Just one run added in two overs since the resumption after lunch with Sean Dickson, formerly of this Taunton parish, nicking a single off his old teammate Jack Leach.

Steady start to Lancs chase with a couple of hopeful shouts for lbw and a single four, edged by Keaton Jennings to the left of third slip.

Just the three overs and that is lunch. Plenty of graft needed for Lancs if they are to get to this total.

Adrian Harms
BBC Radio Sussex

Exactly 100 runs scored in the session by Sussex and a more than useful lead of 288 at lunch.

However, that doesn't tell the whole story as Sussex lost two wickets without adding a run first thing this morning, although the dismissal of John Simpson lbw to Simon Harmer looked debatable.

Jack Carson then set about the Essex bowling with a brisk 42 in just 37 balls adding 62 for the seventh wicket with James Coles who has batted beautifully in reaching 62 at the break.

On a pitch increasingly taking turn Harmer has picked up four wickets, but Essex will want to clean up the Sussex tail quickly after lunch before the lead becomes unassailable.

So that's lunch and Yorkshire are on top.

Rory Burns and Dom Sibley offered resistance for a while but once they were split wickets started falling frequently.

Runs have been hard to score and Ollie Pope tried to get Surrey going with two sixes before becoming the first of two victims claimed by Ben Coad.

Jack White also has two and with five more wickets needed Yorkshire are looking good for a fourth win of the season.

50 - Durham almost in creditpublished at 13:20 BST 4 September

13:20 BST 4 September

Northants 263 v Durham 205 & 51-0

Openers Alex Lees and Ben McKinney have done the first part of their jobs - the deficit of 58 is almost gone.

They've done it in pretty serene fashion to it has to be said.

The twin spin threat of Yuzvendra Chahal and Louis Kimber hasn't posed the same threat as in the first innings - even when the ball does turn, they have time to adjust.

Lunch is round the corner and the home lead is now single figures.

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So the loss of DBD has taken a dab of gloss off Kent's morning's work but they will tuck in satified nonetheless with their excellent position in the match.

Sam Northeast's emotional hundred - continuing his fairytale return to the club from Glamorgan this summer - has been the backbone of Kent's push for a fourth win in their last five red-ball games.

He'll resume 132 after the break with Kent not quite out of sight - 292 on - but getting smaller in Worcestershire's vision.

The Pears need a massive afternoon.

Surrey have at least batted longer than they did in the first innings having lasted 30 overs.

But it continues to be hard going and they're only scoring 2-and-a-half an over so if they are to reach their target they may have to battle on for another 40 overs.

It has been Sussex's morning but that is lunch.

Despite the loss of four wickets excellent knocks from Jack Carson (42) and James Coles (62*) have dragged this game back into Sussex's grip.

At 90-6 the lead was only 188 with only four wickets remaining but that now stands at 288 runs with two wickets still up.

It will take a mighty performance from Essex to win this now but they will quite rightly still feel they are in it.

Division One

• Essex 177 v Sussex 275 & 190-8
• Hampshire 115 & 40-2 v Warks 398
• Notts 451-8 dec v Leics 73-2
• Somerset 441 v Glamorgan 194 & 111-5
• Surrey 83 & 76-4 v Yorkshire 185 & 82

Division Two

• Glos 237 v Derbyshire 253-5
• Kent 238 & 271-4 v Worcs 217
• Middlesex 247 & 200 v Lancs 151
• Northants 263 v Durham 205 & 33-0

Another good session for Warwickshire as they take six wickets against a struggling Hampshire batting line-up.

Ethan Bamber produces a good spell to take two first innings wickets and the home side are dismissed in 38 overs.

Following on, Hampshire lose both opening batters to Chris Woakes who looks to be in a good rhythm.

Hampshire need a further 243 to avoid an innings defeat.

Alex Lees and Ben McKinney have taken a large bite out of Northant's 58-run lead at the start of their second innings.

Nothing wreckless really - although Lees came perilously close to playing on aiming a bit drive off Luke Procter that hissed past his stumps down to fine leg.

He has 14, McKinney 11 with the pair going at four an over.

Yuzvendra Chahal is now on to see if he can apply the anchors.

Rehan Ahmed (37*) and Josh Hull (14*) have safely seen Leicestershire through to the lunch interval.

The duo have added exactly 50 runs in the morning session and done a great job in fending off Notts' bowling attack.

The Foxes still trail by a massive 378 runs but their plan to keep wickets intact has worked like a dream.

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Hands up... in the excitement surrounding whether George Balderson could nail his hat-trick we missed the chance to mark his five wicket haul.

So trumpets out, fanfare blaring, red faces glowing, congratulations to the Lancs seamer whose two wicket burst delivered a five for. His current figures are 5-54.

for Ollie Popepublished at 12:53 BST 4 September

12:53 BST 4 September

Surrey 75-3 v Yorks - target 185

Well that's suddenly changed.

After ten runs, including four leg-byes, come off a George Hill over, Ollie Pope hits his second six off Ben Coad.

This is concerning for Yorkshire as Coad has a confident LBW appeal against Pope turned down.

110 needed by Surrey. 7 wickets required by Yorkshire.