Martin Emmerson
BBC Radio Newcastle

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He might not be in the England squad for the second Test against New Zealand, but that hasn't stopped Ben Stokes preparing for his next game, whenever that may be.

He's at The Riverside this morning and has gone for a net session with Durham batting coach Dale Benkenstein. There's also talk in one national newspaper that Stokes may well play for Durham next week.

That would be against Northants in the County Championship. If it happens, no doubt the media centre will be a lot busier than usual.

Second over of the day from Matt Milnes for Kent. Second maiden of the day.

Archie Vaughan is ticking along nicely this morning, moving from 51 to 60*.

His latest couple of runs coming via a lovely cut shot off Mohammad Ali, which is cut off on the boundary but he still picks up two.

Jack Leach will now face his first ball of the day. Fergus O'Neill is running in to try and withdraw the number nine.

Ben Aitchison has his sights set on another five-for this morning, with four wickets already taken on day one.

He is slightly too full, though, and Matthew Potts drives back past the stumps for the day's first boundary.

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Yorkshire 392-6 v Warwickshire

Jonny Bairstow reaches 50 for the 110th time in his first class career off the second ball of the day.

The Yorkshire captain turns Ethan Bamber onto the leg side for two to reach the landmark at quicker than a run a ball. He then adds his seventh four off the next ball. (He also has a six).

Yorkshire are getting on with straight away this morning.

Keith Dudgeon picked up two wickets for Kent in a very tricky nine-over session for Lancashire last night and will hope to carry on where he left off.

There's a big appeal as Dudgeon whistles one past nightwatchman Tom Bailey, who is resuming for Lancashire this morning, but it brushed his whites rather than the bat on the way through to wicketkeeper Chris Benjamin.

And so ends a maiden over to get us started.

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Notts v Somerset 300-7

Somerset secure their second batting point.

Archie Vaughan takes a thick edge off Fergus O'Neill and it runs away for four down to third man.

Then Vaughan takes a very quick single to mid-wicket to bring up the 300, getting home safely as Jack Haynes attempted the run out at the non-striker's end but missed the stumps with his throw.

First order of business for Sussex today - to pass Glamorgan's modest total without losing any wickets. Shouldn't take too long.

Australian Daniel Hughes is 48 not out and partner Jack Leaning has 18. The latter will face Timm van der Gugten first up.

Fergus O'Neill gets us under way at Trent Bridge to bowl the first over of the day.

Archie Vaughan is on strike.

Time for some cricket.

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Martin Emmerson
BBC Radio Newcastle

It's a bright morning in the North East but a windy one. It's not too cold, though. We have highs of 17 to 18C today and there's little rain in the forecast.

Durham were put in on a difficult track yesterday and made their way to 302-7 by the close of play, picking up two batting points in the process.

Ben Raine and Matty Potts have put on 38 so far for the eighth wicket and if they could push Durham towards 350 that would be a bonus.

There was plenty in the pitch for the bowlers, with Ben Aitchison taking 4-57. It's green, slow and at times was quite low, with a few deliveries skidding through to the keeper and taking the batsmen by surprise.

From Derbyshire's point of view, I am sure they would have liked to have taken all 10 wickets yesterday, but they came up against some tenacious resistance from the likes of Graham Clark (51) David Bedingham (49) and Ollie Robinson (48).

However, while a few got starts with the bat, nobody went on to make a really big score. It's that kind of surface.

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We had an enjoyable first day of cricket at Trent Bridge, in which the momentum shifted either way multiple times.

Nottinghamshire were on top in the opening stages, reducing Somerset to 47-3 inside the first 18 overs.

But a 122-run partnership between opener Jordan Hermann and 18-year-old Thomas Rew steadied the ship for the visitors until Rew was trapped by Mohammad Ali, who is making is red-ball debut for Notts, for a fine 68.

Hermann went on to make a century but three wickets in nine overs for the defending champions swung the game back in their favour with Somerset at 267-7.

Jack Leach has given as good as he gets though, for 21 from 21 balls, and Archie Vaughan remains unbeaten on 51.

You get the impression this is a vital morning in the match on day two. Will Notts rattle through the tail or can Somerset build a healthy total?

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Essex coach Chris Silverwood believes Jordan Cox has put himself in the frame for a starting berth with England after his brilliant unbeaten 184 against Leicestershire.

Cox celebrated his call up to the England squad for the second Test against New Zealand with an unbeaten 184 as Essex racked up 342-5.

And Silverwood believes that his display could force the door open to the starting XI against the Black Caps at The Oval on Wednesday.

“Jordan might not have played in the IPL but he has been practising very hard while he's been out there, picking up lessons from Virat Kohli and people like that, so it's been a great learning curve for him.

"Now he wants to show his class and force his way into the England set-up. It's great that he's in the squad and I think more scores like this will force him into the XI as well.”

Essex are already in a strong position against the Foxes at Uptonsteel Grace Road but Silverwood says they now need to back-up a strong first day.

“We want to go on and score maximum points if we can, but we've got a lot of hard work to do to get there and we've got to make sure that we back up a good day with another good day."

Jonny Bairstow will look to press home Yorkshire's advantage when he resumes on 49 at Scarborough.

It's dry but very windy at North Marine Road and the first day's star, Will Luxton, believes the breeze has played a part - including in the moment when he brought up his maiden first-class century with a swept six.

"The wind was so strong so it looked like decent bowling conditions but I don't think it was. Especially at one end it was pretty tough to nail a good line and length," explained Luxton.

"The wind was going massively across with that shot into the stands. I wasn't thinking anything, it just sort of happened."

Warwickshire captain Ed Barnard has taken some encouragement from two late wickets at the end of yesterday.

"We probably didn't quite get it right in the first two sessions with the ball but it's a good cricket wicket. It can be fast scoring so if someone gets in and plays well like Will did it can be hard to defend," he admitted.

"Those couple of wickets late helped us into a better position and hopefully we can clean them up early in the morning."

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Sussex bowling coach James Kirtley praised left-armer Jaydev Unadkat after the Indian took four wickets on his seasonal debut to help skittle Glamorgan on the opening day at Hove.

"Jaydev came back and bowled his heart out, which he's always done for us. That was the sixth time he's taken a four-for which just shows his quality and the commitment he has for this team," KIrtley said.

"To have his influence, even when he's standing at mid-on or mid-off, for the other bowlers in the team to feed off is brilliant. There's no greater example for them than Jaydev."

All 10 Glamorgan wickets fell to catches and Kirtley added: "Catching is something we've done incredibly well in recent years and we saw that again, particularly behind the wicket. It gives the bowlers confidence when they know if the edges carry they are going to be caught."

We mentioned the Women's One-Day Cup a few minutes ago..... there's an important game going on at Old Trafford in the Women's T20 World Cup as well.

Scotland are batting against Ireland and are 23-0 in the fourth over - you can follow the progress of that one here.