And that is that! Thanks for your company over the last four days – see you all on Friday!

Headingley: Yorkshire 519-7dec DRAW WITH Glamorgan 221 and 372-7

Yorkshire 16 points, Glamorgan 10

Match abandoned at Headingley – it ends in a draw. Yorkshire pick up 16 points, Glamorgan get 10.

Right, with thunder rumbling around at Headingley, I think I’ll start writing up for the paper. BTL remains open, as always.

Is this, the final curtain? Glamorgan 372-7. Northeast 142 not out, Crane one not out. Two wickets for J Root and Adam Lyth.

Harris sent on his way, lbw, by the ump. Not a happy chappy. But Glamorgan now seven down.

A wicket! With the final ball of the session. Adam Lyth and his nondescript doughnuts the man with the golden arm. Bevan lbw – Glamorgan 362-6, a lead of 64. Yorkshire bounce into tea.

Dom Bess has filthy knees, so at least something is right with the world. Northeast and young Bevan seeing Glamorgan through till tea.

Lord’s: Middlesex 407-8 DRAW WITH Leicestershire 306

Middlesex 15 points, Leicestershire 12

And they call it a day at Lord’s.

Dom Bess really has gone bold with the bleach bottle – full on white blond, no hint of honey. Happy for Moriarty here, he spent so long on the sidelines at Surrey, now into his 51st over (1-121) of the innings.

Daniel Bell-Drummond on today’s win: “These wins are not easy to come by, so hopefully we can go from strength to strength. This is a very proud day for me but now we have three days off and then we’re back to it.

“Both Wes Agar and Nathan Gilchrist bowled brilliantly. It was world-class bowling that bowled them out very cheaply in the first innings and put us in the box-seat in the game. They were hungry to get back into it and they really showed their class.”

A second for Joe Root! Cooke bowled and now the door is open.

A hungry Northeast reaches his second century of the year – the first was that unbeaten 335. He already has 500 runs under his belt – if he could make this a double, 1000 before the end of May suddenly flies into sight.

Have arrived home. The Giro seems to have taken precedence over Yorks v Glamorgan, where Ingram has been out. A wicket for Root J. Glam four down, lead by 11.

This was before lunch actually, but deserves celebrating. A cracking performance by Glamorgan in their second innings to take things to near parity, a partnership of 200 between Ingram and that purveyor of big scores, Sam Northeast.

I’m going to cycle home now with the covers on at Old Trafford. One chink of light for Lancs supporters – Saqib Mahmood is due to play in the next round of matches, against Notts at Trent Bridge.

It’s suddenly looking sticky for Kent. Hartley and Lyon have the bit between their teeth. At least Anderson isn’t pawing the turf in the deep.

No play, incidentally, at Lord’s – where it is raining and the forecast is miserable.

Brilliant! Compton must go this time, he drives, and Lyon, all international reflexes, dives to his right and collects. Kent 92-2, require 73.

A drop! And it’s the crab-like Compton, dropped by Will Williams, the ball bouncing out of his paws as he hit the ground.

Another email drops – good morning, Jonathan May!

“An interesting article by Ali re the PCA’s concerns about the volume of domestic cricket being played.

”To an extent the concerns make sense, given that, after the championship phase, the schedule becomes incredibly messy, due to the ECB’s mother of all disasters in adding a fourth format to the season. You often get the impression that players are unsure which format they’re playing mid-way through.

”Some complaints don’t wash though. Journey times in England aren’t much of an issue (compare US NBA basketball road trips!). And how about travelling around in team buses, not their cars, as it’s safer and more environment-friendly? Most sports teams seem to.

“Above all, 78 days’ cricket for a county (the number Ali quotes) doesn’t seem too much over six months. That includes all the championship days theoretically getting played on (which they never do) and the one-day cup, which is nowadays full of second-team players grateful for the chance to shine. Very few players, if any, play all the matches.

“Come on guys, it’s a professional sport and a nice life too. I’d swap it for an office job any day.”

Hartley and Lyon are wheeling away, not quite into the dust, the slightly less damp soil. Kent’s target has shrunk to 84 – make that 80 with that boundary from Compton, who is slightly less snail-like this morning.

Good morning, Tim Maitland!

“Just chewing the cud over Joe Root’s 156 against Glamorgan and the 119 he scored in the last match versus Derbyshire and I can’t help thinking it might be really good news for England.

”Of course these aren’t test calibre attacks, but I’d argue Root was the one person who didn’t need to be influenced by whatever Brendon McCullum wants the “Bazball” philosophy to be called. He was already scoring at a rate that would get under the skin of any test captain and, more importantly, was doing it in a relatively risk free manner: the nurdling of ones and twos off good balls and the exquisitely timed despatching of the bad ones. Relieved of the captaincy and given the freer reign of the Ben Stokes era, I’d argue Root became less effective. It wasn’t that his novelty shots were getting him out that often, but he seemed to be getting out more often pushing to score at a higher rate than he needed to.

”The beauty of yesterday’s innings (foreshadowed by the more pedestrian one against Derbyshire), was that while scoring at almost a run a ball – his century came pleasingly in exactly 100 balls, Root wasn’t pressing to manufacture runs. The scoop seems to have been largely shelved and the reverse sweep has been returned to its role as a surprise weapon.

”If this is part of a plan to get himself back to what made him such a successful test batsman in the first place, he could be about to enjoy a real Indian summer as he enters the later stages of his career.”