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/ 10 months agoYorkshire go big then decimate Pears batting
By Graham Hardcastle April 11-14, Headingley, Leeds Yorkshire 456 (Malan 98, Thompson 70, Lyth 67, Duffy 3-114, Allison 3-58) & 61-1(Lyth...
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/ 10 months agoKeith Dudgeon’s instant impact at Kent
By Tawhid Qureshi In the aftermath of his match-winning seven for 36 against Northants, Keith Dudgeon, Kent’s short-term overseas signing, can’t...
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/ 10 months agoSpicy pitch leaves Middlesex & Kent in tense shoot-out
By Fred Atkins April 11-14, The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, Canterbury Middlesex 222 (Davies 47, Gilchrist 3-43, Kashif 3-60, Stewart 2-42)...
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/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months 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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Columnists
/ 10 months agoKatya Witney: When two became one…
The early days of co-habiting are usually frantic. There are arguments over whose stuff you keep and what goes where and...
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/ 10 months 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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Women (County News)
/ 10 months agoEllyse Perry signs for Hampshire Women
Global cricketing icon Ellyse Perry will play for Hampshire Hawks in this summer’s Vitality Blast. The Australian, widely regarded as one...
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/ 10 months 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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Women (County News)
/ 10 months agoPaul Prichard appointed Head Coach of Hampshire Women
Paul Prichard has been appointed as Head Coach of Hampshire Women, on an interim basis, until the end of the 2025...
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/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months agoWhat you may have missed this week…
Here is a round-up of cricket stories from the week gone by.
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/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months 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
/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months 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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/ 10 months 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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County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
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Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
