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Kyle Jarvis continued his and Lancashire's excellent start to the Specsavers County Championship season with four wickets before lunch and 6 for 70 in all on the opening day against Surrey at Old Trafford

Burns stands out as Jarvis dismantles Surrey

Josh Shaw claimed four wickets as Northamptonshire plunged into trouble on the opening day of the Specsavers County Championship match with Gloucestershire at Bristol

On-loan Shaw cuts through Northants

Wayne Madsen and Neil Broom made it Derbyshire's day after Matt Coles had given Kent an excellent start to the Division Two match at Derby

Madsen ton leads revival after Coles burst

With four spin options to call upon on a parched Eden Gardens pitch, Kolkata Knight Riders strangled Sunrisers Hyderabad to defend 171 and pull off a 22-run victory.

Spinners, Yusuf lead Knight Riders into playoffs

22-May-2016•The Report by Sirish Raghavan

Anurag Thakur takes over as BCCI president

Anurag Thakur has been appointed the BCCI president at the board's special general meeting in Mumbai on Sunday

22-May-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

Dhoni heroics help Pune avoid bottom-of-the-table finish

In a display of powerful muscular hitting, MS Dhoni slammed 23 off the last six balls in his 32-balls 64 to help Pune chase down 173 against Punjab and avoid finishing at the bottom of the table.

22-May-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

Chasing heists

The highest final-over targets successfully chased down in the IPL

The team with the worst record in the history of English Twenty20 beat the team with the best as Derbyshire upset defending NatWest Blast champions Lancashire at Old Trafford

Rutherford stars as Lancs blown away

21-May-2016•ECB Reporters Network

Sri Lanka fold for a second time

Sussex captain Luke Wright has said that they are ready to give Mustafizur Rahman some time off before his stint with the county next month

Sussex happy for Mustafizur to have a break

Karun Nair single-handedly powered Delhi's effort, with an unbeaten 59-ball 83, that helped his side beat Hyderabad by six wickets, off the last ball, in the Indian Twenty20 competition at Raipur on Friday.

Karun Nair guides Delhi past Hyderabad with unbeaten 83

The last thing the NatWest Blast needed on its opening night was for the Colin Graves, the ECB chairman, to deem it "mediocre" before a ball had been bowled

The Graves digger buries the Blast - but Essex and Surrey far from 'mediocre'

A brutal half-century from opener Richard Levi, made off just 20 balls, helped last year's beaten finalists Northants Steelbacks make a winning start to their 2016 T20 Blast campaign against local rivals Leicestershire Foxes

Levi's 20-ball fifty outdoes Umar Akmal

20-May-2016•ECB Reporters Network

Last-ball win boosts Daredevils' playoffs hopes

Nine wickets for England's new-ball pair

Pacer Luke Jongwe and legspinner Graeme Cremer, who missed the 2016 World T20 due to injuries, are available for selection for Zimbabwe's upcoming home series against India next month

Jongwe, Cremer available for India series