Summary

  • Nine games in round 12 of the County Championship

  • Josh Thomas scores 100 for D1 leaders Somerset against Leicestershire

  • Warwickshire bowl out Glamorgan for just 69 in Cardiff

  • Joe Clarke hits 105 for second-placed Notts against Hampshire

  • No play possible between Sussex and Surrey because of rain

  • Durham will seal promotion if they beat Middlesex; Ben Stokes not playing

  • Martin Andersson makes 129 not out for Derbyshire against Kent

  • Luke Procter takes five wickets for Northants at Worcester

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  1. 100 runs

    100 for Martin Andersson

    Derbys 249-7 v Kent

    Top batting from the Derbyshire all-rounder.

    A lovely ball from Bertie Foreman to face on 99, clipped from down the legside, to get there.

    His second 100 of the season, sixth of his professional career, but first in his 30s.

    159 balls faced, digging his side out of a hole, calmly and professionally.

  2. Yorkshire 163-5 v Essex

    Jamie Porter has been put to the sword somewhat in this over, costing 12 runs.

    Matthew Revis strokes the bowler for fours through cover and mid off.

    Too full a length from Porter.

    A great start for Yorkshire after a nightmare afternoon session of play earlier on.

  3. 50 runs

    up for Warwickshire

    Glamorgan 69 v Warks 51-0

    Too short from Jamie McIlroy and Rob Yates pulls for four to bring up a 50 partnership for Warwickshire's first wicket with Will Young.

    The Bears are now just 18 behind after bowling out Glamorgan in just 26.3 overs earlier this afternoon.

  4. wicket

    WICKET

    Vaughan lbw Gilchrist 21 (Leicestershire v Somerset 222-2)

    Richie Benaud does strike.. 222-2

    Easy decision really, Archie Vaughan cannot blame the umpire for that one.

    Nathan Gilchrist has been much more impressive since tea, nipping in and that is pretty straight at a good height.

    21 off 32 balls for Vaughan in that 41 run partnership continuing the fast scoring for the away side,

    Arguably the best international batter playing in this round, Henry Nicholls, in next for Somerset.

  5. Durham 212-9 v Middlesex

    An attempted nudge to leg from Ben Raine and that's a leg bye, bringing up the 50th partnership in 78 balls.

    The livestream is currently on fast-forward but that is still a sprightly enough rate of scoring as it is.

    Very frustrating for Middlesex.

    Seb Morgan will bowl the next over, round the wicket to Raine.

  6. rain stops play

    Rain stops play

    Lancashire v Glos 124-6

    As Annie Lennox famously sang, 'Here comes the rain again'...

    It comes as Jimmy Anderson is about to start his 17th over of the day. We'll wait to see if he gets chance to bowl another.

  7. 100 runs

    100 for Josh Thomas

    Leicestershire v Somerset 222-1

    Another brilliant, superb innings from Josh Thomas.

    Four then one to not mess about in the 90s, pulling Ben Mike to get there.

    A third century of the County Championship season plus that oh so close knock in the One-Day Cup v Gloucestershire.

    Magnificent from the surprise package for Somerset this season who only came into the side in the penultimate game of last season due to Tom Abell's injury remember.

    And Richie Benaud's voice is back as Archie Vaughan drives a one to make it 222.

  8. wicket

    WICKET

    Waite b Conway 3 (Worcs 135-6 v Northants)

    Harry Conway is finally rewarded for his persistence and accuracy as he finds just enough inswing to bowl Matthew Waite as he tries to drive.

    Conway is in his 14th over and now has 1-28.

  9. Yorkshire 151-5 v Essex

    George Hill defends. Essex could be in complete control with early wickets here.

    Runs off the fifth ball. A tad short from Snater and Hill rocks back to ping that through point for four to bring up 150 in the 45th over.

    Played right under his nose. Immaculate timing.

    Jamie Porter will bowl the next over.

  10. wicket

    WICKET

    Hammond run out (Balderson) 19 (Lancashire v Glos 119-6)

    A direct hit and Miles Hammond is a goner!

    Hammond plays Jimmy Anderson towards mid-on and does not hesitate in taking a single.

    But George Balderson is on to smartly, picks up and takes aim and throws the stumps down.

    After battling through some difficult bowling, that feels like a giveaway.

  11. Play resumes at Chester-le-Street

    Durham 207-9 v Middlesex

    Ben Raine takes guard on 27 not out - facing Ryan Higgins.

    He's put on 45 runs with Callum Parkinson, who has 17.

  12. Somerset finally challenged after big headstart

    Leicestershire v Somerset 216-1

    Adam Whitty
    BBC Radio Leicester commentator

    Lammbonby outRex Features

    Tom Lammonby was out for 74, caught in the deep to Alex Green

    Batting looks a lot harder on this pitch after tea than before it.

    Tom Lammonby's dismissal was, to quote my BBC Somerset colleague Anthony Gibson, "an absent-minded poke" outside off stump. But Leicestershire have, after some pretty placid bowling - found their mojo.

    The pitch seems to have some life in it, bizarrely, after the sun came out, and not before.

    Alex Green, their 19-year-old future prospect, has bowled really nicely. He can be inconsistent (what 19-year-old isn't?) but he has the habit of getting wickets from nowhere.

    Despite still being a teenager, he must have bicep curled his baby bottle, the man is 6ft 5ins and with huge broad shoulders. One for the future.

    Ben Mike and Nathan Gilchrist have got the ball to talk too.

    The issue is that Leicestershire gave Somerset a 180-run headstart before turning it on, and chucked in 25 extras too.

    Josh Thomas looks destined for a fine hundred - with the visitors' batting very nicely, but this is the first spell where it feels they have been truly challenged.

  13. Play resumes at Headingley

    Yorkshire 147-5 v Essex

    50 minutes lost after that bout of rain that started during the tea interval.

    26 overs left if the weather and light holds up.

    George Hill faces Shane Snater on two not out. Matthew Revis is at the non-striker's end on nine.

  14. Derbys 232-7 v Kent

    Just seven overs away from the second new ball for Kent now.

    Impressively in this modern era of moaning to umpires if the ball is not taking wickets, we have not see any of that shenanigans looking through the cuffs for any out of shape ball for a second replacement yet either.

    Bertie Foreman into his 21st over, 1-49.

    Martin Andersson 88*.

  15. Glamorgan batting again proves 'frail'

    Glamorgan 69 v Warks 37-0

    Nick Webb
    BBC Radio Wales

    The Bears produced their most successful bowling performance since 2012 as a sad Glamorgan batting effort lasted just two hours and five minutes.

    Ethan Bamber took full advantage of the frail Glamorgan batting with the first five wickets to fall, with Ed Barnard claiming three cheaply to finish off the hosts.

    Although some observers were left questioning Glamorgan’s decision to bat first, the pitch had little to do with the paltry total.

    If the light holds, Warwickshire look set for an unbreakable hold on the game by the end of the first day.

  16. Worcs 138-5 v Northants

    No further damage for Worcestershire since tea.

    Henry Conway finishes his latest over with a short one and Henry Cullen pulls it away fine for four runs to move on to 17 not out.

  17. Good news at Headingley

    Yorkshire 147-5 v Essex

    A 4.40pm resumption - with 26 overs remaining in the day.

  18. 6 runs

    Glamorgan 69 v Warks 32-0

    "That was to the long boundary, not the short one," says BBC commentator Clive Eakin, as Will Young greets the introduction of bearded Jamie McIlroy by pulling him away for a maximum.

    McIlroy finds the edge later in the over, but the ball falls short of the slips and runs away through a gap for four.

  19. Leicestershire v Somerset 204-1

    Nathan Gilchrist back into the attack for a third spell, and this is his best yet so far.

    Just leaving Archie Vaughan who probably has to play at that line close to off-stump.

    He does start with a maiden, his first in a Leic shirt, though it would not have been as the last ball was not going to be stopped by any fielder on it's way to the straight boundary, but that famously good fielder - the non-strikers' end stumps saves four.

  20. 6 runs

    Notts 287-7 v Hampshire

    Liam Patterson-White takes a single off Felix Organ to tick over to 30.

    Kyle Abbott has been taken off for now with 71 overs gone as Ben Brown waits for the new ball.

    Olly Stone adds a single and then Patterson-White launches Organ over cow corner for six.

    All valuable stuff for Notts here.