Somerset return to summit after dog stops play: county cricket, day three – as it happened

Somerset eased to a 377-run win over Leicestershire to go top of Division One while Notts were caught cold by Hampshire’s attack Lancashire’s off-on-off wicketkeeper – sent to Essex on loan – collects 50, he and Akhter frustrating Yorkshire with an unbroken eighth-wicket partnership of 60.

Essex 157 for seven, still 233 behind. A wave to the Guardian’s Will Unwin who rang the five-minute bell today at Old Trafford, asked by a unwary…