County Championship, day three as it happened - Warwickshire clinch title, promoted Kent win

Signing off

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There we are then, just one more day to go.

Congratulations to Warwickshire who are crowned county champions for the ninth time in their history and also to Kent who will return to Division One next season after securing promotion.

Yorkshire, Sussex, Middlesex and Worcestershire have also signed-off their respective seasons with victories.

You can read all about today's action on our dedicated County Cricket pages.

We are back tomorrow to finish off what has been another thrilling summer of domestic cricket so, thanks for joining us and see you in the morning.

Close of play at Sophia Gardens

Glamorgan 505 v Essex 129 & 331-5 – Essex trail by 45

A quieter over to finish from George Bell who takes just a single after plundering 17 in the penultimate one.

He finishes the day unbeaten on 59 from 49 balls and the way he was playing he is probably upset to see the close.

Earlier, Dean Elgar struck 108 on his farewell appearance and Tom Westley hit 65, while Matt Critchley and Charlie Allison's partnership was well broken up by Mason Crane's two quickfire wickets.

Day four will start with Essex 45 runs behind Glamorgan with five wickets in hand.

Close of play at Old Trafford

Lancs 267-5 v Durham 493

Josh Bohannon takes a single off the first ball of the final over from Shafiqullah Ghafari and is happy to spend the rest of it at the non-striker's end.

Ben Walkden sees out the over to close a sapping day for the Durham attack - shorn of Ben Raine, Matthew Potts and Ben Stokes - at Old Trafford.

Bohannon reaches the close with a magnificent unbeaten 125, passing 6,000 career first-class runs in the process.

The hosts will start the final day trailing by 226 runs as the game heads inexorably to a probable draw.

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Lancs 262-5 v Durham 493

The 110th over ticks by, so it's just the one batting bonus point for Lancashire, and one bowling point for Durham - not that either will be worried about that at this stage of the season.

Durham would love to crown their Division Two title with a 10th win but it's going to take a big bowling effort on the final day to bring it about on today's evidence.

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Allison c Tribe b Crane 42 (Glamorgan 505 v Essex 129 & 267-5 – Essex trail by 109)

Two wickets in three overs for Glamorgan and it's Mason Crane again.

Charlie Allison had looked in good touch with 42 from 45 deliveries but has given his wicket away needlessly.

He tries to whack Crane's full toss away for six with a big swing but doesn't time it right and it goes more up than away leaving Asa Tribe to take a straightforward catch.

Crane, somewhat fortuitously with that one maybe, now has 2-40 from his 11 overs.

Lancashire collect first batting bonus point

Lancs 252-5 v Durham 493

Perhaps one of the slower batting points that you will see as Lancashire bring up the magic 250 mark in the 104th over.

A first batting point for Lancashire since mid-May which tells a big story.

Can Durham nip out another and get a second bowling point?

They have 39 legal deliveries to do so.

Close of play at Taunton

Somerset 691-8 v Surrey 422

A day of records for Somerset.

Career-high scores from Tom Lammonby (229) and Tom Abell (284 not out).

Lammonby and Abell also shared a club-record fourth-wicket partnership of 334.

Surrey did not help their cause by dropping Lammonby once and Abell twice.

Migael Pretorius then blasted an unbeaten 72 from 65 balls to help Somerset to the third-highest score in their history.

Surrey are 269 runs behind and will have to bat out the whole of tomorrow to save the game.

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