Cricket News

Fifties for Rob Newton, Richard Levi and Ben Duckett helped Northamptonshire enjoy the better of the opening day against Gloucestershire at Wantage Road

Joe Clarke guided Worcestershire to safety at Cheltenham as their director of cricket Steve Rhodes raged that Gloucestershire "wanted it all ways"

Rain restricted the action to just 15.3 overs on the third day at Cheltenham and it may need some imagination to conjure a result if the weather clears

Ben Cox made his first century in two years before Worcestershire declared behind on the second day at Cheltenham

Jack Taylor's hundred was the latest stitch in a Cheltenham tapestry of Hammond, Zaheer and many more

Sussex will go into the break from Championship action still in the hunt for promotion from Division Two after completing a 231-run win over bottom of the table Leicestershire at Arundel to claim their third win in four games

Sussex are favourites to claim their third win in their last four Specsavers County Championship games after an unbeaten 166 by Stiaan van Zyl left Leicestershire reeling at Arundel

Batsmen have struggled on a slow Arundel pitch with Sussex hoping that fielding two spinners will prove decisive in the final throes

Kent and Northamptonshire played out a dull, high-scoring draw at Beckenham after Josh Cobb and the Northants lower order comfortably made the 24 more runs they required to avoid the follow-on early on the final day

Jack Burnham and Ryan Pringle tamed Derbyshire;s spinners at Chesterfield as Durham pulled off a six-wicket win

Bowlers dominated on a fluctuating first day at Arundel where Clint McKay's four wickets gave Leicestershire hope that they can win their first game of the season

Beckenham continued to be a batsman's paradise as Northants responded to Kent's 701 for 7 declared with big runs of their own

Alex Hughes ended a lean run with his first century of the season to give Derbyshire the edge on the third day of the Division Two match against Durham at Chesterfield

Gloucestershire eased to a 10-wicket victory over Glamorgan inside two days at Cheltenham College

Imran Tahir raised Derbyshire's hopes of back-to-back victories by taking five wickets on his debut as Durham collapsed on the second day of the Division Two match at Chesterfield

Sean Dickson plundered 318, Kent's highest individual score on home soil, and put on 382 with Joe Denly in the biggest partnership in the county's history as a host of records tumbled at Beckenham

Twenty-five wickets fell at the Cheltenham Festival and, at the end of a frantic first day of coming and going, Gloucestershire had the edge

Matt Critchley delivered another impressive application for all-rounder status when he marked his first county championship match of the season with a century in the division two match against Durham at Chesterfield

Sean Dickson hit a career-best unbeaten double century and Joe Denly notched his third hundred of the summer as Kent enjoyed a first-day run fest

Chelmsford is the birthplace of artists and magicians. Simon Harmer, making a home for himself there, could be both after another extraordinary display stretched Essex's lead to 29 points