Opening day of 2022 County Championship season
Two-division model back for 2022, with 10 teams in Division One and eight in Division Two
Div One: Essex v Kent, Hants v Som, Northants v Gloucs & Warks v Surrey
Champions Warwickshire have rain-affected first day v Surrey
Somerset bowled out for just 180 v Hampshire who close on 109-0 in reply
Alastair Cook and Nick Browne make centuries for Essex against Kent
Div Two: Glam v Dur, Leics v Worcs, Middlesex v Derbs & Sussex v Notts
Middlesex's Stevie Eskinazi first to make 100 this season
Goldsworthy lbw b Abbas 4 (Hampshire v Somerset 46-4)
Image source, Rex FeaturesWicket time again at the Ageas Bowl.
Mohammad Abbas traps Lewis Goldsworthy leg before deep in his crease and there's little doubt that one's out.
Goldsworthy makes just four as this testing morning for Somerset continues.
Surrey 102-0 v Warwickshire
Surrey's openers Rory Burns and Ryan Patel bring up English cricket's first century of the season.
But Burns then almost holes out at wide mid-on where Danny Briggs just fails to take a skier.
Charlesworth b Sanderson 6 (Gloucestershire 10-2 v Northants)
A second wicket for the hosts as Ben Sanderson strikes with the fourth ball of his fifth over to slide in between pat and pad to remove the off stump of Ben Charlesworth.
Skipper Graeme van Buuren comes in ahead of schedule.
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Gloucestershire 7-1 v Northamptonshire
The rain cloud has moved on and they're playing again at Northampton.
Surrey 83-0 v Warwickshire
Clive Eakin
BBC CWR at Edgbaston
On a breezy, overcast first morning of the season Warwickshire are already learning how difficult defending the County Championship title will be.
Their bowlers are being put under pressure by Ryan Patel who hasn't looked back since pulling the 10th ball of the match for four.
He's since cleared the ropes for two sixes and reached his 50 off just 52 balls.
Olly Hannon-Dalby bowled a testing opening spell but Warwickshire's attack have struggled for control under Patel's onslaught.
At the other end Rory Burns has been content to bat solidly and allow his partner to dominate the strike.
Glouces 7-1 v Northants
Another weather interruption at Wantage Road.
It's been slow progress in the seven overs they have managed since play started late at 11:50.
BBC Radio Northampton's Andrew Radd is hopeful of not being off too long.
Lammonby c Brown b Holland 11 (Hampshire v Somerset 35-3)
Another one down for Somerset at the Ageas Bowl.
Ian Holland produces a delivery that finds the outside edge of Tom Lammonby's bat and gives Ben Brown his first catch as a Hampshire player behind the stumps.
A first bonus point of the season in the bag for Hampshire as well in the process.
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Surrey 78-0 v Warwickshire
Surrey still rattling along.
Ryan Patel is already on to 61. Seven fours and two sixes.
A more watchful Rory Burns is on 17 off 39 balls.
Essex 52-0 v Kent
Image source, Rex FeaturesA 50 opening partnership for Essex to begin their campaign as Nick Browne (31 not out) and Alastair Cook (16 not out) steer them past that landmark.
Ball still moving around a bit in the blustery conditions too.
Dent c Gay b Berg 0 (Gloucestershire 2-1 v Northants)
Early wicket at Wantage Road as Chris Dent goes cheaply.
Gareth Berg finds the left-hander's edge and Emilio Gay hurls himself across from third slip to take it in front of a relieved second slip.
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Hampshire v Somerset 21-2
Anthony Gibson
BBC Somerset at the Ageas Bowl
Image source, PA MediaA Somerset side shorn of no fewer than eight first-choice players by illness, injury and non-availability is finding it hard work against a potent Hampshire seam attack at a chilly and very windy Ageas Bowl.
Ben Green and skipper Tom Abell were out in almost identical fashion - well caught in the slips from deliveries that just did enough off the pitch to find the outside edge: Good bowling rather than bad batting.
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Howard Horner: It’s chilly at Lord's - Shan Masood has just shown the umpire he has 4 hand-warmers in his pockets.
Image source, Getty ImagesHe took this very impressive catch though early on at mid-wicket for Derbyshire to dismiss Mark Stoneman off the bowling of Suranga Lakmal.
Two new faces combining well for the visitors.
The 50 is up in all the of the three games being played.
Glamorgan 54-2 v Durham: After Andrew Salter went early, skipper David Lloyd made 28 in a third-wicket stand with Colin Ingram.
Leicestershire v Worcestershire. Start delayed due to rain.
Middlesex 52-1 v Derbyshire: Mark Stoneman the early man to go for the hosts. Michael Atherton's lad Josh De Caires is on 21, with Stevie Eskinazi on 24.
Sussex 54-0 v Nottinghamshire: Sussex openers Ali Orr and Tom Haines so far unparted. Skipper Haines is going very well. Seven boundaries.
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Methers: Surely this Hampshire attack is the best in the league? Dangerous
Surrey 57-0 v Bears
Image source, Getty ImagesRyan Patel reaches the County Championship's first 50 of the season with his second six in successive overs - this time off home skipper Will Rhodes.
If Patel maintains this rate of scoring for the rest of the morning, he's on course for a century before lunch.
Northants v Gloucestershire
We're also now under way at Wantage Road after a 50-minute delay.
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Essex 37-0 v Kent
Eleven breezy overs safely negotiated so far at Chelmsford by Essex openers Nick Browne and Alastair Cook without much alarm.
But here comes county cult hero Darren Stevens for his first bowl of the season, so often the scurge of Essex with both ball and bat.
He starts with a bit of a long hop which Browne (31 not out) cuts away for four before another that he drives to the fence through the covers.
Surrey 47-0 v Bears
Image source, PA MediaRyan Patel is in expansive mood at Edgbaston.
He carves Ollly Hannon-Dalby to the third man boundary then, next ball, hooks him for six.
Hampshire v Somerset 21-2
Charlotte Taylor
Southern Vipers spinner on BBC Radio Solent at The Ageas Bowl
Image source, Rex FeaturesA cold, blustery morning here sees Mason Crane and Brad Wheal miss out on selection for Hampshire but their bowlers have started well.
Mohammad Abbas beat the bat a few times with movement off the surface, but not much swing in the air at present.
James Fuller finds himself in the side as well after an impressive pre-season.
Somerset unfortunately find themselves not at full strength with many key players out with illness, injury or unavailable.
A couple of early wickets for Abbas, from a fantastic low catch from Liam Dawson at second slip to dismiss Ben Green and then for Kyle Abbott early in his spell as Tom Abell was caught in the cordon at third slip by Joe Weatherley.
Surrey 34-0 v Warwickshire
First bowling change at Edgbaston after nine overs as fit-again Henry Brookes comes into the Bears attack in place of Craig Miles.
Brookes missed almost the whole of last season with a quad ligament injury he suffered in a Second XI game in July.
Ryan Patel going well. Rory Burns taking things a little more steadily.