Cricket News

Eighteen wickets fell at Wantage Road as Northamptonshire and Lancashire punched themselves to a standstill

To say that not much has gone to script for Surrey over the last few years is a bit like suggesting England were a touch off their game in Australia last winter

Leicestershire recovered from losing three quick wickets to Graham Wagg to finish in the ascendancy after an abbreviated first day against Glamorgan.

Joe Root, making his first-class return after sustaining a broken thumb in Antigua, found himself promoted to the captaincy against Middlesex

Somerset have recruited the former Australia fast bowler Dirk Nannes as one of their overseas players for the NatWest T20 Blast

Glen Chapple, Lancashire's captain and veteran attack leader, will take charge of the first team for the rest of the season, stepping up to fill the gap left by Peter Moores' appointment as England coach

Lancashire have confirmed that Pakistan left-arm seamer Junaid Khan will return to the county for limited-overs competitions

Daniel Christian, the Australia allrounder, will play for Middlesex as one of their overseas players during the NatWest Blast

Derbyshire and Hampshire drew their rain-affected Championship Division Two match after the weather and bad light played a part on the final day

Rain and a defiant last-wicket stand combined to thwart Gloucestershire's victory bid on the final day of their Championship Division Two clash against Glamorgan in Cardiff

Nick Compton provided another reminder of his abilities as he helped his Somerset side secure a draw on the final day of their game at Durham

Simon Kerrigan and the Manchester weather conspired to deny Warwickshire victory in Peter Moores' final game as Lancashire coach

Were it not for an England captain registering a second consecutive hundred, there would have been little to cheer as Essex and Surrey played out an inevitable draw

Leicestershire were the whipping boys too often last season, cast adrift at the foot of Division Two, to contemplate a more daring declaration on the final day against Kent

Andrew Gale, Yorkshire's captain, finds himself contemplating a looming selection dilemma with the thought that the player least sure of his place probably ought to be him

Will Bragg and Murray Goodwin helped Glamorgan recover from a shaky start to their second innings on a rain-disrupted third day against Gloucestershire

With bigger tests to come, against Middlesex at Lord's and Durham at Chester-le-Street, as the season gathers momentum, Yorkshire will not want an opportunity such as this to slip through their fingers

After day that had Graeme Smith and James Foster battling with the elements as much as each other, it will require some negotiation and engineering from both for a positive result to be achieved by either

The challenge for the Lancashire openers Paul Horton and Luis Reece on a rain-affected day was to survive the remaining 22 overs

Leicestershire's season has begun at Canterbury, in front of one of county cricket's more charitable crowds, and after three days they would all agreeably concede that they have begun rather well