Cricket News

Sussex, weakened by injuries, short on experience with bat as well as ball, were likely always to find the going tough here but just how tough may have taken even them by surprise

Worcestershire made it two wins in a row in the Specsavers County Championship and ended Northamptonshire's 100% start to the season with a victory in two days in a tense, low-scoring contest at New Road

England Lions captain Keaton Jennings began to put a lean run behind him with 87 in Bristol

Nick Selman hit Glamorgan's first hundred of the season to end a depressing start to the season

Keaton Jennings batted through Durham's innings - his first century since the Mumbai Test - but Nottinghamshire's win remained all but inevitable and confirmed them as promotion favourites

Darren Stevens claimed a five-wicket haul as Kent ripped Sussex apart on the final day for the second win of the season

Sam Northeast for England! Kent fans will demand it once again after his unbeaten 173 at Hove, but is anyone in the England set-up listening?

Keaton Jennings' authority seems to have grown but other Durham players will have to prosper if they are to provide answers in a testing season that lies ahead

Angus Robson, who negotiated his release from Leicestershire last week, has signed for Sussex

Gloucestershire picked up their first Specsavers County Championship victory of the season by beating Leicestershire by an innings and six runs at The Brightside Ground in Bristol

Josh Tongue, a 19-year-old pace bowler who underwent significant back surgery last year, marked his County Championship debut by claiming a maiden five-wicket haul

Nottinghamshire nightwatchman Luke Fletcher fell eight runs short of a maiden century when he slipped in mid-pitch and was run out

Cricket South Africa are anxiously awaiting injury news on Vernon Philander - and that could spell bad news for Sussex as they attempt to build a promotion challenge

A double career-best performance from Nathan Buck was the highlight of another hard fought day between Derbyshire and Northamptonshire

Will Tavare completed a six-hour century as Gloucestershire built a strong position on the second day of the Specsavers County Championship match with Leicestershire at Bristol

There were half-centuries for Sean Dickson, Darren Stevens and Wayne Parnell but Jofra Archer's 7 for 67 was the star turn as Sussex dismissed Kent for 304 at Hove

Nottinghamshire cricketers were in no mood to be drinks waiters at Durham's revivalist party as they sliced through them on the opening day

Worcestershire closed within 27 runs of Glamorgan's first innings as they enjoyed the best of the first day in Cardiff

Will Tavare and Graeme van Buuren registered half-centuries as Gloucestershire reached the close on 236 for 4 on the opening day of the Specsavers Championship