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/ 1 year agoNorthants pile on the runs as Red Rose wilts
By Ken Grime April 11-14, Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester Northamptonshire 496 (Zaib 116, McManus 95, Sales 92, Hartley 3-91) Lancashire 139-4(Jennings...
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/ 1 year agoFoxes fire with bat and ball but Derby fight back
By Jon Culley April 11-14, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester Leicestershire 484 (van Beek 82, Budinger 81, Morley 2-59, Tickner 2-87) Derbyshire...
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/ 1 year agoTwin tons take Gloucs to mammoth total
By Richard Latham April 11-14, Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol Gloucestershire 546 (Bancroft 163, O Price 101, Leonard 3-122, ul Hassan 2-66)...
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/ 1 year agoBen Charlesworth looking to build on his breakthrough year
By Mark Halliwell Ben Charlesworth is hoping the best is yet to come in his Gloucestershire career after what he describes...
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/ 1 year agoThe Greatest XI: Durham
Durham’s life as a first-class county may be comparatively brief but it’s been far from uneventful. It falls to Geoff Cook,...
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/ 1 year agoCounty Championship: Week Two Talking Points
By Dom Harris The second week of the 2025 Rothesay County Championship is already upon us after an absorbing opening set...
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/ 1 year agoCounty Championship R1 Team of the Week – Tom Banton breaks Somerset record, Josh Tongue impresses on return
By Dom Harris The County Championship returned for the 2025 season under clear blue skies across England and Wales. Over the...
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/ 1 year agoAnd we’re off! The 2025 County Championship season begins
Hotter than the Algarve, they reckon. And it did look pretty blissful with good crowds, with queues at several venues –,...
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County Championships
/ 1 year agoWhat you may have missed this week…
Here is a round-up of cricket stories from the week gone by.
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/ 1 year agoDazball comes to Northampton
NEW NORTHAMPTONSHIRE head coach Darren Lehmann, who has arrived after the departure of John Sadler last September after three years in...
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/ 1 year agoQuiet man Ryan Patel embodies the Surrey way
“I THINK you’ve hit the nail on the head, I am a team man”. In conversation with The Cricket Paper, Surrey’s...
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/ 1 year agoCounty Championship Division One Preview: Can Surrey be stopped?
The three Feathers are looking to make it four in a row The toughest test of their title defence may well...
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/ 1 year agoCounty Championship Division Two Preview: Who will return to Division One?
The Cricket Paper is expecting Lancashire and Middlesex to be the teams to beat in Division Two this summer, both looking...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoBen Gardner: County Championship isn’t just a shop window for England
Ben Gardner says that Championship success is enough of a pull on its own.
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/ 1 year agoEssex make hay while the sun shines at Chelmsford
JORDAN COX made sure his name remained on the England selectors’ radar with the ninth first-class century of his career, and...
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/ 1 year agoJonny Bairstow battles hard but Yorkies find life tough at top
KYLE ABBOTT and Liam Dawson made sure Jonny Bairstow had a roller-coaster of a first day as Yorkshire captain, as Hampshire...
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/ 1 year agoTom Banton triple ton sees Somerset dominate
ALL-ROUNDER Kasey Aldridge claimed five wickets in a dramatic Worcestershire batting collapse on the opening day, at Taunton with more than...
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/ 1 year agoJohn Simpson and Tom Clark excel but Bears fight back
CENTURIES BY Tom Clark and John Simpson ensured that Sussex returned to Division One with a strong day’s work against Warwickshire...
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/ 1 year agoLate wickets put the skids under Notts with honours even
COLIN ACKERMANN posted the first century of the County Championship season as Durham recovered to 370 for nine on the opening...
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Annie Chave
/ 1 year agoAnnie Chave Column: Saving Counties at the cost of County Cricket
Despite county cricket’s new-found riches, Annie Chave is worried about the future...
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/ 1 year agoHelter-skelter game sees Hollioake’s Kent on top
By Jeremy Blackmore April 4-7, County Ground, Northampton Kent 231 (Muyeye 72, Leaning 40, Weatherall 3-32, Zaib 2-3, Guthrie 2-69) &...
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County Championships
/ 1 year agoLuis Reece’s six and Wayne Madsen ton make Gloucester glum
A six-wicket haul from Luis Reece and four from Anuj Dal got Derbyshire’s season off to an impressive start on the...
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/ 1 year agoTight tussle at Lord’s as Lancs edge ahead
ROOKIE SEAMERS Tom Aspinwall and Ollie Sutton launched Lancashire’s bid for an immediate return to the top flight in positive fashion...
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/ 1 year agoHill and Wright hammer home Foxes advantage
LEICESTERSHIRE TOOK control on the opening day against Glamorgan at Sophia Gardens, bowling the hosts out for 229.
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/ 1 year agoJonny Bairstow full of fight ahead of huge season
AS JONNY Bairstow, Yorkshire’s new red-ball captain, leads the county for the first time-against Hampshire at Southampton, this next phase in...
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Hampshire’s Liam Dawson retires from first-class cricket
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England bowler Sonny Baker signs new Hampshire deal
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County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
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What now for England and Jos Buttler after Champions Trophy exit?
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Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
