We are an hour into the game and the spinner is on already for Surrey.

Will Jacks has the ball for his off-breaks and Rory Burns is backing him up with three close catchers.

Rod Bransgrove will be enjoying watching Nick Gubbins bat as the left-hander strokes a couple of boundaries to bring up Hampshire's 50.

Hampshire confirmed earlier that Bransgrove will end his very successful spell as chairman at the end of this season.

Gubbins has progressed to 20, whipping Paul Walter - who came into the attack to replace the injured Shane Snater - to the fence at midwicket and then carving him to third for four more.

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Yorkshire openers Adam Lyth and Fin Bean have given the hosts a great start in Scarborough.

Durham won the toss and put their hosts in, but didn't back that decision up with the best bowling.

There were initially too many loose deliveries.

Lyth hit three lovely cover drives for four in the first three overs. He now has 29 and Bean 20.

The field looks like a carpet, but after lots of rain in recent days, it is slow.

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Hampshire 37-2 v Essex

Play is halted at the Ageas Bowl as Shane Snater pulls up in his delivery stride and crumples to the turf.

First glance suggests it's a hamstring or Achilles injury for the Essex seamer, who had just come on as first change.

But he's being helped off the field now and you'd think the visitors will have to manage a bowler short for the rest of this match.

Sean Dickson looks in determined mood this morning. He looks a different player to the one who was struggling earlier in the summer.

Alongside him, Tom Abell has arrived at the crease early as is customary for the Somerset captain.

A wicket maiden to start with for George Balderson.

He's a cricketer in form after his maiden century in last week's rain-affected draw with Warwickshire.

And the all-rounder is a player in whom Lancashire have very high hopes.

Ed Barnard smites the final ball of TRJ's over to the cover boundary for four.

A glorious shot.

And an attempt to take the battle back to Middlesex, followed by a nice straightish on drive for four by Michael Burgess off Ethan Bamber to complete the first double-figure stand of the innings.

Warwickshire are at least past their lowest ever first-class score, 16 against Kent at Tonbridge 110 years ago. But they still need a further four runs to match their lowest at Edgbaston - against a Fred Trueman-inspired Yorkshire in 1963.

All happening at Edgbaston - but further east, it's been a more sedate start at Trent Bridge.

Haseeb Hameed has finally got himself off the mark with a single from his 20th delivery and he and Ben Slater are digging in, with the current run-rate exactly one per over. No wickets down, though!

Tom Bailey and Will Williams have bowled some decent balls, but Emilio Gay then produces one of his trademark shots, a classy drive down the ground off Bailey.

Not exactly a run-fest so far this morning at Trent Bridge... just the one scoring shot, in fact, in the first four overs.

That was a two for Ben Slater on the leg side and otherwise, it's been a series of dot balls from Matt Quinn and Arshdeep Singh - the Indian left-armer playing the final game of his stint with Kent.