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All timesStubbs fires on debut as Hampshire Hawks down Essex Eagles
South African whacks unbeaten 69 off 42 before Scott Currie's four-for seals points for home side
Simpson the best as Sussex power past Essex
Pepper, Walter half-centuries in vain in high-scoring affair at Chelmsford
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Last year's runners-up need a post-Championship pick-me-up as they join a potent South Group
Sam Cook, Shane Snater lead Leicestershire demolition job
Visitors capitulate for 60 in second innings as Essex claim third win of season
Porter's maiden fifty inspires Essex batting fightback
Nightwatcher finds form as Allison, Mulder and Harmer follow lead to reduce deficit
Budinger, Weatherald set Foxes running at Chelmsford
Essex claw things back after whirlwind stand, Mulder and Snater sharing six wickets
Critchley's unbeaten 90 condemns Hampshire to three-day loss
Abbott battles with four wickets but Essex hunt down 178-run target with one ball of day to spare
Simon Harmer rescues Essex with the bat as Hampshire fumble
South African spinner stuns Hampshire with 80 before Sam Cook strikes twice in second innings
Lehmann, Brown resist as Cook, Mulder fire for Essex
Hampshire hit back with late breakthroughs on 12-wicket day
Westley, Elgar centuries end any pretence of a contest
Oval surface the only winner as keeper Foakes takes second new ball for Surrey
Sibley, Lawrence notch centuries as Surrey and Essex brace for draw
The Surrey duo helped the hosts establish a first innings lead after just 20 wickets fall across three days
Dom Sibley steadies Surrey after Essex post 409
Pope continues solid form with half-century as hosts hit back with bat
Paul Walter, Dean Elgar blunt Surrey's pace attack
Duo share opening stand of 183 before hosts bowl themselves back into the game at The Oval
Keith Barker marks Warwickshire return with match-winning haul
Three wickets in an over amid his 4 for 29 rocks Essex's run chase
Fascinating final day looms as Essex eye victory target against Warwickshire
Tenth-wicket stand of 32 between Nathan Gilchrist and Ethan Bamber evens contest up after Sam Cook's five-for
Hain heroics hold up Essex before weather intervenes again
Visitors reach 110 for 3 in reply to 190 on another day of interruptions
Porter four-for leaves Warwickshire rocking despite Hain grit
Essex seamers make most of conditions before rain sets in at Edgbaston
Wiaan Mulder misses Essex's trip to Warwickshire for personal reasons
Allrounder heads home to South Africa after two County Championship appearances
Allround Overton condemns Essex to ten-wicket thumping
Captain's performance with bat and ball drives Somerset to victory at Chelmsford
Overton gives Somerset the edge with career-best 141
Allrounder's second first-class century handed Somerset a first innings which Essex have whittled down
Shaw, Overton give Somerset edge on 15-wicket day
Visitors send for Will Smeed after Essex tumble from 77 for 2 to 149 all out
Will Smeed makes first-class debut as substitute ... three years after red-ball retirement
Tom Kohler-Cadmore suffers hand injury in slip cordon, and becomes third substitute of season
Critchley five seals three-day win as Hampshire endure horror start
Essex claim thumping victory in opening round as hosts subside meekly after following on
Critchley hits the season running again as Essex leave Hampshire reeling
Imposing 173 sets up hefty total for visitors before Sam Cook strikes with new ball
Critchley, Allison steer Essex after early Abbott strikes
Unbroken stand worth 152 lifts Essex, who also became the first county to substitute a player for injury
2026 Twenty20 Cup (England)
| Central & West Group | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | M | W | L | T | P | NRR |
| NOR | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2.575 |
| GLO | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1.2 |
| SOM | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1.077 |
| GLA | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -0.1 |
| WAR | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -1.616 |
| WOR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -5 |
| Cross Pool | ||||||
| Team | M | W | L | T | P | NRR |
| SUR | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2.95 |
| SOM | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1.896 |
| WOR | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.9 |
| LEI | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -0.9 |
| HAM | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -1.896 |
| LAN | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -2.95 |
| North Group | ||||||
| Team | M | W | L | T | P | NRR |
| DUR | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1.757 |
| YOR | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1.133 |
| LAN | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1.95 |
| DER | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -0.344 |
| NOT | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -1.929 |
| LEI | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -3.314 |
| South Group | ||||||
| Team | M | W | L | T | P | NRR |
| KEN | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1.167 |
| HAM | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1.5 |
| SUR | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.634 |
| SUS | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.632 |
| MID | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -1.043 |
| ESS | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -1.864 |
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