Gloucestershire v Yorkshire, Somerset v Essex: county cricket – live!

LIVE – Updated at 18:29

Follow all of the action from around the county grounds on day two, with Tanya Aldred.

I see Essex and Somerset are desperate for this to be over tonight.

A Friday afternoon email whooshes from John Burton, who has been studying Darren Gough’s comments on Joe Root

“Obviously the players available to the captain is a significant factor, but as an example of why this is simplistic, were the players available to Botham and Brearley significantly different?(Yes, that probably is an equally simplistic comment, but other such pairings exist.)“

That said, I don’t see how anyone could say that some other specific choice is sure to have done better.Thanks for your reply yesterday, although it leaves me with new questions, such as why not split the divisions equally and actually play each other twice in both divisions. Then there’s always a rest in the rotation.”

I must fly to write the Friday round-up, keep you eye on Headingley for Brook’s fifth first-class hundred for Yorkshire and Taunton and The Oval where Somerset (101-6) and Hampshire (83-5) are sliding towards a day off on Easter Sunday.

In Division One, Somerset are only seven runs behind Essex’s first innings, but they’ve lost five wickets: Green, Lammonby, Hildreth, Abell, Goldsworthy all gone, and all but Abell (12) in single figures. Shanter 3-14.

Zak Crawley, starting his first Champo match since the West Indies tour is 17 not out, young Compton dynasty continuation, 26 not out, Kent 46-0, 460 behind Lancs.

It’s an Overton kind of day, two for Jamie at The Oval, where Hampshire are wobbling at 56-4, having lost 3 for four, 408 behind Surrey’s first innings. James Vince pushing his England captaincy credentials by being bowled for one.

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