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Middlesex's buoyant start in the County Championship spilled over into the limited-overs arena when they began their Clydesdale Bank 40 campaign with a 24-run victory over Worcestershire at New Road

Worcestershire fall short in chase

Lancashire Lightning celebrated the start of a new era for their Old Trafford ground with a comfortable 20-run Clydesdale Bank 40 victory over the Unicorns

Lancashire open campaign with win

Captain Andrew Hall took five wickets and wicketkeeper Niall O'Brien smashed 94 not out as Northamptonshire began their Clydesdale Bank 40 campaign with a seven-wicket demolition of Leicestershire

Hall sets up seven-wicket drubbing

Had anyone told Worcestershire that they would be above Somerset in the County Championship table after two games, the chances are they'd have accepted with glee

Worcestershire stumble on final day

23-Apr-2011•George Dobell at New Road

Rees and Powell rescue Glamorgan

Gareth Rees and Michael Powell both struck half-centuries as Glamorgan batted out for a draw on the final day of their County Championship clash against Surrey at Cardiff

Essex's Matt Walker and Mark Pettini both struck unbeaten half-centuries as Essex secured a draw on the final day of their Second Division clash with Northamptonshire at Wantage Road

Walker and Pettini close out for draw

Middlesex continued their impressive start to the season when half-centuries from Gareth Berg and Ollie Rayner carried them to a thrilling three-wicket victory at Derby

Berg and Rayner seal Middlesex chase

Sussex's 20-year-old left-hander Luke Wells rode his luck to complete his maiden century before his team suffered some late jitters on the way to a thrilling two-wicket win against Durham at Chester-le-Street

Sussex hold nerve in cliffhanger

Middlesex reached 145 for 2 by the close to leave their County Championship Division Two clash with Derbyshire nicely poised going into the final day

Derbyshire fightback leaves match poised

Glamorgan's batting line-up, notably nightwatchman Huw Waters and Graham Wagg, produced a rearguard action to hold up Surrey's victory charge on the third day at Cardiff

Defiant Glamorgan hold up Surrey

Somerset's dismal start to the season continued with a second consecutive innings defeat, this time to Lancashire in Liverpool

Somerset slump to another innings defeat

22-Apr-2011•Jon Culley in Liverpool

Chopra makes history with second successive double-ton

Varun Chopra wrote his name into Warwickshire's record books with a second successive double-century in consecutive first-class games

22-Apr-2011•George Dobell at New Road

Yorkshire collapse to hand Notts win

Yorkshire suffered a dramatic reversal in fortune as they slumped to a 58-run defeat after being bowled out for 86 on the third day of their County Championship match against Nottinghamshire

An unbeaten 74 from 20-year-old Luke Wells in only his third County Championship match took Sussex to within sight of an unlikely victory against Durham

Wells gives Sussex upper hand

22-Apr-2011•ESPNcricinfo staff

Vaas and O'Brien ensure Northants' lead

Northamptonshire's Niall O'Brien and Chaminda Vaas both came within a whisker of making centuries on the third day of their County Championship Division Two match with Essex at Wantage Road