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Jerome Jayaratne, the SLC head of coaching, has been appointed interim head coach of the Sri Lanka team for the upcoming home series against West Indies

Jerome Jayaratne named Sri Lanka interim coach

Neil Dexter has joined Leicestershire on a three-year contract in search of the security that Middlesex felt unable to provide

Leicestershire secure Dexter on three-year deal

Angelo Mathews on his mother's influence on his career, being nicknamed Superman, and more

The Angelo Mathews story

Ben Stokes has insisted there was no wilful intent when he gloved away Mitchell Starc's shy at the stumps at Lord's and that he was purely thinking of protecting himself

I was just protecting myself - Stokes

07-Sep-2015•Andrew McGlashan and Melinda Farrell

'Hand ball and penalty'

A round-up of the reactions on Twitter to Ben Stokes being given out obstructing the field

Ben Stokes has become just the sixth batsman, and first England player, to be given out obstructing the field in a one-day international

Stokes given out obstructing the field

Australia go 2-0 up amid controversy

San Marino boss just wants a little respect

Derbyshire have signed the New Zealand batsman Neil Broom on a two-year deal from next season.

Derbyshire sign NZ batsman Neil Broom

Fast bowler Jason Holder has replaced Denesh Ramdin as captain of West Indies for the upcoming Test matches against Sri Lanka

Holder replaces Ramdin as captain for SL Tests

Declarations by both sides set up a potentially exciting finish, but bad light forced an early close with Gloucestershire, chasing 302 to win, still 90 runs short with five wickets

Absorbing finish cut short after captains set game up

The LV=County Championship Division Two clash between Essex and Northamptonshire at Chelmsford ended in a draw after bad light brought a curtailment in play with the visitors 92 for 4 in pursuit of 302 for victory from a minimum of 56 overs

Porter threatens before light closes in

Lancashire were celebrating on Kentish soil for the third time in as many weeks after securing LV= County Championship promotion from Division Two after courageously batting out the final day at Canterbury

Lancashire promoted despite 'worst' game

The BCCI has constituted an ad-hoc committee to run cricket in Rajasthan and ensure the participation of teams from the state in the 2015-16 domestic season

BCCI appoints ad-hoc committee to run Rajasthan cricket

Gareth Batty took a hat-trick and 6 for 51 overall as Surrey clinched promotion from LV= County Championship Division Tw by beating Derbyshire by an innings and 98 runs at the Kia Oval

Surrey promoted with Batty hat-trick

Batsman Matt Machan, allrounders Josh Davey and Rob Taylor have been included in the 13-member Scotland squad for the Intercontinental Cup game against Netherlands, in Voorburg

Machan, Davey in Scotland squad for Netherlands game

Netherlands have picked 20-year old right-arm medium pacer Vivian Kingma and 21-year old batsman Rahil Ahmed for the upcoming Intercontinental Cup and World Cricket League games against Scotland

Netherlands pick Kingma, Rahil for Scotland games