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County Championship – Archer strikes on red-ball return, Surrey recover after stutter

68 balls faced and 87 minutes it has taken him.

Six fours and a six.

Ned Leonard and Mason Crane the current bowlers trying to break this 82-run partnership he has shared with George Hill.

Kent’s bowlers finding the Blackpool wicket as difficult as their counterparts did for most of the past day and a half.

Luke Wells (21no) and Keaton Jennings (9no) mostly untroubled.

It’s a pleasure to watch Tom Latham in the flesh just batting his way in his time.

Proper tight leaves outside off stump, similar against spin but waiting for Leach to overpitch so he can sweep for four.

He waits for the bowler to bowl to him, just as the great Sir Alastair Cook did.

Such a classy performer and Alex Davies just nudges and nurdles singles, then thrashes at wide ones to compliment him in this left/right partnership.

Surrey are bowled out and Ben Allison has his five wicket haul.

Allison sparked the afternoon carnage of five wickets falling for 37 runs and he gets his fifth wicket as Matthew Fisher edges to Gareth Roderick.

He finishes with 5-44.

Surrey lead by 77 runs.

James Wharton cannot believe it.

Yorkshire’s number three miscues a drive straight to Haseeb Hameed at mid-off, who couldn’t ask for an easier catch.

Dawid Malan is in at four.

Three successive fours from Graham Clark are followed by a swept boundary by Colin Ackermann in the next over and up comes the Durham 250.

The partnership is worth 30 of which Clark has got 22.

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Hampshire continue to chip away at Essex’s lead with minimal fuss.

Liam Dawson cuts Simon Harmer away for four to move to 42. Teammate Tilak Varma is on 73 at the other end.

Tom Lawes walks down the wicket to Matthew Waite and sends him high and long over mid on for six.

Surrey lead by 77 runs.

Derbyshire fall an agonising two runs shy of a fourth bonus batting point but have a commanding first-innings lead of 211.

Centuries from Wayne Madsen (123) and Harry Came (103) have put the promotion-chasing visitors well in control in Bristol.

Tom Taylor grabs a third wicket with the new ball.

Nathan Smith gets a snorter and can only glove it behind to Gareth Roderick.

I’m not sure the Worcestershire batters will be delighted to see the ball doing that.

Worcestershire are chipping away with the new ball and Tom Taylor has a second wicket.

Jordan Clark helped to restore some order alongside Dan Lawrence after Surrey lost 5-50 after lunch but he has now perished, edging behind to Gareth Roderick.

The Surrey lead is 67 runs and you feel anything above 100 will leave the home side with a mountain to climb.

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Yorkshire have batted very conservatively since tea, but they remain just one down.

Opener Finlay Bean moves to 50 with a single to deep square-leg.

He reaches the milestone off 114 balls and gets a warm round of applause from his teammates.

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That’s the end of Jofra Archer’s third spell today.

He has bowled stints of four overs, six overs and four overs – one in each session with figures of 1-28.

We have at least 23 overs still to be bowled today but will we see the England paceman again?

Rehan Ahmed has progressed to 37* off 50 balls and Lewis Hill onto 22* off 39 balls as Mason Crane is into his ninth over.

Still bat dominating ball, a run rate of nearly five an over, Leicestershire only trail by 97 now.

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BBC Sport from Edgbaston

I remember back to Tom Latham’s early days as a test opener for the Black Caps, sweeping for fun in Abu Dhabi against Pakistan.

He is genuinely one of the best players of spin in the world game.

Well after a bit of turn and a play and miss the first three balls, he sweeps effortlessly from outside off out to deep square leg for one.

Good start from Jack Leach, just two singles off it.

Dan Lawrence gets one which bounces on him slightly more than expected and he edges Tom Taylor to Adam Hose in the gully.

That brings former Pear Nathan Smith to the wicket and he gets a friendly welcome from the home crowd.

Fin Hill was on the field as Tom Banton was getting himself geared up for a potentially long evening stint under the lid at short leg off Jack Leach.

He gets his first over from the Pavilion End after 21 overs of this ball.

This spell could be very interesting, how he bowls, the response he gets from the pitch and the batters could be match-defining.

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BBC Radio Wales

A spectacular maiden
century from Leicestershire opener Sol Budinger lit up Grace Road before tea as he took
the Glamorgan attack apart, hitting 118 off 102 balls.

It was a ferocious effort
from a batter known for his entertaining stroke-play in all formats, with a
couple of sixes making short work of the nervous nineties.

Rishi Patel weighed in with
70 as the Foxes raced along in contrast to Glamorgan’s first-day struggles
against the Kookaburra ball.

Zain Ul Hassan eventually
claimed the wickets of both openers but Leicestershire had already earned
themselves a commanding position which should see them in front by the end of a
day they dominated from the first over, when Ben Green claimed two wickets.

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BBC WM commentator

There’s rarely much wrong
with posting a total of 498.

But Somerset might have some regrets at not going
on to post an even more imposing total, and therefore making the follow-on
target all the more challenging.

A succession of attacking strokes from the lower order saw the
last five wickets fall for only 40.

Tom Latham
accompanied his captain Alex Davies, who played tidily but seemed to keep
hitting fielders, until tea. The last time there was a similarly flat
pitch here, Latham pounded the Surrey attack for 184, and might fancy his
chances on this one too.

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