Eight degrees and windy in Durham: the cricket season is here

With so much international cricket to fit in this summer there is barely room for the county season, which is why Durham were playing on 26 March, the earliest ever startWith 20 minutes to go before the start of the English cricket summer a total of eight spectators are scattered around the prim, pretty stands of the Emirates Riverside stadium. Related: Alastair Cook makes it a knight’s tale with supreme century for EssexRelated: The Spin | Gambling on captain Cameron may prove light-bulb