Cricket News

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

Allround Kent too strong for Gloucestershire

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

Rain denies Derbyshire after Durston heroics

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

Wright edges Sussex to victory at Cardiff

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

Ramprakash, Younis set up 21-run win

12-Jun-2010

Foster takes over as Twenty20 captain for Essex

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

12-Jun-2010•Cricinfo staff

Cosgrove and Maynard set up easy win

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

11-Jun-2010•Cricinfo staff

Pollard and Thomas secure amazing victory

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

Vaas carries Northamptonshire to first win

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

Wes Durston's hundred in vain as Alex Hales stars

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

Taylor, Hales and Prior star as runs flow

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

Captain Gilchrist lifts Middlesex with 47-ball ton

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

Brad Hodge helps beat former team-mates

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

Ross Taylor and Ian Blackwell break Durham's duck

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

Matt Prior makes point to selectors

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

Surrey booed once again after failed chase

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

Gibbs and Gale demolish Durham

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

Hales leads dominant performance

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

ECB outlaws double-bouncing delivery