Surrey, finishing the season with a swagger, put Yorkshire in their place on their own Headingley midden by a 19-run margin

Ian Westwood had the right to imagine that all eyes at Chester-le-Street were upon him. They weren't but perhaps in a perfect world they would have been. After all, he had answered Warwickshire's call in times of need

There is the faintest risk of relegation in the air for Durham and Warwickshire, with the whiff about to become stronger for whichever county finishes on the wrong end of the result here

Mark Wood bowled Durham to a stunning seven-run victory against Yorkshire in a high-quality match at Edgbaston

Moeen Ali continued his good form, but a Worcestershire collapse put paid to their semi-final hopes as Mahela Jayawardene struck an unbeaten hundred

Ian Bell's accession to the Warwickshire captaincy was not meant to turn out like this. Instead of an anticipated title challenge, he is now haunted by vague fears of relegation, unthinkable in April

Kumar Sangakkara struck 88 to set up Surrey's second-innings 390 before Tom Curran struck before the close

Nottinghamshire, believe it or not, are deep in the relegation mire - and the situation has got worse after an intervention by their old boy Andy Carter

Mark Wood's hostility and a fine innings by Mark Stoneman helped Durham pull off a shock win in the NatWest Blast quarter-finals against Gloucestershire in Bristol

Jake Lehmann has signed a short-term deal for Yorkshire and has the chance to play on the Headingley ground where his father became one of the county's most-loved players

Samit Patel claimed 4 for 20 as Nottinghamshire threw off their mental shackles to beat Essex and qualify for their first Finals Day since 2010

England could not have responded more emphatically to their first-Test defeat, completing a 330-run win at Old Trafford on the fourth evening in a manner that answered many of the questions Lord's had presented

Its image as an establishment game fits uncomfortably with the impulse to spread T20 cricket to a wider audience. Meanwhile, it needs to become relevant to as many people as possible

England chose not to enforce the follow-on after Pakistan crumbled for 198, a deficit of 391, in the Old Trafford Test with only their captain, Misbah-ul-Haq reaching a half-century

Joe Root, having put his Test summer back on course on the opening day of the Old Trafford Test, extended his virtuoso performance past 200 on the second as England sought to pile up an impregnable first innings score against Pakistan

Alastair Cook and Joe Root restored England's equilibrium after defeat at Lord's with immaculate hundreds on a flawless pitch on the opening day of the Old Trafford Test

Marcus Trescothick's marathon double century delighted Somerset, but he failed to bat through an innings for the first time as he was last out during a whirlwingdseven-wicket spell from Imran Tahir

Yorkshire have given Alex Lees a suspended two-match ban after his outburst against umpire Martin Saggers in the NatWest Blast against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge on Friday

Marcus Trescothick has taken his place alongside Harold Gimblett as Somerset's most prolific century-maker in first-class cricket

On a somnolent summer's day at Trent Bridge, Steven Mullaney's concentration remained unimpaired from first ball to last