Yorkshire v Lancashire, Kent v Surrey and more: county cricket – live!

LIVE – Updated at 17:21

County cricket liveblog: Join Tanya Aldred for updates from around the grounds in the latest round of Championship matches.

Hello Robert Wilson!

“I’m watching Ben Stokes batting on French Youtube which is charitably translating as much as possible into French (worth it if you ever get the chance - like Ezra Pound going mental).

“I just had en epiphany about our Ben, a moment of almost magical clarity. Of course, he’s a world-class athlete but the fact remains that he bats almost exactly like the enormously fat guy in a village team who somehow manages to score 80% of their runs. He’s a slender enough wand but yet he is nonetheless, deep down, a true Billy Ten-Bellies, a veritable Harry the Hulk. When he gives it the long handle, he plants the front foot like its never gonna move again. When he hooks or pulls, the wrists clear a completely imaginary mega-gut. Even his trotted singles have an invisible wobble to them. The bowling plan for him needs to include actual pies.”

Ben Stokes 80 not out....poor Glamorgan.

News from Beckenham, where Andy Bull is watching Surrey and contemplating things. On the one hand, Darren Stevens is unhappy, chuntering and kicking the grass as he leaks four an over. On the other , nor are Surrey’s players, who were unimpressed with the ‘flat whites’ they ordered at the coffee stall. Especially, reports Andy, when they were told they had to add the milk themselves from the jug on the trestle table on the left. Surrey 249-3:runs for the young guns -Pope 75, Foakes 50.

Yorkshire have taken the new ball and, with a drive through extra cover, Croft has his century too. Well played! Lancs 236-2.

Stokes duly moves past fifty, and now has Ben Raine for company. Durham 228-6.