Summary

  • Skipper Will Rhodes makes an unbeaten 151 as Warwickshire build lead of 386

  • Opening bat Rob Yates scores his fifth red-ball century of the season before falling for 113

  • Leg-spinner Matt Parkinson takes 3-71 for Lancashire

  • Warwickshire hoping to add the Bob Willis Trophy to the Championship title won last week

Live Reporting

Adam Lanigan and Paul Grunill

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    Worcestershire make their fourth new signing for the 2022 season -ex-Lancashire left-hander Taylor Cornall.

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  2. Tough session ahead for Lancashire

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    The look on Matt Parkinson's face tells you all you need to know about how Lancashire must be feeling at the moment.

    Will there be a declaration during the final session? All Warwickshire first-team coach Mark Robinson would say a few minutes ago was "Lancashire have got a bit of fielding to do yet."

    A tough situation may be about to get even tougher.

  3. Mark Robinson
    Warwickshire first-team coach on BBC 5 live sports extra

    You don't want games to drift, you want games to go along at a pace and that gives us the advantage going into the last session."

  4. Tea at Lord's

    Lancashire 78 v Warwickshire 339-2

    Almost a carbon copy of the morning session in the afternoon. 115-1 off 31 overs at not far off four an over.

    Will Rhodes has reached his hundred. Sam Hain has cruised to 50.

    After a quick cuppa and maybe a sandwich or two, they will expect more of the same in the evening session.

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    Phil Taylor: Recall a game from my youth, Warwickshire scored 523-4 on day 1 against Lancashire, Jameson 230, Kallicharran about 180. Lancashire replied with 414-6 and ended up winning by 10 wickets. You can do it Lancashire!!! Believe #bbccricket

    Crikey, optimistic does not even begin to describe it!

  6. Mark Robinson
    Warwickshire first-team coach on BBC 5 live sports extra

    Hainy's had a lot of 50 to 80 scores, which is unusual for him, he normally converts quite well....He's a special talent. He's a little bit risk averse at times, it's just about encouraging him to let himself go."

  7. 50 runs

    50 for Sam Hain

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    A crisp cover drive from Sam Hain brings up a half century off 62 balls. With seven fours, there have been some strokes that have been very easy on the eye.

    He has looked in very little trouble - like the top three batters above him.

  8. From fours to fore

    Lancashire 78 v Warwickshire 333-2

    Anyone want to know what England's (and Yorkshire's) Joe Root is doing today? He's at Kingsbarns, practising for the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

    The England captain is partnering 2010 Ryder Cup player Ross Fisher in the European Tour's pro-am event.

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  9. Ground into the dirt

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    Sam Hain strokes two classy fours off Luke Wood as Warwickshire continue to grind Lancashire into submission.

    There are as many runs here for the taking as the Bears want. This is so easy.

  10. 100 runs

    100 for Will Rhodes

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    Will Rhodes has a broad smile as a two brings up his century.

    Containing 15 fours and coming off 174 balls, Rhodes has had the appetite for runs ever since he came to the crease and this is his first 100 of the season.

    County Champions last week, one hand on the Bob Willis Trophy and his own runs this week, things don't get much sweeter for the Bears captain.

  11. A touch of Smith

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    Warwickshire have 'only' just gone past 300, but it feels like more such is the position of the match.

    Will Rhodes motors into the nineties with a powerful bottom-handed drive past mid-off for four. A touch of ex-South Africa captain Graeme Smith about that one.

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    Mi'al: "Warwickshire should try to bat until day 4 and get a thousand. The opportunity doesn’t arise very often. #bbccricket."

    It's only happened twice in fact - both times in Australia, the most recent in 1926-27.

  13. Only just past halfway

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    Sam Hain is gifted a ball on leg-stump, which should be stopped on the boundary by Jack Blatherwick. It isn't and that piece of cricket rather sums up Lancashire's plight.

    Another legside delivery brings Hain a more conventional four to bring up Warwickshire's 300.

    The worrying thing for Lancs is that there are still 50 overs left today. We are only just past halfway!

  14. Looking back - Lloyd and Lancashire dominate

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    He may have been born on the other side of the Atlantic, but there are few more popular adopted Lancastrians than Clive Lloyd.

    A giant of a man - both literally and metaphorically - he stamped his personality all over the 1972 Gillette Cup final.

    He opened the bowling as Warwickshire made 234-9. The former West Indies captain then walked out to bat with his team in trouble at 26-2.

    When Bob Willis eventually had him LBW for 126, Lancashire were on the verge of victory for a third successive Gillette Cup success - a feat no other county has matched.

    Lloyd was developing a liking for winning trophies at Lord's and he would lift the World Cup there in 1975 and 1979.

  15. Few alarms

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    The sun is out and the pitch now looks good. In cricket terms, there can't be many better places for a batter to be than Lord's.

    Sam Hain and Will Rhodes have quietly added 41 with very few alarms as Hain is gifted four more by Tom Bailey.

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  16. Clive Eakin
    BBC CWR Sport commentator on 5 live sports extra

    Bearing in mind the weather forecast, if Warwickshire were desperate to win the game, they'd be thinking 'how many do we need before we put them in again'."

  17. Rhodes with his eye on a 100

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    Will Rhodes has captained Warwickshire to the County Championship this season but he has not contributed a century himself. He has a great chance to change that here.

    He is 22 away but his eyebrows are raised when George Balderson gets one to lift past the edge of his bat.

  18. Lancashire 78 v Warwickshire 270-2

    Sam Hain is watchful in defence but when Tom Bailey strays legside, Hain whips it through a vacant mid-wicket down to the fence.

  19. Time for Bailey to bend his back again

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    The 80 overs are up and Lancashire captain Dane Vilas does not waste a second in handing the new ball to Tom Bailey.

    This is where bowlers really earn their corn. Lancs trail by 188, but Bailey has to summon his energy at the end of a summer of hard graft, despite his team's parlous position in this match.

  20. Ian Bell
    Former England batter on BBC 5 live sports extra

    Warwickshire are well on top but if Lancashire can sneak one more out and then take the new ball, it might be an opportunity to try and bowl them out today."