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Dukes ball returns but runs continue to flow in Division One

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Mammoth: Joe Clarke and Will Young shared a record stand for Nottinghamshire PICTURE: Alamy WORCESTERSHIRE V DURHAM AT KIDDERMINSTER Tipped […]

Bears buckle with Duckett at the double

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By Brian Halford April 26-29, Edgbaston, Birmingham Nottinghamshire 400 (Duckett 218, Haynes 74, Hannon-Dalby 5-78, Ali 2-65) Warwickshire 71-3 (Mousley […]

Banton bolsters Cidermen in tightly fought tussle

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By John Curtis April 26-29, Chester Road North, Kidderminster Somerset 309-9d (Banton 92, Pretorius 49, Holder 3-72, Leach 2-40, Waite […]

Rain-hit Northants aim for scoreboard pressure

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By Jon Culley April 26-29, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester Northamptonshire 453-7d (Bartlett 126*, Gay 88, Currie 2-102, Ahmed 2-64) Leicestershire […]

Tiers for Fears – everybody wants to rule the game

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ANNIE CHAVE NEW COLUMNIST! Tier 1, tier 2, tier 3. New cricketing terms inserted into the domestic calendar and a […]

Fixtures

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MONDAY APRIL 29 County Championship Division One Durham v Essex (Chester-le-Street, Day 4 of 4, 11am) Surrey v Hampshire (The […]

Durham chief insists issues with the ECB are in the past

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Chief executive Tim Bostock says Durham being given a tier one women’s team is the “most visible way” the England […]

Defending champions Surrey ease past Kent at Canterbury

22 April 2024 0 comments

Defending champions Surrey recorded their first win of the Vitality County Championship season as they knocked over Kent by an […]

ECB reveals women’s teams

21 April 2024 0 comments

Yorkshire, Middlesex, Kent, Glamorgan snubbed as eight counties announced As part of a considerable restructuring of domestic cricket, the ECB […]

Dan’s the man for Surrey as he has batters in a spin

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By Tawhid Qureshi Dan Lawrence is standing on the Oval outfield after a hard day of Championship cricket against Somerset, […]

Cook proves he has the ingredients for test cricket

21 April 2024 0 comments

Mark Butcher The decision to use the Kookaburra ball, as opposed to the Dukes, for the opening two rounds of […]

Runs galore as rain and Kookaburra have the last laugh

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SURREY V SOMERSET AT THE OVAL All nine of the second round’s County Championship fixtures ended in a draw, only […]

Champions sparkle as they make up for lost time

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By Fred Atkins April 19-22, The Spitfire Ground, Canterbury Kent 244 (Bell-Drummond 70, Garrett 48, Lawes 3-53, Steel 3-34) Surrey […]

Notts battle to avoid big defeat at Taunton

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By Richard Latham April 19-22, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton Nottinghamshire 193 (Montgomery 48, Clarke 39, Overton 3-57, Gregory […]

Red and white can co-exist, says Overton

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By Richard Edwards CRAIG OVERTON can understand why some young cricketers are intent on prioritising white ball cricket over the […]

Harris double fires Foxes to huge total

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By Nigel Gardner April 19-22, County Ground, Derby Leicestershire 574-7d (Harris 214, Cox 69, Conners 2-99, Tickner 2-83) Derbyshire 54-4 […]

Grounds for concern

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RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler My local non-league football club were eyeing promotion before the winter flooding. But between Boxing […]

When points and pointlessness combine

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BEN GARDNERR NEW COLUMNIST! So was that basically all meaningless then? A fortnight that may as well not have happened? […]

Fixtures

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MONDAY APRIL 22 County Championship Division One Kent v Surrey (Canterbury, Day 4 of 4, 11am) Worcestershire v Durham (Kidderminster, […]

Knight says counties’ frustrations hails ‘progress’ for women’s cricket

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England captain Heather Knight insists counties feeling upset by their failure to land a new ‘tier one’ women’s team represents […]

Yorkshire not in ECB’s new revamp of women’s professional game

18 April 2024 0 comments

Yorkshire will have to wait until 2027 to take part in the England and Wales Cricket Board’s new ‘Tier 1’ […]

Joe and Jaydn Denly earn Kent draw with Essex

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An unbeaten 41 from 18-year-old Jaydn Denly in a solid sixth-wicket stand alongside his uncle Joe helped guide Kent to […]

Little chef serves up a treat but Essex sweat on points penalty

14 April 2024 0 comments

ESSEX V NOTTS AT TRENT BRIDGE At the start of a new era, with head chef Sir Alastair Cook no […]

Somerset collapse leaves dominant Surrey on top

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By Mark Baldwin April 12-15, The Kia Oval, London Somerset 285 (Lammonby 100, Renshaw 87, Gregory 50, Steel 4-50, Atkinson […]

White pitches, red Kookaburras and rain: A perfect storm for the new season

14 April 2024 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS It wasn’t quite a case of bursting out the blocks, was it? Two of the Championship’s opening nine […]

Tag: Somerset

Dukes ball returns but runs continue to flow in Division One

Bears buckle with Duckett at the double

Banton bolsters Cidermen in tightly fought tussle

Rain-hit Northants aim for scoreboard pressure

Tiers for Fears – everybody wants to rule the game

Fixtures

Durham chief insists issues with the ECB are in the past

Defending champions Surrey ease past Kent at Canterbury

ECB reveals women’s teams

Dan’s the man for Surrey as he has batters in a spin

Cook proves he has the ingredients for test cricket

Runs galore as rain and Kookaburra have the last laugh

Champions sparkle as they make up for lost time

Notts battle to avoid big defeat at Taunton

Red and white can co-exist, says Overton

Harris double fires Foxes to huge total

Grounds for concern

When points and pointlessness combine

Fixtures

Knight says counties’ frustrations hails ‘progress’ for women’s cricket

Yorkshire not in ECB’s new revamp of women’s professional game

Joe and Jaydn Denly earn Kent draw with Essex

Little chef serves up a treat but Essex sweat on points penalty

Somerset collapse leaves dominant Surrey on top

White pitches, red Kookaburras and rain: A perfect storm for the new season

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