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Matt Prior and Stuart Broad got the chance to stretch their legs ahead of tomorrow's England Test squad announcement with rain doing enough to ensure there was nothing more than handshakes after 56 overs of play on day four.

On a day when England's chosen ODI batsmen laboured on a stodgy Edgbaston pitch, it was their sole Twenty20 international centurion, Alex Hales, who produced a fine, one-day paced knock

That Sussex are within 33 runs of reaching the follow-on target of 303 owes much to an unbeaten century from their captain Ed Joyce

Samit Patel is in the form of his life and the spin-bowling allrounder spot is up for grabs. But will England take note or will Moeen Ali win the day?

Those that have watched cricket at Glamorgan over the years have got used to seeing slow, low pitches. Chris Cooke was grateful for a pitch with far greater carry and bounce as his blasted Glamorgan to a final-ball victory over Sussex.

Sussex have made clear their shock and anger at the revelations of alleged match-fixing involving former players Lou Vincent and Naveed Arif, who were last week charged with corruption by the ECB

After their blip against Glamorgan last week Hampshire were back to their formidable best at Hove

Lou Vincent expects more corruption charges to be laid against him in the near future after the ECB took action in relation to alleged fixing in county cricket

Sri Lanka scorched to a ten-wicket win in less than half the allotted overs to complete their warm-up matches ahead of the limited-overs series against England in dashing style

Quite what Middlesex envisaged when they agreed to open their NatWest T20 Blast campaign with back-to-back games at Lord's, it surely was not two defeats in five hours

Yasir Arafat, in his third spell with Sussex, was an unlikely matchwinner with the bat as they saw off Surrey with a last-ball win in Hove

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Watching Kumar Sangakkara bat could never be described as a chore but his grit was of material value to Durham as they quietly applied the sleeper hold to Sussex for their fourth draw of the season.

This game seems destined to end in a draw, with more than 100 overs lost so far and Sussex requiring 18 wickets or some generous collusion in the time remaining

Durham's thin squad, which was already up against it in attempting to defend their Championship title, has been dealt a further blow by the news that Graham Onions will need to see a specialist about his back problem

With England seeking a new start under Peter Moores it is the opportune time for players to push their name forward. Luke Wright was the latest to do so with a century against defending County Champions Durham

Gary Yates insisted that rain wrecked the chance of an absorbing Lancashire run chase and, as sceptical as some supporters seemed to be, nobody could prove him wrong

Lancashire failed to reach 200 for the third time in four innings before Sussex gave them a lesson at Old Trafford about how to construct an innings

Tim Ambrose and Jeetan Patel hit centuries to help Warwickshire carve out a first-innings lead of 295.

When bullets meet balsa wood there is generally only one winner. The metaphors regularly employed should have warned that Lancashire would find Sussex's attack hard to handle