Final round of the 2026 County Championship; nine games
Warwickshire will be champions if they win or draw against Leicestershire, having taken six bonus points
Defending champions Notts now cannot win title, even if they beat Yorkshire
Second-placed Somerset only manage two bowling points against Surrey, who total 422
Kent need a minimum of 15 pts to win promotion and have so far earned six against Gloucestershire
Glamorgan's Asa Tribe scores 184 against Essex in Cardiff
Walter c Ingram b van der Gugten 0 (Glamorgan 505 v Essex 6-2)
Image source, Getty ImagesEssex are finding runs hard to come by.
The run rate is exactly one per over and now they have lost a second wicket.
Paul Walter goes for an 18-ball duck as he edges low to Colin Ingram who takes a fine catch off the bowling off Timm van der Gugten.
Charlie Allison joins Tom Westley in the middle.
Lancs 6-0 v Durham 493
Final session under way at Old Trafford and Keaton Jennings glances Duanne Olivier fine for four.
Hampshire 128 v Sussex 244 & 134-2
Tom Haines (62 not out) and Oli Carter (34 not out) are going along nicely for Sussex, who are in a fairly dominant position now against Hampshire.
Notts 251 & 3-0 v Yorks 179
Ben Coad gets us up and running after tea as Haseeb Hameed and Ben Slater walk out to bat for the final time this season.
There's a change for the home side as Olly Stone has been replaced for the rest of the match by Tom Giles who comes in as an official injury sub.
Stone walked off the pitch straight after taking his fifth wicket shortly before tea.
The 32-year-old's career has been littered with injuries, but his fitness looked to have turned the corner this season.
Somerset 152-3 v Surrey 422
Tom Abell drives to the cover boundary and Somerset reach 150.
Batting looks the easiest it has all day.
Worcs 214 & 146-8 v Derbys 88
Matthew Waite runs a ball from Mo Abbas down past the slips for four. He angled the bat, a deliberate shot. Worcestershire now 272 ahead and Waite is 41 not out.
Warks 352-9 v Leics 125
Sam Hain lofts Ajaz Patel back over his head for another four and Warwickshire have a third batting bonus point.
It's fairly academic as bonus points matter little now in the wider scheme of things - if the Bears avoid defeat, they will be champions.
Somerset 147-3 v Surrey 422
Tom Lammonby and Tom Abell bring up a 50 partnership together.
They still trail Surrey by 275 runs.
Warks 347-9 v Leics 125
Sam Hain, now batting alongside last man Olly Hannon-Dalby, crashes two fours to the off-side fence and is now 123 not out off 268 balls.
Warwickshire need three more runs for another batting bonus point.
Elgar c Cooke b van der Gugten 2 (Glamorgan 505 v Essex 2-1)
An early one for Glamorgan.
Dean Elgar is retiring at the end of the season so this might be his final innings for Essex.
He edges behind off Timm van der Gugten.
Essex skipper Tom Westley is in to join Paul Walter.
Somerset 144-3 v Surrey 422
Image source, ShutterstockSomerset's Tom Abell (20*) goes to 1,000 first class runs for the summer.
He is building a good stand here with Tom Lammonby (67*).
Lancashire 2-0 v Durham 493
Lancashire's openers survive a five-over mini-session before the interval with Brydon Carse roaring in at one end after hitting an unbeaten 58 at the tail-end of Durham's marathon first innings.
They added 138 to their overnight 355-5, with Ollie Robinson also passing 50, despite the best efforts of spinner Noman Ali, who took 6-166.
It's a decent batting track and the Durham attack lacks its usual strength in depth, but this is - as we have already said - a very big task ahead for the Red Rose.
Compton c Hammond b Taylor 126 (Kent 326-8 v Gloucestershire 229)
Image source, ShutterstockLast over before tea and Ben Compton's long vigil comes to an end.
The left-handed opener tries to cut a wide ball from Matt Taylor and is caught behind by stand-in keeper Miles Hammond - a far easier chance the one Hammond took to remove Ekansh Singh earlier on.
Compton batted for over six hours, faced 244 balls and hit 14 fours.
His dismissal brings tea at the St Lawrence Ground with Kent 97 ahead, and with two batting bonus points in the bag.
Middx 255 v Northants 103 & 165-4
Zafar Gohar in for the final over before tea and there's a little controversy as Max Holden believes he has caught James Sales with the penultimate ball of the session.
But the umpire says the ball has bounced on its way into his mitts.
Comfortably Middlesex's session as they pick up four wickets for 90 runs.
Northants looked well set at 104-1 to bridge the first innings deficit wth minimal damage.
But two wickets for Danru Ferns and Zafar Gohar has left the visitors nursing just a 13-run lead with six wickets intact.
Bamber b A Patel 21 (Warks 337-9 v Leics 125)
And there is the ninth wicket.
Ethan Bamber is bowled by a ball from Ajaz Patel that turned quite a way.
Warks 337-8 v Leics 125
No sign of Warwickshire pulling the plug on their first innings. With two first-innings wickets remaining, they want to keep extending that lead, which is now up to 212.
They're in the 102nd over, so Leicestershire have about eight overs to take one more wicket for a third bowling bonus point.
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With Warwickshire now seemingly firmly on course for the title, there have been lots more thoughts from you about today's batting hero Sam Hain.....
Hain has been the rock in Warwickshire's batting line up this season, but with a strike-rate in the mid 40's it would seem unlikely that he will ever be picked for England. Works well for Warwickshire, but England have long moved on from the Barrington type player.
Jay, Birmingham
Sam Hain totally deserves to be in the test squad for South Africa. Another excellent season for Warks. Has the temperament & technique to bat no.3.
Stuart, Sutton Coldfield
Sam Hain, Mr Warwickshire gets a 100, gets us the extra batting points and pushes us towards the title. Keys to the Kingdom for Sam Hain.
Prit, Harpenden
Sam Hain, going down as one of the best to never play Test cricket for England? Is it purely a case of right man, wrong time for his position?
Luke, London
Hill st Hay b Patterson-White 58 (Notts 251 v Yorks 179)
George Hill charges down the wicket to attack Liam Patterson-White and is comfortably stumped by Mitch Hay.
A brilliant knock from the in-form all-rounder comes to an end as Yorkshire cede a 72-run first innings deficit.
Not great for the visitors who were skittled in 53.1 overs, but it would have been a whole lot worse without Hill.
The Notts second innings will begin after tea.
Worcestershire 214 & 137-8 v Derbyshire 88
Despite the best efforts of Muhammad Abbas, Worcestershire are very much in the driving seat at New Road.
They go into tea with a 263-run lead, with Matthew Waite and Tom Taylor still together.
Abbas has 4-48 from 21 overs but with 28 wickets taken in the first five sessions of the game, it's going to need something special by Derbyshire in the fourth innings to win this game.
Cliff c Patterson-White b Stone 6 (Notts 251 v Yorks 171-9)
Image source, ShutterstockA fifth five-wicket haul of the season for Olly Stone!
The Notts quick gets one to lift and find the edge high on Ben Cliff's bat. It gives Liam Patterson-White a routine catch at first slip.
It's also a 50th Championship wicket of the season for Stone who could be pushing for an England recall if he can maintain his fitness.
Jack White is the last man in.