County Cricket

Durham and Lancashire look well-placed going into the final day of their 15th round LV= County Championship matches tomorrow. Meanwhile, Kent were denied by the rain at Canterbury and Glamorgan completed victory over a hapless Leicestershire.

Yorkshire look almost inked in for the title after completing victory over Nottinghamshire and then watching Middlesex slip up against Derbyshire and Warwickshire be thwarted by the rain against Somerset. Elsewhere, Lancashire and Durham are nicely placed at the halfway point of their matches.

Derbyshire, Durham, Yorkshire and Glamorgan will all be pleased with the position that they find themselves in at the various stages of their LV= County Championship matches in the 15th round of fixtures.

A round-up of the day's county cricket news and action.

There were centuries from Wayne Madsen, Craig Kieswetter, David Sales and Stephen Peters as the batsmen prospered on the opening day of matches in round 15 of the LV= County Championship.

A round-up of the day's county cricket action plus a preview of tomorrow's LV= County Championship matches.

There were wins for Gloucestershire and the Unicorns in today's Yorkshire Bank 40 matches.

It is the stuff that fairytales are made of. An unfancied team who haven’t tasted success in a generation were crowned winners of the 2013 Friends Life t20 by beating a much richer and much bigger club.

A Zafar Ansari maximum proved crucial for Surrey as they caused a surprise by beating defending champions in the second Friends Life t20 semi-final.

With the required run rate threatening to get out of hand, enter the man who has enjoyed a season so spectacular as to be almost unbelievable since re-joining the club from Middlesex over the winter.

A bumper edition of the County Cricket Round-Up including extensive previews of Friends Life t20 Finals Day.

Gautam Gambhir and Piyush Chawla will play county cricket in September after agreeing terms with Essex and Somerset.

A round-up of the day's county cricket news and action involving Hashim Amla, Kane Williamson and Adam Tillcock.

There were wins for Gloucestershire, Yorkshire and Hampshire in the first batch of the day's Yorkshire Bank 40 matches.

A round-up of the day's county cricket news and action.

There were wins for Hampshire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey, Netherlands, Kent and Durham as the Yorkshire Bank 40 resumed in earnest after its mid-season break.

Bangladesh A slipped to their second narrow defeat in four days against a first-class county as Yorkshire prevailed by seven runs at Headingley.

Essex completed the Friends Life t20 Finals Day line-up with a 47-run win in a slightly fractious encounter at Trent Bridge.

Hampshire will join Surrey and Northamptonshire at Friends Life t20 Finals Day after having the better of a pulsating and high-scoring match against Lancashire at Southampton.

Surrey were made to sweat but prevailed over Somerset to become the first county to reach 2013 Twenty20 Finals Day. Northamptonshire then beat Durham to become the second.