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This mouth-watering game between last year's champions and this year's favourites ended in a booming win for the new pretenders

Championship cricket at its best graced Hove today - and despite encountering Stuart Law in consummate and immoveable touch, Sussex are still in with a shout in this enthralling game

Poor old Sussex

Chris Adams, Sussex's Championship-winning captain, has signed a two-year extension to his contract, which will keep him with the county until the end of the 2006 season

One of the biggest holes in cricket history has just been filled

Hampshire Hawks recorded their fourth successive victory in the ECB National League Division Two in their clash against Sussex Sharks under the Hove floodlights to augment their second place in the table behind Lancashire.

Sussex 169 for 9 beat Durham 161 (Muchall 58) by eight runs at Hove Scorecard Durham's 20-year-old batsman, Gordon Muchall, scored a chanceless and mature 58 from 112 balls to push Sussex all the way in their floodlit encounter at Hove, but in

Seaside shuffle: Boeta Dippenaar on his way to 101 not out The South African tourists brushed Sussex aside at Hove, bundling them out for 114 and winning by 153 runs almost before the floodlights could have any effect

Light drizzle finally ended a match which had long-since ceased to have any meaning at Hove, with rain and a lack of ambition leaving Zimbabwe short of match-practice ahead of Thursday's first Test at Lord's

Just under two hours' play were possible on the third day of Zimbabwe's match against Sussex, and by the time rain again stopped play, Zimbabwe had put in some useful batting practice, to take their score to 374 for 7

In stark contrast to the fine weather on the first day of the match between Sussex and the Zimbabwe at Hove, the second day provided almost unrelieved drizzle

A monumental innings of 194 not out by Mark Vermeulen, Zimbabwe's opening batsman, dominated the first day of their match against Sussex at Hove

Zimbabwe's captain, Heath Streak, will play against Sussex in the four-day tour match which starts at Hove tomorrow, after recovering from a back injury that dogged him throughout last week's game against Worcestershire

Glamorgan, the defending National League champions, strolled to their second win in as many days, overhauling Kent's 192 for 9 with 8.4 overs to spare

The ECB Management Board has granted Essex and Sussex County Cricket Clubs extended use of their floodlights for the 2003 season

James Kirtley tore through the Kent second innings as Sussex raced to a convincing 133-run victory at Hove

Only 23.1 overs were possible on the second day at Grace Road, by the end of which Leicestershire had crept to within three runs of Essex's first-innings 188 for the loss of seven wickets

Essex won the toss, batted first and were skittled for 188, as Leicestershire took firm control of proceedings at Chelmsford

In a two day pre season friendly match against Sussex at Hove, Worcestershire's batsmen showed good form in reaching 342 for 6 off 85 overs

10/11 April v Kent at Canterbury.