Jon Culley

Yorkshire go top as leaders trounced

Middlesex trounce Yorkshire; Warwickshire trounce Middlesex; Yorkshire trounce Warwickshire. Picking a winner in this season's Championship is not easy

13-May-2014•Jon Culley at Headingley

Plunkett impresses with bat and ball

As Tim Bresnan waits anxiously for England's selectors to announce their first Sri Lanka line-ups, there will be some interest, too, in Liam Plunkett, who is bowling fast and scoring runs

12-May-2014•Jon Culley at Headingley

Bresnan strives to prove his worth

Tim Bresnan summoned up some stubborn resistance to keep Yorkshire competitive against Championship leaders Warwickshire

11-May-2014•Jon Culley at Headingley

Northern giants lose winning habit

A month into the new season, Yorkshire and Durham, the two best sides in the County Championship last season, have won one match between them, and that against the side currently in last place

07-May-2014•Jon Culley in Chester-le-Street

Durham prosper while Sanga nets

Kumar Sangakkara's debut for Durham in his brief stay ahead of the Sri Lanka series was a second-ball duck but Yorkshire ran aground against hundreds from Mark Stoneman and Michael Richardson

06-May-2014•Jon Culley in Chester-le-Street

Bairstow stirs England interest

Jonny Bairstow's return to batting form in Yorkshire's mammoth score against Durham was timely with his wicketkeeping rival Matt Prior still trying to shake off an achilles complaint

05-May-2014•Jon Culley in Chester-le-Street

Yorkshire end Riverside havoc

Victory for Yorkshire at Chester-le-Street last season did not stop Durham ultimately winning the Championship but Andrew Gale will feel there is no harm in setting down a marker again

04-May-2014•Jon Culley in Chester-le-Street

Brown 'encouraged' by Trott latest

England's Jonathan Trott joined his Warwickshire teammates in the dressing room to witness their 98-run win over Nottinghamshire from the pavilion balcony

29-Apr-2014•Jon Culley at Trent Bridge

Notts pitch cleared after heavy defeat

Nottinghamshire escaped a penalty for the state of the pitch at Trent Bridge, where it took Warwickshire little more than half the scheduled game time to win by 98 runs

29-Apr-2014•Jon Culley at Trent Bridge

Nottinghamshire face nervous wait over pitch

This match is in the balance, with Nottinghamshire needing 174 runs to win with seven wickets standing on a pitch that has been unpredictable, even in a generous assessment

28-Apr-2014•Jon Culley at Trent Bridge

Bell oozes class before Nottinghamshire crumble

The pleasures of watching cricket come in many shades and this was a day that could be enjoyed for high quality and high farce, although possibly not if your team happens to be Nottinghamshire

27-Apr-2014•Jon Culley at Trent Bridge

Yorks riches give Gale selection quandary

Andrew Gale, Yorkshire's captain, finds himself contemplating a looming selection dilemma with the thought that the player least sure of his place probably ought to be him

23-Apr-2014•Jon Culley at Headingley

Finger scare for Ballance as Yorkshire frustrated

With bigger tests to come, against Middlesex at Lord's and Durham at Chester-le-Street, as the season gathers momentum, Yorkshire will not want an opportunity such as this to slip through their fingers

22-Apr-2014•Jon Culley at Headingley

Rampant Brooks fears for old county

As Jack Brooks agreed, having run rampant against his former colleagues, Northamptonshire will have to learn their lessons quickly if they are not to go the way of Derbyshire last year with immediate relegation

21-Apr-2014•Jon Culley at Headingley

Inner cities pledge could hit £50m

The England and Wales Cricket Board is planning to spend up to £50 million in a massive programme of investment aimed at providing full-size outdoor cricket fields in Britain's deprived inner-cities

03-Apr-2014•Jon Culley

Cricket's lot in the inner city

The England board's recently announced plans to revive old cricket grounds in urban areas was greeted with suspicion. Is the cynicism justified?

03-Apr-2014•Jon Culley

Derbyshire may be forced to move grounds

Relegated Derbyshire may have to leave their home of the last 142 years and move to a new ground outside Derby if they are not to face a long-term future in Division Two, according to chairman Chris Grant

26-Sep-2013•Jon Culley at Derby

Innings defeat confirms Derbyshire relegation

Derbyshire were able to begin planning for next season when their relegation to Division Two was confirmed on the stroke of noon

26-Sep-2013•Jon Culley at Derby

Drop beckons after Derbyshire collapse

The corpse is still twitching but realistically Derbyshire's Division One life is over for the moment

25-Sep-2013•Jon Culley at Derby

Woakes repels fighting Derbyshire

Derbyshire's last throw of the dice began with a demonstration of faith in the team has taken them to the last round of games clinging to the possibility that they still might not go down

24-Sep-2013•Jon Culley at Derby

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