Joe Clarke turns the first ball of the day to midwicket for a single which brings up the 300 and a second point of the match for the Division One leaders.

It comes at the start of the 83rd over.

The conversation now turns to a possible declaration and when the visitors will take it - unless they're bowled out first, of course.

Olly Hannon-Dalby to spearhead the new-ball attack with Bamber.

Martin Emmerson
BBC Radio Newcastle

It's taken Durham one minute and 45 seconds.

I am speechless.

Durham remain top. Gloucestershire are bottom and will probably stay there - they have now lost nine of their 10 matches.

This is a very sorry saga in English cricket.

And, after all that, Matthew Potts strikes the last ball of Ollie Price's over to the off-side boundary and Durham complete the win!

About 17 hours later than the Division Two leaders would have liked, but they'll take the win gladly and further strengthen their position at the summit.

Fair to say there weren't too many in to witness the completion of this bizarre match.

Washouts on the first and third days turned a mouthwatering prospect into the, you guessed it, damp squib.

But sandwiched in between Joe Clarke sprinkled a little bit sparkle with a superb display of batting. He walks to the middle with debutant Fraser Sheat (27) needing four more for his 150.

Prior to that, Notts need just a single for a second batting point. And with a tight title race, who knows just how pivotal they could be.

The Bears are closing in on a third bowling point and Ethan Bamber gets us going with the second newish ball.

Martin Emmerson
BBC Radio Newcastle

We come back today for what is an absolute farce of a situation.

Durham need four runs to win - their lowest second-innings target in their first-class history.

Their previous lowest was 21 at Edgbaston in 2009.

This could all last one ball.

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There may be little chance of a result, and little incentive for either side to try to contrive one, but the pendulum swung wildly from one side to the other during the play which has been possible across the opening three days.

Kent were 162-0 on the second morning... and two hours later they were 256-8 before lunch had even arrived.

Daniel Bell-Drummond's 70, with good support from Matt Milnes, helped them to post 345 in the end, narrowly short of a third batting point. Maximum bowling points for Northants shaved one off their visitors' four-point advantage in the Division Two promotion race.

Northants made a solid start to their reply before the light failed and Mother Nature put paid to the whole of day three.

Northants can try to close the gap further by passing 250, though Kent would claim a bowling point for every three wickets they take too.

Should be fun.

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The match between Essex and Surrey was one of six without any action at all on Saturday because of the rain, but Essex have a chance to wrap up a victory on day four if the weather plays ball.

Helping them into a potential winning position has been Dean Elgar, who says he is happy with his decision to call time on his career - but appeared less than impressed with the quality of what he described as a "disgusting hundred".

The South African opener posted a timely 113 as Essex established a 96-run advantage at the halfway stage.

Essex's bowling attack reduced Surrey to 51-4 in the second innings, meaning the visitors still trail by 45 runs.

"Irrespective of me calling it a day on my career, I'm always going to try to play the best cricket I can," said Elgar after his century. "I want to go out on a high obviously I’ve still got a job to do.

"But today was a disgusting hundred. I've been practising my technique. I think when you're not playing cricket a lot like I've had back home, I've not picked up a bat for x number of months, and I went home for seven weeks and I only picked it up when I got back to the UK.

"You kind of lose your technique and your reactions aren't as fine-tuned as they are when you're younger. As I say, that was a disgusting hundred.

"I just tried to put up a score for the side and put us into a lead and put Surrey under the pump."

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It’s shaping up to be a conundrum of stick or twist for County Championship title contenders Somerset on day four at Hove.

With the third day's play washed out entirely - despite two false starts when the players had been warming up ready to restart - the visitors, second in the table at the start of the game, hold a 119-run advantage over Sussex with eight wickets standing.

For Lewis Gregory, the question is whether to gamble on a declaration that might tempt Sussex, still in with an outside title chance of their own, and back his bowlers to take 10 wickets.

Equally, Somerset's lead is still slender enough that they might run the risk of being bowled out cheaply if they went early with all guns blazing - and losing ground on title rivals Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire, who look destined for a draw at Edgbaston.

From Sussex's perspective, if they can make early inroads at Hove then it's certainly game on and an opportunity to narrow the gap on the teams above them.

Somerset resume with opener Tom Lammonby 74 not out and New Zealand’s Henry Nicholls alongside him on 12.

Division One's bottom side Hampshire will resume 125 runs ahead in their second innings against Glamorgan.

Their approach this morning will be an interesting one to follow - do they try to up the tempo a bit, set a target and go for the win? Or make sure of the eight points for a draw?

Glamorgan aren't out of the title picture, so some quick wickets this morning will be their mission and then see where it leaves them.

Joe Clarke was the Nottinghamshire hero on day two as his unbeaten 146 put the Division One leaders in a strong position, though they were unable to capitalise as the whole of day three was washed out at Edgbaston.

The former Worcestershire batter began the recovery for the visitors with Ben Martindale (55) after the visitors had slipped to 17-2.

Notts are on the verge of two batting points and will hope for at least a third before getting stuck into the Bears batters.

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Day three at Durham ended in decidedly murky fashion - but Gloucestershire head coach Mark Alleyne believes the deteriorating light conditions at Chester-le-Street should have halted play much earlier.

Having been instructed to withdraw their frontline seamers from the attack soon after 17:00 for safety reasons, Durham were denied the opportunity to score four runs for victory before stumps when the visitors refused to follow suit.

"They asked if we would bowl our spinners to finish the game," explained Alleyne at the end of day three. "Of course, we said no - we'll bowl our quick bowlers, in which case it became bad light, so we'll come back tomorrow.

"We've been outplayed, of course, but there's certain parts of the game that we feel we were hard done by some really poor decisions. One of the poorest is playing in the light that we did for so long.

"I mean, 45 minutes before we lost the last wicket, it was too dark to play, which would have been consistent with all the other days that we played. I was really surprised that (Brydon) Carse was allowed to bowl to (James) Bracey at the time.

"So, with that in mind, we thought we'd hedge our bets and see if it might rain all day - you never know."

There has been some rain around this morning, but it would be a surprise if there's not enough time for Durham to reach their victory target.

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We'll have to wait a little while for play at North Marine Road as a sopping wet outfield has delayed the start for a second day running.

There will be no play before lunch, which will be taken early at 12:30 BST.

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It's better than yesterday, in short, although there is a delayed start in Scarborough - more on that shortly.

Our colleagues at BBC Weather say today will see areas of cloud and showers feeding in from the west, heavy at times and with a risk of thunder. South-eastern areas will see fewer showers, however.

The good news is the weather front is not here yet and so we're hopeful of more cricket before lunch than we saw in the whole of day three, at least.

Click here for the forecast.

Division One

• Warwickshire v Nottinghamshire 299-7
• Sussex 250 v Somerset 202 & 167-2
• Yorkshire 263 v Leicestershire 84-0 - no play before lunch on day four
• Essex 279 v Surrey 183 & 51-4
• Glamorgan 161 v Hampshire 162 & 124-2

Division Two

• Durham 384 v Gloucestershire 137 & 250 - Durham require four runs to win
• Northamptonshire 74-0 v Kent 345
• Worcestershire 12-1 v Lancashire 180
• Derbyshire 79-3 v Middlesex

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Good morning.

Cruel mistress, Mother Nature.

After the elements obliterated large swathes of the opening three days of this 10th match of the County Championship season, the sun is out across much of the country this morning.

It may not stay that way for 96 overs but the cruel irony is we might see more play today than we have across the rest of the match combined at a couple of grounds, but the chances of positive results look slim to non-existent at most of them.

That's not the case at Chester-le-Street, where Division Two leaders Durham need to score four runs to beat basement boys Gloucestershire, who can themselves wrap up victory by claiming 10 wickets without conceding more than two runs. On a knife edge, then.

Let's get you up to speed before the bell sounds in about 15 minutes from now.