Tea at Chelmsfordpublished at 15:46 British Summer Time 7 May 2022
Yorks 256-5 v Essex 403
In case any extreme optimists of an Essex persuasion were nurturing hopes of enforcing the follow-on, that possibility has now disappeared.
Harry Brook is looking well set, having opened his account by sweeping Simon Harmer for six and he's just dispatched Sam Cook to the fence twice to secure a second batting bonus point for the White Rose.
Brook is 28 not out, with Dawid Malan unbeaten on 17.