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Gloucestershire leapfrogged hosts Surrey to move into County Championship promotion contention after achieving a determined four-wicket win at The Oval

Alex Gidman guides Gloucestershire to tight win

Division Two leaders Northamptonshire landed a spectacular victory against Leicestershire in their County Championship match at Grace Road, claiming the last eight wickets for 15 runs in 64 balls to win by an innings and 155 runs an hour before lunch on t

Sorry Leicestershire sink to embarrassing loss

The longest day was over all too quickly for Hampshire as their relegation fears in the County Championship increased with a crushing nine-wicket defeat by Worcestershire at New Road

Worcestershire ease to second successive win

It took Middlesex only 21 minutes on the third morning to complete a nine-wicket victory against Kent in an County Championship Division Two encounter which attracted an ECB pitch panel to Lord's

Middlesex wrap up victory over Kent

Sam Robson and Scott Newman put together an almost certainly decisive opening stand of 120 as Middlesex closed in on their fourth County Championship win of the season in a controversial Division Two game against Kent at Lord's

Middlesex close in on win

Stephen Peters just missed out on a century while David Lucas and Lee Daggett both hit career-best scores as Northamptonshire took a stranglehold on their County Championship game against Leicestershire at Grace Road

Northants take control at Grace Road

The figures might be unremarkable, but Boyd Rankin produced an unusually fine spell of fast bowling on the first day of Warwickshire Championship match with Somerset

Rankin sparks Somerset collapse

20-Jun-2011•George Dobell at Edgbaston

Lower order prompts Nottinghamshire recovery

Nottinghamshire were once again reliant on club stalwarts Paul Franks and Chris Read to dig them out of a hole on the first day of the Division One meeting with Lancashire

Paul Collingwood's first Durham century since making six in 2005 put the Championship leaders in command against struggling Yorkshire at Chester-le-Street

Collingwood century puts Durham in command

A battling century by Neil McKenzie held up Worcestershire's Alan Richardson-inspired victory charge at New Road but Hampshire are still in danger of being cut off at the foot of Division One in the County Championship

McKenzie defies Richardson with ton

Only Mark Ramprakash displayed the required application to fashion an innings worthy of note as Surrey limped into a 110-run lead at the mid-point of their Second Division match with Gloucestershire

Ramprakash fifty props up Surrey

Tim Murtagh and Azhar Mahmood led the way with six-wicket hauls as bowlers dominated a remarkable opening day of Middlesex's Second Division clash with Kent at Lord's

23 wickets tumble on first day at Lord's

Fourteen wickets fell as Gloucestershire enjoyed the better of the opening day exchanges in their County Championship trip to the Oval where the visitors closed on 171 for 4 in reply to Surrey's 225 all out

Gloucestershire edge day for bowlers

Northamptonshire made an impressive return to County Championship action, totally dominating the first day of the match against Leicestershire at Grace Road

Seamers put Northants on top

Leaders Durham reduced Yorkshire to 170 for 9 in the 53 overs which were bowled in the Division One match at Chester-le-Street after the first day was washed out

Durham take charge on truncated day

Vikram Solanki's first County Championship century for 14 months enabled Worcestershire to take maximum batting points for the first time this season

Solanki and Richardson put Worcestershire in control

Stephen Parry revived Lancashire's hopes of a Friends Life t20 quarter-final place by claiming a competition-best 4 for 23 to set up a crushing 10-wicket win over Warwickshire

Parry sets up crushing victory for Lancashire