Gloucestershire have turned to the spin of Zafar Gohar and the Durham openers takes six singles off his first over.

Ollie Price is on at the other end and Lees works the bowler away firmly to long on to move to a run-a-ball 20.

Emilio goes back to De Caires and drives to deep cover point for a single - and that takes the Northants lead to 250.

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Durham bowled out Gloucestershire in their second innings for just 188, leaving them a target of just 52.

The lights are on though so bad light could be an issue. There's also a bit of rain around as well.

Miles Hammond top-scored for the visitors with 86 but nobody else got within a country mile of him. He also made a half-century in the first innings.

Matthew Potts finished with 4-55. All four wickets came in his first four overs of the afternoon, which set the tone for the rest of the innings.

If Durham can pull this off today, they will open up a 54-point gap at the top of Division Two.

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Worcestershire have been made to follow on at New Road.

And the Pears openers Jake Libby and Gareth Roderick have nine overs left to face tonight against a Yorkshire pace attack now nicely warmed up.

Maybe the Pears would be better off sticking Adam Finch and Ben Gibbon back in?!!!

Their barnacle-like 63-run stand in two hours was, after all, the best partnership of the Worcestershire innings.

Emilio Gay is not entirely comfortable running between the wickets, understandably so given his knee injury

But he's able to tuck De Caires away to square leg and run a single to bring up the Northants 300 in the 105th over.

Keogh pulls Bamber away through wide mid on for four at the other end.

Too much width from Akhter to Lees and the Durham opener dabs that away to third man for four more.

A total of six runs off the bat in the over, plus a leg bye.

Durham are cruising home.

Kyle Abbott gets a huge round of applause after his third four takes him to 12... which is basically his maiden first class century, right? 89 not out in the first innings and now 12.

Bowlers can take hat-tricks in consecutive overs so why can't we implement the Kyle Abbott Century Rule for the 36-year-old who won 11 Test caps for South Africa.

It's his 150th first class match after all. Have a heart, scorers!

Paul Walter hits a six at the start of a new Tom Hartley over and three singles later, the Essex lead reaches 300.

Walter is 28 not out, Dan Lawrence has 83 and they have put on 41 since the downfall of Matt Critchley.

Keogh gets his first boundary with a reverse sweep for four off De Caires, where there is an inviting gap square on the off side.

How many do Northants need here? 280 in front? 300?

Four runs to Jones, clipping a leg side ball from Akhter through square leg.

Lees picks up four more with an expansive drive through cover off Matt Taylor.

Durham have 19 from four overs and are clearly in no mood to hang around.

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What an innings this is by Michael Neser.

He steps to the off-side before belting Tom Scriven over mid-wicket for six to reach 150 off 181 balls.

It is the highest score of his career and he also has the middle name Gertges. Could life be any better?

Dom Sibley tucks Calvin Harrison into the leg-side for a single as the Surrey total reaches 150.

The next ball is short and wide, and Ben Foakes gives the silly point fielder palpitations as he puts it away for four.

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Grant Stewart (33) and Hamid Qadri (28) have added 55 for this eighth wicket and Glenn Maxwell is on to bowl some off-spin for Warwickshire, who need three wickets to ensure a day-off tomorrow.

There are five overs remaining, but they will likely get a few more in before the 6.30pm cut-off.

If Kent are nine down they can still call on the extra half-hour too.

They are 56 shy of making Bears bat again.

Dan Lawrence is a difficult man to bowl to when set and he launches Tom Hartley for six to move into the 80s.

A century now would be perfect timing with the final two Ashes Tests looming. You never know, he may be needed by England.

Essex lead by 284 and there are 17 overs left.

Are you sitting down? Kyle Abbott is opening the batting for Hampshire, with Fletcha Middleton on strike for the first ball from Jack Brookes.

Got to love county cricket.

What do you make of that decision from James Vince? Abbott made 89 runs and was seeing it well. Logical from James Vince? Let us know via #bbccricket

Single off Akhter's over.

Matt Taylor bowls to Jones and the fourth ball keeps unusually low and evades the outside edge by a whisker.

The cloud has set in a bit here and we may well be finishing this game tomorrow after all.

The last ball is nudged away safely to third man for four.