Cricket News

Tim Ambrose and Jeetan Patel hit centuries to help Warwickshire carve out a first-innings lead of 295.

Essex, so short of fast bowlers that their bowling coach Chris Silverwood joked they should put an ad in the paper, will have to work hard to prevent Leicestershire's first away win for two years

Exactly 40 years after the death of Adge Cutler, Somerset is still permeating the national consciousness - thanks to its cricketers

When bullets meet balsa wood there is generally only one winner. The metaphors regularly employed should have warned that Lancashire would find Sussex's attack hard to handle

There is a dearth of young spin bowling talent in England but Kent's Adam Riley is making a decent impression

Victory for Yorkshire at Chester-le-Street last season did not stop Durham ultimately winning the Championship but Andrew Gale will feel there is no harm in setting down a marker again

A casual observer at Edgbaston could have been forgiven for thinking they had seen Jonathan Trott return to form as young Sam Hain stood out for Warwickshire on the first day of a game where ball dominated bat

Leicestershire's tough-minded start to the season continued at Chelmsford as they made an injury-hit Essex struggle

A defiant unbeaten century from captain Daryl Mitchell gave Worcestershire hope on the opening day of their Championship Division Two clash with Glamorgan

A swaggering century from Samit Patel at Taunton underlined his talent but he has been spurned by England too often to be obsessing over an England rec

Glamorgan have brought in Middlesex seamer Tom Helm on a month's loan, as well as signed former Surrey batsman Tom Lancefield on a one-year contract

Alex Hales, Nottinghamshire's England T20 opener, has joined Worcestershire on a month's loan to cover for the potential absence of Moeen Ali on international duty

Ashar Zaidi, the Sussex allrounder, has been given a suspended one-match ban by the club following his Twitter reaction after being dismissed in the first innings against Somerset

Glamorgan battled to a draw against Leicestershire at Grace Road after being seven wickets down with an hour remaining

Chris Rogers, with a chanceless and unbeaten double-century, led his Middlesex side to victory with the third highest successful fourth-innings run chase in the history of the County Championship

Unbeaten centuries from Alex Gidman and William Tavare guided Gloucestershire to a draw with Essex in Bristol

Hampshire's James Vince made the best of a heavily rain-affected draw with Surrey by hitting an impressive 159.

Saeed Ajmal led the charge as Worcestershire ripped through Derbyshire to secure their second LV=County Championship victory of the season at New Road

Somerset needed just 75 minutes of the final day to record their first win of the season by an innings and 11 runs against the leaders Sussex.

James Anderson completed a 10-wicket match as Lancashire sealed a 60-run win over Northamptonshire in their first match without Peter Moores at the helm