Third day of county cricket: Surrey v Essex and more – live! | sport

I know the rain has stopped playing, but my husband tells me that the swallows have arrived in Manchester.

At the gardens of Sophia, which seems to have been covered by a triple-even-rebound magic carpet during the winter, the Northants run towards Glamorgan – 291 for 0. Vasconcelos, jump, 162 steps out (257 balls), Newton, walk, 97 not out ( 234 balls)

Spotlights arrive at The Oval and go to Lord's – Lancs 298/4, 60 steps for Rob Jones. I have had reports of my daughter coming back from a school trip to Austria, that it's snowing in Dover. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Dom Sibley still there 81 steps to Canterbury, Adam Hose, third Milnes wicket, and third Robinson catcher.

Ye gods, Dan Lawrence pokes Rikki Clarke and gets close to Rory Burns (93). He leans on his racket for three long seconds, disgusted.

I just watched Dan Lawrence – the youngest cricketer to make a century of champion, here at The Oval in April 2015, at the age of 17, for his second first-clbad match. The youngest centurion first clbad of Esbad, the youngest centurion of The Oval. In 2017, he was named young cricket player of the CWC season – but a disappointing 2018 year followed, with only a century against Hampshire.

He is now 91 not out …

STARTING POINTS

SECTION ONE

Kia Oval: Surrey c. Esbad: Surrey 395 without fail (Patel 100 not after; Siddle 6-104); Esbad 202/4 (Lawrence 87 not out)

Ageas bowl: Hampshire v Yorkshire. Yorkshire 554 / 7dec (Lyth 67, Ballance 148, Root 94); Hants 74-3

Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire v Somerset: 263 fumbles (Nash 58, Gregory 6-68) and 25-2 (Brooks 2-8); Somerset 403 at all levels (Abell 101, Bartlett 133, Broad 5-73)

Edgbaston: Warwickshire v Kent: Kent 504/9 Dec (Crawley 108, Robinson 143) Warwicks 136/3 (Sibley 60 not removed)

SECTION TWO

Middlebad v LancsMiddx 265 (Eskinazi 75, Bailey 5-67, Anderson 3-41); Lancashire267-4 (Jennings 52, Hameed 117)

Leicestershire v Worcs: Worcs 553-6dec (Mitchell 114, Rutherford 123 Cox 100 not released) Leics 180/4

Gloucestershire v Derby: Derby 291 all out (Lace 83, Taylor 3-85, Higgins 3-52); Gloucestershire 202/5 (Bracey 65)

Glamorgan vs Northants: Glam 570 / 8dec (Labuschagne 121, B Boot 126, Carlson 111, Cooke 70 not out) Northants 234/0 (Vasconcelos 125 not out, Newton 85 not out)

Durham v SusbadDurham 224 overall (Trevaskis 54, Robinson 4-53, Jordan 3-38); Susbad 202 all came out (Wells 98 is not out; Weighell 3-41, Rushworth 4-41)

And some more readings on the balls:

And one more read here

Hello! It's dirty in the Oval. The clippers are on the outside and the spotlights are back to zero, but you think they might be reignited before the game starts.

After his hundred years, a breath of sanity all around. A final Hbad Bravo and here is Paul Edwards, as promised.

Here we wait to see if Dan Lawrence can get 13 more races for his century, or if the Surrey attack can make a quick breakthrough. In the other three first division games, run-gluttons in Kent, Somerset and Yorkshire are all on the top.

In div 2, Lancs have a first run, Leicester struggle, there is a titanic struggle and Bristol and The shore and a feast Sophia Gardens.

After breathing the harmful fumes of the short Vauxhall subway station to The Oval and worrying for the kids whose school yard is leaning against the main road just outside the ground, leave me a moment.

Lawrence Booth writes about climate change and cricket in his Wisden 2019 – Editor's Notes: "Climate change is the main long-term problem facing cricket, but judging by its collective response, you do not "I will not know it," and wrote to me the second Cricket and Environment column. You may be able to read it below (personally, I need a good reading lamp)

A more pastoral scene here – cricket in Newport in mid-May, if you have a free day in the agenda

And relive the glory of the Glamorgan years here: (are they back?)