County Cricket News / Updates Thread - 2016 Season

Wahab Riaz's spell at Essex has been cut short by two games after he was required to join up with Pakistan's training camp ahead of Test series against England. The news is a further blow to Essex's NatWest T20 Blast campaign, after Adam Milne's involvement in the second half of the group stage was ruled out by injury

 

Leicestershire have signed Farhaan Behardien as overseas cover for his fellow South African, Rilee Rossouw, in the NatWest T20 Blast.
Rossouw was due to arrive in UK to play for the Foxes in NatWest T20 Blast matches in place of Umar Akmal but suffered an injury playing for South Africa recently. His place will now be taken by fellow South Africa international Behardien, who top-scored against Australia in the ODI that Rossouw hurt his shoulder in.

 

T20 Blast
Middlesex 92 for 3 (Malan 53*) beat Somerset 88 for 6 (Fuller 2-18) - 9 overs a side

 

T20 Blast
Northamptonshire 152 for 4 (Cobb 57, Rossington 50) beat Leicestershire 149 for 5 (Pettini 56, Gleeson 3-20) by six wickets
Gloucestershire 184 for 4 (Marshall 90, Shahzad 3-26) beat Sussex 173 for 9 (Wright 71, Taylor 3-29) by 11 runs

 

Kent drew with Derbyshire at Canterbury
Kent 379 and 238 for 3 ( Latham 74, Northeast 70*, Denly 64) - Derbyshire 574 for 9 dec (Madsen 163, Thakor 123, Hughes 83, Rutherford 65)

 

Nottinghamshire drew with Warwickshire at Edgbaston
Nottinghamshire 152 (Libby 59, Patel 3-8, Clarke 3-24, Rankin 3-42) and 81 for 2 - Warwickshire 311 (Clarke 74, Ambrose 72, Ball 4-76)

 

Hampshire drew with Somerset at Southampton
Hampshire 219 (Adams 61, J Overton 5-42) and 173 for 4 (Alsop 53, Gregory 3-26) - Somerset 474 for 8 dec (Hildreth 152, Mybergh 110, McLaren 5-105)

 

Middlesex drew with Lancashire at Lords
Lancashire 513 (Petersen 191, Hameed 89, Livingstone 58, Croft 46, Procter 45) - Middlesex 419-5 (Gubbins 201*, Eskinazi 106, Franklin 41)

 

Leicestershire drew with Gloucestershire at Grace Road
Leicestershire 334 (Dexter 136, McKay 55, Cosgrove 54, Norwell 4-72) - Gloucestershire 403 for 2 dec (Dent 165, van Buuren 121*)

 

T20 Blast
Kent 166 for 6 (Latham 48, Denly 44, Blake 36*) beat Sussex 156 for 4 (Taylor 49) by 10 runs

 

Mustafizur Rahman is set to leave Dhaka on July 13 to finally join Sussex for his first county stint. He will be available for four matches each in the NatWest T20 Blast and the Royal London One-Day Cup

 

Surrey have made an approach for Durham all-rounder Scott Borthwick and opener Mark Stoneman
The pair are both out of contract at the Riverside at the end of the 2016 season, and Surrey have issued a 28-day notice to speak with the players.
Stoneman, 29, and Borthwick, 26, both topped 1,000 first-class runs in 2015 and Borthwick has been tipped for an England Test recall this summer.

 

Sussex have signed experienced Sri Lanka seamer Nuwan Kulasekara on a short-term deal.
The 33-year-old will be available for three T20 Blast matches, against Kent, Middlesex and Glamorgan.

 

Durham batsman Gordon Muchall will swap the changing room for the classroom as he plans to become a local school teacher at the end of the season.
A great servant to the county

 

T20 Blast - North Group
Yorkshire 141 for 7 (Buck 3-25) beat Lancashire 136 (Livingstone 36, Patterson 3-23) by five runs
Derbyshire 188 for 3 (Madsen 59*, Hughes 43*) beat Worcestershire 185 for 7 (Cox 59*, Hughes 3-23) by seven wickets
Northamptonshire 89 for 2 (Cobb 39*, Duckett 24*) beat Birmingham 86 for 8 (Javid 34, Gleeson 3-12) by eight wickets

 

T20 Blast - South Group
Sussex 147 for 3 (Machin 41*, Taylor 33*) beat Middlesex 146 (Stirling 52, Briggs 3-24) by seven wickets
Essex 204 for 3 (Bopara 81*, Zaidi 54*) beat Kent 154 for 9 (Blake 37, Walter 3-26) by 50 runs
Gloucestershire 168 for 3 (Klinger 101, Overton 3-33) beat Somerset 167 for 7 (Jayawardene 41, Taylor 3-16) by seven wickets

 

Warwickshire beat Surrey by 10 wickets at Guildford
Warwickshire 449 (Trott 123, Bell 66, Barker 65, Ambrose 53, Footitt 4-57) and 5 for 0 - Surrey 273 (Finch 110, Patel 5-62) and 177 (Burns 68, Patel 5-61)

 

Glamorgan drew with Sussex at Hove
Glamorgan 335 (Rudolph 87, Selman 52, Whittingham 4-58) and 307 for 6 (Lloyd 102*) - Sussex 552 for 5 dec (Wells 181, Brown 159*, Joyce 106)

 

Warwickshire have confirmed that former captain Varun Chopra will leave Edgbaston when his existing contract expires at the end of this season.
The 29-year-old Barking-born England Lions opening batsman had already intimated to the Warwickshire hierarchy that he would like to return home to his native south-east.
He has already been targeted by former county Essex, as well as Hampshire. But he has now been given permission to officially talk to other counties.

 

Middlesex beat Yorkshire by an innings and four runs at Scarborough to go top
Middlesex 577 (Eskinazi 157, Franklin 99, Roland-Jones 79*, Brooks 5-137) - Yorkshire 406 (Ballance 132) and 167 (Bresnan 39, Roland-Jones 3-34, Murtagh 3-44)