Warm and cosy

Tea. Essex 217 for 5 (54 overs). Foster 30, Ten Doeschate 14.

A wildly fluctuating day fluctuated back Essex's way before tea as the sixth-wicket pair added an unbroken 48 with Foster looking nifty.

Two laudable aspects to Essex's charming Chelmsford home. It has the warmest and cosiest public toilets in county cricket. And it is the only county headquarters where spectators can go blackberrying without leaving the ground.