Cricket News

Fidel Edwards has suffered a fractured right ankle after injuring himself in warm-ups ahead of the final day of Hampshire's County Championship match against Yorkshire at Headingley

To concede 593 for 9 against a county with designs on a third successive Championship, be riven by an injury crisis which saw their coach and analyst pressed into fielding duties on the final day and yet still emerge with a draw was a commendable effort b

Hampshire's coach Dale Benkenstein had been scathing about Hampshire's inadequate display in the field on the second day. He would have been happier with the response

There will be few greater mismatches in Division One of the Championship than the 28 overs at Headingley during which Jonny Bairstow and Liam Plunkett laid waste to an injury-weakened Hampshire attack

Thanks to outstanding hundreds for Adam Lyth and Jonny Bairstow, the new season began for Yorkshire in most satisfying fashion