Lancashire v Yorkshire, Kent v Essex and more: county championship

Lancashire v Yorkshire, Kent v Essex and more are county championship matches.

Luke Wells scores a century for Lancashire. Lancs lead is up to 180. George Hill took six wickets for 26 runs in the first innings. Ian Austin scored fastest Lancshire century against Yorkshire in 1991.

Luke Wells is eyeing up the fastest Roses century. Somerset are renaming the River Stand, The James Hildreth Stand. Old Trafford is a bit of an oddity. Ali chews over the Alex Hales recall at The Oval.

Glamorgan beat Worcestershire 172-5 in the county championship. Rain stopped play at Sophia Gardens. Play is due to restart at 4 pm.

Luke Wells scores fifty in 29 balls for Kent. Kent trail by three hundred.

Lancashire are on 49 off 28 balls with Luke Wells hitting four sixes. Jordan Thompson has been punished for his three overs. Northants are following on, Leicester are hanging on and Sophia Gardens has taken an early tea. Coad is searching for 200 first-class wickets. Dom Bess is coming on from the James Anderson End.

Ben Coad needs to take another wicket for less than four runs to reach 200 first-class wickets at under 20.

Yorkshire are 255 all out in 105.3 overs, conceding a slender lead of 21 runs to Lancashire. Ben Coad and Steve Patterson have stitched together the second longest partnership in terms of minutes and balls chewed up. Lancasheshire will declare tomorrow afternoon.

Rain has dampened Glamorgan's ardour. Madsen and Godleman build Derby's lead to 203 over Durham. Leicestershire are 146 for six. Ed Barnes is top scorer at No.7, 32 not out. Yorkshire's last pair beat Northants at Old Trafford. Kent are 20 for one and 389 behind Essex.

Gloucesters have a 200-run lead over Somerset. Yorkshire reached 233-9 at lunch. Nick Maddinson's bat failed its after-play check and he was sent to Lord's. Durham face a possible 16-point deduction.   in the game. The weather is expected to be good. Lancashire are chasing a declaration. They are looking for quick runs and a victory.

Coad and Patterson are absent at Old Trafford. There are problems at Northants, Kent, Glamorgan and Leicestershire. Lancashire v Yorkshire, and Kent v Essex are county championship matches.

Lancashire beat Yorkshire 221-9 at Old Trafford. Kent play Essex.

Nottinghamshire beat Leicestershire in the county championship. Lancashire are leading Yorkshire by 57 runs.

Dom Bess and Tom Kohler-Cadmore are slowly edging their team towards the 276 Lancashire posted. Tom Hartley and Matt Parkinson have bowled well. Kent are 130 for seven and 443 runs behind. Northants are 95-3 and Gloucestershire 25 without loss. Glamorgan are making a hash of their chance to jump over the other promotion candidates and hold onto Nottinghamshire's coat tails. Leicestershires are reaching towards lunch 81-1. In Div 2, Durham added only one run this morning and Derby have made a plodding start with 36 off 15 overs.

Lancashire have just picked up their first wicket of the day. Yorkshire had started aggressively scoring 24 from the first five overs. Matthew Waite has just got off the mark with a three.

Lancashire v Yorkshire, Kent v Essex and more are playing in the county championship. Notts (11) 195, Middx (15), Glamorgan (16), Derby (17), Worcs (10), Durham (12), Sussex (13), Leicestershire (14), and Taunton (5).

Alex Hales has been called up to England's T20 World Cup squad. Jonny Bairstow had to withdraw after breaking his leg in a golfing accident. It will be the first time Hale has played for England since he was black-balled before the 2019 World cup after failing a drugs test.

Derby beat Durham by 306 runs.

Fin Bean made 42 on his first-class debut at Old Trafford. Feroze Khushi scored his maiden first class century for Essex. Nottinghamshire set Leicestershire an implausible 499 to win. Hampshire dashed to maximum batting points. Northamptonshire reached 77 for one at the close. Imam-ul-Haq’s 90 helped Somerset avoid the follow-on against Gloucesterside. The weather is slightly better than yesterday. There are scattered showers floating about. The third day of the Championship match starts at 10.30am.