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Worcestershire will decide within the next 48 hours whether they will need to relocate their County Championship match against Surrey.

Yorkshire have made a shock announcement that Ajmal Shahzad can leave the county – only a week after their new coach, Jason Gillespie, praised him as “a fantastic bowler”

Andrew Gale, captain of a Yorkshire side still seeking a first championship win of the season, has earmarked Gloucestershire at Bristol on May 9 as Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc’s debut for the county.

Mark Ramprakash tells the Daily Telegraph’s Nick Hoult that the batting conditions in England now are the worst he has faced in 25 years as a professional, and that the game’s administrators are devaluing the County Championship. “The pitches are doing plenty throughout the game. It has been very difficult and it is more about trying to bat a very aggressive way whenever possible. I don’t feel that is proper batting. I feel proper batting is treating the ball on its merits.”…

Marcus Trescothick, the Somerset captain, will miss “a minimum of six or seven weeks” cricket as a result of the injury he sustained in the County Championship match against Nottinghamshire.

Nottinghamshire were held up by rain and further defiance from Durham’s last pair before clinching their second win from two games in the County Championship by 114 runs

Mike Powell scored his first century in the LV= County Championship for three years as Kent took control on the second day of their match against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road.

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