Cricket News

Warwickshire had the better of the second day at Edgbaston where they ended 249 runs ahead of Somerset with five of their wickets still to fall

The Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) is pleased to announce three additions to its list of State Contracted Players for season 2002-03.

New Zealand's leading cricket coaches will have the benefit of the experiences of former Australian internationals Dean Jones and Peter Philpott next week

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today confirmed that a 26-year-oldmale who came on to the playing area at Old Trafford during the final npowerTest Match against Sri Lanka appeared before Trafford magistrates on 18 Juneand pleaded guilty to

A young Somerset Second team travelled to Street to play against Millfield School in a fifty over match, but proved to be far too strong for the opposition cruising to a comfortable 201 run victory

Tim Simmonite cracked an undefeated 87 as Sparsholt beat Hursley Park by 70 runs to win the Hampshire zone of the National Village Championships, sponsored by The Cricketer

Jesmond: Suffolk 274-8 & 217 (PJ Caley 87*; DJ Rutherford 5-89) Northumberland 291 & 201-2 (B Parker 120*, AT Heather 62*) Northumberland won by eight wickets

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India ran into some timely form ahead of the forthcoming NatWest triangular series against England and Sri Lanka with a 54-run win over Leicestershire at Grace Road

Somerset finished the first day at Edgbaston 109 behind Warwickshire with seven wickets in hand, but will have to do without the services of strike bowler Richard Johnson for the rest of the match, after he left the field early on during the morning

Somerset Seconds suffered their third defeat in three days in the 2nd XI Trophy competition when they lost by seven wickets to Glamorgan at the County Ground today

Kent fast bowler Amjad Khan took the honours on day one of their visit to Aigburth to meet Lancashire in Division One of the Frizzell County Championship

Early optimism turned into frustration for West Indies A, as they struggled to capitalise on an excellent start to their four-day encounter with Derbyshire.

Milton Keynes: Northamptonshire 288-9 (DE Paynter 141) Leicestershire 242-8 (RJ Cunliffe 79, AS Wright 62) Northamptonshire won by 46 runs

Steve Plumb makes a welcome return to the Lincolnshire side to play Buckinghamshire in the Minor Counties Championship three-day match beginning on Sunday June 30 at Grantham

Worcestershire County Cricket Club have awarded David Leatherdale a Benefit Year in 2003 following a long and distinguished career with the Club he first played for in 1988

Former Central Districts captain Scott Briasco will replace Mark Greatbatch as the coaching director for the association

New Brighton: Cheshire 357-3 (AJ Hall 138, D Leech 83) Derbyshire 266 (I Parkin 63; S Eaton 4-41, J Whittaker 3-46) Cheshire won by 91 runs

Both of these sides have had mixed seasons so far, each registering two wins from five outings, and both would almost certainly have gone down to defeat had Surrey enforced the follow-on at Old Trafford in round six

Canterbury: Kent 318-5 (GO Jones 117, MJ Dennington 94*, JB Hockley 67) MCC Young Cricketers 200 Kent won by 118 runs