Cricket News

England's Kevin Pietersen made his first appearance for Hampshire for two years in today's Friends Provident t20 clash with Surrey but was upstaged by opening batsman Jimmy Adams

Kent cruised to a 36-run Friends Provident t20 victory over Gloucestershire at Gloucester after posting an imposing 217 all out - their highest Twenty20 score

Paul Collingwood shone with the ball on his first Durham appearance of the season before rain wrecked their Friends Provident t20 match with Derbyshire

Defending Twenty20 champions Sussex preserved their 100 per cent record to win the South Group top of the table clash against previously unbeaten Glamorgan at the Swalec Stadium

Surrey Lions pulled off their first Friends Provident t20 victory of the season by dampening the fire of Somerset's batting power at Taunton

James Foster has replaced Mark Pettini as Essex captain for the Friends Provident t20 after Pettini struggled in Essex's first three games of the campaign

Mark Cosgrove and Tom Maynard powered Glamorgan to a superb seven-wicket victory over Essex in their Friends Provident t20 match at Chelmsford

Kieron Pollard and Alfonso Thomas demolished Hampshire, who lost their last six wickets for four runs to slide to a sensational last-over defeat

Chaminda Vaas starred with bat and ball as Northamptonshire finally broke their duck in this year's Friends Provident t20 with a 21-run win over Worcestershire

Half-centuries from Alex Hales and Samit Patel eclipsed a brilliant hundred from Wes Durston as the Nottinghamshire romped past Derbyshire by five wickets with three overs to spare

A round-up from the latest Friends Provident t20 matches as Matt Prior, Ian Bell and Adam Gilchrist all make their mark

Emergency skipper Adam Gilchrist answered the Middlesex call by cracking a 47-ball century to ease the visitors to a comfortable six-wicket win over Kent in Canterbury

Leicestershire spin duo Brad Hodge and Claude Henderson ended Lancashire's unbeaten start to their campaign with a 14-run win

Ross Taylor and Ian Blackwell trumped Warwickshire with high-powered half-centuries as Durham registered their first Friends Provident t20 win of the season by 15 runs at Edgbaston

Matt Prior issued a powerful message to the England selectors as reigning champions Sussex beat Gloucestershire by seven wickets

The vast majority of a near 11,000-strong crowd travelled home unhappy from The Oval after Surrey slipped to a nine-run defeat in their Friends Provident t20 clash with Essex Eagles

South African Herschelle Gibbs and captain Andrew Gale sent Yorkshire Carnegie storming to their first Friends Provident t20 win of the season

Nottinghamshire made an emphatic late entry into the Friends Provident t20 arena with a six-wicket win against Worcestershire at New Road

Warwickshire's plans to introduce some innovation to bowling by using the double-bouncing ball during their Friends Provident T20 game against Derbyshire was quashed by the ECB, which outlawed the delivery

England batsman Ian Bell steered the Warwickshire Bears to a tense three wicket victory over the Derbyshire Falcons in a low scoring Friends Provident t20 game at Derby