Rankin strikes

Durham 210 for 4 (55) overs). Blackwell 22, Stokes 3.

A deserved wicket for Rankin as Muchall, on 18, edges to Maddy at slip.

There's two dangerous customers in now, as the newsagent who lived round the corner from Reggie and Ronnie Kray used to say, occasionally.

"I am not a heavy drinker," Noel Coward once said, "I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop."