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Worcestershire equal to pitch conditions

Leicester (third day): Leicestershire 120 and 346 (3pts) lost to Worcestershire 379 and 92-0 (21pts) by ten wickets Read

Bell’s timely reminder of his importance to England

Edgbaston (second day): Gloucestershire 336 v Warwickshire 143-2 Read

Worcestershire attack scents spoils

For so long it seemed as though Worcestershire would have had victory wrapped up by lunch but Leicestershire’s first half-century partnership of the match, between Paul Nixon and James Allenby, did enough to keep alive the home team’s lingering hopes of salvaging something from it. Read

Povey makes a stand against ECB proposals

Sense is anything but common and, at the offices of the England and Wales Cricket Board, it appears to be almost completely absent. Read

Day of toil as flat track bullies Warwickshire into submission

Amid all the talk about the changing shape of English cricket, the most obvious remedies are in danger of being over looked. Read

Dartmouth are up and running

They may have looked doomed on Saturday morning, but by evening West Bromwich Dartmouth had pulled off the shock of the season to earn themselves a premier division lifeline. Read

Simon Jones gives England selectors a nudge

Leicester (first day): Leicestershire 121 (S P Jones 5-30) v Worcestershire 175-2 (V S Solanki 93no) Read

Bears trip up over final hurdle

Warwickshire will play Kent in the quarter-finals of the Twenty20 despite falling to a 13-run defeat to Northamptonshire in their final group game on Friday night. Read

Don't mess with the foundations of game

‘Common sense’ is a much-used expression but perhaps the most misleading in our language. Sense is anything but common and, at the offices of the England and Wales Cricket Board, it appears to be almost completely absent. Read

Bears' clouds have silver lining

It might not have been quite the way they wanted to do it, but Warwickshire have secured a home quarter-final in the Twenty20 Cup. Read

Tamworth teenager Manuel offered Worcestershire deal

Worcestershire has offered Jack Manuel, their 17-year-old Academy member, an Academy Scholarship contract until the end of next season. Read

Worcestershire prove far too strong for dire Gloucestershire

Nine wickets separated these two sides in their opening game of the Twenty20 Cup competition roughly three weeks ago. Read

Collingwood error leaves bad taste as England flop

Justice was finally done off the last ball of the match at the Oval, when New Zealand won by one wicket off the last ball of the match, after it seemed that a disgraceful incident cost Grant Elliott his wicket half an hour before the end. Read

Pride restored but Worcester suffer setback with Edwards

News that West Indies fast bowler Fidel Edwards will not be arriving at New Road next month to succeed Steve Magoffin took the edge off a fine four-wicket victory over Northamptonshire Steelbacks last night. Read

Powell contribution reflective of Bears' excellent teamwork

TWENTY20 CUP EDGBASTON (Somerset won toss): Somerset (173-6, 0pts) lost to Warwickshire (177-6, 2pts) by four wickets Read

Bears go marching on - but not necessarily to towards big money

EDGBASTON: Gloucestershire (131) lost to Warwickshire (134-2) by eight wickets Read

Kiwis out-scrap two-trick England

As England showed at Edgbaston last Wednesday and again in the West Country on Saturday, they rarely find it difficult to live down to their one-day ranking of seventh. Read

Warwickshire find it all too easy in evening stroll

Warwickshire moved to the brink of the quarter-finals of the Twenty20 Cup with a convincing victory over local-rivals Worcestershire at Edgbaston. Read

Brown: ‘A darned good all-rounder... so let’s leave it at that’

Warwickshire will hold an informal tribute for Dougie Brown after play at Edgbaston tomorrow. George Dobell, Chief Cricket Writer, hears the views of some of those who have played with him and watched him. Read

Worcester squeezed once Hick falls

Two days after providing a near-full New Road with the most disheartening of displays, Worcestershire produced a much better effort against Somerset. Read

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