South African all-rounder Albie Morkel and New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor have agreed to play for Durham in England's domestic Twenty20 competition this season.
Taylor, 25, who recently hit a record 81-ball century for his country, will join up with the squad ahead of their first fixture, against Lancashire on June 4.
Morkel returns for his second stint with the county after helping the side reach the Twenty20 Cup finals day in 2008.
He said: I was eager to take up the opportunity to come back to the Riverside after my first stint there in 2008.
“It's a great club to be a part of, there is a lot of ambition and team spirit in the dressing room and I'm looking forward to joining back up with the team.”
Both players will be representing their respective countries in the ICC World T20 in the West Indies before joining up with the Durham squad.
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Sussex won against surrey
Sussex 416 and 33 for 0 beat Surrey 205 and 243 by 10 wickets
Sussex needed just 33 minutes to wrap up a 10-wicket victory over Surrey on the final day of their Division Two match at Hove.
Surrey had not added to their overnight score of 243 for 9 when they lost Jade Dernbach to the tenth ball of the day, the number 11 edging to slip to give spinner Monty Panesar his second wicket.
That left Sussex with a token victory target of 33, and openers Mike Yardy and Chris Nash needed just 6.4 overs to knock off the runs. The pair hit two boundaries apiece as Yardy finished 17 not out, with Nash 12 not out from just 14 balls.
Surrey opened the bowling with off-spinner Gareth Batty to make sure they did not incur a points deduction for a slow over rate but that was little compensation after a crushing defeat.
To make matters worse for the visitors, who also lost their opening Championship game against Derbyshire, skipper Rory Hamilton-Brown left the ground on crutches. Hamilton-Brown suffered bad bruising to the top of his left foot when he was hit by Luke Wright's yorker on the third day, although he expects to be fit in time for Surrey's next Championship game against Worcestershire on Wednesday.
Sussex head to Bristol for their next game having won both of their opening matches as they bid to make an immediate return to Division One. But they will face Gloucestershire without skipper Yardy and Wright, who will be preparing with the England squad for the Twenty20 World Cup.
Sussex needed just 33 minutes to wrap up a 10-wicket victory over Surrey on the final day of their Division Two match at Hove.
Surrey had not added to their overnight score of 243 for 9 when they lost Jade Dernbach to the tenth ball of the day, the number 11 edging to slip to give spinner Monty Panesar his second wicket.
That left Sussex with a token victory target of 33, and openers Mike Yardy and Chris Nash needed just 6.4 overs to knock off the runs. The pair hit two boundaries apiece as Yardy finished 17 not out, with Nash 12 not out from just 14 balls.
Surrey opened the bowling with off-spinner Gareth Batty to make sure they did not incur a points deduction for a slow over rate but that was little compensation after a crushing defeat.
To make matters worse for the visitors, who also lost their opening Championship game against Derbyshire, skipper Rory Hamilton-Brown left the ground on crutches. Hamilton-Brown suffered bad bruising to the top of his left foot when he was hit by Luke Wright's yorker on the third day, although he expects to be fit in time for Surrey's next Championship game against Worcestershire on Wednesday.
Sussex head to Bristol for their next game having won both of their opening matches as they bid to make an immediate return to Division One. But they will face Gloucestershire without skipper Yardy and Wright, who will be preparing with the England squad for the Twenty20 World Cup.
glamorgan beats middlesex
Glamorgan 315 and 219 beat Middlesex 160 and 296 by 78 runs
Glamorgan secured their first Championship victory at Lord' s in 56 years after mopping up the last six Middlesex wickets in just over two hours to win by 78 runs and with 62 overs to spare.
It was former Middlesex all-rounder turned Glamorgan captain Jamie Dalrymple who proved they key figure in securing his county's first win of the Division Two campaign, leaving the hosts to contemplate their second defeat in as many starts. It was Dalrymple's off-spin that accounted for Middlesex top-scorer Dawid Malan for an excellent 115, a dismissal that ultimately exposed the Middlesex tail to the second new ball and made the result a foregone conclusion.
Glamorgan secured their first Championship victory at Lord' s in 56 years after mopping up the last six Middlesex wickets in just over two hours to win by 78 runs and with 62 overs to spare.
It was former Middlesex all-rounder turned Glamorgan captain Jamie Dalrymple who proved they key figure in securing his county's first win of the Division Two campaign, leaving the hosts to contemplate their second defeat in as many starts. It was Dalrymple's off-spin that accounted for Middlesex top-scorer Dawid Malan for an excellent 115, a dismissal that ultimately exposed the Middlesex tail to the second new ball and made the result a foregone conclusion.
durham, essex match drawn
Dual champions Durham needed plenty of backs-to-the-wall defiance, and some help from above, to eke out a draw against promoted Essex at the Riverside.
A record 212-run third-wicket stand between Michael Di Venuto (99) and Dale Benkenstein (98) and half-centuries from Ian Blackwell (52) and Phil Mustard (60no) shored Durham up at 352 for 7.
They had inched 66 runs in front by the time rain and bad light closed in for the second time to take out 34 overs and compromise Essex's bowling options on the final evening.
They therefore did not after all suffer a first home defeat since June 2008, in their opening Division One match of this summer. But four points were nonetheless the sum total of their efforts - hardly a portentous start in pursuit of a third successive title.
Tim Phillips' four wickets helped to keep Durham in trouble, after they had made much of the stuff for themselves by losing nine wickets and stumbling to 4 for 2 following on during a calamitous afternoon yesterday.
The slow left-armer dismissed Di Venuto and Benkenstein in the half hour before lunch today, and again struck in successive overs this afternoon. Di Venuto and Benkenstein had reprised their partnership for another 90 minutes until Phillips (4 for 102) struck for the first time.
Benkenstein, who edged Chris Wright just short of Alastair Cook at first slip on 63, managed only a single in the first eight overs. But he then crunched a pull off Wright for six into the members' stand. The former captain was also hit on the helmet when Graham Napier got a short ball to follow him. Like Di Venuto, though, Benkenstein kept chipping away the arrears - mostly through a packed and unorthodox leg-side field Napier had devised to snare him.
Progress became serene for the two Durham lynchpins, and a century for each seemed close on inevitable until Benkenstein lifted a drive at Phillips to a short mid-off - and two overs later, Di Venuto pushed out at one that did not turn and edged to slip.
At least one more partnership of substance would therefore be needed to keep Essex at bay, and the first to try were Ben Stokes and Blackwell. The latter began with a crunching extra-cover drive for four first ball and another swept boundary in the same Phillips over. But Stokes pulled Ryan ten Doeschate tamely to midwicket to leave his team-mates with a fair bit of hard work still to do.
All went well again for the hosts, though, for most of the afternoon as Blackwell and Mustard's fifties threatened to make the game safe. The second new ball brought 36 runs and no wickets in 10 overs. Blackwell shared a stand of 82 with Mustard until, under increasingly gloomy skies, he found himself trooping off with much self-admonishment after somehow allowing a ball from Phillips to trickle down off his forward defensive bat to hit the bottom of leg-stump and dislodge one bail.
In Phillips' next over, umpire Richard Kettleborough decided Liam Plunkett had to go lbw for a duck - pushing a long way forward to a well-directed delivery. But Mustard was still up for the fight and completed his 79-ball half-century with his ninth boundary.
His strokeplay was a major asset in a situation where runs were as precious as overs ticked off. With forecast rain arriving, the umpires ordered the players off for what became an early tea.
A temporary improvement in the weather allowed Essex back on for just five overs - and they were robbed of their shot at a notable win to follow last week's success at home to Hampshire.
A record 212-run third-wicket stand between Michael Di Venuto (99) and Dale Benkenstein (98) and half-centuries from Ian Blackwell (52) and Phil Mustard (60no) shored Durham up at 352 for 7.
They had inched 66 runs in front by the time rain and bad light closed in for the second time to take out 34 overs and compromise Essex's bowling options on the final evening.
They therefore did not after all suffer a first home defeat since June 2008, in their opening Division One match of this summer. But four points were nonetheless the sum total of their efforts - hardly a portentous start in pursuit of a third successive title.
Tim Phillips' four wickets helped to keep Durham in trouble, after they had made much of the stuff for themselves by losing nine wickets and stumbling to 4 for 2 following on during a calamitous afternoon yesterday.
The slow left-armer dismissed Di Venuto and Benkenstein in the half hour before lunch today, and again struck in successive overs this afternoon. Di Venuto and Benkenstein had reprised their partnership for another 90 minutes until Phillips (4 for 102) struck for the first time.
Benkenstein, who edged Chris Wright just short of Alastair Cook at first slip on 63, managed only a single in the first eight overs. But he then crunched a pull off Wright for six into the members' stand. The former captain was also hit on the helmet when Graham Napier got a short ball to follow him. Like Di Venuto, though, Benkenstein kept chipping away the arrears - mostly through a packed and unorthodox leg-side field Napier had devised to snare him.
Progress became serene for the two Durham lynchpins, and a century for each seemed close on inevitable until Benkenstein lifted a drive at Phillips to a short mid-off - and two overs later, Di Venuto pushed out at one that did not turn and edged to slip.
At least one more partnership of substance would therefore be needed to keep Essex at bay, and the first to try were Ben Stokes and Blackwell. The latter began with a crunching extra-cover drive for four first ball and another swept boundary in the same Phillips over. But Stokes pulled Ryan ten Doeschate tamely to midwicket to leave his team-mates with a fair bit of hard work still to do.
All went well again for the hosts, though, for most of the afternoon as Blackwell and Mustard's fifties threatened to make the game safe. The second new ball brought 36 runs and no wickets in 10 overs. Blackwell shared a stand of 82 with Mustard until, under increasingly gloomy skies, he found himself trooping off with much self-admonishment after somehow allowing a ball from Phillips to trickle down off his forward defensive bat to hit the bottom of leg-stump and dislodge one bail.
In Phillips' next over, umpire Richard Kettleborough decided Liam Plunkett had to go lbw for a duck - pushing a long way forward to a well-directed delivery. But Mustard was still up for the fight and completed his 79-ball half-century with his ninth boundary.
His strokeplay was a major asset in a situation where runs were as precious as overs ticked off. With forecast rain arriving, the umpires ordered the players off for what became an early tea.
A temporary improvement in the weather allowed Essex back on for just five overs - and they were robbed of their shot at a notable win to follow last week's success at home to Hampshire.
hampshire confirms talks with brett lee
Hampshire confirmed they are in talks with Australian paceman Brett Lee over a possible move to the Rose Bowl.
Lee, 33, has retired from Test cricket following persistent injury problems but still hopes to play a role in limited-overs cricket for Australia.
He is in Australia's squad for the World Twenty20 which begins April 30 but is currently recovering from a broken thumb he picked up playing for Kings XI Punjab in the IPL.
A statement from Hampshire read: "Hampshire Cricket can confirm that talks are ongoing with Brett Lee about playing for Hampshire this season. These talks are at an advanced stage, and we will hope to make a further announcement in due course."
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