12.30pm Good morning from Old Trafford, where Lancs have just been bowled out for 155, leaving Hants a target of 225 from 71 overs, writes Richard Rae. They should go for it, but the Lancs scorer, Alan, tells me he was talking to Michael Brown last night, and the feeling in the Hampshire camp was that 250 would be impossible, and 220 a big ask - so it's perfectly poised.
The first hour was hard work - 13 runs off 17 overs. Sutton top-edged a sweep at Tahir to be caught by Tremlett loping in from long leg, Corky cut a nice four but went bat/pad to Tahir next ball, and Gary Keedy finally went the same way. Tahir 7-66, match figures 12-189. He's said he's going to make a farewell appearance for Moddershall v Knypersley in the Staffs League tomorrow.
Sticky here, a bit cloudier than yesterday - poss showers later. Lancs' season could stand or fall on their efforts today. So could Hants. You could, as someone once said - Les Dawson? Surely not - cut the tension with a cricket stump.
1.15pm: Nottinghamshire may have eyes on a possible top place tonight, writes Mike Averis at Trent Bridge, but Yorkshire are making it far from easy, grinding out 86 runs in the morning session with Adil Rashid taking 40 minutes and 30 deliveries to get off the mark. At lunch they were still 210 short of their target of 403, but had lost only two wickets this morning.
At the centre of their defence stands the slight figure of Adam Lyth, put under the microscope in the Guardian by Nick Knight this week. He stood firm when wickets were falling last night and had a measured morning to reach 86 - his highest score since a championship debut at the start of the season.
Thirty five not out overnight, the 20-year-old from Whitby, had added 64 with Gerard Brophy when the wicketkeeper either played down the wrong line to Mark Ealham or got one of the few balls that swung late. Either way, Brophy lost his off stump and Yorkshire were 139 for five.
Lyth saw off both Charlie Shreck and Ealham, going to a chanceless half century from 101 balls, a perfectly placed cut bringing up the 50 with his eighth boundary. There was an edge which fell well short of second slip and another that scurried to the third-man boundary, but little apparent difficulty until Graeme Swann started using the rough outside the left-hander's off stump.
A couple of deliveries passed the outside of Lyth's bat before he struck the extra-cover four which took him passed the 80 he made against Durham in May, but Swann then had Rashid - by then having clattered 21 off 70 balls - in two minds and lbw.
2.30pm: Adam Lyth got to his maiden first class century ten overs after lunch, writes Mike Averis, but not before he had been left dangling on 99.
Lyth, 86 at lunch, went to 96 and then 98, playing Graeme Swann away through the covers off the back foot. A single was tucked behind square on the leg side which was when left-arm finger-spin replaced off-spin, Samit Patel opening with a maiden over.
The delay as maiden followed maiden manifest itself in a lot of prodding and poking at the pitch before Lyth tickled a single down to fine leg off the 218th ball faced. He had been at the wicket for close on five hours and hit 14 fours.
