Updated 1:28pm 29 May 2012

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Jeetan Patel

Watrwickshire CCC: Jeetan Patel living up to pre-season pledge

JEETAN Patel is delighted to have delivered vital wickets for Warwickshire in games where pitches have offered help to the spinners so far this year. Read

Jim Troughton

Warwickshire CCC: Jim Troughton bids to overcome run drought

JIM Troughton is striving hard to find the missing “piece in the jigsaw” of Warwickshire’s storming start to the season – his own form with the bat. Read

Birmingham Mail back page May 29

Birmingham Mail back page - today's sport headlines

Here is today's Birmingham Mail back page. Read

Clydesdale Bank 40 Group C: Warwickshire beat Northamptonshire by eight wickets

WARWICKSHIRE must wish they had another game today after completing a perfect weekend by thrashing Northamptonshire by eight wickets at Northampton. Read

Cricket: Warwickshire go top after victory against Surrey

Warwickshire went back to the top of LV= County Championship Division One by taking just 33 minutes to complete a five-wicket victory against Surrey at the Kia Oval. Read

Laurie Evans

Laurie Evans: Rain can't dampen Warwickshire's brilliant start

Warwickshire batsman Laurie Evans has joined the team of Mail columnists and will be giving weekly reports from within the Bears camp.Read

Chris Woakes

Warwickshire CCC: Chris Woakes is backed to star for England

FORMER England all-rounder Dominic Cork believes Chris Woakes is “the sort of cricketer that England are looking for” and has backed the Warwickshire player for a bright future at the top level. Read

Ashley Giles

Warwickshire CCC: Ashley Giles won't let season go flat for Bears

ASHLEY Giles has delivered some good news for Warwickshire’s bowlers and spectators – the Bears do not intend to build their championship bid this season on a string of flat-track draws like they did in 2004. Read

Warwickshire: Laurie Evans wants to force his way back into Bears side

LAURIE Evans is determined to force his way back into Warwickshire’s first team and prove he can handle the demands and pressures of sustained championship cricket.Read

Chris Wright

Warwickshire CCC: Late strikes put Bears in control

SEVEN Lancashire wickets stand between Warwickshire and their fourth Championship victory in five games this season after a double strike late on the third day left the reigning champions deep in trouble at Edgbaston. Read

Warwickshire to name stand after spectator

THE West Stand at Edgbaston will be renamed in a spectator’s honour for the Saturday of the England v West Indies Test next month.Read

Bears get their claws into old foe

LANCASHIRE have handed Warwickshire plenty of misery in recent years but 2012 is proving payback time, big time, after the Bears enjoyed a near-perfect day at Edgbaston yesterday.Read

Warwickshire: It will be hard to keep everyone happy - Ashley Giles

ASHLEY Giles admits that keeping everyone in Warwickshire’s squad happy will be “difficult” this year.Read

Warwickshire: Varun Chopra century adds to a good day but not a great one

VARUN Chopra struck a polished century but Warwickshire ultimately had to make do with a good day, rather a dominant one, on the opening day against Lancashire.Read

Ashley Giles

Warwickshire: Don't lose the faith - Ashley Giles

ASHLEY Giles insists table-topping Warwickshire must not lose focus for one moment as they take on struggling champions Lancashire at Edgbaston over the next four days.Read

Warwickshire: Chris Wright expresses his relief

WARWICKSHIRE’S Chris Wright has expressed his relief at playing Division One cricket as he admits he didn’t expect that to be the case after his release from Essex ten months ago.Read

Boyd Rankin

Warwickshire: Boyd Rankin tells of 'frustrating absence'

WARWICKSHIRE fast-bowler Boyd Rankin admits his absence for the first two months of this season is “very frustrating.”Read

Chris Woakes

Cricket: Warwickshire storm to nine-wicket win against Derbyshire

WARWICKSHIRE’S storming start to the season continued unabated as they cruised to a nine-wicket CB40 win over Derbyshire at Edgbaston.Read

Ian Bell

Warwickshire: Ian Bell form bodes well for England says Ashley Giles

ASHLEY Giles believes Ian Bell’s return to form with the Bears “bodes well” for England in the run-up to their Test series with West Indies.Read

Warwickshire: We can challenge for silverware - Rikki Clarke

RIKKI Clarke believes Warwickshire are well-equipped to put last season’s slump in one-day cricket behind them – and challenge hard for silverware this season.Read