Australian Warne eventually warms to English game

Shane Warne claimed five wickets to earn Hampshire an outside chance of victory over defending champions Surrey in their Division One clash at The Oval.

Australian Test star Warne has made a slow start to his career in the English game but helped his side dismiss Surrey for 142 and leave Hampshire facing a target of 266 today if they are to achieve their first County Championship victory of the summer.

They will resume having lost two wickets in reaching 58 by the close yesterday, openers Jason Laney (0) and Giles White the men out.

Warne picked up five for 31 and Alan Mullally claimed four for 31 as only Adam Hollioake (41) made much impact for Surrey.

Hampshire had earlier been able to add just three runs to their overnight 207 for eight before they were all out - Martin Bicknell claiming his fourth wicket in the process - leaving them 123 behind on first innings.

Kent moved off the foot of the Division One table as they eclipsed Durham by 190 runs at Tunbridge Wells to log their first championship win of the season.

Durham, needing to reach an improbable 334 to win after resuming the final day on 44 for two, collapsed after lunch to lose five wickets for eight runs in the space of 11 overs as they slipped from 95 for four to 103 for nine. Australian Simon Katich made 41, but otherwise the Durham batsmen had no answer to the bowling of spinner Min Patel (four for 38) and captain Matthew Fleming (15-9-14-3) as they were eventually all out for 143.

oformer Indian cricketer Manoj Prabhakar has given investigators in New Delhi video recordings of what he said were interviews with cricket officials, players and politicians to back his claim that match fixing and betting existed in the country's most popular sport.

Kapil Dev is among the players Prabhakar has alleged received bribes.

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