The County Game

It’s a great day for Cricketer Stuart Turner, as Essex prepare for the Benson & Hedges Cup Final at Lord’s tomorrow, where they meet Surrey.

The lads done good! Captain Keith Fletcher is overjoyed as Essex beat Yorkshire, making it through to the Benson & Hedges Cup final at Lord’s.

Anglia TV News Report from Lord’s where Northamptonshire beat Essex in the 1980 Benson & Hedges Cricket Cup Final.

Cricketing legends Keith Fletcher and West-Indian Keith Boyce comment on the season ahead, and there's a ball through the clubhouse window!

Essex County Cricket Club’s best batsman, Keith Fletcher, and the ‘Cricketer’s Cricketer’, bowler John Lever speak to Anglia TV.

Essex County Cricket Club are in their highest position ever achieved in the history of the club, in second place in the County Championships.

Nottinghamshire take on Derbyshire and Hampshire at Trent Bridge in the 1932 County Championship

Derbyshire visit Trent Bridge to take on Nottinghamshire for the 1934 Cricket County Championship

Cricket galore! Four county championship matches and prizes for Larwood and Voce for services in Australia.

Notts take to the pitch at Trent Bridge - with a guest appearance by the ground staff as the covers go on for rain.

Notts face Surrey and Gloucester at Trent Bridge in the 1932 Cricket County Championship before playing the All-India side.

Amateur film of play during four 1933 county championship matches at Trent Bridge

Cricket in the sunshine as Worcestershire take on Yorkshire at New Road.

Yorkshire, current leads of the County Cricket Championship table, take on Surrey on a rather dull and blustery day in Hull at The Circle.

Lincolnshire compete against Suffolk in a Minor Counties Championship 2-day cricket match in 1973.

First-class big-hitters from the county team, including Rupert Webb, take on Horley in this exciting colour film from 1960’s Sussex

Cricket stars descend on Portsmouth while a flurry of groundsmen, broadcasters and fans prepare for Cricket Week

Ted Diamond's excellent short film captures the match and the celebs at Kent's County Cricket ground in August 1963

Essex County cricket team get some much needed practice in the nets at the County Ground, Leyton.

Somerset cricketers compete in six-a-side cricket match at the Weston-Super-Mare Cricket Festival

The opening match of the 1925 county championship season and Warwickshire's batting is undone by Dick Tyldesley.

First county cricket match of the season between champions Lancashire and Warwickshire.

Large crowds gather for cricket week at Canterbury's St Lawrence Ground, as Kent take on Sussex and Nottinghamshire.

Johnners' plays umpire as Hampshire's cricketers - past and present - meet at Hackwood Park for the 1991 Carlsberg Cricket Challenge

Surrey play Yorkshire at the Oval as the 1922 County Championship nears its conclusion.

Somerset is knocked out as Lancashire reaches target

Two East Anglian county cricket teams warm up at the start of the season, hoping to take home the third Gillette Cup in 1965. Regional news.