Summary

  • Alastair Cook hits his 73rd first-class century for Essex against Gloucestershire

  • Yorkshire total 521 against Surrey; Lyth 183 and Tattersall 180 not out

  • England's Zak Crawley and Alex Lees out cheaply for Kent and Durham

  • Somerset's Lewis Goldsworthy out for 130 against Lancashire

  • Hampshire declare on 370-9, a lead of 153 over Warwickshire

  • Leicestershire's Callum Parkinson takes five wickets but Sussex total 588

Live Reporting

Paul Grunill and Alex Winter

  1. Good morning

    There are some great quotes about cricket, aren't there?

    West Indies all-time great Sir Garfield Sobers reportedly once said: "Concentration’s like a shower, you don’t turn it on until you want to bathe."

    There were a lot of players eager to dart into the showers last evening at the end of a long, sticky day of Championship action - especially the six who managed to keep their concentration in the heat to score centuries.

    What will today bring? Stay with us to find out. Play begins at 11:00.

    Middlesex 'in the huddle' at Merchant Taylors' SchoolGetty Images