Cricket News

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today announced that the Warwickshire left-arm spinner Ashley Giles is to undergo an operation on Monday on his injured achilles tendon

The ECB has confirmed the dates for the semi-final matches in the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy

Warwickshire gained their revenge on Yorkshire by beating them by four wickets with 35 balls to spare at Headingley to go through to the semi-finals of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy

The draw for the semi-finals of the C&G Trophy has paired Somerset with Warwickshire at Taunton, while Leicestershire will play Lancashire at Leicester

There is growing evidence of a performance gap between the two divisions in the CricInfo Championship

There has never been a better time to watch county cricket

Chester-le-Street: Gloucestershire 304 (RC Williams 75, M Kileen 4-73) and 55-1 Durham 86 and 163 (RJ Sillence 4-35) Gloucestershire win by 9 wickets

Ryan Driver was in top form for Lancashire second XI

Yorkshire go into their C & G quarter-final clash against Warwickshire as strong favourites

Yorkshire Phoenix demolished Warwickshire Bears for 59 in 15.2 overs to win their Norwich Union Division One day-night match at Headingley by the substantial margin of 175 runs

There were angry shouts from spectators as Warwickshire's CricInfo Championship Division Two game against Derbyshire lapsed into frustration and bloody-mindedness before ending in a draw, which served neither county's best interests

Michael Di Venuto and Graeme Welch raised Derbyshire's hopes of their first Championship win of the summer as Warwickshire wilted on the third day at Edgbaston

Tim Munton came back to haunt Warwickshire - not in his specialist role as a pace bowler but by making only his fourth half-century in first-class cricket

Warwickshire batsman Nick Knight spoke of the side's frustration after the first day of their CricInfo Championship game against bottom-of-the-table Derbyshire was washed out

Shahid Afridi makes his CricInfo Championship debut for Leicestershire against Glamorgan in Cardiff tomorrow

Warwickshire are looking for a replacement reserve wicketkeeper after it was announced that Tony Frost will miss the rest of the season

Warwickshire had to dig themselves out of a hole to achieve a victory target of only 159 after Northants' seamer Mike Strong scattered their upper batting with a spell of three wickets without cost in only eight balls

Neil Carter proved the unlikely hero of Warwickshire's comfortable five-wicket win over dispirited Essex at Edgbaston

Durham's reward for ending Gloucestershire's remarkable run of one-day success is an away tie against Lancashire at Blackpool in the quarter-finals

West End, Southampton: Hampshire 2nd XI 204 (J Laney 74, J Adams 55) Gloucester 2nd XI 113 Hampshire 2nd XI won by 91 runs