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It was quite fitting that, with England sealing a Test match victory with two days to spare, Middlesex and Sussex took the opportunity to fashion what is set to be a thrilling climax at Lord's to fill the spare time

Yardy gritty to the last

08-Aug-2015•Vithushan Ehantharajah at Lord's

Cosgrove ton brings untold luxury

Gloucestershire, with a thoroughly professional all round performance ,should win their fifth championship game of the season on the final day after David Payne rallied an injury-hit side

Payne sets up injury-hit Gloucestershire

Trouble-shooter Chris Read guided Nottinghamshire into a strong position at New Road, helping eke out a total of 330 by making 90

Read produces latest Notts rescue act

Kent slumped to a 51-run home defeat in the Royal London Cup with more than 12 overs to spare to allow Lancashire - the team they will meet in next Saturday's NatWest T20 Blast quarter-final - to land a resounding win

Lancashire dominate Kent ahead of Blast quarter-final

08-Aug-2015•PA/ECB

Champions battle back as 20 wickets fall

Yorkshire's bowlers dismissed Durham for 156, having been bowled out for 162 earlier in the day, as wickets tumbled in Scarborough

07-Aug-2015•Paul Edwards at North Marine Road

Rankin and Woakes dominate Hampshire

Warwickshire enjoyed the best of the opening day in the Ageas Bowl sunshine as they reduced to Hampshire to 255 for 8 at the close of play.

Benny Howell and Hamish Marshall combined in a stand of 129 to help propel Gloucestershire to a first-innings lead against Glamorgan

Howell and Marshall revive Gloucestershire

At Lord's, 11 wickets fell in the day, as a sizeable crowd showed up to witness the first Championship match at the ground since Hampshire arrived at the end of June

Malan holds Middlesex together on worn track

07-Aug-2015•Vithushan Ehantharajah at Lord's

Pettini and Browne lift patched-up Essex

Colchester claims to be the oldest town in Britain. Mark Pettini is not an old man but, on his 32nd birthday, he relished Essex's Championship return to the salubrious Castle Park. It might well be the day that reinvigorates Pettini's first-class career

07-Aug-2015•Tim Wigmore at Colchester

Gidman leads from the front on comeback

Alex Gidman re-launched his fledgling Worcestershire career at New Road with a battling 71 in two-and-half hours against Nottinghamshire in his first LV= County Championship innings for nearly six weeks

Wayne Madsen has played many more fluent and attractive innings in his long and illustrious career, but the South African cannot have made a more hard-fought than that which he scored on the first day against Leicestershire

Madsen's solo effort bolsters Derbyshire

Stephen Peters, the former Northamptonshire captain, has announced his immediate retirement from the game

Peters announces retirement

07-Aug-2015•ESPNcricinfo staff

Rudolph, Salter keep Glamorgan afloat

Half centuries from Jacques Rudolph and Andrew Salter rescued Glamorgan from trouble on the first day of their Championship Division Two encounter against Gloucestershire

Allrounder Borthwick routs Leicestershire

Wessels' one-day best secures Notts win

Northamptonshire dismissed Championship Division Two rivals Kent for 208 to wrap up an innings-and-23-runs victory with almost a day-and-a-half to spare at Canterbury

Meek Kent subside to innings defeat