Find out what happened on day three of the second round of LV= Insurance County Championship fixtures
Division One
Canterbury (third day of four): Lancashire 506, Kent 260 & 81-6 - Kent trail by 165 runs with four second-innings wickets remaining
Lancashire are closing in on victory on day three of the LV= Insurance County Championship game with Kent, who still need another 165 to make the visitors bat again.
Kent were bowled out for 260 in their first innings and, with a lead of 246, Lancashire immediately enforced the follow-on.
Matt Parkinson has match figures of 6 for 88 while George Balderson has taken 4 for 16, including 3 for 14 in Kent's first innings, putting the visitors in a dominant position.
Ben Compton made an unbeaten 104 in Kent's first innings, having been stuck on 99 for 38 minutes, and he was unbeaten on 20 at stumps, having witnessed all 16 dismissals from the other end and having been on the pitch for every minute of all three days. In total Compton faced 421 balls over 571 minutes for an unbeaten aggregate score of 124.
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Bristol (third day of four): Gloucestershire 227 & 253-6, Yorkshire 376 - Gloucestershire lead by 104 runs with four second-innings wickets remaining
James Bracey issued a timely reminder to the England selectors as Gloucestershire held-up Yorkshire's victory charge.
Staring down the barrel of an inside-the-distance defeat when Ryan Higgins was fifth man out with 11 more runs still required to make the White Rose county bat again, Gloucestershire were indebted to 24-year-old left-hander Bracey, who registered his second hundred in as many matches this season to permit his team a stay of execution.
The Bristolian scored an assured 112 not out in a defiant innings spanning nearly five hours and dominated stands of 54 and 76 with Ryan Higgins and Tom Lace for the fifth and sixth wickets respectively, as Gloucestershire reached the close on 253 for 6, a lead of 104.
Having posted 376 in their first innings, Yorkshire made sufficient in-roads with the ball on an increasingly benign surface to render themselves favourites to win their first outing of the campaign, but Gloucestershire have served notice that they are no pushovers and the visitors will know they still have work to do if they are to finish the job on the final day.
Matt Parkinson has six wickets in the match against Kent [Alex Davidson/Getty Images]
Division Two
Nottingham (third day of four): Nottinghamshire 302 & 223-8, Glamorgan 379 - Nottinghamshire lead by 147 runs with two second-innings wickets remaining
Glamorgan will enter the final day feeling they are in a strong position to complete their first victory in a red-ball match at Trent Bridge since 1998.
Building on a lead of 77 on first innings, in which Timm van der Gugten's 62 helped the last two wickets add 131 runs, they had Nottinghamshire 224 for 8 at the close, the Netherlands international seam bowler having also starred with the ball by taking 4 for 51.
All four came after tea, starting with that of key man Ben Duckett, who fell five runs short of posting a second century in the match. No other Nottinghamshire batsman has made more than 30, and a lead of 147 looks fragile.
Nottinghamshire, pre-season favourites to win promotion from Division Two, pulled off an improbable win over Sussex at Hove last week. Another would seem unlikely, although ninth-wicket pair Brett Hutton and Joey Evison - batting with a runner because of a sore toe - added 37 in the last 14 overs and a few more on the final morning could still set up an intriguing finish.
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Chester-le-Street (third day of four): Durham 428 & 239-2, Leicestershire 273 - Durham lead by 394 runs with eight second-innings wickets remaining
Matthew Potts claimed career-best figures to give Durham hope of forcing victory.
Potts delivered an outstanding spell with the old ball to remove Hassan Azad to allow the hosts to break into the Leicestershire batting order.
The 23-year-old found life out of the pitch that no other bowler was able to conjure, earning figures of 6 for 58 and passing 50 first-class wickets in the process.
The north-east outfit bowled out the visitors for 273 before building a dominant lead of 394 runs, courtesy of a maiden first-class hundred from Michael Jones and a fine knock of 84 from Sean Dickson, who capitalised on an ailing Leicestershire bowling line-up.
A declaration will likely occur overnight, leaving the hosts requiring 10 wickets on the final day to force their first win of the campaign.
Matty Potts has been in the wickets for Durham [Stu Forster/Getty Images]
Derby (third day of four): Derbyshire 505-8d, Sussex 174 & 278-2 - Sussex trail by 53 with eight second-innings wickets remaining
Sussex skipper Tom Haines led from the front with a superb, career-best century to frustrate Derbyshire.
The 23-year-old batted through the day for an unbeaten 164 from 289 balls and, with Indian Test batsman Chateshwar Pujara scoring 57 not out, Sussex closed on 278 for 2 after following on 331 behind.
Haines was also given solid support from Ali Orr who shared an opening stand of 128 in 43 overs before he was removed by Sam Conners, who was Derbyshire's most threatening bowler on a flat pitch.
After Tom Alsop was run out, Haines and Pujara combined in an unbroken third-wicket stand of 133 to leave Sussex trailing by only 53.
With such a commanding lead, it was no surprise that Derbyshire put Sussex back in but the visitors showed much more application and determination after the first-innings capitulation.
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