Jamie Porter and Shane Snater share six as Essex continue their dominant start to the season

Division One leads secured their second win in three games during the first session on day three.
Essex 377 (Westley 81, Elgar 79, Khushi 53) defeated Lancashire 146 (Snater 4-42) and 107 (Snater 3-17, Porter 3-24), by an innings and 124 runs.
Jamie Porter and Shane Snater stormed through a shaky Lancashire batting lineup to win Essex an innings victory in Chelmsford in three days. Essex pace bowlers took three wickets each on a poor pitch as Lancashire capitulated in 41 overs for the second time in the game.
Porter started the session with the first of nine Lancashire wickets, finishing with 3 for 24 before Snater raised his match total to 7 for 59 with 3 for 17 in the second innings. Essex's second win of the season, worth 22 points, extended their lead at the top of the Vitality County Championship after only three games.
Lancashire opened day three on 10 for 1 and needed another 221 runs to force Essex to bat again. They lost five wickets in the opening hour and never recovered, with the game finishing in extra time before the planned lunch break.

Essex were obliged to pitch 19-year-old Ronnie McKenna as a substitute behind the stumps when Michael Pepper pulled out due to a finger injury sustained the night before. The Basildon-born 2nd XI wicketkeeper, Essex's third in three Championship matches this season, allowed four leg byes down the leg side in Cook's opening over.
However, 11 balls into his first-team debut, he was enjoying his first important contribution when night watcher Will Williams edged Porter into his gloves after hanging around for 36 balls.
That resulted in a devastating collapse, with four wickets falling in 16 deliveries. Josh Bohannon lasted 25 deliveries before being lbw to Cook's delivery, while Luke Wells was bowled for a 54-ball 21 by Snater. In the same Snater over, George Balderson saw the umpire raise his finger as he played down the wrong line, while Tom Bruce's off stump was sent cartwheeling by Porter.
There was a 10-over break while Matty Hurst and George Bell added 30 runs before the wicketkeeper scooped Snater into square leg's clutches.

Simon Harmer, an offspinner, hadn't bowled much on this seamer's paradise, but in his fourth over of the innings, he had Tom Bailey going down the wicket and tapping the ball back for a straightforward catch and bowling. Next, Jack Blatherwick followed Bailey's lead and provided Harmer additional catching practice by chipping the ball back to the bowler.
Bell had stayed around for 40 balls and appeared to be on track for his third fifty in four innings at Chelmsford when he nicked Cook to Dean Elgar at first slip to end the contest.