11:48 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
D3: Leicestershire 291-2 v Sussex 359-9
I'm going to stick my neck out and say we're unlikely to see any play at Grace Road today.....
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WICKET de Lange c Jones b Blatherwick 0published at 11:42 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
(Lancashire 373 v Somerset 90 & 280-8)
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Gone, second ball.
Jack Blatherwick gets his first wicket in the second innings as Marchant de Lange edges to second slip.
Somerset need a miracle.
Postpublished at 11:41 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Just to remind you if you've not been with us all morning that there's just two matches where play is currently taking place - at Taunton and Cardiff.
Everywhere else cuts a scene very much like this one at The Oval...
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WICKET van der Merwe c Wells b Balderson 23published at 11:38 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Lancashire 373 v Somerset 90 & 279-7
That'll make Lancashire feel a whole let better.
George Balderson gets in on the act, as Roelof van der Merwe gets a thick edge on one and Luke Wells safely holds on in the slips.
It came at him quick, VDM threw everything at that shot.
Somerset need four to make Lancashire bat again. This could still be over by lunch.
WICKET Khan c Cooke b Hogan 5published at 11:33 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Glamorgan 309 v Gloucestershire 279-7
Another one down for Gloucestershire as Michael Hogan gets a wicket for the first time today.
Brilliant diving catch behind the stumps from wicketkeeper Chris Cooke away to his left as Zafar Gohar Khan edges a back-foot drive.
Gloucestershire still 30 runs in arrears.
Postpublished at 11:31 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Lancashire 373 v Somerset 90 & 276-6
Somerset have rallied a bit after those two early wickets.
Roelof van der Merwe has raced to 21 off 17 with the hosts trailing by just seven now.
WICKET Wells c Lloyd b Van der Gugten 40published at 11:21 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Glamorgan 309 v Gloucestershire 268-6
Second wicket of the morning for Glamorgan and David Lloyd again finds himself involved.
It's his catching this time at second slip that plays a part as he clings on to an edge from Ben Wells off Timm van der Gugten.
That breaks a decent partnership worth 44 for the sixth wicket and ends Wells' promising knock of 40.
Gloucestershire still trail by 41 runs.
Baker now averaging over a dozenpublished at 11:20 British Summer Time 14 September 2021
Middlesex 144 and 233-6, Worcestershire 171
One feature of a so far low-scoring game this week at Lord's was Worcestershire’s teenage spinner Josh Baker yesterday claiming his maiden first-class half-century.
It turns out that not only is this the 18-year-old Worcestershire-born Malvern College pupil's first game at the home of cricket, he had never actually been as a spectator either.
“I’ve never been to Lord’s before,” Baker told BBC Hereford & Worcester. “So it’s really nice to get a first-class fifty and do it here, of all places."
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After finishing 11 not out overnight on Sunday, he went on to finish unbeaten on 61. And that was a massive improvement on the total of 18 he had managed in his previous four innings . . . 12*, 5, 0, 1.
It improved his career average from 6.00 to 26.33 in one knock!
“I was trying to play positively and be proactive after a couple of weeks of getting ducks and stuff," added Baker, who made his Pears debut shortly after leaving school in June, after sitting his A levels. "So I changed it up a bit.”