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Park leaves Durham to join Derbyshire

10:18am Wednesday 8th October 2008

GARRY Park has signed a two-year contract for Derbyshire after turning down a two-year extension of his contract with reigning county champions Durham.

Twenty20 offers a lifeline for Gough

9:19am Friday 3rd October 2008

YOU can bet your bottom dollar that we have not seen the last of Darren Gough on a cricket pitch. Whether it be club cricket near his Milton Keynes home, Twenty20 cricket for Yorkshire next summer, or in the glitzy Indian Premier League.

Send your congratulatory messages to Durham - and get them included in our supplement

2:35pm Tuesday 30th September 2008

TO MARK Durham's achievement in winning the county championship this season, The Northern Echo is producing a commemorative supplement on Friday.

Skipper Benkenstein ready to pass mantle on to Smith

SKIPPER’S JOY: Dale Benkenstein with the County Championship Trophy at Riverside yesterday

10:24am Tuesday 30th September 2008

DURHAM’S Player of the Year Will Smith last night declared himself ready and willing to take over the captaincy if asked.

Hat-trick of awards for young batsman

10:25am Tuesday 30th September 2008

WILL Smith crowned a memorable season by claiming a trophy hat-trick at last night’s Durham County Cricket Club Player of the Year dinner at Newcastle’s Gosforth Park Marriott Hotel.

Durham duo in England squad

3:16pm Monday 29th September 2008

DURHAM duo Steve Harmison and Paul Collingwood have both been named in England's 15-man Test squad for this winter's tour of India.

Can Harmison make it a double tonight?

9:05am Monday 29th September 2008

STEVE Harmison has every chance of being named Player of the Year at tonight’s Professional Cricketers’ Association dinner in London. But he won’t be there because it clashes with Durham’s own dinner.

Members get chance to salute the champions

9:09am Monday 29th September 2008

DURHAM members are invited to attend Riverside this afternoon to pay tribute to the county’s first County Championship winners.

It’s time for a new era to start, says skipper

9:09am Monday 29th September 2008

DALE Benkenstein, determined to bow out at the top, provided a glowing job reference for Will Smith after leading Durham to the County Championship.

Cook relishes the finest hour of his career

9:12am Monday 29th September 2008

MINUTES before one of the most emotional scenes he or anyone else connected with Durham cricket had ever seen, head coach Geoff Cook was prowling the boundary alone.







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