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Left-arm spinner Paul Grayson returned career-best figures of five for 20 against his former county as bottom club Essex pulled off a remarkable victory over CricInfo Championship winners Yorkshire on the final day of the season at Scarborough today

Despite leading his Hampshire side to CricInfo Championship Division Two promotion, Robin Smith has admitted to contemplating handing over the captaincy reigns at the end of the season

Prolonged and steady overnight and morning rain prevented any play during the second day of the Second Test match between Zimbabwe and South Africa at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo

Self interest by clubs anxious to keep their own young players could hamper Hampshire's plans to field a team made up of fledgling contracted players and academy students in the Southern Electric ECB Premier League next season

Warwickshire were promoted to Division One of the championship when they polished off Derbyshire 10 minutes before lunch at Derby

Paul Draper has played his final match for Calmore Sports and is set to join Southern Electric ECB Premier League rivals South Wilts next season

Surrey compiled a mammoth 701-9 on the final day of the CricInfo Championship match with relegated Glamorgan

Speaking at the end of a day when he had seen his side clinch the County Championship runners up spot, Somerset Coach told me, "We will be going all out to win our match against Northamptonshire Steelbacks on Sunday at The County Ground

BRISBANE - National cricket coach John Buchanan said his champion team would have to address the emotional and physical stresses that could endanger its World Cup defence in 2003

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Wednesday said it would like the New Zealand Cricket (NZC) to confirm inside 10 days if they were ready to come for an shortened tour

Sourav Ganguly has ordered bats with new specifications for the tour of South Africa

Glamorgan coach Jeff Hammond has announced his retirement from cricket

Yorkshire paved the way for an exciting climax to the season by making a surprise declaration against Essex at Scarborough when trailing by 146 runs on the first innings

Keith Parsons hit a Championship-best 139 as Somerset posted a massive 650 against relegation candidates Northants at Taunton

Scott Styris has taken an unusual route to recovering his place in the CLEAR Black Caps one-day team

Warwickshire are only five wickets away from clinching promotion to Division One of the championship after they reduced Derbyshire to 91-5 at the close of the third day

Finding themselves unexpectedly asked to bat again after a surprising tea-time declaration by Robin Smith, Nottinghamshire flirted with disaster in losing three quick wickets before recovering slightly to close on 88-3

The champagne was flowing at Hove today after Sussex clinched the Cricinfo Championship's second division title in style

Muttiah Muralitharan justified Lancashire's decision to fly him back from Sri Lanka for their last Cricinfo Championship game of the season against Kent by taking five wickets which should be enough to keep them in the First Division

While international events have pre-occupied New Zealand Cricket's chief executive Martin Snedden for the last three days, he presented a firm view of where he sees the sport going here over the next few years when addressing NZC's annual meeting at