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Nottinghamshire take control of their County Championship match against Durham at Chester-le-Street with Michael Lumb hitting a hundred

Mike Powell scored his first century in the County Championship for three years as Kent took control against Northamptonshire

Graham Wagg took 6 for 44 against his old county Derbyshire on the opening day of Glamorgan’s County Championship Division Two match in Cardiff

Matt Coles, Charlie Shreck and Darren Stevens took three wickets apiece as Kent dominated the first day of their County Championship match against Northamptonshire

Leicestershire staged an astonishing fightback against Glamorgan on a dramatic opening day of the new County Championship season at Grace Road.

The insurer LV= will continue to sponsor the County Championship until 2015 after agreeing a new four-year deal with the ECB

Yorkshire lost nearly half a million pounds in 2011, completing a poor year for the county during which they were relegated in the County Championship

The County Championship is set for an 8-10 divisional split after county chief executives refused to ratify the Morgan review at a meeting at Lord’s. The Morgan review recommended a reduction to 14 County Championship matches and retaining the equal split

The English domestic season will begin earlier than ever before in 2012 with the first round of County Championship matches starting on April 5

The ECB will consider a proposal to reduce the County Championship season to 14 matches from 2014