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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

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

Shaun Udal has stood down from the Middlesex captaincy following his team's poor start to the season and will be replaced by Adam Gilchrist for the next six games, after Gilchrist requested to extend the terms of his contract and play in Middlesex's away

Shaun Udal resigns as Middlesex captain

11-Jun-2010•Cricinfo staff

Surrey booed once again after failed chase

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

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

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

Bell steers Warwickshire home

Northamptonshire Steelbacks lost six wickets for 15 runs in 26 balls as they suffered a 69-run defeat against Lancashire Lightning at Old Trafford

Lancashire skittle Northants

Title holders Sussex chalked up their third successive win of the Friends Provident t20 South Group by edging a tense local derby against Kent by four wickets

Yardy, Prior keep Sussex on top

Kieron Pollard singlehandedly took Somerset to a five-wicket win over Middlesex at Lord's with the sort of power-hitting that has made him one of the most prized freelancers in Twenty20 cricket

Pollard blows Middlesex away

09-Jun-2010•The Bulletin by Liam Brickhill at Lord's

Malik runs through Northants

Leicestershire fast bowler Nadeem Malik took four wickets as the Foxes claimed a 12-run win over the Northamptonshire Steelbacks in the Friends Provident t20 at Wantage Road.

James Allenby produced another fine all-round performance as Glamorgan Dragons celebrated their second consecutive Friends Provident t20 win with a seven-wicket success over Hampshire Royals under floodlights in Cardiff

Allenby guides Glamorgan win with allround display