Vitality Blast Finals Day

Moeen Ali anticipates Jos Buttler duel

Sep 14, 2018: The latest news as it happens in the build-up to Vitality Blast Finals Day

Durham v Sussex, Vitality Blast quarter-final, Chester-le-Street

Evans and Rawlins back up Sussex's spinners to secure Finals Day berth

Aug 24, 2018: Ben Stokes gave Durham a flying start but when he departed the Sussex attack took charge

Twenty20 Vision

Winners and losers - the story of the Blast group stages

Aug 20, 2018: Ahead of the Vitality Blast quarter-finals later this week, we take a look at some of the influential figures so far

Sussex v Durham, Specsavers Championship, Division Two, Arundel

Arundel's charms lost on Durham after morning collapse heralds defeats

Jun 22, 2018: Durham supporters arriving late for the third day were in for a nasty surprise as Sussex made a surge towards victory

Sussex v Middlesex, Specsavers Championship, Hove

Middlesex collapse after hundreds for Nick Gubbins and Dawid Malan

May 6, 2018: Left-arm spinner Danny Briggs took three wickets in five balls as Sussex were left needing 230 for victory

Gloucestershire v Sussex, Specsavers Championship Div Two, Bristol, 4th day

Marshall signs off by helping Gloucestershire earn draw

Sep 23, 2016: Hamish Marshall played his part in guiding Gloucestershire to an unlikely draw in their final Specsavers County Championship game of the season against Sussex in Bristol.

Glamorgan v Sussex, Specsavers Championship, Div Two, Cardiff, 4th day

Brown brings Sussex last-gasp delight

Aug 26, 2016: A partnership of 55 in nine overs for the eighth wicket between Ben Brown and Danny Briggs enabled Sussex to gain their second Championship win of the season

County previews

Dynamo Wright aiming to re-energise Sussex

Apr 7, 2016: Entrusted with the captaincy in all three formats, Luke Wright will demand high standards and unstinting effort to make the sun shine again in Hove

County previews

Wright charged with rousing Sussex spirits

Apr 6, 2016: Luke Wright's cheery and energetic demeanour will be tested by the captaincy of a Sussex side seeking an immediate return to the first division of the Championship

England's spin stocks

Six English spinners for the future

Nov 5, 2015: After England's spin options were ruthlessly exposed in the UAE, we take a look at six young hopefuls vying to become stars of the future

County news

Briggs makes surprise Sussex switch

Oct 9, 2015: Danny Briggs, the left-arm spinner who was once hailed as the answer to England's one-day spin bowling needs, has sought to re-energise a faltering career by switching to Hampshire's south coast neighbours Sussex

Hampshire v Derbyshire, Ageas Bowl, 2nd day

Briggs turns screw on Derbyshire

Jun 2, 2014: Hampshire's slow left-armer Danny Briggs claimed four wickets to leave Division Two's bottom side Derbyshire in trouble at the Ageas Bowl

Middlesex v Hampshire, T20 Blast, North Division, Northwood

Vince, Briggs keep Middlesex winless

May 25, 2014: Hampshire scored the highest total of the NatWest T20 Blast season so far as they beat Middlesex by 47 runs at the Merchant Taylors' School Ground in Northwood

England in Australia 2013-14

Week of relief merely brings more anxiety

Feb 3, 2014: England were fancied to end their tour on a high against an understrength Australia but after three hefty defeats, worries in important areas have been revealed

England in New Zealand 2012-13

Briggs ruled out of NZ Twenty20s

Jan 25, 2013: Danny Briggs, the left-arm spinner, has been ruled out of the Twenty20 series against New Zealand and Lions tour of Australia

World Twenty20 2012

England battling against the odds

Sep 20, 2012: Rarely can the defending champions in any competition have come into a tournament with so little expected of them

Afghanistan v England, World T20 2012, Group A, Colombo

Defending champions aim for safe start

Sep 20, 2012: ESPNcricinfo previews the Group A World Twenty20 match between Afghanistan and England in Colombo

World Twenty20 2012

It's cricket over romance for Briggs

Sep 20, 2012:

England news

Taylor has to settle for performance place

Sep 18, 2012: James Taylor must console himself with a place on the England Performance Programme having been omitted from the Test squad to tour India

Yorkshire v Hampshire, Friends Life t20 final, Cardiff

Hampshire hold off Miller to take t20 title

Aug 25, 2012: Hampshire survived a terrific late assault by David Miller, Yorkshire's South African overseas player, to clinch the Friends Life t20 title by 10 runs