County cricket: Yorks v Essex washed out, Lancs v Notts and more – live!

A mini-collapse: Sussex 362 for 9. Wiese lbw Stone 106. Stone 7-73.

And some naughty-boy nets here at OT: pitch looks fine now...

Back on at Edgbaston and a wicket, Brown out for 91, still comfortably the second-highest score of the round and Sharma hits his first ball for four to collect the fourth batting point.

LUNCHTIME round-up:

Division one

Headingley: match abandoned without a ball bowled.

Old Trafford: Nottinghamshire win by six wickets. Lancashire 73 all out (Ball 4-14, Gurney 6-25). Nottinghamshire 10 for 4 (Onions 1 for 6, Mennie 3 for 4).

Aegeas Bowl: Hampshire win by 196 runs. Worcestershire 127 all out (Head 45 not out; Abbott 4 for 45, Edwards 3 for 33).

Division two

Lord’s: Middlesex win by 160 runs. James Harris: highest score, most runs, most wickets (c/0 T Beecroft)

Edgbaston: Sussex 347 for 7 (Wiese 103 not out, Brown 90 not out). They lead Warwickshire by 48 runs.

Canterbury: Gloucestershire win by five wickets. Gloucestershire 108 for 5 (Howell 52 not out; Henry 3 for 37)

Match figures of the day and a career best: Harry Gurney: 12.2-5-25-6

Some stats (and don’t forget the stoppage for rain)

Here he is:

And the first and only century of the season goes to David Wiese. Congratulations! And a team also passes 300! Sussex 338 for 7.

And a suggestion from Neil Harris:

In the two remaining matches... at Southampton Worcestershire are subsiding: 112 for 9 while Edgbaston is a land of its own: Wiese and Brown still batting serenely.

And so Nottinghamshire roar to victory: 10 for 4, Patel 4 not out, Wessels 1 not out. Onions 1 for 6, Mennie 3 for 4. What an extraordinary morning: 12 wickets fell in 15 overs.

Nottinghamshire 9 for 4! Taylor c Livingstone b Onions 0.

Shame they’re not chasing 40 really.

Huge appeal for lbw against Samit Petel by Mennie. Not out. Five to win.

And steady Samit Patel sees off the hat-trick.

And another one! Libby caught at second slip! Mennie on a hat-trick! Notts 5/3.

Worcestershire now 100-7.

Feel for this poor man. I also just found this - had no idea such a thing existed, only the Yorkshire version. May I prescribe a cup for disgruntled red-roses this morning?

Some match figures from Old Trafford: Jake Ball 9-57, Harry Gurney 8-43.

And another one at OT! Great catch running backwards by Hameed. Nash c Hameed b Mennie 0 . Nottinghamshire 5/2

Thank goodness for calm waters at Edgbaston: a 70- wicket partnership between Wiese (45 not out) and Brown (64 not out).

And a consolation wicket at Old Trafford. Mullaney c Onions b Mennie 1.Notts 1/1.

Gurney took 6 wickets in 30 balls.

Elsewhere Gloucestershire have won by five wickets, Benny Howell not out 52. Three for Matt Henry and two more for Darren Stevens.

Mennie c Moores b Gurney 0. Lancashire 73 all out. Notts need 10 to win. A career best for Gurney 12.2-5-25-6 who is applauded off the pitch by his teammates and bashfully waves his cap. Ball 10-5-14-4. Lancashire lost 8 for 15 from 60 balls today; and 10 for 24 in all.

Eek, close you eyes Lancies: Lancashire 73/9. Vilas c Wessels at first slip b Ball. Full length, invited the drive, the drive came. And went.

Lancashire 73/7. Bailey c Moores b Gurney 1. Gurney joins the five-fer club 5-25.

Lancashire have now lost five for 8 in 41 balls. Ball is bowling excellently here, a super length, testing all the time.

Gloucestershire now 84/4. Henry 3-27. Surely not...

Oh and that’s another one down at Old Trafford. Clark c Nash (brilliantly at gully) b Ball 0. Lancs 66/7.

Stumps shattered! Croft b Ball 0. Lancs 66/6 and lead by 2...

Everything proceeding calmly at Canterbury, GLoucestershire 77/1 but oh dear not at Southampton: Worcestershire 67/5.

Three wickets in the space of 19 balls for 8 runs at OT this morning.

Out next ball - to a great length ball from Ball: Livingstone c Moores b Ball 12. Lancs: 66/5

And this, from DaddyPig (yikes,can i really call you that?) BTL:

“The drainage at Headingley is perfectly good. Two years today, after horrible winter flooding, we started the season on time against Hampshire, whilst the local league seasons were delayed. When it rains, the players are back on again in remarkable time. But once soil with any amount of clay is waterlogged, it requires evaporation to extract the water. Drainage relies on gravity and it isn’t enough on its own, and when the water table is high then it won’t drain at all . It’s been cold and cloudy as well as soaking wet for the past month. That’s all there is to it.

“Switching the game to Chelmsford would’ve been a good and creative thing to do, and it’s a shame that the agility and thought weren’t there to at least consider that. I doubt if there are any outgrounds in Yorkshire that are in any better condition, unless somewhere like Upper Wharfedale CC at Grassington has benefitted from natural drainage on the limestone.”

Cracking four there from Livingstone off Ball.

And some on the spot knowledge from Neil in Yorkshire, which might ruin the conspiracy theory, though it was fun while it lasted.

“I think the rain graph for Yorkshire doesn’t tell the whole picture. There has been a lot of snow in recent months, which won’t be captured in the daily rainfall stats but has a big impact on how saturated the ground is for when the rain then does fall. If the ground has been covered in a couple of feet of snow at various points over the winter that water has to go somewhere when it melts.”

Thank you Neil.

Back on at OT. Sorry HPG.

Rain stopped play here at Old Trafford 62/4.

And another one down at Old Trafford: Chanderpaul c Taylor b Gurney 0. 62/4. Gurney 4-22. It’s very gloomy out there.

Play also at Edgbaston and Southampton. Ah, wicket at Edgbaston, but it’s not good news for Olly Stone. Robinson c Ambrose b Barker 12. Sussex 194-7.

Anyway, away from Headingley

Play starting on time at Old Trafford, as most players stroll out with their hands stuck firmly in their pockets though Livingstone is wearing short-sleeves. Oh and Jennings out to the third ball of the day, lbw Gurney 27

At Kent there is free entry and free parking today!

I still think the suggestion by someone below the line by was the best - why, when the ground must have been looking like a saturated sponge for days, didn’t they just swap either to Chelmsford or another out-ground in Yorkshire, assuming somewhere was playable? I wonder, looking at the graph again, if the rain this year was perhaps the wrong type of rain?

Oooh, trouble at Headingley and some data thanks to @KitHarris . The media haven’t been allowed down on the pitch to inspect the swamp this morning.

“Yorkshire chairman: ‘There have been absolutely no issues with our drainage system”. In the last 25 years, Headingley has had 101 days when first class cricket was played in April, and nine days have been lost to rain. Seven of the nine were this year.’

And more weather data here with a graph . Now get stuck into that.