The Channel Islands have joined the 20 Minor Counties, the 17 first-class Board XIs and Huntingdonshire in the 2001 ECB 38-County Cup

The Minor Counties Championship is to switch to three-day matches from the 2001 season

Dorset were in dreamland at Bournemouth Sports after lifting their first Minor Counties championship title - after 99 years of trying

Dorset go into the final day of the Minor Counties final at Bournemouth Sports CC having clawed themselves into a match winning position against Cumberland

A farewell century from opener David Pearson helped Cumberland gain the ascendancy on day one of the three-day Minor Counties final against Dorset at Bournemouth Sports

A HAT-TRICK of Western Division pennants has given Dorset the chance to lift their first Minor Counties title at the third time of asking

Herefordshire, a Minor County for just nine years, lifted their first major trophy with a 42-run win over Cheshire in the final of the ECB 38-County Cup at Lord's

Dorset, beaten by Cumberland in last year's Minor Counties Championship final, will have the chance to take their revenge when they host a repeat of the 1999 play-off at Bournemouth Sports CC between September 10 and 12

Lincolnshire skipper Mark Fell blasted Cumberland's tactics as the chase for the Minor Counties Eastern Division pennant saw the reigning champions resort to subterfuge against Northumberland

Reigning champions Cumberland moved back to the top of the Eastern Division table ahead of the final round of fixtures on August 20 and 21

Buckinghamshire paceman Simon Stanway captured six for 47 to deny reigning champions Cumberland a first-day advantage as the race for the Eastern Division pennant hotted up at Carlisle

Skipper Phil Nicholson hit the winning run at Jesmond as Northumberland beat Buckinghamshire by one wicket to boost their hopes of finishing in their highest Eastern Division placing since they were runners-up in 1983

The rain which caused so much disruption in the early weeks of the Minor Counties season returned with a vengeance on the penultimate weekend of the divisional programme

Cheshire and Herefordshire will battle out this season's ECB 38- County Cup final at Lord's on Wednesday August 30

Keith Arnold kept Oxfordshire in pole position in the Western Division table by demolishing Herefordshire's title hopes with the best Minor Counties bowling of the season

Keith Arnold put the skids under Herefordshire's hopes of leapfrogging Oxfordshire at the head of the Minor Counties Western Division table with a landmark performance at Thame

An unwanted 27-year-old record is looming large for Staffordshire after they had to hang on for a draw against Suffolk at Leek

Hertfordshire's David Ward rattled up the highest championship score of the season with a majestic 202 not out against Norfolk at Lakenham

David Pennett was the Cumberland hero as the reigning champions returned to top spot in the Eastern Division table after their third win of the season in a one-innings contest with Suffolk at Millom

Herefordshire missed the chance to make up ground on Western Division leaders Oxfordshire when they succumbed to a seven-wicket defeat by Wiltshire at Luctonians