Essex vs Gloucs, at Chelmsford, , Jul 17 2003 - Match Result

Worcestershire are to offer Steve Rhodes a new one-year contract

FIVE FOREIGN FIZZERS Yuvraj Singh Only 145 runs for Yorkshire's low-key high-profile import Virender Sehwag Took a while to find his feet for Leicestershire then went home early with an injury Ashley Thorpe For once an Aussie did badly

Lancashire 243 for 1 beat Northamptonshire 240 by nine wickets at Northampton Scorecard Lancashire took the title of Division Two winners with a nine-wicket win against Northants, and at the same time pipped them to the post

Adam Hollioake, Surrey's captain, has admitted that winning the National League and the Twenty20 Cup hasn't softened the blow of letting the Championship slip away from them