Fetch!

Alex Lees with a handsome drive for four through the covers off Seb Morgan.

Earlier in the over, he had tried something similar and it squirted away behind point for four.

Nothing lucky about that shot, though. Lees now has 39 and he feels like a key wicket for Middlesex.

Will Luxton is playing Shane Snater with soft hands, carefully pushing into the off side.

Snater pushes the ball out a bit wider and Luxton leaves it alone. Some outswing there. Maiden over.

What a start for Northants following a belated start against Worcestershire. Ben Sanderson strikes with the second ball of the match, trapping Dan Lategan lbw for a duck.

Testing times for Mayank Agarwal.

The India batter is still on nought off 15 balls as he is beaten by a terrific delivery from Tom Helm.

The bowler wonders how that missed everything. The overseas batter is wondering if he's made the right decision in coming to the north east of England to bat in September!

Richie Benaud and his adoring fancy dress clan at Australian Home tests immediately spring to mind as Khaled Ahmed is taken for two, two, two off his latest over.

Luis Reece with six off six balls to start his innings.

Martin Andersson scoring sprightly as he does with 14 off 22 balls.

Lyth dropped on sevenpublished at 12:09 BST

12:09 BST

Yorkshire 20-0 v Essex

Certainly some movement for the Essex attack.

Is Adam Lyth deliberately playing inside the line or was he beaten outside off?

Fine delivery either way from Jamie Porter.

The fifth ball is driven and edged low, just past Paul Walter at first slip for four. Just about a chance at ankle height.

Adam Lyth has a reprieve.

50 partnership for Nottspublished at 12:07 BST

12:07 BST

Notts 71-3 v Hants

Jack Haynes tucks Manny Lunsden round the corner as he and Joe Clark post a 50 stand from 71 balls for Notts.

The pacy Lumsden digs in a short one, Haynes tries to pull but gets a top edge which flies over the slips for six.

"In these conditions, on this pitch, batsmen should be scratching around," opines BBC Radio Solent's Kevan James.

The rain has relented at Od Trafford but the shower was heavy so the outfield is a bit wet.

That's what the umpires conclude.

The decision is lunch to be taken as normal at 12:30 BST with play hopefully restarting at 13:10.

Play that! Shane Snater gets one to shape sharply in to Adam Lyth and the ball runs past leg stump for four byes.

Snater alters his line and Lyth leaves the ball outside off.

Another one cuts back into the left-hander and an LBW shout is turned down.

Lyth gets a leg bye off the next ball to fine leg.

Luxton steers the last ball wide of the three slips for a couple.

Will Luxton blocks out the over - and we have 80 left in the day as it stands after that rain delay of one hour and 20 minutes.

Maiden over and now Shane Snater will bowl to Adam Lyth.

Naavya Sharma is very excited as he appeals for a third wicket, an LBW against Alex Lees.

That would surely have hit the stumps, but umpire Sue Redfern very quickly says no.

It must have been an inside edge from the Durham skipper.

Lunch is being taken now so in theory they could get going around 1pm pending how the umpires see fit.

But there has not yet been a toss in this one remember so even the best case scenario will still see a little while from 12.30 before play commences sadly.

Quite correct, Sam. Kyle Abbott signed a Kolpak deal in 2017, which effectively ended his international career.

Jamie Porter has three balls left in that rain-disrupted over, bowling first up to Will Luxton.

Adam Lyth is at the other end.

The rain earlier on has been described as "mizzle" - so presumably a hybrid of mist and drizzle.

A reminder that lunch has been moved to 12.50.

Big moment for 17-year-old Manny Lumsden as he prepares to bowl in a Championship game for the first time.

His second delivery is short and Jack Haynes pulls it away for the seventh boundary of his innings.

An early lesson for the young man.

Ekansh Singh has nipped a couple away from the right-handers, but in this over tries to get a couple to go the other way.

First he strays too far towards leg stump and Wayne Madsen beats fine leg for four, then just past midwicket for the same result.

Surely any research shows you should not bowl any where leg side of middle stump to Madsen, he has cashed in with four boundaries through the legside already.

Off the mark at last.

Joe Clarke tries to drive a ball from Scott Currie and collects four fortuitous runs to third man via a thick edge.

He is four not out off 26.