Glamorgan have been given a two-point deduction and ordered to forfeit their Royal London One-Day Cup match against Hampshire following an ECB disciplinary panel hearing at Lord's

Essex have the chance to pick Alastair Cook for their Blast quarter-final tie against Birmingham as England's coach Trevor Bayliss has released players for the knockout stage

Former Australia captain Ian Chappell has called for a complete rethink of Australia's cricket system after the team's crushing defeat in the ongoing Investec Ashes series in England

New Zealand Cricket's six major associations have added a 15th member each to their squad of contracted players for 2015-16

England have hammered Australia 3-1 with a Test in hand to regain the Ashes. Michael Clarke has retired. Reactions following a hugely one-sided Trent Bridge Test

Teenaged legspinner Mason Crane bamboozled Warwickshire to become the youngest Hampshire player to take a County Championship five wicket haul on Day Two at the Ageas Bowl

Gloucestershire, with a thoroughly professional all round performance ,should win their fifth championship game of the season on the final day after David Payne rallied an injury-hit side

Trouble-shooter Chris Read guided Nottinghamshire into a strong position at New Road, helping eke out a total of 330 by making 90

Shortly after Michael Clarke had fought back tears on confirming his retirement, Alastair Cook let his emotions through as he tried to soak in his achievement of becoming just the third England captain to win two Ashes series on home soil

Joe Root has moved to the top of the ICC Test batting rankings following his fine showing in the 2015 Ashes, which England wrapped up 3-1 at Trent Bridge with a Test to play

Alastair Cook and Michael Clarke will experience very different fates as Ashes captains with the series settled. But as The Times On The Ashes collection shows, captains have been praised and pilloried from 1877 to the present day

Warwickshire enjoyed the best of the opening day in the Ageas Bowl sunshine as they reduced to Hampshire to 255 for 8 at the close of play.

Benny Howell and Hamish Marshall combined in a stand of 129 to help propel Gloucestershire to a first-innings lead against Glamorgan

Alex Gidman re-launched his fledgling Worcestershire career at New Road with a battling 71 in two-and-half hours against Nottinghamshire in his first LV= County Championship innings for nearly six weeks

Stephen Peters, the former Northamptonshire captain, has announced his immediate retirement from the game

Haseeb Hameed responded to a century from Australia Under-19's Caleb Jewell with an unbeaten half-century of his own to guide England to a comfortable draw in the Youth Test at Chester-le-Street