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Heavy overnight and morning rain in Leeds has seen to it that the final day of the match between Yorkshire and Lancashire has been abandoned without a ball being bowled

Soaking rain nips things in bud at Roses match

Openers Steve Titchard and Steve Stubbings have recorded the second highest partnership in Derbyshire's history but their feat carried little relevance beyond the statistical as their team's Championship fixture with Kent ended in a tame draw at

Opening combination goes undisturbed as Canterbury tale ends tamely

Not a ball was bowled as persistent showers washed out the fourth and final day of the County Championship match between Durham and Somerset at Chester-le-Street

Final day washed away at Chester-le-Street

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

England complete NatWest Series with 3-wicket win at Hove

31-Jul-2000•Ralph Dellor

Worcestershire regains division two lead as McGrath breaks new ground

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

Everything turns on Brown's dominance

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

Bowler, Rose celebrate a day for the ages

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

Bevan reclaims edge for Sussex after second Ramprakash hundred

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

Crawley, Fairbrother work hard to revive Lancs

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

Brown, Swann plot home team's demise

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

Bowler holds off Durham's charge

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

Tufnell renews Middlesex's ambitions

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

Lehmann lights up Leeds

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

McGrath the difference as Gloucestershire sinks

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

Tense victory at Cardiff as England take NatWest International Trophy

29-Jul-2000•Ralph Dellor

Rest of the World Triumph in Wonderful Festival of Cricket

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

29-Jul-2000•Sean Beynon

Dowman, Dean lead determined Derby

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