Cricket News

England's Under 19 cricketers confirmed their superiority over Sri Lanka in the NatWest Series with a 3 wicket win in the third match at Hove, having won the two previous encounters in Cardiff

Fast bowler Glenn McGrath has returned the best match figures of his career to lead Worcestershire to a 52 run success over Gloucestershire at New Road and guide it back to the top of Division Two of the County Championship

From first to last, this Warwickshire-Northamptonshire County Championship battle was a match of oddities

Peter Bowler, a stalwart of over 250 first class games, celebrated his thirty-seventh birthday with his third century of the season as Somerset evened up its County Championship clash with Durham at Chester-le-Street today

Michael Bevan has responded to another excellent Mark Ramprakash hundred by firing a sweet half century of his own to afford Sussex a slight edge over Middlesex after three days of the teams' absorbing County Championship fixture at Southgate

An unbroken liaison of fifty-three for the third wicket between a hard working John Crawley and Neil Fairbrother has enabled Lancashire to work its way back into its tense struggle with Yorkshire by the end of day three of this excellent Roses match

Notwithstanding the late surrender of its first two second innings wickets, Northamptonshire has continued to defy its underdog status on day two of an absorbing County Championship match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston

A stern half century from Peter Bowler (62*) has helped extricate Somerset from peril late on day two of his team's County Championship match against Durham at Chester-le-Street

With the end result of a modest first innings lead secured, Sussex spent much of this day doing little more than trying to grind and claw its way on top of Middlesex in the teams' willing County Championship struggle at Southgate

Rain has ruined the scene at Headingley just when an intriguing conclusion to the second day's play looked in prospect between the home team and Lancashire in this vital Championship fixture

Another (overcast) day, another spectacular clatter of wickets at New Road

England's Under 19 team took the NatWest International Trophy with a tense, 2 run victory over their Sri Lankan counterparts in Cardiff

A crowd of 17,500, most of them British Asians, basked in glorious sunshine at the Oval Saturday, to watch the Rest of the World edge out Asia in a tightly fought contest

By the end of the second day in this County Championship match at Canterbury, the scoreboard shows that Kent trails Derbyshire by as few as 216 runs with six first innings wickets still at its disposal

Warren Hegg may be something of a forgotten man in English cricket but that failed to stop him from playing an innings to remember at Headingley this afternoon

Derbyshire has had few days to remember and Kent has lost portions of many to the weather this County Championship season so it should hardly come as a surprise that the former failed to capitalise on a good start on a day significantly shortened by

An unflinching, unbeaten century from England Test discard Mark Ramprakash has guided Middlesex to a score of 227 all out on the first day of its County Championship clash with Sussex at Southgate

Not the greatest of seasons this one for Durham opening batsman Jon Lewis

A superb century from Matt Hayden, and another productive afternoon for spinner Ashley Giles, were the highlights of a see-sawing day's County Championship cricket between Northamptonshire and Warwickshire at Edgbaston today

Batting stars Graeme Hick and Vikram Solanki might have been back in county ranks but day one of the Worcestershire-Gloucestershire Division Two match at New Road was hardly one of celebration for batsmen