1. Yorkshire Younus Khan has joined the Pakistan squad and will miss at least the next four Twenty20 Cup games, starting with this evening’s Roses match at Old Trafford. Andrew Gale has been named as his replacement in a squad of 12.

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2. Sussex All 7,000 tickets have been sold for the Twenty20 Cup match against Surrey Brown Caps on Friday. It is the first sell-out at the County Ground since the 1999 World Cup and will make it one of the biggest crowds for a domestic match at Hove.

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3. Durham Stephen Harmison could play only his second Twenty20 Cup match for Durham, against Leicestershire at the Riverside this evening, after being named in a 13-man squad. Harmison replaces Liam Plunkett, who is on international duty.

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4. WarwickshireAn offer to stage the Twenty20 Cup match away to Worcestershire tonight at Edgbaston, after the New Road ground flooded yesterday, was blocked by the ECB. Ian West-wood will be out until next month with a hip flexor injury.

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5. LancashireWith James Anderson on international duty, Steven Mullaney returns to the squad for today’s Twenty20 Cup match at home to Yorkshire. Sajid Mahmood, Glen Chapple and Dominic Cork have been ruled out of the group stage by injury.

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6. Hampshire A second sell-out crowd for a floodlit match at the Rose Bowl in six days is expected tonight, when Hampshire play Sussex. A coconut shy has proved a popular new form of entertainment among the sideshows.

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7. Kent Graham Ford, the Kent coach who is in the middle of overseeing five Twenty20 Cup matches in eight days, admits that “the pressure on each player is huge because there is no chance of rotating with such a small squad”.

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8. Surrey Harbhajan Singh, the India off spinner who has joined the county for a second time, will arrive at the Brit Oval next week. “We feel that a world-class spinner is an important part of improving our performance,” Alan Butcher, the cricket manager, said.

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9. Worcestershire Phil Jaques, who flew home to Australia for family reasons last week, will arrive back in England on Saturday. Matt Mason, who is recovering slowly from a shoulder injury, should be available for selection in two to three weeks.

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