Cricket News

Notts stunned by seamer's 13-wicket haul as three-horse race builds to climactic final week

Derbyshire's abandoned fixture against Kent had been moved to Chesterfield due to fears that a Boyzone pop concert could have damaged the outfield at Derby

Michael Carberry has signed a two-year deal with Leicestershire, while Clint McKay has been released as overseas player after three seasons at the club

Gloucestershire declared behind in their first innings at Cardiff after a maiden first-class hundred from James Bracey and Benny Howell's career-best 163

A shortened third day at Wantage Road has still left the promotion battle between Northants and Nottinghamshire on a knife edge

Sussex youngster Phil Salt gave his side the chance of a final day victory against Durham at Chester-le-Street with a classy innings of 72

Underrated, underfunded and rarely underfed, Northants are contesting the Division Two promotion race to the last and embarrassing favourites Notts in the process

Sussex's Ollie Robinson underlined his all-round qualities in the Specsavers County Championship match against Durham, taking three wickets with his usual seam bowling and one with offspin

Benny Howell hit back for Gloucestershire after Kiran Carlson fell nine runs short of a notable Glamorgan record

Kiran Carlson's first hundred of the season revived the expectations stirred by his maiden hundred against Gloucestershire last season

Despite being bowled out for 194, Northamptonshire kept their promotion hopes alive through Rory Kleinveldt's four-wicket burst

Luke Wells skippered Sussex in the Championship for the first time and marked the honour wth a century

Hardus Viljoen took the first eight wickets to give Derbyshire a rare victory and leave Sussex's outside hopes of promotion in tatters

Worcestershire have given themselves an excellent chance of securing promotion after a third successive County Championship victory

Gloucestershire's website pronounced that Gareth Roderick was out for the season. With wickets falling at Bristol, it proved to be far from the case

Lancashire loanee Simon Kerrigan struck a career-best 62 and Rob Newton pronounced himself king of the half-centuries as Northants achieved a hard-won victory in Cardiff

Northants will be confident of victory in Cardiff but they must achieve it without their England batsman Ben Duckett who has already fallen

Callum Parkinson returned Leicestershire's best analysis since the days of Devon Malcolm, but a first win remains as unexpected as ever

The last coach who refused to agree a run chase against Kent ended up with the sack - maybe Sam Northeast should mention that to Richard Dawson because he needs another one

Harry Podmore's previous highest score was 21 but his unbeaten 66 left Sussex needing a miracle to keep their promotion chances alive