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After a stop-start Thursday, it has been a frantic Friday.

Stumps were sent cartwheeling, balls were flying into the slips and thudding into pads at a spectacular rate.

Us writers will need to sit in a darkened room to digest it all!

Somerset enforced the follow-on over Essex, while five other games are well into the third innings.

Thanks for sticking with us today. Join us tomorrow when we could well have a few results.

We will back at 10:45 BST.

Division One

• Utilita Bowl: Hampshire 197 v Yorkshire 173 & 131-5 - Yorkshire lead by 107 runs
• Leicester: Leicestershire 151 & 79-2 v Glamorgan 152 - Leicestershire lead by 78 runs
• Taunton: Somerset 469 v Essex 158 & 59-0 - Essex trail by 252 runs
• The Oval: Surrey 162 v Nottinghamshire 184 & 147-3 - Nottinghamshire lead by 169 runs
• Edgbaston: Warwickshire 161 v Sussex 156 & 84-3 - Sussex lead by 79 runs

Division Two

• Derby: Derbyshire 127-6 v Durham 283 - Derbyshire trail by 156 runs
• Cheltenham: Gloucestershire 150 v Worcestershire 205-7 - Worcestershire lead by 55 runs
• Old Trafford: Lancashire 68-2 v Northamptonshire 284 - Lancashire trail by 216 runs
• Northwood: Middlesex 249 v Kent 350 & 38-2 - Kent lead by 139 runs

Definitely Nottinghamshire's day. An outstanding bowling performance, led by ferocious spells from Olly Stone who claimed 6-44, kept Surrey below Notts' modest first innings total.

In their second innings Notts haven't looked comfortable but they've worked hard and steadily built on their lead.

Joe Clarke will resume in the morning on 37 and Jack Haynes, 34, in the biggest stand of the match so far, currently 70.

Surrey will hope that the trend of Oval wickets getting easier as the match goes on applies this time but they'll be anxious for early wickets in the morning.

Bad light has brought a close slightly early with seven overs still left in the day. It was already too dark for fast bowling from Duanne Olivier and now the medium pace of Will Rhodes is too dangerous as well.

Durham have had the best of it today undoubtedly with their hosts still trailing by 156 with only four wickets remaining.

And they owed to an array of quality bowling at their disposal with Matthew Potts (2-31), Ben Stokes (2-14) and Rhodes (2-18) doing the damage.

Talking of damage, one worry for Durham was that Stokes pulled out of his spell as he was about to bowl his fifth over, pointing to what was either a slight muscle pull or a back niggle.

He left the field, came back on to field, then left it again near the end of play. More will be revealed about that as and when Durham comment.

Aside from that, they are in pole position in this match.

And it is.

Those wickets of Marcus Harris and Josh Bohannon late in the day probably have Northants shading things, especially when added to the excellent 92 earlier from George Bartlett.

To go from 134-6 to 284 was a fine effort from Bartlett with the tail and showed why Northants have been so effective this season.

Keaton Jennings has battled to 16 from 52 balls and Arav Shetty has played a couple of nice strokes in reaching 13 but they will be tasked with big runs to move Lancashire close to parity on Saturday as they trail by 216.

The umpires are shepherding the players from the field as the sun goes down and the light fades here in Manchester.

We are seven overs short of completion but that will probably be that.

Sonny Baker brings proceedings to a close at the Utilita Bowl on a day which has tilted this way and that.

Yorkshire will be a little disappointed that the dismissal of Adam Lyth for 51 has reduced them from two down to five down following the loss of two nightwatchmen in Ben Cliff and Jafer Chohan.

A lead of 111 runs at five down (albeit two lower order batters) probably puts the match back in the balance.

Baker, with 2-47, rescued a spell tonight with the two late wickets after a sloppy start where he couldn't quite locate the right length.

All poised for a decent day tomorrow, but don't buy a ticket for day four.

A pretty ridiculous day at Edgbaston with 20 wickets going down. Some decent bowling but a very lively surface and no-one able to survive for too long.

Only 30 overs were possible on day one and Sussex came back 99-3, only to then lose five wickets for only one run in just three overs to crash to 115-8.

They rallied slightly to 156 all out, Chris Woakes taking 4-36, and it then proved a competitive number as Warwickshire also struggled badly.

After a good start at 65-1, they tumbled away to 139-9 before Michael Booth's 34 not out hauled them to 161 and a slender lead.

Sussex have gone okay second time around with Tom Haines unbeaten on 32 and have a platform to build on tomorrow.

Will batting get any easier and how many can Sussex defend?

50 partnership between Clarke and Haynespublished at 19:03 BST

19:03 BST

Surrey v Notts 127-3 - lead by 149

A vital half-century stand for the fourth wicket for Notts between two former Worcestershire players, Joe Clarke (29) and Jack Haynes (24).

Just before reaching the landmark, Haynes played a lovely shot through mid-wicket for four.

Surrey will be concerned at how much this Notts lead is building and may not be unhappy if the umpires take them off for bad light.

The light is not brilliant at Derby now and there was a suggestion they were going to take them off after Durham wanted to bowl Duanne Olivier.

Will Rhodes is brought back on as a compromise and play will continue with eight overs left in the day.

The light has intervened and the players are heading off, probably for the day.

Ben Compton and Tawanda Muyeye have so far added 29, to stretch the lead to 139 after the early dismissals of Zk Crawley and Sam Northeast.

Indeed, it is now confirmed that play has finished.

A rollercoaster of 16 wickets and 338 runs has Kent on top, but Middlesex more than capable of forcing their way right back into proceedings on day three.

Still 12 overs remaining at Edgbaston but the light has closed in and that could bring about an early close of play.

Confirmation that that's it for the second day at Leicester,

It's been hard work for the batters throughout the first two days and Leicestershire are likely to be the happier of the two sides.

Glamorgan won't want to be chasing too many and will be anxious for wickets early tomorrow.

A good day for Leicestershire bowlers Ian Holland and Ben Mike who claimed four wickets each and for Glamorgan's Mason Crane who recorded the highest score of the match so far, 44.

It looks like a day during which 15 wickets have fallen at Leicester is ended 12 overs early.

The umpires have stayed in the middle after bringing the players off due to bad light but it's hard to see conditions improving.

Leicestershire have tried to be positive in their second innings with a view to setting Glamorgan a tough target.

Sheridon Gumbs will have hopes of making the first half-century of the match as he goes in on 33 not out. Rishi Patel hit a couple of sixes in a brisk 26.

Glamorgan will have to exactly match the home side's second innings score if they're to win.

A glorious cover drive from Joe Clarke extends Nottinghamshire's lead.

If he and Jack Haynes are still there at the close Notts will be very happy.