11.45am It's every shade of grey at The Riverside, reports Richard Rae. Having driven through a monsoon to get here, it's not actually tipping down - but it's spitting, and a little too dark to start. The covers are all on, and to be honest, the forecast is such that if there's no play this morning, there probably won't be any play all day. We haven't even seen the pitch yet, so can't report whether it looks like the track on which Durham elected to play Kent. The chocolate biscuits look OK though.
12.15pm Justin Langer obviously knew the rain was coming, writes Lawrence Booth at Taunton. After bottom-of-the-table Surrey won the toss and elected to bowl first on a grey West Country morning, Langer raced to 24 not out in the 3.5 overs possible before the weather closed in.
He laced Pedro Collins' second ball of the day through extra cover for four, then carved Jade Dernbach over the slips and through the covers for two more boundaries in the next over. A hook and a pull for four more in Collins' next over spelled trouble for Surrey, at which point Marcus Trescothick joined in the fun with a square-cut for the seventh boundary of the morning off Dernbach. With Somerset 36 for none after 18 minutes, Surrey could not get off quickly enough.
4pm Right, after much removing and applying of the covers, we're set for an imminent restart at Taunton, writes Lawrence Booth. The announcement was greeted with a small cheer from the couple of hundred spectators who have hung around since 11.18am, when Somerset's openers rushed off in a downpour having cracked Surrey for 36 in 3.5 overs, and we could be in for some entertaining stuff if Justin Langer - 24 not out off 15 balls - continues on his merry way.
What have the players been up to? It's hard to tell short of knocking on the dressing-room door, although I did spot Jade Dernbach relaxing on the Surrey balcony with cigarette in hand. And, as I write, the Somerset team have emerged to kick a rugby ball around.
5.30pm Marcus Trescothick has just become the first player to reach 1,000 runs in division one of the county championship, writes Lawrence Booth. The Worcestershire pair of Stephen Moore and Vikram Solanki have already achieved the feat in division two, but Trescothick-watchers will be delighted to know that he looks in great nick. Admittedly the Surrey attack has been on the dodgy side of dire after Mark Ramprakash appeared to do them a favour by winning the toss, but all the old favourites have been here: the clip through midwicket which brought him his first boundary, the meaty cut, the clumping straight-drive and the biff through the covers. The tickle for four off Chris Jordan that took him to 46 and past the 1,000 mark was atypical, but with the weather closing in again it may have been in the nick of time. After 21 overs, Somerset are cruising on 109 without loss, with Justin Langer on 54.
