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Surrey swagger is back as promotion nears

Surrey chased a tough target at Castle Park, led there by Arun Harinath and Gary Wilson, and with a gulf growing ahead of the third-placed side in Division Two, the Surrey swagger is back

10-Aug-2015•Tim Wigmore at Castle Park

Leicestershire end three-year Grace Road drought

A fine 87 from Niall O'Brien, and a four-hour feat of concentration from 20-year-old batsman Aadil Ali, helped Leicestershire complete their first county championship victory at Grace Road since 2012

10-Aug-2015•ECB/PA

Westley guards Essex faint promotion hopes

Tom Westley can claim to have played a modest supporting role in England's Ashes success by scoring a century against the tourists - a fact which did not escape his county team-mate Alastair Cook. An Essex promotion is a tougher ask

09-Aug-2015•Tim Wigmore at Castle Park

Godleman emerges well from helter-skelter day

Sixteen wickets fell and over 300 runs were scored during a frenetic day's cricket at Grace Road which finished with Derbyshire strong favourites to complete a fourth Championship win of the season.

09-Aug-2015•ECB/PA

Dent leads Gloucestershire to third straight win

Gloucestershire dodged early rain on day four in Swansea as they posted their fifth LV= County Championship win of the season. Chris Dent led the victory charge as his unbeaten 65 helped the visitors to their 108-run winning target for the loss of three w

09-Aug-2015•ECB/PA

Panesar rises from the Ashes

Monty Panesar, surprisingly recalled to the Essex side at the Colchester Festival, showed signs that he could resurrect his professional career on the day that England won the Ashes

08-Aug-2015•Tim Wigmore at Colchester

Warwickshire haunted by teenaged legspinner

Teenaged legspinner Mason Crane bamboozled Warwickshire to become the youngest Hampshire player to take a County Championship five wicket haul on Day Two at the Ageas Bowl

08-Aug-2015•ECB/PA

Cosgrove ton brings untold luxury

08-Aug-2015•ECB/PA

Payne sets up injury-hit Gloucestershire

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

08-Aug-2015•ECB/PA

Howell and Marshall revive Gloucestershire

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

07-Aug-2015•ECB/PA

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

Madsen's solo effort bolsters Derbyshire

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

07-Aug-2015•ECB/PA

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

06-Aug-2015•ECB/PA

Meek Kent subside to innings defeat

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

06-Aug-2015•ECB/PA

Kent need another Key Canterbury Week special

Kent's hopes of salvaging any sort of result from their 164th Canterbury Week game with Northamptonshire rest squarely on the shoulders of Rob Key

05-Aug-2015•PA/ECB

Stone and Duckett give Kent day to forget

Kent's woeful batting display ensured that the opening day of their 164th Canterbury Week will not linger long in the memory as visitors Northamptonshire bossed proceedings from start until stumps.

04-Aug-2015•PA/ECB

Spinners seal win despite weather threat

Rain and gloom delayed the start but Lancashire wasted no time in taking the final five wickets they needed to confirm a resounding innings victory over Glamorgan

22-Jul-2015•Paul Edwards at Colwyn Bay

Glamorgan take pride in prolonged resistance

The assumption is that only rain can save Glamorgan, but they battled gamely throughout against a dominant Lancashire

21-Jul-2015•Paul Edwards at Colwyn Bay

Essex crumble after Billings maiden ton

Kent's mammoth first-innings score included a maiden Championship hundred for Sam Billings before Essex crumbled by an innings and plenty at Tunbridge Wells

21-Jul-2015•ECB/PA

Chapple chips in after record stand

Glen Chapple proved that the Colwyn Bay pitch was not quite so flat as to repel bowlers of timeless class after Alviro Petersen and Ashwell Prince had scored 501 in partnership

20-Jul-2015•Paul Edwards at Colwyn Bay

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