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Wow. County cricket, eh?

From Henry Crocombe and all that yesterday to Surrey's incredible one-wicket win over Yorkshire today.

When it's like this, there's little to beat the County Championship for drama.

Big wins for Warwickshire and Somerset mean the pressure is on Division One leaders Nottinghamshire to follow suit on the final day against Leicestershire.

They have a bit of work to do that though with three wickets still to get in the Foxes first innings but a huge lead nonetheless.

Jimmy Anderson, 44, took his season's tally to 44 despite Lancashire slumping to defeat against Middlesex in Division Two.

Leaders Durham and second-spot rivals Northants and Kent all return with the hope of boosting their promotion hopes on day four.

Catch you again from 10:00 BST in the morning.

Division One

• Essex 177 & 197-7 v Sussex 275 & 230 - Essex require 132 runs
• Hampshire 115 & 154 v Warks 398 - Warks win by an innings and 129 runs
• Notts 451-8 dec v Leics 250-7 - Leics trail by 201 runs
• Somerset 441 v Glamorgan 194 & 183 - Somerset win by an innings and 64 runs
• Surrey 83 & 187-9 v Yorkshire 185 & 82 - Surrey win by one wicket

Division Two

• Glos 237 & 149-3 v Derbyshire 278 - Glos lead by 108 runs
• Kent 238 & 358 v Worcs 217 & 84-3 - Worcs require 296 runs
• Middlesex 247 & 200 v Lancs 151 & 136 - Middlesex win by 160 runs
• Northants 263 v Durham 205 & 246-7 - Durham lead by 188 runs

That's it for the day at Trent Bridge.

Late wickets for Notts will have revived their hopes of forcing a win on the final day.

Tom Giles impressed with the ball after being drafted in as an injury replacement for Brett Hutton.

The highlight of the day has been Josh Hull's career best score. Continuing from being night hawk last night he batted through two sessions before agonisingly falling for 97.

There will be no more play at the St Lawrence Ground.

The teams will be back in the morning for one last hurrah.

For Worcestershire, with either three sessions to survive or get 296 more runs for an incredible win, it will have to be one for the ages.

Nothing too much to report in those final few overs after the players came back on after bad light in Bristol.

Miles Hammond (46*) and James Bracey (3*) will resume tomorrow morning with Gloucestershire 108 runs to the good.

Shoaib Bashir has been the pick of the Derbyshire bowlers with 2-59 from 16 overs.

250 up for Leicestershirepublished at 18:14 BST 4 September

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Notts 451/8 dec v Leics 250-7

It's been a battle at the end of the day for Leicestershire but they have secured their first batting point.

They have three more overs to see off today.

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That controversial dismissal of Mayank Agarwal was pretty much the last action of the day as stumps are drawn on a tremendous day of ebb and flow in Northampton.

It was always heading for a one-innings bun fight and we've got a belter in store on the final day.

Matthew Potts and Ben Stokes took seven of the 10 home wickets to trim Durham's deficit to 58 on first innings this morning and their top order knocked it all off and then some superbly.

But Northants stuck at it and got their reward late on with Luke Procter putting himself on a hat-trick to back up his spinners.

You'd probably rather be in Durham's shoes with a lead touching 200 and bowling last on a pitch still offering plenty of turn, albeit slow.

With Kent well placed to win their match against Worcestershire, Northants know they must do something special from here to not fall behind in the promotion race.

The players are back out on the grass so the supporters in Bristol will have a little more Friday evening cricket to enjoy before the close.

Miles Hammond and James Bracey at the crease for the hosts who lead by 105.

Five more overs due to be bowled at Trent Bridge today.

Can Notts make further inroads?

The runs have dried up for Leicestershire who are trying to survive.

The gloom has descended in the West Country to a sufficient extent that the players are brought off.

There are six overs still scheduled to be bowled so we'll see if they get back out there.

Just before the break in play Shoaib Bashir picked up his second wicket, dismissing Joe Phillips for 64.

If everyone else has played with the application of Matt Critchley Essex could have been in a very different situation. He is 61 not out but is running out of partners who can help him chase this target down.

Bad light has brought an early(ish) close to proceedings with Essex still 132 runs short with just three wickets remaining.

You would think that they are up against it but Critchley is capable if someone can stick with him. Can Mitch Killeen, with a first class average of 8.16? Maybe.

If Essex go on to lose this match it will not be the second innings but the incredible collapse in the first which is to blame.

Under a brilliant assault from James Coles and particularly hat-trick hero Henry Crocombe Essex went from 171-3 to 177 all out. That is where the game slipped.

They will return in the morning.

Matthew Potts survives...

What a mad passage of play.

Durham's lead 186 but only four wickets left.

Ben Cox drives Dillon Pennington through the covers for four.

The key target for Leicestershire is 302 to avoid the follow on.

That would make it hard for Notts to have time to win the game.