Hokey Cokey Duckey

Ottis Gibson smacked it around this morning, helping Durham rattle up the 400 they needed to get their full complement of batting points.

But the main focus of attention today was the return to action of England's Steve Harmison. And he certainly had the Notts batsmen ducking this afternoon...

...he didn't get a wicket though. He should have had Fleming out when he top-edged a hook to third man, but Mick Lewis dropped a straightforward catch.

The afternoon session had begun in a bizarrely stop-start fashion. Only two balls were bowled before a shower forced the players off for ten minutes.

On their return, Harmison only managed another couple of balls before another shower sent them all scurrying off ...but the rain had stopped before they even reached the pavilion, so they did the hokey cokey and they turned around, and managed to get almost two whole overs in before the next shower - which, thankfully, turned out to be the last interruption.

Jason Gallian dropped anchor and kept Notts out of trouble, compiling a patient century.

The pigeons weren't impressed by any of it though...

Tomorrow could be quite interesting - weather permitting. Notts, having avoided the follow-on, could declare behind and let Durham set them a target to chase tomorrow afternoon.

Notts 255-6 (Bicknell 40, Smith 41, Gallian 114, Breese 4-77) trail Durham 404-8 dec (Gibson 49no, Ealham 3-53) by 149 runs