Yorkshire The county could accommodate Michael Vaughan’s need for limited-overs practice if he is left out by England as Younus Khan will be missing after being selected for Pakistan’s two one-day matches in Glasgow against Scotland and India.

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Sussex The Twenty20 Cup could be a good platform for Luke Wright to present his credentials as a potential England all-rounder. Wright has done well with bat and ball to put the county in a challenging position at the halfway stage of the season.

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DurhamThe county are hoping to have Stephen Harmison and Paul Collingwood available for their Friends Provident Trophy semi-final against Essex today. Their bowling options are such that Liam Plunkett is not an automatic selection.

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Warwickshire Ian Bell has not been selected for today’s Friends Provident Trophy semi-final against Hampshire because the club do not wish to disrupt the side. Heath Streak passed a fitness test and takes his place in the same 11 that beat Durham to qualify.

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LancashireThe club have said only 3,000 tickets out of 15,000 are available for the Twenty20 Cup match at home to Yorkshire next Wednesday. Just over half the ground capacity has been sold for the first home game, against Durham on Friday.

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Hampshire Kevin Pietersen, the England batsman, is included in the side to play Warwickshire in the Friends Provident Trophy semi-final today. A sell-out crowd is likely for the floodlit Twenty20 Cup match against Kent at the Rose Bowl on Friday.

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Kent Club officials who want to install floodlights at Canterbury will observe the strength of the pylons at the Rose Bowl in their floodlit match away to Hampshire in the Twenty20 Cup on Friday.

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Surrey Alan Butcher, the head coach, is hoping that the Twenty20 Cup, in which the county have always reached finals day, will kick-start their season. “We have enjoyed this competition and will try to take something positive from it,” he said.

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Worcestershire While Graeme Hick, the club’s oldest batsman at 41, seeks an extension to his contract, their youngest, Alexei Kervezee, 17, has been reprimanded by the ECB for dissent against an umpire’s decision in a second XI match.

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