Sporting Digest: Cricket

RAPID CRICKETLINE CHAMPIONSHIP (First day of three, 11.0 today): Blackpool: Lancashire 182 for 3 (R C Irani 90no, J E R Gallian 65) v Hampshire. Clevedon: Leicestershire 278 (D Maddy 56; A C Cottam 5-95) v Somerset. Elland: Yorkshire v Sussex (no play). Studley: Gloucestershire 268 (M G N Windows 59, A J Wright 54). Warwickshire 69 for 0. Sunderland CC: Durham v Northamptonshire (no play). Southend: Essex 396 for 8 dec (J J B Lewis 161, N V Knight 139; R W Sladdin 4-109). Derbyshire 22 for 1. Usk: Glamorgan 243 for 6 (G H J Rees 50 no) v Worcestershire. Worksop College: Surrey 383 for 5 (R I Alikhan 135 no, M A Lynch 69, R J Ward 59, M R Bainbridge 50no) v Nottinghamshire.

MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP (Final day of two) Boughton Hall: Dorset 161 (G Miller 5-45; J O'Brien 4-59) and 76 for 3; Cheshire 232 for 9 dec (T Bostock 69, J Gray 71; J W Dike 7-58). Match drawn.