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Yorkshire's dismal Championship form carried over into the Friends Life t20 as they made a disappointing start to their campaign by losing to Warwickshire by five wickets

Porterfield's form guides Warwickshire

Spinner Gary Keedy produced a stunning spell as Lancashire Lightning secured their first win in the Friends Life t20 with an eight-run victory over Worcestershire Royals

Keedy turns Lancashire's fortunes

Three wickets from Leicestershire captain Matthew Hoggard helped his side begin their Friends Life t20 campaign with victory over the Northamptonshire

Hoggard helps end Northants' unbeaten run

Nottinghamshire Outlaws got their Friends Life t20 campaign off to a winning start with a 38-run victory over Derbyshire Falcons

Hussey sets up Nottinghamshire victory

The opening day at Lord's, under glorious sunshine, was not the one-sided affair it could have been but England took the honours by reaching 342 for 6

Middle-order strength gives England control

03-Jun-2011•The Bulletin by Andrew McGlashan

Rana Naved takes five as Sussex start well

Sussex opened their Friends Life t20 campaign with a convincing 32-run win over Essex at Hove

Lancashire captain Glen Chapple drove the last ball for two to tie a thrilling Friends Life t20 North Group game against Derbyshire under the lights at Derby

Groenewald helps rescue Derbyshire tie

Openers Steven Davies and Rory Hamilton-Brown blasted 107 in just 10.1 overs as Surrey started their Friends Life t20 campaign in style

Davies stars as Surrey show class

Ireland captain Will Porterfield carried reigning north group champions Warwickshire to a five-wicket win

Porterfield leads confident run chase

Hampshire began the defence of their Friends Life t20 title with a convincing seven-wicket victory over last season's beaten finalists Somerset at the Rose Bowl

Lumb guides Hampshire to opening win

Former Sri Lanka seamer Chaminda Vaas claimed a 10-wicket match haul as Division Two leaders Northamptonshire thrashed fellow high-fliers Glamorgan by an innings and 177 runs

Vaas bowls Northants to innings win

Thanks to an audacious run chase, Worcestershire not only secured their first top flight win since August 2007, but sentenced the champions, Nottinghamshire, to their third successive Championship defeat

Worcestershire prevail in audacious run chase

01-Jun-2011•George Dobell at New Road

Dunn stars on Championship debut

Matthew Dunn wrote his name into Surrey history when he set up a seven-wicket victory over Derbyshire in the County Championship match at Derby

Sussex's Monty Panesar claimed his first five-wicket haul of the season but Gary Ballance led a determined rearguard action to earn Yorkshire a draw in their Division One clash at Hove

Ballance defies Panesar to ensure draw

Geoff Cook, Durham's wily director of cricket, is canny as well as wise and there was never any danger of his sang-froid eluding him even though Durham had ended Lancashire's unbeaten run in emphatic fashion

Durham end Lancashire's run to go top

01-Jun-2011•Jon Culley at Chester-le-Street

Kent stumble to second win

A late four-wicket burst from Leicestershire's veteran left-arm spinner Claude Henderson could not prevent Kent from posting their first County Championship win of the second division campaign at Tunbridge Wells

Chris Dent and Jon Lewis put on an unbroken 101 for the ninth wicket to ensure a draw for Gloucestershire in their Division Two match with Essex at Bristol

Tailenders ensure draw for Gloucestershire