Key events40m agoLunchtime scores2h agoNew Zealand call up Will Young to replace Kane Williamson3h agoStokes spotted at Chester le Street4h agoScores on the doors4h agoFriday's round up4h agoPreambleJimmy leads Lancashire down the pavilion steps and onto the pitch, whirring his arms with intent. The crowd have recovered their equilibrium enough to applaud Lancashire back out. Barm and crisps for four quid in the club house if anyone is hungry.Lunchtime scoresDivision OneGrace Road: Leicestershire 6-1 v Essex 401Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 50-2 v Somerset 310Hove: Sussex 259-4 v Glamorgan 155Scarborough: Yorkshire 469 v Warwickshire 27-1Division TwoChester-le-Street: Durham 377 v Derbyshire 6-1Blackpool: Lancashire 87 v Kent 178 and 12-1Northampton: Northamptonshire465 v Gloucestershire 15-0New Road: Worcestershire 18-2 v Middlesex 339And Kent survive the last over before lunch, on a morning where nine wickets have fallen. Kent 12-1, Lancs in a pickle. Time for my thai green curry, scores to follow.Harry Finch has decided that attack is survival, biffs four to square leg. Northeast just keeps out an Anderson yorker.Ben Stokes watch (with thanks): “Stokes has walked back across the ground from the nets to the dressing room and received some applause from locals.”In other brief news, Chris Green fans will already know this, but he has broken his thumb.Sam Northeast gets to the other end as soon as he can. Finch flutters an outside edge for four. Just the one wicket for Jimmy, who pulls on his cap and walks away. Kent 5-1.And immediately Ben Dawkins is caught by Harry Singh at second slip. Kent 0-1.A fed up Jimmy now has the ball at the north end. This could be brutal.“It can’t only be me who’s noticed that Will Young is replacing the man how decided to Leave Right Now, can it?” Very good, Shaun Clapperton.Ah, and that’s that for Lancs, Jimmy Anderson bowled by Dudgeon who clutches 6-21 to his chest as he leads Kent off the field. Lancs all out for 87, 91 behind on first innings. On comes the heavy roller and the brush. There will just be time for a few overs before the late lunch at 1.10pm.A fifth wicket for Keith Dudgeon (5-19), as Balderson clonks him to square leg, out for four. Lancs 85-9. Applause breaks out for No. 11, James Anderson.In the other division two games, Durham, batting all the way down, and thanks to an unbeaten 55 from Ben Raine, 22 from Callum Parkinson, have reached 369-8.Northants have just been dismissed for 465 by Gloucs, fifties from Sales and Guthrie accompanying those hundreds from McSweeney and Zaib. Krisitian Clarke 6-109.And a dismal start for Worcestershire at New Road, both openers gone, 12-2. Middx were all out for 339 – four wickets each for Finch and Swanepoel.No respite for Lancs as Hasan switches ends and, as I watch, Moores nibbles and Ben Dawkins dives and holds on at first slip with two hands and a satisfying slap of ball on palm. Absolute silence from the crowd. Lancs 77-8.Writes Mike Daniels at Grace Road, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that an established batsmen needs an obdurate partner to reach the next batting point. Harmer seems to have found that in Mr Bennett.” Yes a valiant 24 been added for the last wicket, with Bennett and unbeaten 0 from 16 balls.“This may sound a touch daft,” writes Tim Maitland, “given that Yorkshire, having lost the toss and been put into bat, have scored more runs faster than any other side in this round of matches, but they’ll probably feel like they’ve let a 500-plus total get away from them this morning.
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