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"I got my head down and took it seriously": How Jordan Clark became Surrey's understated metronome

NICK FRIEND - INTERVIEW: Clark has missed just four games during his side's County Championship three-peat and is the playing the best cricket of his career at the age of 34

Kemar Roach returns for fifth Surrey stint

The 36-year-old returns to the Kia Oval seven wickets short of 100 in first-class cricket for Surrey; he was presented with a county cap in 2023

Older than his years, James Coles steps into Division One as 20-year-old senior player

NICK FRIEND - INTERVIEW: Coles only turns 21 on April 2, but the allrounder is approaching his 100th professional appearance on the back of a second England Lions tour, five years after debuting as Sussex's youngest-ever first-class player

Richard Dawson presses the reset button and prays Glamorgan's stars stay fit

MEN'S COUNTY TEAM GUIDE 2025: Another season, another head coach. It is easy to forget that last summer included a second One-Day Cup in four years and Sam Northeast's colossal innings at Lord's

Durham blessed by an embarassment of batting riches

MEN'S COUNTY TEAM GUIDE 2025: After consolidating last summer, are Marcus North's side ready to trouble the dominance of Surrey?

Derbyshire fans impatient for Arthurian turnaround

MEN'S COUNTY TEAM GUIDE 2025: Having propped up Division Two and their white-ball fortunes having not yet improved, it is time their big-name head coach started to deliver on his reputation

New Gloucestershire captain set to miss season opener

The Australian, who has taken over from Graeme van Buuren at Nevil Road, will be absent for Gloucestershire's opening trip to Derbyshire

Kent bolster seam attack with overseas pair

Kashif Ali made his Test debut for Pakistan in January, while South African seamer Keith Dudgeon has 224 first-class wickets to his name; Wes Agar is now set to join Kent at the end of May rather than the start of April

England's Shoaib Bashir secures three-match County Championship loan move

For the second summer in a row, the off-spinner is taking his leave from Somerset in search of playing time

County chief's vision of Championship games in Ireland is misplaced, if well-meaning

DAVID SHARMAN argues Sean Jarvis would be better off focusing on ideas based in Leicester, rather than Leinster

Northamptonshire bring in Australian seamer for four-game County Championship stint

South Australian quick Harry Conway will be available for the county's Division Two games against Leicestershire, Lancashire, Glamorgan and Gloucestershire

Taking the County Championship overseas floated by club CEO

NICK FRIEND: No County Championship match has ever been taken abroad, but Sean Jarvis, chief executive at Leicestershire, intends to look into the possibility

"Realistically, you can't play every game": Olly Stone on navigating the county summer

NICK FRIEND - INTERVIEW: Stone returned to the international fold last summer, having stayed fit for Nottinghamshire; he explains the challenges of the domestic campaign for a fast bowler

Yorkshire sign second New Zealand quick for 2025 season

Ben Sears, who has played one Test, will be available from the second match of the newly-promoted side's County Championship season

Will Smeed stays true to his word at Somerset

NICK FRIEND: When Smeed moved onto a white-ball contract in 2023 to focus his energy on his far stronger format, he always insisted that the door to red-ball cricket remained open; two years on, he has taken the plunge