County cricket: Notts v Yorkshire, Somerset v Kent and more – live!

Lace out for 61 at Derby. Hughes still there on 28 and first innings stalwart Harvey Hosein at the crease.

Ben Coad’s had enough. Whallops Samit Patel for sucessive sixes over mid off.

And another yorkie wickets gone, a hat-trick for c Mullaney b Patel this morning. Patterson out for 4.

Bell-Drummond 10 not out as Kent push towards parity – 45 runs behind, 6 wickets remaining.

A third for Tom Taylor at Hove!

Roland-Jones and Simpson out at Middlesex – Nathan Buck 3-42.

And Yorkshire lose another wicket, still a few short of the follow on. Matthew Waite caught at slip off Patel too – pushing forward, looks like it might have come off his boot?

Thank you Daddy Pig for digging up this treasure trove about the Trent Bridge typeface.

And Root goes for 73 – after repeatedly dancing down and driving Samit Patel, he goes for a bigger shot and is caught at slip. Yorkies 259/7 – trail by 159.

It is all happening too fast.

Westley falls at the Rosebowl, but Cook is still there -30 not out (5×4). Essex 47/2, trail Hampshire by 478.

Kent have lost two early wickets, Dickson for 43 and Renshaw for 5 against his old county. On 101/4, they trail Somerset by 70.

Derby have pottered onwards, and Tom Lace has fifty! They lead by 158.

Middlesex have added twenty without loss this morning,a couple of fours for Roland-Jones

That Tom Taylor in the wickets again at Hove, grabbing Wells and van Zyl his morning’s work. Oh and another one down – Brown for a duck. Sussex 235/5, lead by 156.

And by the way, Gal says Gill Sans Serif, and Tim agrees with some sort of Gill (“like John Lewis”).

Have been a bit distracted by Scyld Berry’s thesis that the reason Brexit is such a mess is the lack of the British public intellectual. And the reason for that is our scorn for expertise, and that we all specialise too early at school.

I like this argument and thought you might like to ponder it below the line.

In other news, I can’t see Yorkshire making the follow on. Round the ground news to follow asap.

And so it starts. The ball after driving Fletcher down the ground, Tattersall tries to repeat the shot and is bowled for 9. Yorkshire 215 for 6. Follow-on target 259 and the floodlights are on.

Some highlights of the cricket so far

News I’d missed from Friday – Essex wicketkeeper Adam Wheater had to have thumb surgery after sustaining an injury in the game against Hampshire.

And good news for young Alzarri Joseph, who on his debut for Sunrisers Hyderabad took 6-12 against Mumbai Indians – the best bowling figures in Indian Premier League history.

Good morning everyone! And welcome to day three of the first Championship games of the season.

It’s a grey, chilly day in Nottingham and out on the field the players are doing lunges in a collection of woolly hats. There’s been a small commotion in the local co-op where the non-delivery of sandwiches has caused a bit of upset with some spectators.

Down on the Trent, there are paddle borders, rowers, joggers and ducks.

In half an hour Joe Root will be walking out with an unbeaten fifty to his name- it doesn’t feel the kind of weather for a long innings against a Notts attack of Broad and Coughlin, Ball and Fletcher, but let’s see.

Round the counties, we have two games cantering to a close at Hove and Derby, Middlesex on the ropes at Northampton and one travelling at quick-time at Taunton. Alastair Cook has hit 3 fours in his 21 not out at Southampton, but Essex have a mountain to climb – 500 behind.