LIVE BLOG: Lancashire v Surrey-Day Two
6.45pm, CLOSE Day 2
Lancashire 1st innings 233-8 (77 overs) trail by 209 runs, de Grandhomme 29 Williams 19
That's a great effort over the last 70 minutes or so by Colin de Grandhomme and Will Williams to battle their way through to the close unscathed, the pair adding 36 runs for the ninth wicket so far.
6.20pm
Lancashire 1st innings 226-8 (72 overs) trail by 216 runs, de Grandhomme 23 Williams 18
Colin de Grandhomme and Will Williams are putting up a great effort here and are 6 overs away from stumps for the day.
Williams has just pulled Dan Worrall for four to square leg and then ducked under the next ball bouncer.
6.00pm
Lancashire 1st innings 213-8 (66 overs) trail by 229 runs, de Grandhomme 19 Williams 10
Colin de Grandhomme and Will Williams have stemmed the fall of wickets for now but still have a further 11 overs to negotiate if they are to reach the close of day two.
5.36pm
Lancashire 1st innings 197-8 (60.2 overs) trail by 245 runs, de Grandhomme 13 Williams 0
Tom Bailey goes first ball after chipping Kemar Roche to Sean Abbott at midwicket.
5.33pm
Lancashire 1st innings 196-7 (60 overs) trail by 246 runs, de Grandhomme 12 Bailey 0
Two wickets go in the same over!
Luke Wood has chipped Abbott to Dan Worrall at midwicket and although the fielder juggled the ball he held on to put Lancashire deep in trouble.
5.29pm
Lancashire 1st innings 196-6 (59.1 overs) trail by 246 runs, de Grandhomme 12 Wood 0
Surrey's relentless probing has brought another success as George Bell on 20 edges behind off Sean Abbott with Ben Foakes taking a good diving catch.
5.09pm
Lancashire 1st innings 182-5 (54.3 overs) trail by 260 runs, Bell 17 de Grandhomme 0
A massive wicket falls! Jordan Clark spears in a full delivery that takes out Keaton Jennings middle stump, possibly deflected slightly off his pads, as the Lancashire captain looked to drive towards mid-on, and he's gone for 76.
There are still nearly 23 overs left to bowl today which suggests the close of play will be around 6.30pm and a lot could happen before then.
4.38pm
Lancashire 1st innings 159-4 (47.2 overs) trail by 283 runs, Jennings 70 Bell 0
Dane Vilas has gone straight after the break!
Dan Worrall banged in a short delivery and it looked like the ball came off the bottom edge that cannoned onto the stumps as Vilas attempted a pull!
That's a big blow to Lancashire.
4.03pm, TEA Day 2
Lancashire 1st innings 155-3 (45 overs) trail by 287 runs, Jennings 70 Vilas 10
Keaton Jennings has played a fine knock so far to keep Surrey at bay and he and Dane Vilas will return in 20 minutes to resume with Lancashire still having a lot to do in the final session.
3.50pm
Lancashire 1st innings 151-3 (41 overs) trail by 291 runs, Jennings 69 Vilas 7
Keaton Jennings and Dane Vilas are going steadily although Vilas has just hammered a loose delivery from Steel through midwicket for four.
3.33pm
Lancashire 1st innings 129-3 (36 overs) trail by 313 runs, Jennings 54 Vilas 0
Steven Croft goes for 11 after top edging a short ball from Sean Abbott down to Kemar Roche at fine leg.
3.25pm
Lancashire 1st innings 122-2 (4.2 overs) trail by 320 runs, Jennings 50 Croft 8
Keaton Jennings goes to his fifty off 98 balls with 8 fours.
Well batted skipper!
3.00pm
Lancashire 1st innings 109-2 (28.2 overs) trail by 333 runs, Jennings 46 Croft 0
Oh no! Josh Bohannon is walking off slapping his bat with annoyance after playing a loose drive at spinner Cam Steel that goes straight to Sean Abbott at extra cover.
He's gone for 32 and up to that point had played quite splendidly.
2.50pm
Lancashire 1st innings 102-1 (27 overs) trail by 339 runs, Jennings 40 Bohannon 31
Josh Bohannon continues to produce some great shots, another driven four off Dan Worrall bringing up the fifty partnership from 73 balls.
2.30pm
Lancashire 1st innings 76-1 (22 overs) trail by 366 runs, Jennings 30 Bohannon 19
Keaton Jennings and Josh Bohannon have made good progress in the last half hour with Bohannon producing a couple of glorious drives, the first through mid-on followed by another through mid-off in the same Jordan Clark over.
2.00pm
Lancashire 1st innings 43-1 (14 overs) trail by 399 runs, Jennings 16 Bohannon 0
Luke Wells and Keaton Jennings had made a strong start after lunch with a flurry of boundaries but Wells has gone for 24 to a stunning catch by Ollie Pope at second slip, low down to his left, off the bowling of Sean Abbott.
1.00pm, LUNCH Day 2
Lancashire 1st innings 28-0 (10 overs) trail by 414 runs, Wells 16 Jennings 11
Opening pair Luke Wells and Keaton Jennings successfully negotiate the 10 overs bowled by Roach and Worrall before the break, Jennings driving Worrall through mid-off for four from the penultimate delivery of the session.
12.45pm
Lancashire 1st innings 19-0 (7 overs) trail by 423 runs, Wells 14 Jennings 4
A nervous moment for Keaton Jennings who gets off the mark with an edge of Kemar Roach that just evades Sean Abbott third slip with the ball racing away to the third man boundary.
12.30pm
Lancashire 1st innings 0-0 (2 overs) trail by 442 runs, Wells 0 Jennings 0
We are a couple of overs into the Lancashire innings with Surrey opening their attack with Kemar Roach at the Brian Statham End and Dan Worrall coming in from the James Anderson End.
12.11pm
Surrey 1st innings 442 all out (110 overs) Steel 141 not out
Cam Steel and Dan Worrall have thumped 39 runs off 3 overs before Worrall tries one heave too many and is stumped by George Bell off Matt Parkinson for 18.
Steel's fine innings finishes unbeaten on 141 and that has taken Surrey to a fairly formidable total with 102 runs added quickly this morning.
11.55am
Surrey 1st innings 403-9 (110 overs) Steel 121 Worrall 0
Cam Steel and Kemar Roach have put bat to ball to good effect, posted a 58-ball fifty partnership to take Surrey past 400 and to 4 batting bonus points, but Luke Wood strikes with the last ball of the 110th over!
Kemar Roach feathers a catch to wicketkeeper George Bell to depart for 18 and Lancashire have got all three bowling points.
11.20am
Surrey 1st innings 368-8 (102 overs) Steel 105 Roach 1
No nervous nineties for Cam Steel who reaches his century with a pull to midwicket for four after hitting Will Williams for six in the previous over!
His century came off 151 balls and is his first for Surrey.
11.07am
Surrey 1st innings 348-8 (98.2 overs) Steel 86 Roach 0
Tom Bailey is right on the money there trapping Sean Abbott lbw for 42 to claim his fourth wicket of the innings.
Just the start Lancashire wanted this morning.
11.00am
Surrey 1st innings 344-7 Steel 86 Abbott 38
Tom Bailey is bowling the opening over of day two and Sean Abbott edges the first delivery wide of the slips for four to third man.
9.45am
We have sunny conditions at Emirates Old Trafford and thankfully the strong winds from yesterday have been replaced by a gentle breeze.
Play will start on time at 11am when Surrey will resume their first innings on 340-7 with Cameron Steel 14 runs away from his maiden Surrey century and first hundred since 2018.
He will have Sean Abbott for company on 34 not out and so far this pair have added 62 runs for the eighth wicket.
Lancashire will hope to these three remaining wickets pretty quickly with the visitors having built a pretty healthy total.