Durham News

Ben Stokes celebrates his hundred in his first outing for Durham after retiring from England

Stokes scores century in first match for Durham after England retirement

Fergus O'Neill took 5-39 as Nottinghamshire went top

Notts knock Essex off County Championship top spot

Ben Stokes, County Championship, Durham (Getty Images)

Stokes smashes 95 for Durham as England admit to missing talisman

Ben Stokes celebrates after taking the wicket of George Bartlett

Stokes and Atkinson take wickets on county return

Ben Stokes

Stokes to play for Durham in County Championship today

England Lions' Emilio Gay. England have named the uncapped Sonny Baker, Emilio Gay and James Rew in their first Test squad of the summer, wi

England new boy Gay out for duck on difficult day for Durham

Joe Root took four wickets on the final day as Yorkshire beat Somerset by 75 runs at Taunton

Root stars with ball as Yorkshire clinch comeback win over Somerset

Emilio Gay

Gay and Sibley strengthen England call-up cases with centuries

Root

Root's Yorkshire struggling, Duckett fires in another 50, Robinson scores 100

England's Ben Duckett (right) and Zak Crawley walk out to bat on day one of the fourth NRMA Insurance Ashes Series 2025 test at the MCG

Analysis

England top order battle rages on as Duckett and Gay pile on runs

Joe Root scored 96 in his first appearance of the summer for Yorkshire against Sussex at Headingley

Root falls four short of century in first knock of season for Yorkshire

Josh Tongue took 5-91 for Nottinghamshire on day one against Warwickshire at Edgbaston (pic: Simon Trafford)

Tongue takes five-for while Crawley's struggles continue for Kent

Ben McKinney shared in a triple-century opening stand with Alex Lees for Durham against Gloucestershire

McKinney puts himself in England frame with double century for Durham