Martin's celebration

Peter Martin brought the NatWest Trophy winners, Essex, back down to earth with a match-winning five-wicket haul for Lancashire in their rearranged Sunday League game at Old Trafford.

Martin, selected for the England squad for the one-day tournament in Sharjah, took 5 for 41 as Lancashire restricted Essex to 230 for 8 and then knocked off the runs with six wickets to spare.

In the process, Martin beat the Lancashire record for wickets in a Sunday League season set by Wasim Akram with 29 in 1995. He now has 31 and is the leading wicket-taker in the AXA Life League this season, three ahead of Hampshire's Shaun Udal, with only one game to go.