Second innings, 175-2 with Rudolph out for a duck.
Sayers not out 76
Lyth not out 68

Combined with a 106 first innings lead we're in a decent position at this stage, but obviously I'd expect that to change rather soon!

How long is it since we won a CC game?

0 as of yet this season, and we weren't so hot at the end of last year, must be knocking on a year.

Read something the other day that it's over a calendar year now, but not exactly sure of the dates.

393 for Lancs to chase down, and, basically, its above 300 ruling out any chance of a successful chase. 9 wickets however, wonder if they can hold out.

Rain will save us again.

Nope, but having got into a potentially winning position - 441 in front overnight - the genius that is our captain has decided to bat on rather than declare and have a whole day to bowl Somerset out.

Is it just me, or does anyone else get the feeling that McGrath really doesn't want the job and doesn't give a sh*t any more? He was basically bribed into staying for another year when he wanted to leave, and it hasn't worked.

To be fair he's been one of the best batsman in the division the last few years, but he's never a captain.

Who SHOULD be Yorkshire captain then? Rudolph? Can't see any other candidates to be honest. Maybe Hoggard at a push?

Hoggard may well not be there next year, has had a fairly lucrative offer from Worcestershire and I think Yorkshire are only offering him one year at the most when his contract runs out in the autumn.

Personally I'd go with Rudolph in the absence of any other candidates, it's a very young side at the moment - McGrath and Kruis apart.

We've got a similar, lead-by-example player in Chapple at Lancs with a young squad of players and it seems to be working pretty well so far...I think our young players are that bit more experienced than your young players at the minute though and the new coach has also helped...you've certainly got plenty of talent for whoever takes over to be working with though.

Somerset are chasing down our 475 in 90 overs pretty easily, if we don't get a couple of wickets quickly we're gonna lose to a record chase.

Shocking, but not much a surprise given it's at Taunton and that we've had some big scores against us in 4th innings in the last couple of years, I can see why McGrath delayed declaring.

Looking very grim in terms of the table now.

Lancs now 40 points behind Durham,the only thing I think that will stop them winning again this season is England having an injury crisis and Harmison,Onions and Plunkett getting called up

Kent beat Gloucestershire by 76 runs

The 2nd biggest run chase in county championship cricket's 145 year history no less

Lancs bring championship form into the one day game getting outplayed from start to finish by Hampshire in the FP semi final.For a season that started so well it's quickly going down the pan.

That was a huge let down yesterday. Why oh why did we put them into bat in glorious sunshine?!

Pathetic again from Yorkshire.

If you can't defend 470-odd in 90 overs even at Taunton then there is something seriously wrong.

Indeed.

However, does that explain why our captain batted on?

Decent start of Yorkshire against Durham at Headingley - the visitors are 73-4 at lunch, two wickets for Shahzad (FFS Yorkshire, get him a new contract sorted out) and the wicket of Di Venuto for Rashid.

Lancs bowl Worcs out for 172.Now lets see if they can get a decent 1st innings total for once.

Durham ao for 178. Hoggard, and Rashid getting 3 wickets each.

Yorks 17/1 in reply. Rudolph gone.

That'll be a 1st innings lead of 12 for Worcs then....

73 for 6...suddenly 172 is a huge total.

What is it with Lancs' batting in the Championship this year? It really is truly awful, and thats without me swearing.

Yorks 77/4. Harmison with 3 of the 4