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Big Sixes! The Cricket Paper talks to six Ashes veterans about the upcoming series

31 October 2017 0 comments

…me. Everyone knows how close I am to my former Durham teammate “Rocky” Stoneman but it’s a big ask for someone who hasn’t played a lot of Test cricket to…

Jennings joins Lancashire team-mates Davies, Hameed and Livingstone in Lions set-up

20 October 2017 0 comments

By Graham Hardcastle Keaton Jennings is hoping his move to Lancashire can take his game to “new heights”. Jennings has made the move from Durham on a four-year deal, swapping…

Three-match ODI limit is obstructing the game’s evolution

19 October 2017 0 comments

…the game is always the common denominator. Speaking of age, I was particularly delighted to meet Albert Pagan, from the North Yorkshire and South Durham League, who won the Umpires…

The Cricket Paper’s Division Two Team of the Year

18 October 2017 1 comment

…best 258 coming against Durham in his opening knock of the season and it ended with a sparkling 103 from 98 balls against Notts. Cameron Steel – Durham Matches: 13…

The Cricket Paper’s Division One Team of the Year

17 October 2017 0 comments

…move to the Oval from Durham last winter with the Three Lions in mind and made a solid, if not overly impressive, Test bow against the West Indies which was…

With Ashes spots up for grabs there’s no better time to be on the Lions tour

10 October 2017 0 comments

…Tom Helm (Middlesex) Keaton Jennings (Durham/Lancashire) Dan Lawrence (Essex) Jack Leach (Somerset) Liam Livingstone (Lancashire) Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire) Jamie Porter (Essex) Amar Virdi (Surrey) Tom Westley (Essex) Mark Wood (Durham)…

Chris Read backs Notts to succeed in top flight

3 October 2017 0 comments

…to promotion rivals Worcestershire and Northamptonshire before Read dug them out of a hole at Hove. Notts have already signed Durham all-rounder Paul Coughlin and head coach Peter Moores will…

England announce Ashes squad that sees Ballance and Vince recalled

27 September 2017 0 comments

…Durham as a teenager. Mason Crane has been selected at the back-up spin option to Moeen Ali, while Foakes will deputise under Jonny Bairstow after averaging 45.33 with the bat…

Keaton Jennings becomes latest in exodus at Durham

26 September 2017 0 comments

(Photo by Harry Trump/Getty Images) By Adam Ellis Batsman Keaton Jennings has expressed his ‘heartfelt gratitude’ to Durham after the confirmation that he will leave the county at the end…

Alastair Cook tips Stoneman to shine in Ashes tour

20 September 2017 0 comments

…was coming down to Surrey. Four years of a thousand runs or more at Durham. Coming down to Surrey on a big money move – if that makes sense in…

Ian Botham criticises ECB for allowing Durham stars to be poached

20 September 2017 0 comments

…the next few days. Both Coughlin and Jennings have been at Durham for five years and would join Mark Stoneman and Scott Borthwick in leaving Durham in the past year….

New boys’ Ashes hopes could ride or die in Lord’s Test

6 September 2017 0 comments

…another option but the Durham batsman has already been dropped this summer after being brutally exposed as an opener by South Africa. Why would he fare any better at three…

Jason Roy gets recall to England ODI fold

5 September 2017 0 comments

…Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Tom Curran (Surrey), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Liam Plunkett (Yorkshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), Ben Stokes (Durham), David Willey (Yorkshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire)….

The jury is still out on England’s day-night Test trial

30 August 2017 0 comments

…In general, though, Tests in this country struggle to sell tickets only when they are early summer against poor opposition in the wrong location – think Sri Lanka at Durham…

Mark Wood targets Durham return to boost team’s County Championship prospects

18 August 2017 0 comments

(Photo: Tom Dymond) By Joshua Peck MARK Wood is targeting a place in Durham’s XI for their County Championship clash with Derbyshire at the end of this month as he…

2016 stars Hameed and Woakes come into form as England squad takes shape before Ashes

15 August 2017 0 comments

…be on the flight to Australia, with Jennings still in with an outside chance of being a reserve batsman if he can find form with Durham during the remainder of…

Stoneman and Crane make England squad to play West Indies

11 August 2017 0 comments

…replaces Durham opener Keaton Jennings as Trevor Bayliss and England’s selectors show they are not afraid to make changes to the squad following the team’s 3-1 series victory over South…

No regrets over ditching Leicestershire for Notts, says Greg Smith

8 August 2017 0 comments

…of Durham. “Having one of your best mates making their England debut is a pretty cool thing. I was so excited to watch him make his England bow, I hope…

Viewpoint – In his first 49 balls as an England No.3, Tom Westley looked like he belonged

2 August 2017 0 comments

…sniffing out the slightest apprehension in batsmen. His cricketing pedigree, club cricket for Weston Colville, Essex U19s, Durham University, Essex and England Lions, is as comprehensive as it comes, a…

Five big problems England must solve for the Oval Test

25 July 2017 0 comments

…wrong call. Give Mark Wood a break… The Durham fast bowler has one wicket at 1-197 so far in this series and looks ready for a rest after a busy…

Derbyshire turn the tables by switching to the spin of Tahir and Qadri

10 July 2017 0 comments

…the matchwinning fifth-wicket partnership of Jack Burnham (93 not) and Ryan Pringle (62 not) whose 127-run stand steered Durham home on the final afternoon after the spinners had reduced the…

Pringle column: I’m all for change, but there is a problem with the pink ball

5 July 2017 0 comments

…at the first pink ball match under lights which took place in 2010 between Durham and the MCC in Abu Dhabi. On that occasion, both batsmen and fielders said the…

Five-star Mark Wood sends a reminder to England selectors

3 July 2017 0 comments

…with the summer.” Wood returned for Durham in the day/night Championship round with a five-for against Worcestershire in an already rain-affected match which was abandoned as a draw before the…

Ben Coad cutting his own mould into Yorkshire bowling attack

29 June 2017 0 comments

…since making his Championship debut against Durham in June last year confirms the priceless value of the Yorkshire Academy in terms of developing young talent – work overseen by cricket…

Hayter column: Stylish Crane is one who could hit heights

27 June 2017 0 comments

…when he made his county debut in a T20 against Surrey in 2015? Didn’t he take five Durham wickets on his first-class debut two weeks later and then, in the…