A one-bounce hook off Andrew Davies clattered into the heavy roller beyond the square-leg fence, and chewed a chunk out of the ball.Adams fell to a second-slip catch by Cosker, fielding for the wicketkeeper Adrian Shaw who broke a finger on Monday. The announcement of four of England's winter squads - the one-day side for Australia and the Under-19s for New Zealand are still to come - brought mixed emotions to Hove. Croft was mightily relieved to make the Ashes party, Jason Lewry and Darren Thomas were bowled over by England A selection, while the Sussex skipper Chris Adams received last prize in the raffle, a place in the eight-a-side Super Max tournament in Perth next month. The advice of the Sussex management was to go out yesterday and reply with a stack of runs. Sussex's sole regular spin option, Michael Bevan, is with the Australian squad preparing for the Commonwealth Games, and will not return this season, while Glamorgan rightly sensed a seamer's wicket and left out Dean Cosker. Neil Fairbrother brightened things up with a dashing 48 and Lancashire sustained the momentum, particularly through Crawley who went ahead of Justin Langer as the leading first class run scorer this season.. WHEN RAIN arrived from the west to bring play to a halt at 3.40pm a day, which began evenly balanced, had steadily tilted Glamorgan's way. It was to be his last act of aggression, because an adventurous innings ended on 70 in the next over when he was caught and bowled by Glen Chapple.That left DeFreitas to hit out cheerfully against his old county, including a big straight six off Austin.By comparison, Lancashire's start was sedate and in the eighth over of their reply Atherton dragged a ball from DeFreitas onto his stumps.

The visitors declared with a token 21-run lead on Tuesday evening in a match where Robert Croft is the only specialist spinner. White is not fit enough to bowl but, asked to open for the first time in a four-day match, proved he is quite comfortable with a bat. White completed his first half-century of the season with his seventh boundary, a handsome cut off Ben Hollioake that he immediately repeated. With skipper David Byas, who came in at four, White added 81 in 24 overs to establish a useful platform for his side at 150 for 3 before Hollioake gained his revenge as the batsman steered the ball to Ally Brown at slip.Earlier, Mark Butcher had drawn first blood for Surrey when Michael Vaughan was leg before wicket, shuffling across one that came back. The England A captain was the only casualty before lunch but Martin Bicknell, who had bowled well without reward in the morning session, earned a belated success straight after the interval when Matthew Wood fell victim to a high slip catch held by Alec Stewart.After White's dismissal, 20-year-old Gary Fellows, making his debut, became a second victim for Ben Hollioake when he was caught down the leg side by wicketkeeper Jonathan Batty before Byas and Bradley Parker put on 58 for the fifth wicket, the partnership ending when Parker was leg before offering no stroke to Adam Hollioake as Surrey claimed their second bonus point in the 87th over.Byas reached 52 in three hours and 32 minutes before falling leg before to a Butcher inswinger as Surrey suddenly gained the upper hand, taking three wickets in 15 balls as Butcher bowled Gavin Hamilton and Richard Blakey chased a ball outside his off-stump..

The Lancashire captain's first over yielded 17 runs, including two no-balls and a total of six from one wide that shot between the slips and reached the boundary.It was Peter Martin, bowling with much more control from the other end, who ended Derby's bright start, removing both openers in consecutive overs, both to catches in the slips.Martin, celebrating his call up in England's one-day squad, could also have had Matthew Cassar out before scoring, but Graeme Lloyd could not hold a desperately difficult chance at wide fourth slip. It was largely thanks to Wasim Akram's wayward opening burst that Derbyshire were able to give such a convincing impression of making up for lost time. PHILLIP DeFREITAS did his considerable best to slow Lancashire's progress in one competition in the dress rehearsal for the final of another. Lancashire and Derbyshire meet again on Saturday in the NatWest final at Lord's and DeFreitas gave his present county a psychological boost for that contest with his former employers with the sort of swashbuckling innings that wins one- day trophies, even if its effect yesterday was to make the County Championship points that Lancashire need rather harder to obtain. But later in the day John Crawley reached 96 not out to give them a chance of earning the maximum points they need to keep the title race alive.A match already shoe-horned into the schedule to finish tomorrow afternoon lost the whole of its first day on Tuesday.

Presented with a pitch so green it was barely distinguishable from the rest of the square, and with heavy cloud cover, captain Adam Hollioake quite naturally asked Yorkshire to bat on winning the toss. But it soon became clear that the clatter of falling wickets was not going to be a feature as Yorkshire, adopting a policy of minimum risk, made patient progress. It added up to a day to stretch Surrey's nerves as they strive to win the title 27 years after the Championship pennant last flew over The Oval. Leicestershire cut their lead to 15 points in the last round and failure to win here would leave Surrey vulnerable.Restored virtually to full strength, Surrey faced a Yorkshire side lacking Darren Lehmann, who has returned to Australia to prepare for the Commonwealth Games, and Darren Gough, who has a hamstring strain. But they found themselves up against stubborn opponents unwilling to sell themselves cheaply.None was more obstructive to their ambitions than Craig White, back in action for the first time in two months after suffering from a persistent back injury. It was three and a half hours later before play was able to resume, but Smith and Walsh wasted no time in wrapping up the innings.Only one session was possible at Southampton between Hampshire and Middlesex due to rain.Hampshire were all out for 311 after resuming at 291 for 9 and in their second innings Middlesex were 105 for 2 with Mike Gatting unbeaten on 33.The pace man Richard Johnson was the most successful of the Middlesex bowlers, taking 4 for 75.Gavin Haynes was Worcestershire's main man on a rain-ruined day at Taunton, taking three of the morning's five wickets to earn figures of 4 for 38 from 16 overs as Somerset slumped from 33 for 1 to 135 for 6 at lunch, responding to the visitors' modest 244..