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Essex launched a fine recovery to leave themselves slight favourites to beat Kent in their County Championship Division Two duel at Chelmsford

Northeast knock leaves match in balance

Alex Lees scored a century to get Yorkshire's reply off to a solid start but his dismissal late in the day led to some self-recrimination

Disappointed Lees sets high bar

20-Apr-2015•Paul Edwards at Trent Bridge

Derbyshire strikes keep Lancashire in check

Derbyshire's pace attack delivered a late twist to another enthralling day to give the home side a slender advantage in their Division Two match against Lancashire

Tim Ambrose's bullish century underpinned a Warwickshire fightback after Hampshire's seam bowlers had put their side in control on the second day of the Championship match at Edgbaston

Hants on top despite Ambrose century

A sizeable crowd had turned up at The Swalec Stadium to see Kevin Pietersen's return to first-class cricket in his bid to regain his place in England's Test team, but instead they were treated to fine hundreds from Kumar Sangakkara and Steven Davies

Sangakkara and Davies flay Glamorgan

If supporters huddled at Hove in the expectation was of a genteel day of cricket, Matt Machan provided Hove with something rather more scintillating - a 70-ball hundred

Machan sheds the shackles with bristling ton

19-Apr-2015•Tim Wigmore at Hove

Petersen debut hundred leads Lancashire fightback

Alviro Petersen erased the memory of his previous visit to Derby with an accomplished century that revived Lancashire's fortunes on the opening day

On the day when cricket writers hightailed it to Cardiff, Nottinghamshire's Alex Hales made a persuasive case that those scribes would have been better advised motoring up the M1

Hales channels frustrations into double hundred

19-Apr-2015•Paul Edwards at Trent Bridge

All-round Stevens carries Kent

Essex and Kent found themselves locked in an intriguing duel as they battled for supremacy on the opening day of their Division Two clash at Chelmsford

Fast bowler Boyd Rankin seized a career-best 6 for 75 as Warwickshire and Hampshire exchanged blows on a fascinating opening day at Edgbaston

Wheater responds to Rankin's best

Mark Wallace and Niall O'Brien both took county records from a stalemate at Grace Road

Keepers Wallace and O'Brien in record day

Middlesex's eighth-wicket pair of James Harris and Tim Murtagh held out for 19 overs to deny Nottinghamshire victory at Lord's

Harris, Murtagh salvage draw for Middlesex

Chris Dent hit an unbeaten century as the Gloucestershire opener batted throughout the final day to help his side secure a draw in the LV= County Championship Division Two match at Northamptonshire

Northants victory hopes Dented

Seam bowler Matt Hobden and part-time spinner Luke Wells mopped up the Hampshire tail to give Sussex a 92-run win after Hampshire gave them a scare at the Ageas Bowl

Hobden's early bursts sets up victory