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Monty Panesar: scene stealer
By Mark Baldwin
The final day of the Auckland Test had it all: gripping action as Matt Prior, Ian Bell and Stuart Broad fought for England’s survival against the

27/03/2013 (53 days old) | Read more
Rankings rise consolation for England
England have drawn level with India at the top of the ICC's ODI rankings after winning the final international at Dharamsala by seven wickets.

27/01/2013 (111 days old) | Read more
Colvin helps spell out World Aids Day message
By Luke Sellers
Across a dusty field in Kenya a wall of sound rose up through the mid-morning heat as an army of schoolchildren marched from one coaching

30/11/2012 (169 days old) | Read more
Classy Pujara blunts Panesar
The remarkable Cheteshwar Pujara withstood Monty Panesar's superb comeback performance to give India the honours after the second Test's fascinating, action-packed opening day in Mumbai.

23/11/2012 (177 days old) | Read more
India take 1-0 series lead
The dream did not take long to die for England on the final day of the opening Test in Ahmedabad. Bowled out for 406, after resuming their second innings on 340 for 5, England then saw India

19/11/2012 (181 days old) | Read more
Key steps down from Kent captaincy
By Mark Baldwin
Rob Key has stood down as Kent captain, after seven years in the job, and has been succeeded by James Tredwell.

19/11/2012 (181 days old) | Read more
Cook and Prior heroics stun India
Alastair Cook has produced one of the greatest innings by an England captain – especially one in his first Test as an official captain – as he and Matt Prior led a remarkable fightback in Ahmedabad.

18/11/2012 (181 days old) | Read more
England criticised for sidelining Panesar
England's refusal to pick both their specialist spinners for the opening Test against India in Ahmedabad has already drawn criticism from leading pundits from both countries.

15/11/2012 (185 days old) | Read more
Middlesex appointments clear signs of progress
By Mark Baldwin
Middlesex's confirmation that Chris Rogers will captain them in County Championship cricket next season, with former club captain Neil Dexter now to

20/10/2012 (210 days old) | Read more
Davies a popular winner of Kent award
By Mark Baldwin
Mark Davies, the 31-year-old seamer who admitted he was "in a bad place" before leaving Durham earlier this year after ten seasons with his native club, has won Kent's Player of

22/09/2012 (239 days old) | Read more
Hamilton-Brown confirms Surrey departure
By Mark Baldwin
The formal departure of Rory Hamilton-Brown from Surrey, announced earlier today, confirms the end to the saddest story of the 2012 cricket season.

21/09/2012 (239 days old) | Read more
Kent squad signs up for 2013
By Mark Baldwin
Kent have today taken the unprecedented step of announcing that the club's entire core squad of 20 players remain in place for the 2013 season - including

20/09/2012 (241 days old) | Read more
Trego rewarded for best season of career
By Robin Hutchison
Somerset's Peter Trego has completed a remarkable career transformation by winning the FTI Most Valuable Player award for the 2012 season.

18/09/2012 (243 days old) | Read more
Hampshire now aim for Champions League glory
By Mark Baldwin
Jimmy Adams, Hampshire's Clydesdale Bank 40 winning captain, is already looking forward to going for further one-day glory in next month's Champions League

16/09/2012 (244 days old) | Read more
Jordan released by Surrey
By Mark Baldwin
All-rounder Chris Jordan has been released by Surrey, and is looking to revitalise an initially promising career with another county.

14/09/2012 (246 days old) | Read more
Boyce planning John O'Groats-Land's End walk
By Mark Baldwin
Leicestershire batsman Matt Boyce is planning to walk from John O’Groats to Land’s End this autumn in aid of depression in sport.

12/09/2012 (248 days old) | Read more
Cook decides to leave Kent
Simon Cook will leave Kent at the end of this season. Cook, who started his career at Middlesex in 1999, moved to Kent in 2005. In a first-class career spanning 13 years and

30/08/2012 (261 days old) | Read more
Counties set to reject Champions League
By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent
Counties are unlikely to take part in next year’s Champions League Twenty20 competition because it is likely to clash with the climax to the domestic season.

29/08/2012 (263 days old) | Read more
Roland-Jones and Burns pushed for Lions honours
By Mark Baldwin
Gareth Batty, Surrey's captain and match-winner in a thrilling eight-run win against Middlesex in the London derby at the Oval, believes it is time for two of the young stars of the match to move up to England Lions level.

19/08/2012 (273 days old) | Read more
South African Jennings has England Test ambitions
By Tim Wellock
Durham new boy Keaton Jennings has captained South Africa Under 19s, but is in no doubt that he wants to play Test cricket for England.

15/08/2012 (276 days old) | Read more
Kent release Mahmood for SLPL
Azhar Mahmood will not be given a renewed contract by Kent for 2013 after the club confirmed that he has been released to allow him to take part in the

15/08/2012 (277 days old) | Read more
Mustard's hot streak produces rankings surge
Phil Mustard's match-winning efforts against both Surrey and Glamorgan in the Clydesdale Bank 40 this weekend saw him record the highest individual points score in the

13/08/2012 (278 days old) | Read more
Patel named county cricket's most valuable player
By Robin Hutchison
Two wickets for 42 runs and an innings of 36 from 35 balls in a six-wicket Clydesdale Bank 40 win over Hampshire on Tuesday night

19/07/2012 (303 days old) | Read more
Rudolph tips Northeast for Test arena
By Mark Baldwin
Jacques Rudolph, the South African batsman, has tipped Kent's Sam Northeast as a future England Test player

16/07/2012 (307 days old) | Read more
McKenzie extends his Hampshire stay
Neil McKenzie will play his first LV County Championship match of the season this week after extending his stay with Hampshire.

10/07/2012 (312 days old) | Read more
Time to end the Twenty20 debate
By Mark Baldwin
There is only one way to solve the debate about whether a dedicated mid-season slot or a season-long tournament is the best way forward for English cricket's ten-year-old Twenty20 Cup

07/07/2012 (315 days old) | Read more
Foster first keeper to win monthly FTI MVP award
James Foster has capped a series of impressive displays to become the first wicketkeeper to win the monthly award for the FTI Most Valuable Player.

02/07/2012 (320 days old) | Read more
Hampshire decide to do without Afridi
Hampshire have confirmed that Shahid Afridi will not be playing in this season's Friends Life t20 competition.

01/07/2012 (322 days old) | Read more
ECB endorse result of controversial Essex-Kent game
By Mark Baldwin
Kent anger over the controversial, and indeed farcical, finish to their floodlit Friends Life t20 match against Essex at Chelmsford has met with little sympathy from the England and Wales Cricket Board.

21/06/2012 (331 days old) | Read more
Mascarenhas issues challenge to Hants
Hampshire Royals captain Dimi Mascarenhas has challenged his batsmen to improve after his side’s first home Twenty20 defeat in nearly two years.

20/06/2012 (332 days old) | Read more
Kent-Sussex t20 opener called off - again
By Mark Baldwin
Kent chief executive Jamie Clifford spoke of his "extreme frustration" as the county's Friends Life t20 opener against Sussex was abandoned for the second time in 24 hours - at two different grounds

12/06/2012 (340 days old) | Read more
Kent switch t20 opener to Canterbury
By Mark Baldwin
Kent's opening Friends Life t20 match, against Sussex tomorrow evening (June 12), has been switched from Tunbridge Wells to Canterbury.

11/06/2012 (341 days old) | Read more
Hundred wickets now out of reach: Adams
By Dave Bracegirdle
Despite picking up 40 wickets in the first half of Nottinghamshire’s LV= County Championship campaign, Andre Adams insists he has no chance of pushing on to reach the ‘magical’ century mark this summer

10/06/2012 (342 days old) | Read more
Clifford sounds weather warning
By Mark Baldwin
Kent chief executive Jamie Clifford has warned that county clubs are approaching a critical month in their financial years, following the prolonged bad weather

08/06/2012 (344 days old) | Read more
Durston wins May MVP award
Wes Durston has become the first Derbyshire player to win a monthly FTI Most Valuable Player award after a series of outstanding performances.

01/06/2012 (351 days old) | Read more
Hall praises Northants' resolve
By Paul Bolton
Andrew Hall, the Northamptonshire captain, admitted that he feared his side were going to be thwarted by last wicket resistance for the second time in three matches before

27/05/2012 (356 days old) | Read more
Ramprakash to make Championship return at Horsham
By Mark Baldwin
Mark Ramprakash will be back in Surrey's County Championship side for the game against Sussex at Horsham, which starts on June 6.

26/05/2012 (357 days old) | Read more
Cumberland count cost of success
Cumberland are counting the cost of their qualification for the quarter-finals of the Minor Counties knockout.

23/05/2012 (360 days old) | Read more
Hamilton-Brown: Our starts must improve
By Mark Baldwin
Rory Hamilton-Brown is urging his Surrey team to learn from their mistakes during the last two County Championship matches

22/05/2012 (362 days old) | Read more
Ramprakash dropped by Surrey
Mark Ramprakash has been dropped for Surrey's LV= County Championship match against Somerset at the Kia Oval this week.

15/05/2012 (369 days old) | Read more
Hampshire sign Shafayat
Former England Under-19 captain Bilal Shafayat is in contention to make his Hampshire debut against Derbyshire after signing a short-term deal on the abandoned first day at the Ageas Bowl.

10/05/2012 (373 days old) | Read more
Vince has words of comfort for Jones
James Vince admitted feeling sorry for former teammate Simon Jones during Hampshire’s Clydesdale Bank 40 win against Glamorgan.

08/05/2012 (375 days old) | Read more
Glamorgan sign Marsh for T20
By Richard Thomas

Glamorgan have confirmed they have signed up big-hitting Australia opener Shaun Marsh as their second overseas player for this season’s Friends Life t20 competition.

05/05/2012 (378 days old) | Read more
Jones ready for Glamorgan return
By Richard Thomas

Simon Jones has not discounted a return to playing County Championship cricket this season.

04/05/2012 (379 days old) | Read more
KP return set for Kidderminster
By Paul Bolton

Kevin Pietersen will swap the glamour of the Indian Premier League for the more prosaic surroundings of Birmingham League club Kidderminster when he makes his seasonal debut for Surrey next week.

04/05/2012 (379 days old) | Read more
Hampshire name new stands
By Bruce Talbot

Hampshire will officially name The Ageas Bowl stands after former captains Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie and Shane Warne next month.

04/05/2012 (380 days old) | Read more
Somerset sign Du Plessis for Twenty20
By Richard Latham

Somerset have signed South African all rounder Francois du Plessis as their second overseas player for this season’s Friends Life t20 competition after learning that Chris Gayle will not be joining them.

04/05/2012 (380 days old) | Read more
Prior and Panesar face West Indies
By Bruce Talbot

Matt Prior and Monty Panesar will both face West Indies when they play the first match of their tour against Sussex at Hove on Saturday.

03/05/2012 (380 days old) | Read more
Weekend decision on Worcester venue switch
By Paul Bolton

Worcestershire will decide over the weekend whether to switch next week’s County Championship match against Surrey to Kidderminster from New Road.

03/05/2012 (380 days old) | Read more
Bears poised to offer Barker new deal
By Paul Bolton

Warwickshire are set to make Keith Barker an improved contract offer in an attempt to keep the improving all-rounder at Edgbaston.

03/05/2012 (380 days old) | Read more
Starc choice is Yorkshire ahead of IPL
By Graham Hardcastle
Mitchell Starc, who begins an initial five-week spell as Yorkshire's overseas player this weekend, turned his back on the potential riches at the Indian Premier League to come and hone his skills in county cricket ahead of next year's Ashes series.

03/05/2012 (381 days old) | Read more
Hoggard extends Leicestershire contract
By Paul Bolton

Leicestershire captain Matthew Hoggard has signed a one-year contract extension that will keep him at Grace Road until at least the end of the 2013 season.

03/05/2012 (381 days old) | Read more
Leicestershire take Berrington on loan
By Paul Bolton
Leicestershire have signed Scotland all-rounder Richie Berrington on a one month loan.

02/05/2012 (381 days old) | Read more
Worcestershire switch CB40 venue after flood threat
By Paul Bolton
Worcestershire have switched next Monday’s Clydesdale Bank 40 match against the Netherlands to Kidderminster because of flooding at New Road.

02/05/2012 (382 days old) | Read more
PCA call for £1million T20 winners' prize
By Paul Bolton
The Professional Cricketers’ Association wants the England and Wales Cricket Board to introduce a £1 million first prize for the Friends Life t20 competition to attract the world’s top players back to the competition.

02/05/2012 (382 days old) | Read more
Andre Adams named as April's MVP
Nottinghamshire’s Andre Adams has won the FTI MVP award for April after helping the county make an unbeaten start to 2012.

01/05/2012 (382 days old) | Read more
Prince sizes up Steyn-Anderson showdown
By Graham Hardcastle
South African Test batsman Ashwell Prince has given his view on the comparisons between the world's two premier fast bowlers, Dale Steyn and Jimmy Anderson, who face up to each other in a mouth-watering four-Test series later this summer.

01/05/2012 (382 days old) | Read more
Starc lined up for Yorkshire debut
By Tim Wellock
Yorkshire expect to have Australian pace bowler Mitchell Starc in their side to face Gloucestershire at Bristol next week.

30/04/2012 (383 days old) | Read more
Rudolph to return for Surrey
Jacques Rudolph returns for Surrey against Durham at the Kia Oval this week, having missed the rain-affected home draw against Worcestershire for personal reasons.

25/04/2012 (389 days old) | Read more
Dixey joins Buck and Jefferson on injury list
By Paul Bolton
Leicestershire wicketkeeper Paul Dixey is likely to be out of action for up to six weeks after he broke a thumb in a second team match.

21/04/2012 (392 days old) | Read more
"I've still plenty to offer": Di Venuto
By Tim Wellock
As he watched the rain come down at Lord’s, Michael Di Venuto stressed that he will not allow the English weather to hasten his retirement.

20/04/2012 (393 days old) | Read more
Chris Read goes to Downing Street
By Dave Bracegirdle
Nottinghamshire captain Chris Read attended an evening reception at Downing Street earlier this week in recognition of his commitment to raising funds and awareness for Bowel Cancer UK.

20/04/2012 (393 days old) | Read more
Murdered Vorster once played for Worcs
By Paul Bolton - Louis Vorster, who was shot dead by armed robbers at a petrol station between Pretoria and Johannesburg, was a batsman who played one first-class match for Worcestershire against the West Indies at New Road in 1988.

19/04/2012 (394 days old) | Read more
England news - Ian Bell on his poor Test form
By Paul Bolton
Ian Bell has spoken about his determination to put a torrid winter against spin bowling behind him.

19/04/2012 (394 days old) | Read more
Ajmal pulls out of Worcs T20 contract
By Paul Bolton - Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has been forced to withdraw from his contract as Worcestershire’s second overseas player for this season’s Friends Life t20 competition.

19/04/2012 (394 days old) | Read more

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