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That's all from us today.

Big wins for Notts, Worcestershire and Middlesex in Division Two - with Derbyshire looking set to wrap up victory in the morning.

The Division One matches are still to be fought over - can Surrey snatch victory over Somerset at the Oval?.

Lancashire are well placed to beat Gloucestershire after Josh Bohannon's epic 231, while Yorkshire have a harder task to beat Northamptonshire despite George Hill's unbeaten 151.

Warwickshire and Hampshire are looking likely winners too and we'll be back in the morning from 10.30am.

You'll be able to read all today's match reports in the cricket section of the BBC Sport website.

Division One

Kent 305 & 78-3 v Hampshire 652-6 dec

Kent trail by 269 with 7 wickets standing

Lancashire 556-7 dec v Gloucestershire 252 & 67-3

Gloucestershire trail by 237 with 7 wickets standing

Northamptonshire 204 & 56-0 v Yorkshire 296 & 406-3 dec

Northants need another 443 to win with 10 wickets standing

Surrey 308 v Somerset 337 & 196-9

Somerset lead by 225 with 1 wicket standing

Warwickshire 385 v Essex 168 & 290-8

Essex lead by 73 with 2 wickets standing

Division Two

Durham 230 & 117 v Nottinghamshire 488-9 dec

Nottinghamshire won by an innings and 141 runs

Glamorgan 122 & 132 v Middlesex 336

Middlesex won by innings and 82 runs

Leicestershire 213 & 146-6 v Derbyshire 531

Leicestershire trail by 172 with 4 wickets standing

Worcestershire 491 v Sussex 269 & 188

Worcestershire won by an innings and 34 runs

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Jordan Clark ends an absorbing after noon at the Oval by having Peter Siddle caught behind by Ollie Pope for six with the day's final delivery

Somerset will start the final day 225 in front after declining from 132-2 to 158-7 in the space of 13 overs despite fifties by the Toms, Abell and Banton.

Ben Foakes had to go off after colliding with Jamie Overton in taking the catch to remove Banton, but deputy Pope made no mistake as Clark found the edge of Siddle's bat. Somerset's lead is 225.

Jamie Overton's final over of the day - but not THE final over of the day. Can he conjure up another wicket on Shakespeare's birthday? On this occasion the over is much ado about nothing as Josh Davey adds a couple of runs.

No dramas for Somerset as Peter Siddle and Josh Davey collect a single each off Jordan Clark. Davey will be on strike for the penultimate over of the day. The visitors lead by 223.

Jamie Overton to Peter Siddle. Five dot balls and a leg bye off the last. Three overs left.

Siddle made two Test fifties and has six in first-class cricket. Somerset would love it if he can boost that tally in this innings.

Just a couple of singles off Jordan Clark. Somerset lead by 220 with four overs still to bowl.

It looks like being a very interesting finish tomorrow.

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Essex survive the final over of the day from Danny Briggs, with Simon Harmer adding a single to go to 60 not out.

It has been a fighting effort by the visitors, who started the day on 0-1 and uncertain whether Dan Lawrence would be able to bat because of injury.

Matt Critchley (49) and Adam Rossington (52) provided extended resistance before Lawrence came out with a runner and put on 81 with Harmer before he was caught behind off Craig Miles.

The visitors will start the final day 73 ahead with two wickets left.

Leicestershire lost Harry Swindells in the penultimate over of the day.

So it's looking like Derbyshire will wrap up a very impressive win in the morning.

Shan Masood eventually fell for 219 - his second consecutive double century - and Mattie McKiernan made 101 as Derbyshire extended their first innings to 531.

And Leicestershire have found nothing in reply.

Three wickets for Alex Thompson have put Derbyshire firmly on course for victory.

There are still eight overs to go at the Oval where Josh Davey and Jack Leach are clinging on to try and see Somerset through to stumps.

Leach is 14 not out, Davey has three, and their side are 210 ahead.

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Another outstanding day for Lancashire and they are well on their way to victory.

Josh Bohannon made 231, his career best and the highest score by a Lancashire batsman against Gloucestershire.

Dane Vilas added 109 as Lancashire wracked up 556-7 - their highest total against Gloucestershire - before declaring at tea.

Needing to bat four sessions to save the game, Gloucestershire have lost their top three already and it will take a monumental effort to rescue a draw from here.

James Anderson took the opening wicket but Hasan Ali's yorker to rip out James Bracey was the highlight of the evening session.

Two Shane Snater boundaries end another Henry Brookes over, with Essex now 69 ahead.

There are four more overs to bowl and Snater is 20 not out, with Simon Harmer on 58. Essex need these two together at stumps.

Having made an unbeaten century in Worcestershire's innings, captain Brett D'Oliveira takes the final two wickets as they wrap up a big win over Sussex with a day to spare.

The game ends with George Burrows lbw for two, leaving Grant Stewart unbeaten on 67 following four sixes in the previous over.

Cheteshwar Pujara made 109 in Sussex's first innings but D'Oliveira opted to make them follow-on, but Stewart apart, Ali Orr's 33 in over three hours was the only substantial innings second time around.

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Worcestershire 491 v Sussex 269 & 180-9

Grant Stewart hits four sixes - three in succession - and a four in the same over but Sussex's fight is almost over at New Road.

Jamie Atkins was caught off Brett D'Oliveira for 17 in the previous over, leaving the visitors on 158-9.

Stewart's onslaught carried him to a 55-ball 50 but vost Josh Baker 28 from the over, but Susasex are still 36 runs short of making Worcestershire bat again.

Ben Compton and Jordan Cox play out the last seven and half overs on what has been very much Hampshire's day at Canterbury.

Liam Dawson made a career-best 171 and Ben Brown 151 - sharing a county record fifth-wicket stand against Kent of 273 - before Hampshire eventually declared.

Kyle Abbott removed England's Zak Crawley and Daniel Bell-Drummond in the same over as Kent went from 51-0 to 65-3, but the dependable Compton had 37 at stumps, with the home side269 behind..

First hurdle vaulted for Northamptonshire as Ricardo Vasconcelos and Will Young see out 24 overs to the close.

A full day's batting to save the game tomorrow but the scale of Yorkshire's task is quite significant given the state of this wicket.

A great day for George Hill, 151 not out for the 21-year-old - his maiden first-class hundred.

Shane Snater doesn't mind throwing the bat and he middles a pull shot off Henry Brookes and clears backward square leg for six.

Essex now 59 in front, but they need a lot more than that if they are going to deny the 2021 champions a victory.