A slow slow finger of doom from the umpires, as Ethan Bamber picks up his third, and Adam Lyth shuffles, disconsolate, away, Yorkshire 14-3.Enter Harry Brook – does he dig in here?Bad news for Glamorgan fans, Kiran Carlson is out, shortly after Zain ul Hassan.A great chance for England Lions Kellaway and Tribe here.Glamorgan 97-2 need another 186.Home and pondering my streams, quite something for Yorkshire to be 12-2 after Warwickshire piled on 537.

Four slips for Hannon-Dalby, and Revis is almost done for immediately.While the players take a breather – with Northants following on, and three run-chases at New Road, Sophia Gardens and Chelmsford underway – time for me to nip home before they close the press box.Back shortly.DIVISION ONEChelmsford: Essex 273 and 30-1 v Hampshire 235 and 214 Essex need 147 to winSophia Gardens: Glamorgan 229 and 80-0 v Somerset 354 and 157 Glamorgan need 203 to winTrent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 415 v Surrey 410-8Hove: Sussex 430 v Leicestershire 328 and 143-4Edgbaston: Warwickshire 147 and 553-6 v Yorkshire 152DIVISION TWOThe County Ground: Derbyshire 604-7dec v Northamptonshire 228 and 4-0Bristol: Gloucestershire 325 and 140-4 v Kent 327Old Trafford: Middlesex 169 and 117-4 BEAT Lancashire 201 and 84 by six wicketsNew Road: Worcestershire 308 and 102 v Durham 268 Durham need 143 to winReece Topley replaces Gus Atkinson, who was hit twice in two overs by nasty Josh Tongue bouncers.Worcestershire have collapsed, Lancs-style, from 53-0 to 91-9.

Five wickets for ten runs for Callum Parkinson, who had previously this season taken four wickets in three games,Straight talking from Steven Croft, Lancashire’s head coach:“I’m bitterly disappointed to get beaten at home,,,We’ve gone in with a lead again, and then to be 84 all out and be 45 for 10 was a disaster, really.

“We’ve had a few warnings in previous games, and I think that’s the disappointing bit that we’re still not learning from our mistakes with the bat.We’re massively down on runs and there’s no hiding about it.The bowlers have, again, done a fantastic job, even in the second innings there, to get those four poles.“I don’t know if it caught the lads by surprise [this morning] but it was just a bit of disappointment, the no-fight from us.”Another game played in fast forward.

Four wickets for Simon Harmer in Hampshire’s 214,Gubbins (71) and the undefeated Ben Brown (57 not out) the only men to pass 30,No Sonny Baker for Hampshire this weekOverton and Pretorius have slowed the scoring down a bit at Sophia Gardens but, bar James Rew dropping Tribe, batting is looking a breeze for Glamorgan at the moment,57-0,In Division Two:Four wickets for Ben Aitchison at Derby, Northants 223-9 and a long way short of the follow on.

A valiant century for Calvin Harrison,A tight game at Canterbury, where there were just two runs between the two first innings,Gloucestershire are 111-3,Bancroft 47 not out,Three wickets for Callum Parkinson and Worcestershire are suddenly 84 for six.

The lead 124 for Durham.Ok, what else is going on?Ul Hassan and Tribe have put their boots on the accelerator at Sophia Gardens, Glamorgan already 30-0 in their chase of 283.Ben Brown (again) is the Hampshire sticking plaster, 56 not out in 213-8.They lead Essex by 175; three wickets for Cook and Harmer.Slow going at Trent Bridge, where Surrey are steadily accumulating, they trail Notts by 50 with four wickets left.

Leicestershire only lead Sussex by 7, and have already lost four wickets, Tattersall and Eskinazi the repair men.And a century for Sam Hain in Warwickshire megathon second innings – 472-five.Yorkshire plod on.Loud singing and bat thumping from the Middlesex dressing room, a song that sounds something like the animals came in two by two.Not a peep from the other side of the divide.

Old Trafford: Middlesex 169 and 117-4 BEAT Lancashire 201 and 84 by six wicketsAnderson shakes Geddes’ hand, as does everyone else,What a great innings, made possible by Sharma’s over of magic,Just eight to win, I don’t think even Middlesex can lose this now,And certainly not now as Geddes launches Bailey into the stands,The run tap has been turned off here.

Worcestershire have lost three since lunch at New Road, two to Aldridge.Five wicketless overs from Stokes.Anderson hands responsibility over to Bailey, after just one over.Middx run a couple and turn over three figures.Just seventeen needed.

A good crowd watches, still tense.In the thrills, I forgot that England women are playing New Zealand today.Follow it here with Jim and Simon:Clive Lloyd is watching from the hotel balcony as Geddes strokes Anderson to the rope with style.What a smashing innings, two sixes, five fours.A warm round of applause from the OT crowd.

Middx 90-4, need 27.Lancs fielders starting to look frantic now.Jimmy Anderson replaces Stanley at the Statham end.Tom Abell’s brave burning deck innings comes to an end, for 71, a third wicket for Ryan Hadley.Glamorgan need the second highest score of the match to win.

The electronic scoreboard at OT has switched off.I didn’t say it was a sign.Now a gorgeous ball, snakes past Higgins’ bat.Fantatsic and furious.Ooof six! Geddes swats Stanley to the short boundary.

Stanley mops his brow,42 needed,I hope there is an England seam bowling scout skulking about OT – some notes for their notebook,Play everywhere after lunch now apart from Sophia Gardens, where Tom Abell (71) and a stoical 0 from 21 balls from Jake Ball are holding up Glamorgan,The Somerset lead 282.

And oh Middlesex – now Falconer goes for duck, another catch for Hurst, a second wicket for Balderson.The equation shifts in its seat.Middx 64-4, half way there but possibly not close enough.Post lunch Stanley re- starts his aborted over and dismisses the dangerous du Plooy.A young-gun shoot out for the prize.

Middx 63-3,DIVISION ONEChelmsford: Essex 273 v Hampshire 235 and 127-5Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan 229 v Somerset 354 and 156-9Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 415 v Surrey 306-6Hove: Sussex 430 v Leicestershire 328 and 38-3Edgbaston: Warwickshire 147 and 392-5 v Yorkshire 152DIVISION TWOThe County Ground: Derbyshire 604-7dec v Northamptonshire 173-6Bristol: Gloucestershire 325 and 39-2 v Kent 327Old Trafford: Lancashire 201 and 84 v Middlesex 169 and 57-2 Middx need 60 to winNew Road: Worcestershire 308 and 33-0 v Durham 268Wicket and lunch at OT – Stanley with the breakthrough, Holden caught behind,Middx 57-2 need 60,Geddes batting like a dream,Lunchtime scores to follow.

“Hello Tanya !” Hello Tim Sanders,“A piercing cry and a glimpse of curved wings, just north of Barden by the River Wharfe,The cool weather means the insects are closer to the ground, with fewer convection currents to carry them high,So the highly evolved and efficient swifts are staying low down too !”Now Anderson has to chase and retrieve a glorious driven four from Holden from the concrete steps behind a boundary board,He picks it up with some disgust.

Fifty upMitch Stanley isn’t going to like that very much, Geddes ping pongs him into the stands for six.Middx 45-1, need 72.A breakthrough at OT, where Middlesex were sailing smoothly.Balderson replaces Jimmy Anderson and immediately strikes, Robson, a fabulous diving catch by Tom Bailey.Middx 36-1.

Leicestershire look in trouble at Hove, a wicket each for Ollie Robinson and Fynn Hudson-Prentice in their second innings.Sussex added another 50 odd this morning, Simpson stranded on 114.And the game has turned on its head at Edgbaston, where after first-innings scores of 147 and 152, Warwicks are wallowing in the warm waters of 391-4.Sam Hain 88 not out, Ed Barnard 60 not out.Just one wicket for weary Yorkshire this morning.

Dan Lawrence’s third hundred of the season, and young Adam Thomas (46) are frustrating Notts in the big beasts clash,Surrey 305-4, trail by 110,At Sophia Gardens, Lewis Gregory (41) and Tom Abell (42) have dragged Somerset’s lead up to 258 over Glamorgan, after Timm van der Gugten whistled out Overton and Pretorius,Actually van der Gugten has just picked up Gregory too,Tight at Chelmsford, where Hampshire are 118-4, Gubbins a vital 67 not out.

Six from Jimmy’s first over.Better see what else is going on around the grounds.There’s an energetic Lancashire huddle.Jimmy Anderson gallops onto the Old Trafford turf as the roller is pushed off the other way.He’s already taken off his cap, his jumper follows, and he examines the soil by the stumps.

Middlesex last won a Championship game here in 1996.Sharma has the ball for his second over of the day.Green advances , has a wild swing and misses.Has a pull at the second, but it dribbles harmlessly away.Gallops at the third, but can only get the ball back to Sharma, and is finally caught off the fourth by Toby Roland Jones in the deep.

Wow, that was really something! Four for four in ten balls for Sharma who finishes with career best figures of four for 17.Magnificent bowling by Middlesex this morning.Runs are like gold here at OT, Green (had forgotten he was still in) goes down the track to Morgan, but it’s a no ball and they stay put.Green eyes the boundary.And he gets his third wicket of the over! What a fabulous opener, Tom Bailey fences inelegantly and is gobbled up by Du Plooy at third slip.

Lancs 81-9, lead by 113.Bailey edges! but past fourth slip … the next ball is fired over Bailey’s head.Sharma does some energetic leaping on the spot and with his very first ball of the morning finds real nip and Matty Hurst edges him to third slip, a flat footed Hartley parries the next to keeper Duke.Is there something in the water? Hat-trick ball to Tom Bailey incoming…Ok, so bear with me here, we think Stanley’s dismissal is best explained by thinking of the stumps as Newton’s cradle – illustrating both conservation of momentum and conservation of energy.There may be people BTL more qualified to comment on this than the press box and Wikipedia…