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Humble all set to earn his 'Corn after hitting the big time

STEPHEN HUMBLE is no stranger to big cricket occasions and fittingly for a man who sells refrigeration units, he has always been able to keep his cool.Read

Durham are up and running

DURHAM are off and running – and already two steps ahead of last year’s Championship pace.Read

County’s survival hopes depend on veteran duo

DURHAM have fond memories of their last follow-on. It was September 2006 when the Riversiders were last asked to try again after being skittled for a big first-innings deficit.Read

Blackwell’s toasting success!

IAN Blackwell hopes to be spending a lot of time in cricket ground bars this season – toasting more of his own batting successes.Read

England success has put Stokes in the frame for a county place

COMING from Cockermouth, Ben Stokes knows just how miserable a winter it has been.Read

Step up or stand down says Cook

GEOFF COOK has warned Durham’s established stars they will face the chop if they do not show they still have the hunger and desire to maintain last season’s high standards.Read

Kyle Coetzer

Kyle fill void for Durham: Coetzer

KYLE COETZER intends to use Durham's trip to Abu Dhabi to face the MCC to show why the county did not need to sign an overseas player this season.Read

Di Venuto has bad feeling over England's Harmison decision

DURHAM run machine Michael Di Venuto believes the decision to ditch Steve Harmison from the winter tour of South Africa will return to haunt England.Read

Evans is flying high despite slow progress

TALKING to Luke Evans about cricket is like speaking to a veteran trapped in a young man’s body. A very big body.Read

Durham can’t go out with a bang

TONIGHT Durham head to Ireland on a mission to drink Dublin dry, but yesterday they were handed a sobering experience by the weakest team in this year’s County Championship Division One.Read

Skipper takes Cestrians to national glory

THE quintessential captain’s performance from Quentin Hughes led the Cestrians to national glory at the County Ground in Derby yesterday.Read

Champions won’t be resting on their laurels

THE trouble with scaling the heights is that when you reach them, suddenly there’s nowhere else to go.Read

Scary Durham batter rivals to reign supreme

IF it weren’t so scary it would almost be boring. But excellence is never dull, whatever protests at the lack of contest. Read

Now let’s go and make it a hat-trick, booms Harmison

FIRED up and far from finished, Steve Harmison reckons Durham can blast their way to an historic third-straight County Championship.Read

Pro40 young guns fire up Durham County side

BUILDING for the future is helping Durham dominate the present, according to Ian Blackwell.Read

Di Venuto: Not my greatest innings – but it was vital

IMPERIOUS, undefeated Durham opener Michael Di Venuto does not rate his career-highest first-class innings his best.Read

Tykes emerge safe from Harm

THE days when bowlers could leave run-scoring to the professionals are long gone.Read

We will never see an Ashes like it!

LIKE every good Australian cricketer plying his trade on these shores, Michael Di Venuto never betrays any sign of fear or weakness when it comes to playing England.Read

No Harm done to ace bowler’s England hopes

DURHAM are the reigning county champions and Steve Harmison is a world class fast bowler. Now they are starting to play like it.Read

First-class dream alive

CHRIS ALLINSON, MARSKE CCRead

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