Live: Sussex v Yorkshire Men, Rothesay CC, Day Three

Sussex 232-8, 75 overs, leading by 38.

Yorkshire take four wickets in the day, with Dom Bess taking two of them in an excellent six-over spell.

We’re heading for a draw but will hopefully complete the accumulation of bonus points in the morning.

If there was to be a winner, Sussex are the most likely from here.

The umpires will have a look at the light in 10 minutes time.

Sussex lead by 38.

Dom Bess bowls three balls, George Hill is about to bowl the next over, the umpires take a light reading and go off.

Good news, we will get underway again in 10 minutes. There will be 20.3 overs remaining in the day.

It’s not heavy, but the light is also borderline.

Sussex lead by 37 with Ollie Robinson and Sean Hunt at the crease.

Sussex lead by 29, but Dom Bess’s two late wickets has pegged them back.

Ollie Robinson and Sean Hunt are at the crease.

John Simpson bowled Dom Bess, 66.

Played forwards, beaten on the outside edge. Another superb delivery from Bess gives him a second wicket.

Sussex lead by 27.

Fynn Hudson-Prentice bowled Dom Bess, 17.

Played back, undone by appreciable turn. Decent nut that one!

Sussex lead by 26.

John Simpson has 66.

It’s as light now as it has been all day. Quite a pleasant afternoon.

Sussex, though, are 220-6 with John Simpson on 66.

Good news for both of these counties comes from Taunton, where Hampshire, who are in eighth place compared to Yorkshire’s seventh and Sussex’s sixth, are 132-7 in their first-innings reply to Somerset’s 454-8 declared.

Sussex have a lead of one with John Simpson on 57 and Fynn Hudson-Prentice 3.

Oh no.

John Simpson has just benefitted from a couple slices of fortune.

He’s edged Matthew Revis down leg-side, only for Jonny Bairstow to get a hand to it going low to his right. It would have been a stunning catch.

Unfortunately, having just edged George Hill low down to Adam Lyth at slip on 53, that was a chance Lyth would have expected to take. Sussex 187-6.

Simpson also offered a return catch to Revis which was spilled just before he got to 50, but that was a no ball and would have been a great catch too.

John Simpson reaches his fifty off 93 balls, taking Sussex to 184-6.

Jack Carson caught Adam Lyth bowled George Hill, 22.

Pushing forwards, caught low down at second slip by Lyth.

Sussex trail by 16.

Fynn Hudson-Prentice joins John Simpson, who has 47.

That wicket breaks a 52-run stand, the best of the innings so far.

This hasn’t been the day that Yorkshire would have wanted so far, and they could do with a couple of quick ones just to check Sussex’s progression towards a first-innings lead.

They are 177-5, with John Simpson and Jack Carson having shared a half-century stand. Simpson 46 and Carson 22.

There are five games in play in Division One this week, and for a while this morning ours was the only one which had started today. Now, there are four in play. The only one which has got underway on day three is Warwickshire v Essex at Edgbaston.

Surrey need 315 to beat Nottinghamshire at the Kia Oval in the effective title decider.

Early stages of the afternoon and John Simpson has just picked up a boundary off Matt Milnes, through mid-wicket. He has 27.

Matt Milnes claimed the only wicket to fall in a near 19-over session.

John Simpson has 23 and Jack Carson is yet to get off the mark.

Sussex are 67 behind with five sessions remaining in the match.

Tom Alsop bowled Matt Milnes, 36.

Left-handed Alsop jams down on a yorker and can only deflect it onto leg-stump.

Jack Carson in alongside John Simpson, who has 22.

Timely wicket for Yorkshire, with Sussex 71 adrift.

Tom Alsop has 35 and John Simpson 16.

Sussex trail by 75 as their two left-handers dig in against Matt Milnes and Jordan Thompson.

Matt Milnes is into the attack.

Tom Alsop has 29 and John Simpson 10.

Sussex’s deficit is 87.

Lunch will be taken at 1pm.

Frustration for Yorkshire as Tom Alsop, on 24, edges George Hill straight through the gap between first and second slip.

Sussex have now moved to 103-4 in the 31st over.

George Hill has just had an appeal for lbw against Tom Alsop  turned down due to an inside edge.

Sussex have only added one run in the early stages of the day.

The players are on their way out to the middle.

The floodlights are on here at Hove.

Sussex 84-4 in reply to Yorkshire’s 194 all out.

We have good news!

There will be 84 overs scheduled in the day.

The umpires will take a look again in 20 minutes time.

The umpires will inspect at 10.30am.

So we do have confirmation of a delayed start. But the mopping up process is underway.

The ground-staff are starting to remove the covers, and the blotter is in full swing.

From Hove, where, unfortunately, it’s a fairly miserable scene at present.

Light but persistent rain is sweeping across the ground, and the covers are firmly in place.

Whilst there’s been no word from the umpires as yet – it’s a bit early – it would be a major surprise if we started on time at 10.30am.

When we do start, Sussex will do so on 84-4 in reply to our first-innings 194. Matt Milnes struck twice yesterday in what was a good comeback with the ball from the visitors after the batting disappointments earlier in the day.

The weather is supposed to get better throughout day three. It may just be that we have to be patient for now.

You can read our day one report, and reaction piece with Adam Lyth, via the embedded X posts above.

Enjoy the day.