Cricket News

Leicestershire have added fast bowler Devon Malcolm and batsman Ron Cunliffe to their squad for their fourth round C&G Trophy match against Sussex at Grace Road

Somerset v Hampshire (Bath) Somerset, without Test players Andrew Caddick and Marcus Trescothick, welcome back Richard Johnson from injury and will hope he forms a potent opening pair with Matt Bulbeck who impressed as Caddick's partner at the Oval

The Sussex captain Chris Adams has undergone knee surgery after damaging the joint in training last month

Richard Montgomerie has won the Cater Allen PCA Performance Award for May

Hampshire v Warwickshire at Southampton Hampshire will continue their attempt to continue their good start to the season as they welcome what looks to be the division's weakest team to their impressive new Southampton ground

Many boys and girls in the Horsham area will get their first chance to play cricket as the result of the new Identilam Horsham Cricket Academy, launched during Sussex's Norwich Union League match against Essex on the famous old ground today (Tuesday

In an ironic twist, the next round of championship games, following on from the first Test, have prompted the England team management to show great kindness to the counties which have contracted England players

Sussex captain Chris Adams suffered a fall while preparing for the Benson and Hedges Cup quarter-final against Warwickshire at Hove

The draw was made today for the quarter-finals of the Benson and Hedges Cup quarter finals

Hampshire will need to win both their remaining Benson & Hedges Zonal matches, if they are to retain any interest in the competition, after going down by 6 wickets at Sussex on Friday.

Gates open at 9.30am and the game starts at 10.45am

At the end of a day that was restricted because of rain, Sussex had scored 178 for 3 off 42 overs, a lead of 114 over Somerset

Somerset ended the second day of their championship match against Sussex at Hove on 380 for 8, a first innings lead of 43

If we are to believe the 2002 edition of Wisden, county cricket is in crisis

Somerset, who were runners up in Division One of the county championship in 2001, travel to Hove on Wednesday to face Sussex, the Division Two champions last season, for their opening first class match of 2002

Surrey resumed in similar mood to that in which they had played on Day 1, with Nadeem taking the lead over Brown, however the ball after he reached his 150 he sacrificed his wicket in the pursuit of fast runs, it had been an excellent innings and

The day began with a well-observed two minutes silence for the two all-rounders who died in seperate accidents as the new season approached, Ben Hollioake and Umer Rashid

Surrey and Sussex will hold a two-minute silence in memory of all-rounders Ben Hollioake and Umer Rashid before their first Frizzell County Championship match at The Oval on Friday.

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Though it seemed to escape serious attention on both sides of the Atlantic last year, it's worth bearing in mind that, among the four major prizes that were on offer in English domestic cricket in 2001, only one went to a team without an Australian