Harmison and Durham sound ominous warning

Steve Harmison demolished Warwickshire, taking six of the seven remaining wickets as Durham wrapped up their third win of the season in 10.2 overs.

No Durham bowler had previously taken five wickets in a championship innings this season, but Harmison finished with 7-29, his best county figures, as Warwickshire crumbled from their overnight 111-3 to 134 all out in 50 minutes.

The visitors' sixth defeat heightened their relegation worries, while Durham climbed two places to fifth.

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Having been 55 points behind Nottinghamshire when they lost at Trent Bridge in May they have the gap down to 19 on Notts – although they have a game in hand – and 20 on Yorkshire, who resumed the leadership of the division following their 10-point haul against Lancashire in the Roses match.

Harmison's haul took him past 700 first-class wickets, of which 423 have been for Durham. Having missed four of their previous seven games this season with back and ankle injuries, he had only nine championship wickets going into this match.

Chris Tremlett bowled injury-hit Surrey to a pulsating 42-run victory over Derbyshire in their Division Two match at Chesterfield, despite a second century in the match from Wayne Madsen.

The South African opener made 105 but Tremlett sent down 22.5 overs on a hot, humid day to finish with 4-94 as Derbyshire were all out for 365, the third highest fourth-innings total in their history.

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Andre Nel bowled with a damaged hamstring to take 3-74 and Derbyshire tailender Tom Lungley faced 21 balls with a suspected broken arm before he was bowled with his team 43 short of their victory target of 408.

An unbeaten stand of 90 between Darren Stevens and Peter Trego eased England Lions to a five-wicket win over India at Grace Road yesterday.

Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale, who led the Lions in the United Arab Emirates earlier this year, took the job yesterday in the absence of Alastair Cook, who was suffering with a back injury.

Cheteshwar Pujara top-scored with 73 as India, put into bat, totalled 254 from 49.3 overs. Ajmal Shahzad and Ravi Bopara each took three wickets for England. All England's batsmen made double figures but there was still work to be done when Kent's Stevens and Somerset's Trego teamed up in the 31st over.

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Stevens reached his 50 off 71 balls and went on to make an unbeaten 58 which included four boundaries, while Trego's 48 came off 50 balls and contained two sixes and four fours.

England lost to New Zealand by four runs in the women's Twenty20 international at Southampton's Rose Bowl.

Yorkshire's Danielle Hazell took three wickets as the tourists totalled 147-8 from their 20 overs, with a 105-run partnership for the second wicket between Suzie Bates (68) and Sara McGlashan (47) the highlight.

Only opening batsman Sarah Taylor (73) and Jenny Gunn (24) offered much resistance for England, with the remainder of the side managing just three boundaries between them.

Sian Ruck was the pick of the New Zealand bowlers, with her four overs costing 15 runs but yielding three wickets, while Amy Satterthwaite took 2-17 and ran out the impressive Taylor.