One more win should be enough for us to avoid relegation! Yay!

It's why Lancashire never win the Championship you know, that pesky weather...

2 from 2, champions elect!!!

Kent are batting having won the toss and are 85-3, Yorkshire going with two spinners again.

Lancs have got Essex 78-6 at lunch

Jimmy got 3, Chapple 2 and the Sarge the other wicket.

God knows what paltry score we'll get when we bat then!!

Essex skittled for 176, Typically the Lancashire bowlers give the batsmen a superb platform and what do they do? 83/3



So long as we get to 300, and bowl them out cheaply again....then the weather will kick in

From an England point of view, nice to see Jimmy taking 6-44

What is the point of a nighchman?Jimmy goes in and is out before the end of play.I think also the Smith opening experiment should be given up,he didn't do too well in opening in the 4 day game last season and this season he's started even worse.

honours even after the first day at kent

Come on Kent

Lancs all out for 312, Paul Horton 123.

Have now got Essex 33-2 with Jimmy getting another 2 wickets..glorious stuff, keep it up lads!

It's been another good day for Lancs with the score against Essex and the signings of Katich and Chanderpaul,can this be the year that the championship comes to the red rose or will the rain ruin it as usual

Lancs have skittled Essex again for just 173, 38 needed to win their 2nd game from 2 this season!! Moores out



And the 2nds have beaten their equivalents from the Dark Side as well

As much as it pains me to say it but there is some serious young talent at Yorkshire, they could well be champions-elect very soon if they can keep them together.

Team v Kent:
Adam Lyth 22, Joe Sayers 26, Anthony McGrath 34, Andrew Gale 26, Jacques Rudolph 28, Jonny Bairstow 20, Tim Bresnan 25, Adil Rashid 22, Ajmal Shahzad 24, David Wainwright 25, Oliver Hannon-Dalby 20.

Throw in the likes of Azeem Rafiq 19 and James Lee 21 and the future is massively (white) rosey.

Indeed, throw in there a couple of reliable international superstars and the title is ours sooner than you might think

And they get it done, two went but with such a tiny target, no matter.

2 from 2, champions elect

Good to hear that Yorkshire at least had a crack at chasing down a very unlikely target today.

Hopefully such attacking intentions will be a sign of things to come under Gale's captaincy - McGrath had a tendency to be a bit over-cautious IMO.

Seem to have started well.

Strangely, had they gone after it in the same way that Gale and Rudolph did yesterday in the Pro40 they would probably have made it with time to spare.

380-odd in 91 overs was always going to be a hard ask, but when you're opening with Lyth and Sayers you're hardly going to be getting off to a flyer.

They're off to a flyer today against Durham 126/0 at lunch.

and 214/2 at tea.

247/2

304/2 at stumps. need to bat durham completely out of the game tommorrow as they are a dangerous side even with some injuries

Have to say with 8 wickets remaining I reckon there are only 2 possible results now for this game