The Great Blondin

Tea: Lancashire 209 for 4 (64 overs). Chilton 33, Croft 26.

Solid work by these two batsmen to add 60 in 20 overs up to tea.

This match is finely balanced. More finely balanced, in fact, than even The Great Blondin (the first tightrope-walker to cross Niagara Falls) ever was.