Cricket News

Martin Guptill and Wes Durston both scored centuries and Chesney Hughes claimed five wickets as Derbyshire crushed the Unicorns

Ian Bell underlined his return to form with his second match-winning innings within a week as he helped Warwickshire to a six-wicket win over Northamptonshire

Both sides contrived to set Worcestershire a target of 283 but Middlesex ran through the visitors to seal their second victory of the season

Four days after Ajmal Shahzad's shock departure, Yorkshire have something to cheer about. They are celebrating a first win of 2012, completing an innings and 22-run success against Leicestershire in the final session

Joe Denly's unbeaten hundred - his first for Middlesex - helped them to three batting points for the first time this season

Northamptonshire's pace bowler David Willey, son of the former England all-rounder and umpire Peter Willey, took five wickets as his county claimed their first Division Two win of the season as they defeated Hampshire by 117 runs.

New Zealand batsman Kane Williamson led Gloucestershire's resistance to make sure their County Championship Division Two match at Derbyshire finished in the dullest of draws.

Three defeats for Lancashire in the opening four matches of their title defence will have alarm bells sounding at Old Trafford, at least those that are wired up on this construction site of a ground.

Glamorgan have signed Shaun Marsh, the Australian top order batsman, as their second overseas player for this year's Friend's Life T20.

Rory Hamilton-Brown's 101 lead Surrey to a huge victory over Somerset as Surrey began the defence of their title

Lancashire lost five second-innings wickets for 39 in pursuit of their target of 328 as Nottinghamshire closed in on victory

Yorkshire's announcement that their chairman, Colin Graves, would take on an executive role to try to drag the county into a more successful era overshadowed Leicestershire's game resistance

Keith Barker completed his first ten-wicket in first-class cricket as Warwickshire made a big statement by beating Durham

Just as he was really getting started, Andrew Strauss was abruptly stopped as Worcestershire's Aneesh Kapil had a debut to be reckoned with

Tymal Mills' best first-class figures of 4 for 25 helped Essex to a first-innings lead of 72 over Glamorgan

Benny Howell, a rarity in county cricket history - a cricketer born in France - joined century-maker Kane Williamson to make Derbyshire struggle after enforcing the follow-on

David Sales hit a valuable half-century as Northamptonshire built a lead of 240 against Hampshire, with five second-innings wickets in hand

Colin Graves, whose uncompromising approach to leadership was made abundantly clear this week when he told Ajmal Shahzad that his Yorkshire career was over, is strengthening his day-to-day involvement with Yorkshire.

Worcestershire have confirmed the relocation of their County Championship match against Surrey to Kidderminster