ECB (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yorkshire and Durham must lift themselves for their Twenty20 Cup quarter-final tomorrow after crashing out of the Friends Provident Trophy.
King Cricket (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Joe Denly hit a hundred. Go No Pants. Steve Harmison took four wickets. Durham still lost by a mile. Essex beat Yorkshire. The end.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Graham Napier scored a whirlwind 61 as Essex beat Yorkshire to make the Friends Provident Trophy final
The Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Graham Napier scored a whirlwind 61 as Essex beat Yorkshire to make the Friends Provident Trophy final
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Friends Provident's chairman, Sir Adrian Montague, will come under renewed pressure this week, with the group's proposed sell-off of asset management division F&C, high-end insurance arm Lombard and wealth manager Pantheon now thought to be in grave doubt.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alastair Cook turned Essex's Friends Provident Trophy semi-final bash yesterday into a full-scale dress rehearsal for his appearance in Thursday's first Test against SA.
thisislondon (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Alastair Cook turned Essex's Friends Provident Trophy semi-final bash yesterday into a full-scale dress rehearsal for his appearance in Thursday's first Test against SA.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Alastair Cook turned Essex's Friends Provident Trophy semi-final bash yesterday into a full-scale dress rehearsal for his appearance in Thursday's first Test against SA.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
England opener Alastair Cook and big-hitter Graham Napier have inspired Essex to reach the Friends Provident Trophy final.
ECB (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Alastair Cook fell five runs short of the third one-day century of his career as Essex set Yorkshire a 286-run target in the second Friends Provident Trophy semi-final at Chelmsford.
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Graham Napier produced a mini-repeat of his Twenty20 heroics with a 34-ball 61 to lift Essex to 285 for 8 in their Friends Provident Trophy semi-final against Yorkshire. Alastair Cook warmed-up for the first Test against South Africa with 95, but it was Napier who added a much-needed spark to an innings.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Scorecard from the Friends Provident Trophy semi-final from Chelmsford.
ECB (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Matthew Hoggard has revealed Yorkshire's determination to give Darren Gough the “perfect send-off” by winning the Friends Provident Trophy.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Kent (301-4) bt Durham (218) by 83 runsThere will be no return trip to Lord's for Durham, whose reign as Friends Provident Trophy champions ended with a battering from Martin van Jaarsveld and Joe Denly.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Friends Provident fell 7 to a five-year low of 94½p as fears mounted that a key bidder had withdrawn from the race to buy the troubled life assurer's asset management business division, writes Yvette Essen. The shares tumbled on speculation that Swiss Life had decided not to buy Lombard, the Luxembourg-based division which caters for wealthy individuals. It was put up for sale after Friends decided...
