Life's A Picnic

Local lad Lyth shines in Yorkshire sun

Yorkshire v Kent: 20-year-old from Whitby, playing in his first home match, thrilled the festival crowd with his 68

O'Brien and Klusener help to lift gloom

Northamptonshire v Glamorgan: century partnership helped home team to recover from 103 for 4 in reply to Glamorgan's 287

Shafayat's century restores promise

Sussex v Nottinghamshire: the former England Under-19 batsman refound his form with a stylish hundred for Nottinghamshire

Goodwin keeps Sussex challenge solid

Sussex v Nottinghamshire: the Zimbabwean opening batsman survived an early scare to score 79 runs in a careful innings

Warwickshire v Derbyshire, day two

Jonathan Trott cracked 181 as promotion-chasing Warwickshire declared on 476 for nine against Derbyshire at Edgbaston

Northamptonshire v Glamorgan, day two

Klusener and O'Brien lead Northants to within a hundred of Glamorgan's first innings total, stil with 6 wickets in hand

Leicestershire v Essex, day two

Essex in a commanding position with a lead of over two hundred following Foster's unbeated 132

Yorkshire v Kent, day two

Jacques Rudolph's century helped Yorkshire establish a commanding position against Kent at Scarborough

Sussex v Nottinghamshire, day two

Bilal Shafayat hit 118 as challengers Nottinghamshire responded strongly to champions Sussex's 339 at Hove

County session reports: Durham hit back

Mark Davies adds three more wickets to the five he claimed yesterday, plus all the latest LV County Championship news

Hampshire v Durham, day two

Hampshire could manage only 96 in reply to the visitors' first-innings 156 this morning as Mark Davies continued to dominate

Lancashire v Surrey, day two

Play abandoned for the second consecutive day due to a waterlogged outfield

Steady Maddy reaches 12,000-run landmark

Warwickshire v Derbyshire: the former England batsman was deprived of his 26th first-class first century by a soft shot

Pettini puts Essex in charge

Leicestershire v Essex: captain's 58 gives his county the upper hand after Leicestershire are bowled out for just 107

Van Jaarsveld overshadows Vaughan's return

Yorkshire v Kent: former South Africa batsman scores century despite testing conditions and steady Yorkshire attack

Wallace keeps Glamorgan in the hunt

Northamptonshire v Glamorgan: wicketkeeper makes his highest score of the year after vistors' early loss of wickets

Davies hits back to give Durham the edge

Hampshire v Durham: five-wicket spell puts championship contenders in strong position after fine innings by Will Smith

Mushtaq forced to quit cricket

Persistent knee trouble forces mercurial leg spinner to retire after making a huge contribution to Sussex's success