Cricket News

Nottinghamshire's Benson & Hedges campaign suffered its first setback when former Trent Bridge favourite Mathew Dowman guided Derbyshire to their first group victory

Yorkshire got back on course for the Benson & Hedges Cup quarter-finals with a comfortable five-wicket victory over Lancashire

England all-rounder Andy Flintoff is in doubt for the NatWest Series against Pakistan and Australia after injuring himself today

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Durham's Paul Collingwood continued his rich vein of form to earn his second Benson & Hedges Cup Gold Award of the week in the match against Leicestershire at Chester-le-Street

Nick Knight's second century in two days kept Warwickshire in contention in the Benson & Hedges Cup, but Glamorgan, beaten finalists last year, are now out of the reckoning after four straight defeats

England opener Marcus Trescothick gave Somerset's hopes of reaching the Benson & Hedges Cup quarter-finals a hefty boost, hitting an unbeaten 109 to earn his side a crushing eight-wicket victory over Northamptonshire at Wantage Road

Chasing 223 for victory, Ramprakash and Stewart made it look so easy on reaching 171 for one before Essex got the breakthrough with Stewart, playing his first match of the season, being caught on the mid-wicket boundary

BAT Sports and Bashley (Rydal) get the newly-sponsored Southern Electric Premier League under way at Southern Gardens on May 5 - despite the wettest winter on record, which led to the postponement of eight scheduled opening day fixtures in the three

Alton v Waterlooville at Jubilee Playing Fields Bashley (Rydal) II v Gosport Borough at Bashley Common Road New Milton v Purbrook at Ashley Sports Ground Portsmouth II v U.S.Portsmouth II at St.Helens, Southsea (matches at Hook and Newnham

Mike Hussey, Jeff Cook and Graeme Swann spurred Northamptonshire to a seven-wicket triumph over Warwickshire in their Benson and Hedges Cup qualifier at Wantage Road - the home side's first win of the season

Kent pulled off an astonishing victory by three wickets after they had been left facing apparent defeat when they lost their seventh wicket still 77 runs short of their victory target with 11 overs remaining

Skipper Mark Alleyne was Gloucestershire's wounded hero as they maintained a 100 per cent Benson & Hedges Cup group record with a five-wicket win over Glamorgan at Bristol

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Worcestershire's two-match winning start in the Benson & Hedges Cup was rudely interrupted by a buffeting from Somerset all-rounder Ian Blackwell

Hampshire retain the same 13 for their expected B&H Match v Surrey.

Ben Hollioake guided Surrey to a comfortable victory over Hampshire on the first day of cricket at the £17m Rose Bowl, more easily achieved than the 23-run margin suggests

Muttiah Muralitharan and Mike Atherton linked up to give Lancashire a crushing ten-wicket victory over Derbyshire in Liverpool which kept their hopes of reaching the Benson & Hedges quarter-finals alive

Nottinghamshire won the battle of the two unbeaten sides in the northern group of the Benson & Hedges Cup when they beat Durham by five wickets with five balls to spare at Chester-le-Street