Faf du Plessis

A round-up of the County Championship action on July 23, 2008

In a rather bland match at Trent Bridge, Lancashire beat Nottinghamshire comfortably by five wickets

John Ward reports on Yorkshire's four-run victory over Lancashire at Old Trafford, where the match went down to the final ball

John Ward watches Leicestershire's Twenty20 campaign get off to a losing start against Lancashire at Grace Road

After looking set for a good finish, following an enterprising declaration by Luke Sutton, Lancashire's match against Nottinghamshire faded away into a draw on a pitch that, even after four days, did not provide enough assistance for the bowlers

Lancashire perhaps had slightly the better of a bread-and-butter opening day at Old Trafford against Nottinghamshire

For the second successive Sunday, Lancashire hosted and won a one-day thriller, though this time they did not leave it to the final ball, as Francois du Plessis, their Kolpak South African, hit 77 off 80 balls

The Morkel brothers and Roelof van der Merwe starred in the field for the Titans as they beat the Cape Cobras by six runs in their Standard Bank Pro20 semi-final

Lancashire have signed 23-year-old South African batsman Francois du Plessis on a six-month contract from April 2008

New Zealand A and South Africa Emerging Players will meet in the final of the Emerging Players Tournament after they both finished their preliminary campaign with comfortable victories

A round-up of the latest matches from South Africa's Pro20

Sam Collins rounds up all the domestic action in South Africa for the week ending December 17, 2006

Sam Collins rounds up all the domestic action in South Africa for the week ending October 29, 2006

Sam Collins rounds up the weeks domestic action in South Africa

Cricket South Africa has managed to keep hold of Fran du Plessis, a promising young batsman, after Nottinghamshire had shown interest in signing him under the Kolpak ruling

Western Province prevailed over KwaZulu-Natal by just two runs in a thriller at the Chatsworth Stadium