Cricket News

If there was doubt beforehand, there can be none now

A report in today's Times claims that the Professional Cricketers' Association is so angry with the decision to allow two overseas players per county in 2005 that its members are considering strike action

It's amazing what a winter's rest can do for a jaded fast bowler

On the final day of the latest round of Championship matches, there were wins for Warwickshire, Leicestershire, and Durham, while Northants batted out a draw with Gloucestershire

For the past decade or so, Lancashire have been one of the there-or-thereabouts teams of the County Championship

Darren Gough will make his debut for Essex, as the latest round of County Championship matches get underway

The ongoing battle over the way English domestic cricket should be run shifted back towards the counties and away from the England & Wales Cricket Board with the announcement that a county-dominated review group would look at the way ahead

'Thanks to the players for such a great contest,' said the PA as the teams retreated to the pavilion at 5.30pm

Lancashire's batting today had spine, but their decision to go off for bad light did not

Today was a pleasing performance for Middlesex, who triumphed with the bat on a day that began so gloomily that most of the MCC members had retreated into the long room, taking full advantage of their brand new see-through sightscreen

You could see the damp in the pitch even from the removed heights of the NatWest gherkin

Yorkshire have signed Phil Jaques, the Australian batsman, as a replacement for when Darren Lehmann is away on international duty

There were draws across the board on the final day of the latest round of county matches, although some were more exciting than others

For the latest round of County Championship matches, many counties should be strengthened by the return of their members of England's one-day squad, who fly home from the Caribbean tonight.

On the final day of a rain-blighted round of County Championship matches, Hampshire pulled off an astonishing two-day innings victory over Leicestershire, thanks to a five-wicket haul for Dmitri Mascarenhas

Northamptonshire's honorary treasurer has resigned, and a former member of staff has been arrested and released on bail, after it was reported that a quarter-of-a-million pounds has gone missing from the county's reserves

This mouth-watering game between last year's champions and this year's favourites ended in a booming win for the new pretenders

David Graveney, England's chairman of selectors, has not ruled out the prospect of Stuart Law playing Test cricket for England

This mouth-watering game between last year's champions and this year's favourites ended in a booming win for the new pretenders

Championship cricket at its best graced Hove today - and despite encountering Stuart Law in consummate and immoveable touch, Sussex are still in with a shout in this enthralling game