Sporting Digest: Cricket

SUSSEX'S AXA Equity and Law League game at home to Essex has been rearranged for 7 September owing to their involvement in the NatWest Trophy final.

TOUR MATCH (Kurunegala, first day of three): South Africans 303 for 7 v Sri Lanka Board President's XI.

RAPID CRICKETLINE CHAMPIONSHIP (first day of three; today 11.0): Chelmsford: Essex 173 (G Yates 6-41); Lancs 186 for 1 (S P Titchard 77no). Hinckley: Leicestershire 300 (W J Adlam 100, A F Haye 73; R C Williams 6-84); Gloucestershire 67 for 5. Northampton: Northamptonshire 283 (T C Walton 64, R R Montgomerie 55); Surrey 89 for 0 (M A Butcher 52no). Trent Bridge: Nottinghamshire 366 for 6 (M A Crawley 108, M Saxelby 60, S Bramhall 55) v Kent. Hove: Glamorgan 93 (J A North 4-5); Sussex 109 for 1. Taunton: Somerset 441 for 5 (N D Burns 225no, A Payne 77, G W White 76) v Middlesex. Edgbaston: Warwickshire 271 for 8 dec (C E Mulraine 64); Durham 11 for 1. York: Worcestershire 316 for 8 (G A Pollock 96) v Yorkshire.

MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP (final day of two unless stated): Fenner's (first day of two; today 11.0): Bedfordshire 126 and 12 for 1; Cambridgeshire 229 for 3 dec (G W Ecclestone 104 not out, B Roberts 58). Jesmond: Suffolk 88 (P C Graham 4-15, C Stanley 4-18) and 289 for 9 dec (S J Halliday 67, A J Squire 88no); Northumberland 262 for 3 dec and 118 for 4 (A Rosberry 55no). Northumberland won by six wickets.