Michael Pepper tries to pull a ball from Jamie Overton, but it's more of an uncontrolled swish and a top edge is taken by Sam Curran at backward square.

Tea will be taken with the Essex first innings coming to an end - and we will then see what their seamers can get out of this pitch.

Pepper batted superbly in his 94-ball knock to push the total past 200 as the visitors added 114 after lunch for their last six wickets.

Nathan Smith was the most successful Surrey bowler with 3-53 and there were two wickets each for the returning Curran and Overton.

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  • Tea at Headingley

    Yorks v Notts 178-5

    Notts have dug in well here and, with Joe Clarke and Lyndon James walking off unbeaten with a 57 partnership for the sixth wicket it is a frustrated Yorkshire attack at tea.

    After putting in the league leaders the hosts did more than enough on a very helpful pitch to take at least eight or nine wickets but with a combination of luck and good judgment Notts are still going.

    Not strong, perhaps, but still going.

  • Tea at Chester le Street

    Durham 227-8 v Somerset

    Somerset's session as they take five wickets for 131.

    With Ollie Robinson and Colin Ackermann going well with the score 161-4, Durham would've fancied a total beyond 250.

    But when Robinson went for 52 and Ackermann for 30, things slid away.

    This pitch hasn't offered the batting benevolence Alex Lees would've hoped for when he won the toss so, as always, true judgement will come after Somerset have had a go.

    They're two wickets away from starting that.

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    Rajitha b Smith 1 (Surrey v Essex 217-9)

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    Perfect delivery for a tail-ender as Nathan Smith flicks the top of Kasun Rajitha's off stump and Essex lose their ninth wicket.

    Good effort by the Sri Lankan, who faced 22 balls from the best seam attack on the county circuit in of Michael Pepper.

    Smith has 3-53 as Jamie Porter comes out to bat.

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    Haines c Prest b Abbott 5 (Hants 154 v Sussex 11-1)

    A first wicket for Hampshire and it is the easiest slip catch you could dream of.

    Angled in by Kyle Abbott and it leaves hte in-form Tom Haines off the pitch and sails straight into the waiting hands of Tom Prest at first slip.

  • Surrey v Essex 215-8

    When it's your day....

    Michael Pepper gets away with a wild mow outside off stump as a top edge flies away for four.

    He decides to take a single, exposing Kasun Rajitha to Jamie Overton's pace and he beats the Sri Lankan with an excellent leg-cutter.

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    Barnard c Nicholls b Duffy 0 (Worcestershire v Warwickshire 170-5)

    A New Zealand one-two does for the Pears old boy.

    Ed Barnard has been in such outstanding touch for Warwickshire and would've been desperate for a score back on his old manor but he's gone for a blob.

    It's a beauty from Jacob Duffy - angling in and moving a fraction away off the seam. Barnard instinctively jabs at it and edges into the stomach of Henry Nicholls at first slip, who falls backwards as he hold on with both hands.

  • 50 runs

    50 for James and Clarke

    Yorks v Notts 171-5

    Dom Bess is into the attack as Yorkshire bring the pace down.

    Notts were in bother at 121-5 but Lyndon James and Joe Clarke have strethced this to a half century partnership.

    Clarke was inches away from edging Jordan Thompson to Finlay Bean at third slip but it just didn't carry.

  • Surrey v Essex 208-8

    Jamie Overton will have seen plenty of that in the IPL but it won't make it any less frustrating....

    A full length delivery is ramped fine for four by Michael Pepper - an audacious stroke but it pays off.

  • Tea at Derby

    Derbyshire 231-1 v Kent

    Excellent session for Derbyshire. who add 125 runs in 33 overs without losing a wicket.

    Caleb Jewell and Harry Came have added 132 since David Lloyd's dismissal for 50 by Nathan Gilchrist towards the end of the morning.

    Jewell is 93 not out - is this the day he achieves a maiden hundred for the county? - with Came on 59.

  • 6 runs

    Surrey v Essex 204-8

    Magnificent. Michael Pepper lofts Jamie Overton over long-on for six.

    He is far less in control of that one and only connects with thin air as he goes for a big drive.

    More likely to put his back out than hit it out of the ground with a shot as wild as that.

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    Webster c Libby b Brookes 2 (Worcestershire v Warwickshire 166-4)

    Beau Webster's penultimate innings for Warwickshire has ended softly.

    The big Aussie all-rounder is playing his last match before ing up with Australia for the World Test Championship Final and has played a poor stroke to Ethan Brookes - lifting a check drive straight to Jake Libby at backward point.

    Catching practice that, really.

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    Raine lbw b Pretorius 25 (Durham 221-8 v Somerset)

    Ben Raine opts to stay back to Migael Pretorius and it's not a good decision.

    The ball thuds into the heart of the knee roll of the left hander's front pad.

    That is Professor Plum.

    Raine gone for a run-a-ball 25.

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    Snater c Sibley b Overton 28 (Surrey v Essex 197-8)

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    Shane Snater drives without moving his feet and edges Jamie Overton to slip where Dom Sibley takes the catch safely.

    Snater added 51 with Michael Pepper, who is running out of partners on 57 not out, but we won't know the true value of this score until Surrey have batted on this pitch.

  • Durham 219-7 v Somerset

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    He just put a bit of extra into that delivery having missed an almost impossible chance the ball before.

    That ball crashed into his off stump.

    Another good wicket for Somerset, a strong Durham batting line-up being slowly dismantled.

  • 50 runs

    for Harry Came

    Derbys 221-1 v Kent

    Harry Came sweeps Matt Parkinson, gets a top edge, but there is no-one down at long leg and he is able to come back for a third run and reach 50 off 111 balls. Derbyshire well on top at the moment.

  • 50 stand for Essex

    Surrey v Essex 197-7

    Michael Pepper tucks Nathan Smith off his hip into the gap at square leg and it runs away for four, brining up a 50 partnership with Shane Snater.

    Smith goes round the wicket - and what a field he has! Three men out for the pull and a back stop behind keeper Ben Foakes.

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    Balderson b Scriven 5 (Leics v Lancs 152-7)

    Lancashire were rocked by a double blow losing the reasonably well-set George Bell and Matty Hurst in three deliveries to go 147-6.

    But George Balderson and Tom Hartley had the right idea in not trying to blast their way out of trouble.

    The pair had stuck it out for a couple of overs but Balderson has been undone by a turning ball from Tom Scriven.

    Suddenly Lancs are back in a world of trouble seven down.

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    Ackermann b Overton 30 (Durham 219-7 v Somerset)

    Craig Overton strikes!

    After putting down a sharp caught-and-bowled chance, Overton rearranges Colin Ackermann's furniture with one that keeps a fraction low.

    Ackermann can't adjust as the timbers go everywhere.

    Somerset will sense a swift end here...

  • 50 runs

    for Kiran Carlson

    Glamorgan 172-3 v Middlesex

    Kiran Carlson lofts spinner Zafar Gohar over mid-off for four, which takes him to a 76-ball half-century. It's been a fine innings so far and the pressure is now back on Middlesex after they reduced Glamorgan to 52-3 during the morning.