Hampshire v Somerset, Gloucestershire v Lancashire, and more: county cricket – live

4m ago11.09 BSTWe’ve got ten minutes to go until play begins. The first whiff of a victory might be in Bristol where the evergreen Jimmy Anderson could well force an early win against struggling Gloucs on their home patch. The 43 year old will scent blood in the water and will be accompanied by an impressively George Balderson who scooped five wickets in the first innings.A confession, I was supposed to be covering the action from Southampton where Hampshire are now in a commanding position against the visiting Somerset, a 96 run lead with nine second innings wickets in hand – however my five year old daughter decided to get her Eric the Eagle on from the top of our precipitous stairwell earlier this morning… she’s fine, and seems to now be word perfect on the whole K-Pop Demon Hunters erm, canon - but she was before her nosedive so that’s not too concerning. I think she’s secretly pleased to kibosh my day of peaceful cricket viewing, in fact I’m suspicious…Share