31 August
Preview: Sussex Sharks v Surrey Lions (Oval World)

Adams century steers Sussex home (BBC)
Sussex v Surrey (Sporting Life)
Oval steps up security and sends out warning to touts (Times)

30 August
Oval Ashes profiteers caught out (BBC)

Prices soar as demand for tickets reaches record high (Times)

29 August
Surrey have no answer to Blackwell (Oval World)
Belligerent Blackwell undoes toothless Lions (Times)

28 August
Surrey opt for negativity (Oval World)
Blackwell fires Somerset to win (BBC)
Australian body language yells 'vulnerable' (Independent)
Surrey v Somerset (Sporting Life)
Hampshire miss a dose of Warne bravado (Telegraph)

27 August
Preview: Surrey Lions v Somerset Sabres (Oval World)
Pothas helps Hampshire cancel out Surrey (Oval World)

Draw keeps Hants in title picture (BBC)
Pothas century reels Surrey back in (Guardian)
Surrey v Hampshire Day 4 (Sporting Life)
Pothas punishes Surrey (Telegraph)
Watson offers reminder of his credentials (Times)

26 August
Batty hits timely first ton of the season (Oval World)

Pothas century peps up Hampshire (BBC)
First championship hundred was one of the best... (Croydon Advertiser)
Bicknell down at heel (Croydon Advertiser)
Butcher's Hook (Croydon Advertiser)

Butcher hardens Batty's glue (Guardian)
Rixon aiming to leave on a high note (South London Press)
Surrey v Hampshire Day 3 (Sporting Life)
Book your place on a tour of the Brit Oval (Surrey CCC Official)
Batty hits form but Udal has last word (Telegraph)
Batty takes the lead to steady ship for Surrey (Times)

25 August
Batty stars for dominant Surrey (BBC)

Touts cashing in on Ashes bonanza (BBC)
Cricket websites hit new high as fourth Test begins (Financial Times)
Surrey v Hampshire Day 2 (Sporting Life)

24 August
Internet trading faces Revenue clamp (Financial Times)

Ashes mania sends ticket prices soaring (Life Style Extra)
Surrey v Hampshire Day 1 (Sporting Life)
County Championship preview (Telegraph)

23 August
Preview: Surrey v Hampshire (Oval World)

Surrey v Hampshire (BBC)
Surrey still depleted (Sporting Life)
Bruce back for Hampshire (Sporting Life)
Thorpe book signing at the Brit Oval (Surrey CCC Official)

22 August
Surrey and Kent suffer washout (BBC)

Surrey v Kent (Sporting Life)

21 August
Preview: Surrey Lions v Kent Spitfires (Oval World)

Thorpe to retire at end of season (BBC)
Thorpe to retire from first-class cricket (CricInfo)
Stick with players and look what happens (Independent)
Thorpe to retire (Sporting Life)
Homing instinct (Times)
Questions & Answers (Times)

20 August
Who has the edge in the Ashes? (BBC)

19 August
Surrey look to the weather gods (Oval World)
Final day washed out at The Oval (BBC)
Jim Laker's other ten-for (CricInfo)
Rixon trapped by contracts (Croydon Advertiser)
Saqlain determined to repay faith shown in him (Croydon Advertiser)
Butcher's Hook (Croydon Advertiser)
Sarwan briefly masks the gloom (Guardian)
Sarwan's 99 tips balance away from Surrey (Independent)
First Twenty20 bash ushers in new era (India Times)
Young stars will get Surrey out of a Stew (South London Press)
Surrey v Gloucestershire Day 4 (Sporting Life)
Surrey launch supremo search (Surrey Advertiser)
Jitters deny Sarwan another 100 (Telegraph)
Sarwan run feast gives Surrey food for thought (Times)
Cupboard is bare Down Under (Times)

18 August
Ramprakash reaches 1,000 runs for the fifteenth time (Oval World)
Pressure is on Australia - Thorpe (BBC)
Ashes Tests sell out completely (BBC)
Sarwan denied ton as Glos wobble (BBC)
Ramps still a prince of batsmen (Guardian)
Ramprakash inspires Surrey with innings to remember (Independent)
Thorpe happy to stay retired (Sporting Life)
Surrey v Gloucestershire Day 3 (Sporting Life)
Chairman's Evening overview (Surrey CCC Official)
Ramprakash rallies Surrey (Telegraph)
Peerless Ramprakash gives Surrey advantage (Times)

17 August
Adshed frustrates Surrey again this time with maiden ton (Oval World)
Ramprakash leads Surrey recovery (BBC)
Tough love and love-ins (CricInfo)
Adshead revisited as Surrey suffer (Guardian)
Adshead returns to haunt Surrey with maiden ton (Independent)
Surrey v Gloucestershire Day 2 (Sporting Life)
Adshead leads the recovery (Telegraph)
Adshead blossoms with maiden hundred (Times)

16 August
Adshead ton lifts Gloucestershire (BBC)
Surrey v Gloucestershire Day 1 (Sporting Life)

15 August
Preview: Surrey v Gloucestershire (Oval World)
Surrey v Gloucestershire (BBC)

Surrey duo back (Sporting Life)

14 August
The iron duke (CricInfo)
Famous five give Vaughan a perfect hand (Independent)

13 August
Zaheer, Kumble and Laxman dropped from one-day squad (CricInfo)

12 August
Butcher rediscovers batting form (BBC)
Coach Rixon set to leave Surrey (BBC)
Benning on fire again as Surrey draw (CricInfo)
Rixon parts company with Surrey (CricInfo)
Butcher's Hook (Croydon Advertiser)
Brown has his eye set on the future (Croydon Advertiser)
As fit as a Butcher's dog (Croydon Advertiser)
Brown's just smashing (South London Press)
Rixon to leave Surrey (Sporting Life)
Test pair back for rescue mission (Surrey Advertiser)

11 August
Saqlain enjoys Surrey appearance (BBC)
Butcher hopes for England return (BBC)
Tushar Imran gives Bangladesh hope (CricInfo)
Chairman's Cricket Evening (Surrey CCC Official)

10 August
Brown takes advantage of Ackerman's inflexibility (Oval World)
Butcher fails on return to action (BBC)
Benning century puts Surrey in command (CricInfo)
Extra security raises the cost of Major's batting average (Independent)
Surrey suffer at the hands of Ackerman (Telegraph)
Brown uses his power to claw back Lions pride (Times)

9 August
Brown helps Surrey see off Leics (BBC)
Australia rocked by Lee scare (Guardian)
Was this the most exciting Test of all time? (Guardian)
Saker stars (South London Press)
Surrey v Leicestershire (Sporting Life)

8 August
Youthful Lions silence Kent crowd yet again (Oval World)
Spitfires splutter to seventh defeat (Kent Messenger)
Hall's efforts in vain as Batty leads Surrey home (Times)

7 August
Spitfires' one-day woes continue (BBC)
Old ones are the best (Belfast Telegraph)
The big man begins to understand his talent (Independent)
Kent v Surrey (Sporting Life)

6 August
Sussex dump Surrey in the relegation zone (Oval World)
Surrey need Butcher, never mind England (Guardian)
Yardy anchors himself to crease (Telegraph)
Prior and Yardy show cool heads to steady rocking Sussex... (Times)

5 August
Surrey show signs of clawing their way back (Oval World)
Prior stars as Sussex beat Surrey (BBC)
Doshi delights in his work (Croydon Advertiser)
Dernbach unfazed by Lancashire's big hitters (Croydon Advertiser)
Butcher's Hook (Croydon Advertiser)
Light relief at The Brit Oval (South London Press)
A high five for Rixon (South London Press)
Sussex v Surrey Day 3 (Sporting Life)
Rixon - We can still land big prize (Surrey Advertiser)
Sky Sports Cricket Forum (Surrey CCC Official)
Sussex are lifted by timely knock (Telegraph)
Martin-Jenkins states case in emphatic fashion (Times)
Australia's hopes are torn after rugby loss (Times)

4 August
Sussex take control (Oval World)
Martin-Jenkins knock lifts Sussex (BBC)
Indian pacers must bowl 750 overs in a season (Express India)
Ramprakash wicket sums up Surrey's day (Guardian)
Sussex v Surrey Day 2 (Sporting Life)
Surrey continue their decline (Telegraph)
Ramprakash on solo mission (Times)

3 August
Montgomerie keeps Sussex on top (BBC)
The real Douglas Jardine (CricInfo)
Semi-detached (South London Press)
Sussex v Surrey Day 1 (Sporting Life)

2 August
Stop letting Warne freak you out (Mirror)
Dernbach set for debut (Sporting Life)
Bicknell awarded Testimonial in 2006 (Surrey CCC Official)

1 August
Smith's rich harvest for Somerset (Guardian)
Frenetic format turns spinners into stars (Telegraph)

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