The rain has relented in Northampton and all being well, the players will return to the field at 1.45pm.

The players are back on the field in Leeds, the only Division One fixture currently in action.

Jamie Porter to bowl with Yorkshire captain Jonny Tattersall at the crease.

No sign of a restart yet at Edgbaston.

But at least they are using the time constructively, conducting a question and answer session for Bears members with Warwickshire legend Dennis Amiss.

The former Warwickshire and England opener, who later became the Bears' chief executive, is always worth listening to.

Division One

Northamptonshire 70-0 (21.5 overs) v Surrey (Wantage Road)

Somerset 17-1 (12 overs) v Warwickshire (Edgbaston)

Yorkshire 58-4 (28 overs) v Essex (Leeds)

Division Two

Leicestershire 97-2 (22 overs) v Durham (Leicester)

Glamorgan 109-5 (28 overs) v Middlesex (Lord's)

Sussex 90-5 (29 overs) v Worcestershire (Hove)

Kiran Carlson is on 33 as Glamorgan go to lunch on 109-5, accompanied by Chris Cooke (12).

Quite a recovery from Sussex, having been reduced to 23-5.

As the players go to the pavilion, they are passed by Jofra Archer and Tymal Mills, who are heading out to the middle to do some fitness work,

Encouraging news on the injured pair. Archer is about have a bowl, which really marks the start of his comeback after such a frustrating year out.

George Hill sees off the final over before lunch from Sam Cook. In conditions that have been ideal for bowling, Hill's 32 not out is a fine effort.

Also an early lunch taken after a rain break at Leicester.

With the teams off the field, the players are going to have a slightly earlier lunch.

Although the rain is now coming down much heavier, so it may be longer than 40 minutes before play resumes.

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Sussex 76-5 v Worcestershire

Sussex's sixth-wicket pair Fynn Hudson-Prentice and James Coles have led a spirited revival for the hosts against Worcestershire.

From 23-5, Sussex are now looking a little better off after more than tripling their total.

Even more importantly, Sussex chairman Jon Filby is up in the comm box talking on air to BBC Radio Sussex 's Adrian Harms.

And he has just revealed that they have had contact with the ECB and have been told that there will be a proper consutlation period for the 18 counties - and that any proposed changes to the existing domestic structure following Andrew Strauss's recent review of English cricket will not happen in 2023.

Sam Cook is back into the Essex attack. And a leg bye off his third ball is the first run after 26 successive dots.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore hit the first ball he faced for four, but since then has managed one single from 41 balls.

Tough going for both teams at Headingley this morning.

Still raining in Birmingham.

So they're having an early lunch.

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Northants 70-0 v Surrey

And the players are now coming off at Northampton where the home side have made a very encouraging start.

The groundstaff are not racing on with the covers, so the stoppage will hopefully not be an extended one.

Extras, Extras, Read All About It . . .published at 11:59 British Summer Time 12 September 2022

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Leicestershire 79-1 (Budinger 50, Extras 20) v Durham

Martin Emmerson
BBC Radio Newcastle

Having put Leicestershire in, Durham's bowling has been sloppy in the first hour, conceding 20 extras, 17 of them byes.

At least three deliveries shot away down the leg side for four.

Leicestershire opener Sol Budinger, making his first-class debut following his move from Notts, has been in attacking form, hitting nine fours in his impressive 50 off 57 balls.

That's in comparison to the nine runs Hassan Azad was able to get at the other end before he fell LBW to Paul Coughlin in the 17th over.

Matty Potts, on return from England duty, conceded 20 runs in his first four overs. It's his first Durham game since early May. He did break Budinger's bat with his first ball of the day.

But the replacement Budinger bat has been just fine.

There is a little bit of rain in the air at Northampton.

We may be in for a bit of a stoppage as spectators head for cover.

Nick Webb
BBC Radio Wales

Middlesex’s experienced seamers Tim Murtagh and Toby Roland-Jones put their side on top in the meeting of two promotion contenders at Lord’s as Glamorgan lost four wickets inside 11 overs.

The pitch looked less green than the visitors expected but captain Murtagh found some early life with a ball that reared at Eddie Byrom, caught behind for 5, and Roland-Jones removed the off stump of skipper David Lloyd for 4.

Glamorgan adopted a frenetic approach as the third-wicket pair of Shubman Gill and the usually calm Sam Northeast went hard at the home bowling.

But Gill, on 22, bottom-edged a pull off Roland-Jones onto his stumps and Murtagh matched his partner by having Northeast caught behind for 16 in the next over. And Billy Root was then fifth man to go, in Ryan Higgins' fourth over.

The teams, wearing black armbands,had started the day by observing a minute’s silence in front of the pavilion before the playing of God Save The King.

Adam Rossington is now standing up to the stumps to Shane Snater.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore is unpertubed, though. A dynamic batter in white-ball forms, Kohler-Cadmore has reined it in with five off 31 deliveries so far.