Cricket News

Jenny Thompson presents a review of the 2004 county season

On another day of rain interruptions and run-rate calculations, Surrey - the defending National League champions - lost out to Northants, a defeat that condemned them to relegation

Six matches, six draws: the weather certainly came out on top in the latest round of matches in the Frizzell County Championship

Championship leaders Warwickshire's match at Bristol ended in a tame draw, with Mark Wagh and Jonathan Trott's half-centuries taking Warwickshire to 308 for 8 after Gloucestershire had amassed 592 for 8 declared thanks to Craig Spearman's 237

County round-up from August 15

Two Championship wins in two games and Surrey are suddenly displaying some of the strut that we're used to

Surrey took control on the second day at Whitgift School

After Surrey and Sussex's wins yesterday, draws were the order of the day in Division One of the County Championship today, with Alex Loudon and Niall O'Brien guiding Kent to safety at Edgbaston as Kent were eventually bowled out for 420

Is there a venue where you can get closer to your heroes than Whitgift School

Brad Hodge guided Leicestershire to victory in this year's Twenty20 Cup final against Surrey at Edgbaston

At 11.35 am at The Oval, Worcestershire were reduced to 44 for 6, and the pressmen began writing up a Surrey victory

With a full house expected at Edgbaston this Saturday for the Twenty20 Cup finals day, figures released today by the ECB show that this year's competition has been even more popular than last summer

Sometime tomorrow Surrey should complete the first of three wins that coach Steve Rixon stated they needed in order to avoid a first season in Division Two

If Surrey are relegated, will the public mourn the decline of a side that played exhilarating cricket and finished in the top five every season for the past six years, or rejoice at the fall of English cricket's dominant force?

Adam Hollioake, the former England allrounder, has been forced to stop playing four-day Championship cricket because of an ankle injury

Mal Loye, Lancashire's prolific batsman, will have to miss the Twenty20 finals day this Saturday, and will probably be out of action for two to three weeks, following an injury to his Achilles tendon

The ECB has confirmed that Andrew Flintoff and James Anderson will be available to play for Lancashire in the Twenty20 Cup finals day this Saturday at Edgbaston (August 7)

Kent eased to a comprehensive 236-run victory over Sussex on the fourth day at Canterbury, thanks to a penetrative spin assault from Min Patel and Alex Loudon

Mark Butcher has suffered another setback in his bid to prove his fitness ahead of the third Test against West Indies at Old Trafford next Thursday

As Surrey found out during their catastrophic defeat against Northamptonshire on Sunday, not even a Mark Ramprakash century is any guarantee of success in these uncertain times