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Sheffield Collegiate secured their first National title a day after winning the Yorkshire Premier League

Middlesex Crusaders secured a six wicket victory over Glamorgan Dragons at Cardiff in the last round of National League matches

Middlesex captain Justin Langer played one of his finest innings for his county yesterday to prevent his side finishing with the humiliation of last place, on the final day of the championship match against Glamorgan at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Essex gained promotion to the First Division with a six-wicket victory over contenders Warwickshire after the two captains had agreed to declare innings in an attempt to set up a positive finish

Too often in New Zealand's cricket history sides have got themselves into winning positions only to fail ram the advantage home

Derbyshire's spinners kept their side in the game after Durham's batsmen had threatened to take complete control of the final National League game of the season at Derby

Kent avoided relegation in the National League and condemned Worcestershire to Division Two instead with their eight-wicket victory in one-sided decider at New Road

Champions Gloucestershire suffered a 27-run defeat to Northamptonshire on the Duckworth-Lewis system in their final National League match of the season

Warwickshire gained consolation for their championship defeat when they cruised to a six wicket win against Essex in their National League encounter at Chelmsford

Both sides come into this match needing to win if they are to avoid relegation into Division 2 of the National League

Worcestershire's dramatic crash towards relegation in the National League continued when they were dismissed for 98 by Kent in a loser-goes-down decider at New Road

Playing on the pitch that had been used for the Championship match between the two sides, Essex won the toss and elected to bat

Somerset needed to score at 5 runs per over to win this game but through some disciplined and aggressive bowling from the Leicestershire attack they were always behind the asking rate

Neil Killeen bowled Durham to victory as Derbyshire crashed to defeat in a dramatic final over at Derby

Martin Bicknell and Saqlain Mushtaq each scored half centuries in a last wicket partnership of 116 as Surrey's Championship game against Lancashire meandered towards a draw at Old Trafford

Gloucestershire missed out on promotion from the second division of the County Championship, despite an exciting three-wicket victory over Nottinghamshire at Bristol

Surrey crowned their title triumph with a touch of farce at Old Trafford today

Worcestershire pursued the faintest chance of reviving their promotion bid by declaring 136 behind after avoiding the follow-on against Northamptonshire at New Road this morning

From the very last scheduled ball of the very last Championship match at The County Ground, Yorkshire retained their 115-year record of never having lost at the ground

Glenn McGrath produced his best performance in county cricket to give Worcestershire an outside chance of staying in the promotion race by beating Northamptonshire at New Road