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By Rich Edwards CERTAINTY HAS been thin on the ground at Hove this winter, but despite everything that has happened off the field at Sussex, Tom Haines is confident of one thing. This is perhaps the most unified side in the County Championship. Sussex bea...
12.04.2026
By Tawhid Qureshi Main man: Attack leader Roland-Jones says his team is united PICTURE: Ray Lawrence AHEAD OF Middlesex’s season opener last weekend, Toby Roland-Jones was in buoyant mood in conversation with The Cricket Paper. Despite the north London cl...
12.04.2026
INDIA’S WUNDERKIND Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has so far made 52, 31, 39 and 78 for Rajasthan Royals in the IPL, meaning he is the Orange Cap leader, his 200 runs scored at a frankly ludicrous strike rate of 266.66. Sooryavanshi has faced 75 balls in the tourna...
12.04.2026
All to play for in the County Championship as title chasers lay down an early marker Skittled: Sussex players celebrate as Warwickshire's Sam Hain is clean bowled by Tom Price PICTURE: Alamy OUTRAGEOUS - NEIL MANTHORP ON THE CURIOUS CASE OF BEYERS SWANEPO...
12.04.2026
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12.04.2026
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12.04.2026
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12.04.2026
At some point during our chat in the back garden of a Hertfordshire coffeehouse, most likely just after his account of his recent hundred for England Legends, it hits me who Ravi Bopara reminds me of.
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12.04.2026
It’s safe to say that it was a decidedly uncomfortable lead-in to the much-anticipated County Championship this season.
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12.04.2026
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12.04.2026
Matt Critchley was fastest out of the blocks in the earliest ever start to a County Championship season, scooping the inaugural Player of the Round award – as selected by the ECB Reporters Network – for his all-round excellence in Essex’s innings victory...
12.04.2026
The start of the County Championship has been a lot of fun, with the timelessness, the reassuring solidity, the enduring battle of bat against ball in springtime, finding even more resonance in the wake of a worrying England winter and the current global...
12.04.2026
In what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind approach in elite sport, Worcestershire County Cricket Club (CCC) has begun to embed mindset development throughout its entire organisation.
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13.04.2026
County cricket fans have known for a while that the 2026 Vitality Blast would look different.
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14.04.2026
The second round of the County Championship season produced another week of absorbing action, with seven positive results across the two divisions as six sides earned their first victory of the campaign which included Division One holders Nottinghamshire...
14.04.2026
Accuracast and Bat For A Chance have partnered to launch Changing The Batting Order, a landmark initiative that will provide 1,000 free cricket starter kits to underserved schools and community groups across England, Wales and Scotland, helping break down...
15.04.2026
The Indian Premier League is approaching the end of its third week as the league table begins to take shape, with early fixtures delivering high-octane action, drama and plenty of talking points.
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17.04.2026
Knock out: The Women’s T20 County Cup kicks off this week PICTURE: Dave Vokes ... Continue reading... Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per day! SUBSCRIBE Already a subscriber to our website? Login
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19.04.2026
The only way: Are Essex on the up? PICTURE: Alamy ... Continue reading... Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per day! SUBSCRIBE Already a subscriber to our website? Login
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19.04.2026
YORKSHIRE BATTER Will Luxton enjoyed a fruitful season Down Under, being named in the Victorian Premier Cricket Men’s 1st XI Team of the Season for his performances for Greenvale Kangaroos. The 22-year-old, who made his first team debut for Yorkshire back...
19.04.2026
Still going: Panesar has been popping up in league cricket since 2019 PICTURE: Alamy FORMER ENGLAND left-arm spinner Monty Panesar has signed for South Staffordshire County League side Pelsall for the 2026 season. Panesar, who will turn 44 next Saturday,...
19.04.2026
Rob Morris hails 2026’s Schools Cricketer of the Year Top of the class: Will Bennison is following in some prestigious footsteps PICTURE: Yorkshire CCC WILL BENNISON has been named the Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year for 2026, cementing his reputatio...
19.04.2026
THE PRELIMINARY rounds of the ECB National Club Championship got underway last weekend with matches taking place across the 16 regional groups. In Group 1, there were wins for Benwell Hill, Seaham Harbour, and Hull Zingari, earning them a place in Group 1...
19.04.2026
Wisden Schools Editor Rob Morris summarises the changes taking place this season in the Liverpool area Merseyside merger: Club cricket is receiving a shake up across Liverpool and beyond PICTURE: Alamy A NEW CHAPTER in local cricket history has begun as t...
19.04.2026
The highlights of this week’s action from across the globe STARC AND DEEPTI CLEAN UP Mitch Starc is Wisden’s Leading Men’s Cricketer in the World, rounding off an astonishing year, and Deepti Sharma is the Leading Women’s Player after her role in India’s...
19.04.2026
The Warwickshire all-rounder on how discovering that he has Type 1 diabetes left him doubting he’d ever make it in the professional game Interview Adam Hopkins I GOT DIAGNOSED AS TYPE 1 DIABETIC AT 16. I was in the Yorkshire Academy at the time and didn’t...
19.04.2026
The former England, Notts and Derby all-rounder speaks to Jo Harman-McGowan about his prolific T20 career, his “frustrating” bit-part role with the national side, and why the CPL is his favourite franchise competition PART 1 GETTING THE BUG Growing up in...
19.04.2026
Scott Oliver has spent more time than is healthy researching stories from the leagues, which have foregrounded not just the overseas pros but the journeymen players who came up against them It started in 2017 with a £375 fee for a 3,000-word ESPNcricinfo...
19.04.2026
Worcestershire batter Dan Lategan has hit the ground running. The 19-year-old made his county debut last August in the Metro Bank Cup, and his first-class debut swiftly followed in September against Nottinghamshire.
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19.04.2026
Sam Northeast is hoping that being on the wrong end of two draws in Division Two will be the precursor to a Glamorgan-like run to promotion by the end of the season.
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19.04.2026
Round two of the Metro Bank One Day Cup on Wednesday saw two 300+ totals and The Cricket Paper columnist Lauren Winfield-Hill furious at The Oval The Blaze 148-5 beat Lancashire 223 (Lamb 77, Ballinger 3-30) by six runs (DLS method). The Blaze avenged las...
19.04.2026
Lauren Winfield-Hill is on the naughty step in a high-pressure match at The Oval
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19.04.2026
Bossing it: Danni Wyatt-Hodge broke Durham hearts PICTURE: Getty Images Essex 157 (Scrivens 79) lost to Warwickshire 160-5 by five wickets Katie George struck an unbeaten 42 from 71 balls to wrap up Warwickshire’s first Metro Bank One-Day Cup victory of t...
19.04.2026
Richard Clarke on a comically brilliant start to the season...
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19.04.2026
With 17 wickets across two triumphant Tests against India last year, Simon Harmer finally had his moment in the sun. It was a long time coming, he tells Phil Walker.
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19.04.2026
By Jeremy Blackmore April 17-20, County Ground, Northampton Middlesex 341 (Gohar 83, Cracknell 79, Sanderson 5-62, Conway 3-74) Northamptonshire 229-4 (McSweeney 87*, Sales 78*, Roland-Jones 2-49) Toss: Middlesex won the toss and decided to bat Officials:...
19.04.2026
By Richard Latham April 17-20, Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol Gloucestershire 136 (Price 35, B Charlesworth 26, Balderson 5-34, Anderson 3-12) & 58-3 (Bracey 16*, B Charlesworth 13, Anderson 1-10, Balderson 1-24, Coughlin 1-10) Lancashire 240 (Jennings 70,...
19.04.2026
By Brian Halford theCRICKETpaper Sunday, April 19, 2026 April 17-20, Edgbaston, Birmingham Warwickshire 190 (Hain 88*, Thompson 22, Porter 4-59, Cook 2-38, Snater 2-34) Essex 110-3 (Walter 46, Allison 40*, Bamber 2-22, Barker 1-33) Toss: Essex won the tos...
19.04.2026
By Alex Smith April 17-20, Utilita Bowl, Southampton Hampshire 238 (Lehmann 76, Albert 42, Overton 3-50, Gregory 3-45) & 146-1 (Gubbins 70*, Prest 43, Ball 1-16, Overton 0-14, Vaughan 0-18) Somerset 288 (J Rew 86, Abell 49, Yusuf 3-67, Abbott 2-67, Dawson...
19.04.2026
Two rounds into Division Two, Adam Hopkins looks back at the front-runners and early action.
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19.04.2026
Adam Hopkins takes a look at where things stand in Division One of the County Championship after the opening two rounds.
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19.04.2026
Mark Wallace was a young wicketkeeper-batter when Glamorgan last graced the topflight in 2005. Two decades on, Jeff Thomas listens to the county’s now director of cricket as he reflects on a remarkable promotion campaign, the impact of Richard Dawson, and...
19.04.2026
BEN STOKES will play three first-class matches maximum before the test series against New Zealand in June, including a possible appearance for England Lions, as he recovers from serious facial injuries. Having recovered from the groin injury he sustained...
19.04.2026
Durham opener Ben McKinney admits he wanted to be “greedy” as his career best first-class score in Durham’s innings and 225-run victory over Gloucestershire at Bristol saw him named the Rothesay County Championship Player of the Round.
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19.04.2026
ROUND three of the Championship sees just four games taking place but that has not stopped the rumblings and grumblings over the subs rule. At Bristol, a bemused Lancashire were denied the right to bring in Tom Bailey when Ajeet Singh Dale pulled up early...
19.04.2026
County Cricket Day returns for a third year next month, with cricket fans new and old encouraged to head down to their nearest professional fixture on Saturday May 16 to support the county game.
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19.04.2026
I’m still struggling to get my head around the fact that we’ve had two rounds of County Championship fixtures by mid-April, and a third is underway. At this time of year, you’d still like to be playing practice matches. Ideally overseas!
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19.04.2026
It may have been introduced with the best of intentions – the sight of Rishabh Pant coming out to bat at Old Trafford last summer with a broken foot or Chris Woakes heading out at The Oval with everyone aware that in his incapacitated state, there was a s...
19.04.2026
It was a truncated round of the County Championship, with just eight teams featuring, but the four fixtures still delivered enthralling action with three positive results as Somerset and Lancashire put down another marker in their respective divisions.
Th...
21.04.2026
The T20I Batting Rankings are shifting like never before in 2026. With explosive openers, streetwise finishers and technically gifted batters all scrapping for the top spot, the global pecking order has seen massive changes over the past few months. Wheth...
23.04.2026