Scott Borthwick

Scott Borthwick again fell cheaply after half-centuries from Gary Ballance and Tim Bresnan helped Yorkshire into a sizeable lead at Chester-le-Street

The attention was on Durham's Scott Borthwick but he ran himself out for 2 and Steven Patterson then drove home Yorkshire's advantage with 6 for 56

The England coach Trevor Bayliss has admitted England's wicketkeeping position remains a debating point for the selectors ahead of the Test series against Pakistan

Having so far failed in their efforts to convince the England selectors of the merits of Mark Stoneman as a viable contender for a top-order Test place, Durham can be expected to mount a similar clamour behind Scott Borthwick

Riki Wessels made an unbeaten 159, his highest score for Nottinghamshire since he fell one short of a double hundred against Sussex at Hove in May 2012

To clinch their third win in four Division One matches this season, Lancashire would need to score 325 runs in 96 overs or fewer, an asking rate of only 3.385 runs per over. They failed.

As if in playful reproof to those who thought the second half of this game might limp into high-scoring tedium, Tuesday's cricket galloped along like a Grand National winner crossing the Melling Road and brought riches beyond our imagining

Scott Borthwick's high-class 134 and Paul Collingwood's 85 not out gave Lancashire's attack one of its first pick, shovel and prop days at cricket's coalface this season

A round-up of all the Plunket Shield matches that were played from March 15-18, 2016

Samit Patel has replaced Scott Borthwick in the MCC squad for the Champion County match against Yorkshire, in Abu Dhabi, next month

A round-up of all the Plunket Shield games that ended on February 8, 2016

Worcestershire produced a valiant effort on the final day at Chyester-le-Street but a three-wicket defeat late in the day meant they were relegated and ended Durham's barren run

Middlesex consolidated second place in LV= County Championship Division One after surviving a nervy start at Chester-le-Street to beat Durham by 71 runs

The sun-hatted scrutineers were out in numbers during the tea interval on the second day of this match at Arundel. With 12 wickets having fallen in less than a half a day's cricket, it was only proper that pitch inspectors, although so far only the amateu

Durham redrew battle lines as 16 wickets fell in an all-action second day at New Road through a century by Scott Borthwick

Scott Borthwick's unbeaten 97 saw off Sussex at Chester-Le-Street and ensured that Durham preserved their unbeaten record

Paul Collingwood hit his 20th first-class century for Durham to help them take control on the second day of the County Championship match with Somerset at Taunton

England will send four players from the Performance Programme to Sri Lanka either side of Christmas in the latest example of their desire to expose their young cricketers to Asian conditions.