Cricket News

Hampshire had some early good fortune at the start of the fourth and final day of their championship clash with leicestershire

Durham captain Nick Speak produced his highest score of the season as his team reached an unlikely first-innings lead against Kent in the Division One relegation battle at Riverside Stadium, Chester-le-Street

Hyderabad advanced to the semifinals of the KSCA Diamond Jubilee tournament for the Coromandel Cement Trophy beating India Cements by four wickets at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore today

The floodlit West Country National League showdown at Bristol ended in frustration and disappointment for both teams and a 6,000 crowd

An innings of immense power by Justin Langer gave Middlesex the upper hand on the opening day of their Championship match at Trent Bridge

Former England Test batsman Rob Bailey highlighted the West Indies' bowling problems leading up to next Thursday's Fourth Test at Headingley

Jason Brown and Darren Cousins shared eight wickets to earn Division Two leaders Northamptonshire maximum bowling points against Sussex at Wantage Road

Notts made an early breakthrough and took another wicket just before lunch on the first morning of their County Championship match at Trent Bridge against bottom-of-the-table Middlesex but the visitors, put into bat by Jason Gallian, had clearly

Graeme Swann struck two important blows as Division Two leaders Northamptonshire shaded the first-session honours against second-placed Sussex at Wantage Road

Struggling at lunch time on the second day to save the follow on, the target was achieved more easily than expected, due in the main to an innings of patience coupled with an array of fine stokes by Hampshire wicket-keeper Adrian Aymes

The Yorkshire Phoenix completed the double over Lancashire Lightning in the Norwich Union National League with an emphatic nine-wicket victory

Leicestershire added just one run to their overnight score before Morris enticed Crowe to edge Morris to give wicket-keeper Adi Aymes his fifth catch of the innings

Northamptonshire has moved back to the top of Division Two of the County Championship after completing a resounding home victory over Worcestershire today with more than two sessions still remaining

Paceman Alan Mullally prolonged his sizzling vein of form with another five wicket haul today for Hampshire on the opening day of the County Championship clash with Leicestershire at Southampton

Hampshire gained maximum bowling points as Leicestershire reached 265-9

Overnight, it was all set up so nicely

Divan Van Wyk continued his top form in the Costcutter U15 World Challenge 2000 with a superb innings to put South Africa in the driving seat in their semi-final against West Indies at Hove

Completely contrasting finishes to the two teams' innings have seen Sussex claim a morale-boosting 26 run win (under the Duckworth/Lewis method) over Lancashire in a tense National League match between the sides at Hove today

MRF suffered a heartbreaking seven wicket defeat to Indian Airlines in the quarter finals of the KSCA Diamond Jubilee Tournament for the Coromandel Cement Trophy at the M Chinnaswamy stadium on Tuesday despite piling up an imposing 321/3

England began the final day knowing that a quick breakthrough by their bowlers might just give them an outside chance of victory in the Third Test against the West Indies