Derbyshire v Glamorgan day 3

Derbyshire 368 and 170-2 (Madsen 58* Masood 42, Guest 40*)

Glamorgan 387 (Labuschagne 130, Madsen 5-82)

Derbyshire lead by 151 runs

It was a special day for Derbyshire's two overseas players today.

Suranga Lakmal took his first five-wicket haul for the county, while Shan Masood duly set a new record for the most county championship runs scored in April. For clarification, Nick Compton scored 715 in seven innings in 2012, while Masood scored 713 in just six innings. Compton's tally included 236 made against Cardiff MCCU, also a first - class but of course not championship fixture. (figures courtesy David Griffin). 

He has four more innings to become only the ninth man in history to score a thousand runs before the end of May and needs 287 to do it. What a player he is! 

I got home to see the afternoon and evening sessions, so caught the business end of Lakmal's spell. He was terrific with the second new ball and looks a class act. His fitness level is admirable and he continually asks questions of the batsmen, even on wickets not offering undue assistance. It will not be his last such haul. 

As for the match situation, much depends on the rain due tomorrow morning and what time it takes from the game. At 170-2 we are 151 ahead and could feasibly set the visitors a run chase in the afternoon. There are no real demons in the wicket, however, and conscious of their beating Nottinghamshire recently, I doubt any target would be especially generous. 

As for the rest of the day, I am willing Billy Godleman a big score, but it didn't come again today. I will be very happy if he returns to his erstwhile run tallies in the near future. Meanwhile, Wayne Madsen made another fifty, his fifth in succession, while Brooke Guest confirmed the good impression he made in the first innings. Both batted stylishly and very well, bringing a much greater ballast to the county batting than we have seen in recent seasons. 

Labuschagne earlier made a stylish century for the visitors, but my gut feeling is that they needed to bat longer and put us under greater pressure than they managed with a first innings lead of just nineteen runs. 

We will see tomorrow. I am no betting man, but a positive result here - certainly in favour of Derbyshire - requires the weather to be kind and one or two people to produce something quite spectacular. 

That's a challenge right there...

PS Play was even briefly delayed by the distraction of disco lights, coming from the marquee. 

I have never written that before and suspect that few cricket writers have.