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Alex Wharf (101 n.o.), 25 years-old, made his first championship hundred as Glamorgan fought back from a disappointing start against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road

Wharf succeeds while wickets fall

Graham Rose and Steffan Jones of Somerset humbled Hampshire's batting in their championship match at Taunton

Somerset sweep past Hampshire

Mark Ramprakash (99 n.o.) returned to run-scoring for Middlesex in their Division Two championship match against Worcestershire at Southgate

Ramprakash back to best

Bristol-It is far too early to pessimistically proclaim an end to the West Indies revival under Jimmy Adams and the new management team

West Indies relapse

07-Jul-2000•Tony Cozier

Colour, Music, Light - Southern Hemisphere cricket comes to England

The crowd may have been seventy thousand less for a day-nighter, but the colour, the music and the lights ensured that in atmosphere, the little ground did not lack much behind the imposing MCG, Down Under

07-Jul-2000•Andy Jalil

Giles piles on the runs - again

Ashley Giles has every reason to look back on this week with particular pleasure

On a slowish pitch where quick scoring was never very easy, West Indies achieved what was probably the match-winning total of 232 for seven off an accurate but essentially toothless Zimbabwe attack

Lara leads harvest of fifties

Bryan Strang, bowling speed in the lower seventies, opened for Zimbabwe to Adrian Griffith of West Indies in the NatWest Series limited-overs match at Bristol - two singles nudged to third man coming off his first over

West Indies accelerate after steady start

Some fine batting by Zimbabwe, their innings held together by a restrained Neil Johnson, has kept them on even terms in the NatWest Series match at Bristol with a West Indian team thatprobably did not expect such stern opposition

Zimbabwe up with scoring rate

Karachi, July 5: India defeated Pakistan by 33 runs in a match of academic interest in the Asia Cup Under-15 cricket tournament at Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday

India beat Pakistan, both enter U-15 final

06-Jul-2000

Sri Lanka snatch victory from Proteas

For much of this afternoon, the spectators who had crowded into Galle International Stadium sat quietly on as their side drifted towards an apparently inevitable defeat

06-Jul-2000•Charlie Austin

NatWest Series under way - and the sun shines through

The NatWest Series opened in Bristol under rather better weather than during the previous few days, warm and humid, with the sun often shining through the haze

Mark Butcher (87 n.o.) took out his in Surrey's convincing win by 7 wickets over Sussex in the NatWest Trophy fourth-round match at The Oval

Butcher boosts Surrey in NatWest Trophy

Somerset didn't hang around too long at Southgate this morning

Middlesex win in a hurry

Keith Newell (62 n.o.), the Glamorgan opening batsman, kept his nerve at Canterbury as Kent showed greater fight today than they had the day before in their NatWest Trophy fourth-round match

Glamorgan survive Ealham shock to beat Kent

Bristol, NatWest Series: West Indies (232 for seven off 50 overs) lost to Zimbabwe (233 for four off 45 overs) by six wickets

Zimbabwe shock win brings NatWest Series to life