Cricket News

What price Somerset for their first Championship? Their rush through the division has been a sideshow at best as Middlesex and Yorkshire have flexed muscles like a couple of rival bodybuilders ahead of their clash at Lord's next week.

Sussex seamer Steve Magoffin reached 50 wickets for the fifth successive season before Worcestershire fought back on an entertaining first day at Hove

Keaton Jennings produced another virtuoso display on the first day of Durham's County Championship match at home to Surrey

A career-best unbeaten 79 from Harvey Hosein rescued Derbyshire on the opening day of the Division Two match against Leicestershire at Derby

Rob Newton and Alex Wakely made centuries for Northamptonshire but Gloucestershire came back smartly after tea to leave the home side 322 for 6 by the close

The ECB has not given up plans of hosting the first day-night Test in England in 2017

The members of Northamptonshire have voted for the club to become a limited company

Scott Borthwick is to leave Durham after rejecting the offer of a new contract and taking up a three-year deal with Surrey

James Tomlinson, the Hampshire left-arm seamer, has announced his retirement after a 14-year career, saying he feels like the 'old dog' at the back of pack and now is the time to 'head back to the den'

Significant attention was on Liam Dawson at The Oval and though he did not bowl badly he only picked up one wicket as Surrey secured a draw

The differing emotions between the two sides told the story: as the Middlesex dressing room reverberated with an exuberant rendition of the team song, Nottinghamshire's players sat looking tired and dejected

Yorkshire, pressing for a hat-trick of Championship titles, completed a thumping 228-run defeat of Durham

Nottinghamshire and Middlesex go into the final day of this match with everything at stake

Sean Ervine and Ryan McLaren scored hundreds on the third day at The Oval to help Hampshire to a commanding 582 for 9 before finally the declaration came

Yorkshire asserted themselves so successfully against Durham with both bat and ball that victory looks comfortably within their grasp on the final day

Gloucestershire completed a ten-wicket victory on the third afternoon in Cardiff to condemn Glamorgan to a seventh loss of the season in the Specsavers Championship

Sam Billings drove through the night to take his place in Kent's batting order, but he couldn't save the day, and their season

Jack Leach finished with 6 for 42 as Somerset completed a 32-run Specsavers County Championship victory over Warwickshire on the third morning at Taunton

Northamptonshire members will vote at an Extraordinary General Meeting this evening on plans to change the ownership structure of the club

It could be a wonderful climax to the Championship season, but Ryan Sidebottom was not in the mood to enjoy it as chances went astray at Headingley