Essex beat Middlesex by 297 runs in extra half hour to stay in title race
Middlesex spinner Josh de Caires took 10 wickets in the match at Chelmsford
Hampshire beat Somerset by 185 runs at the Ageas Bowl
Lancashire beat Northamptonshire by an innings and 26 runs
Division Two leaders Durham defeat Sussex by seven wickets
Yorkshire beat Derbyshire by 277 runs at Scarborough despite Wayne Madsen's 93
Middlesex 41-3 v Essex - target 445
Image source, Rex FeaturesBrilliant stuff from Essex, who have their third.
It's a really good delivery from Umesh Yadav, angled across the left-handed Jack Davies, and he nicks it to Alastair Cook at first slip.
Maybe we will get a result today.
The game is over now at Scarborough - with Yorkshire beating Derbyshire - but we mentioned earlier about a sea fret descending on the North Marine Road ground on this otherwise most glorious of days. Weather enthusiasts among you may be interested in these pics.
Image source, Rex Features
Image source, Rex FeaturesMiddlesex 37-2 v Essex - target 445
Umesh Yadav replaces Sam Cook, and Jack Davies can only play out a maiden - a good start from the Indian quick.
Hampshire's win at Southampton means that this is the last game standing in either division, partly down to the fact that it started a day later than the others.
The fact that it's only day three at Chelmsford may have briefly slipped my mind earlier...
Hampshire 308 & 303-3 dec v Somerset 137 & 316
Liam Dawson has four wickets and Hampshire have a fifth Divsion One win of the season.
Dawson pins Shoaib Bashir in front for seven. Ben Green finishes unbeaten on 31.
Dawson adds seven match wickets to his first-innings century, while Nick Gubbins cracked an unbeaten ton to set up the win in the second innings.
The century-stand between Tom Kohler-Cadmore and James Rew briefly kept the outcome in the balance but when Tom Prest bowled TKC out of the rough for 84 to land his maiden first-class wicket, the result was never in doubt.
Somerset 313-9 v Hampshire - target 502
Somerset seem content to let Liam Dawson bowl maidens and then pick-off the looser balls from Tom Prest at the other end to tick the scoreboard over.
Shout from the corden as Prest hits Shoaib Bashir on the knee roll, but nothing doing.
Ben Green has hit six fours and has 28 from 59 balls.
Middlesex 36-2 v Essex - target 445
Two for Essex, and two for Simon Harmer!
Joe Cracknell goes back to a ball that keeps low, and that is about as plumb as they come.
Jack Davies joins Mark Stoneman in the middle.
Middlesex 26-1 v Essex - target 445
Sam Cook has got the ball on a string at Chelmsford.
The Essex seamer beats Mark Stoneman's outside edge three times in his latest over, and can scarcely believe that he hasn't picked up his fourth wicket of the match.
Somerset 300-9 v Hampshire - target 502
Ben Green edges a short one from Mohammad Abbas to the fence through backward point... a little uppish as the ball spat up at him on the back foot but they all count.
202 required... or 40 overs to negotiate.
Middlesex 24-1 v Essex - target 445
Image source, Rex FeaturesA wonderful catch from Dan Lawrence sees Essex make the breakthrough!
Simon Harmer offers up a full toss which Sam Robson puts away for four, but the South African spinner finds his length next ball, and Robson can only turn it round the corner to leg slip, where Lawrence springs away to his left and clings on.
Somerset 292-9 v Hampshire - target 502
Liam Dawson has got this one to straighten up considerably and he's bowled Jack Brooks past his defences. The left-armer has 3-78 and six for the match.
Shoaib Bashir is the last man. Hampshire are eyeing a mammoth win.
Middlesex 18-0 v Essex - target 445
Sam Robson guides two deliveries in a row from Jamie Porter down to deep third for successive boundaries.
They weren't bad balls, by any stretch, just well played by the former England opener.
Somerset 292-8 v Hampshire - target 502
13 off the latest Kyle Abbott over, with half his deliveries finding the rope.
Not really the plan for Hampshire. The less time they spend on the field on a sweltering day like this the better.
The spinners are coming back after six overs of pace with the new ball.
Essex 304 & 319-7 dec v Middlesex 179 & 7-0
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BBC Radio London
Essex's batters have charged towards a declaration and a bowl at Middlesex before tea.
They'll have 18 overs at the visitors before the interval with a target of 445 set.
Try as they might, Middlesex were unable to keep control of the hosts' second innings. Josh de Caires did complete a 10-fer having taken eight wickets in the first innings and appeared to carry more threat in the second dig.
That however is ominous for the Middlesex batters, who kept Simon Harmer at bay in the first innings and now face a monumental task in the second.
Jamie Porter and Sam Cook have already dealt out substantial damage to the Middlesex top order this year and are now attempting to do the same from the off once more.
Somerset 278-8 v Hampshire - target 502
Beautiful back-foot uppercut from Jack Brooks, flashing a short ball from Kyle Abbott through point for a boundary.
54 more of those and Somerset are home and dry.
Middlesex 6-0 v Essex - target 445
It's been a dramatic start to the Midlesex innings!
Sam Robson square drives Jamie Porter's first delivery to the boundary for four, before surviving a huge appeal for caught behind two balls later.
Somerset 278-8 v Hampshire - target 502
Bowled him through the gate - via an inside edge by the looks of it.
As in his previous over, Kyle Abbott has responded to being hit for a boundary by taking a wicket with the next delivery.
Neil Wagner pushes outside off but has his off-stump rattled after scoring four from four balls.
Jack Brooks is the new man, needing 224 to win.
Essex 304 & 319-7 dec v Middlesex 179
Tom Westley decides that Essex have enough of a lead, and so Middlesex are set a notional target of 445 for victory.
Essex need 10 wickets in a day and a half.
Somerset 274-7 v Hampshire - target 502
Ah.
Kyle Abbott beats Lewis Gregory for pace from the fourth ball of the over, Gregory jams his bat down but can only send a faint edge through to Ben Brown.
Neil Wagner is the new man. Somerset certainly need a composed performance here.
Somerset 274-6 v Hampshire - target 502
James Vince has opted to take the new cherry and thrown it to Kyle Abbott.
After a dot to start, Lewis Gregory cracks the new ball for back-to-back boundaries... Somerset had not scored a run in the previous two overs.
Yorkshire 297 & 520-9 dec v Derbyshire 247 & 293
Yorkshire complete a seasonal double over Derbyshire - the only team they have beaten - as Jonny Tattersall stumps Anuj Dal off Dom Bess.
There was plenty of entertainment this morning supplied by Wayne Madsen, who played some great shots in his 93.
And Zak Chappell (33) and Dal (38) added 78 for the eight wicket either side of lunch before the Derbyshire second innings went into terminal decline.
Dom Bess finishes with 4-79 for Yorkshire and day three centurion Matthew Revis claims 3-66.