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If the England team management's word is anything to go by, it turns there is in fact a valid reason why several of their players over the last few months have looked as if they had just seen a ghost

Paranormal Activity: The London files

A five-for from pacer Kane Richardson set up a 28-run win for Australia A against India A in the opening game of the quadrangular A-team one-day series

Richardson, Doolan star in Australia A win

Bhuvneshwar Kumar, India's top bowler in the ongoing Test series against England with 11 wickets, has said his good form with the bat has been a major factor in helping him perform well with the ball

Batting form helped my bowling - Bhuvneshwar

20-Jul-2014•PTI

Amazon Warriors steamroll Zouks

Days after they sneaked in a Super-Over win against Red Steel, Guyana Amazon Warriors sauntered to a comfortable nine-wicket victory over St Lucia Zouks, their third in as many games in CPL 2014

Barbados Tridents carried their late momentum from the field into an impressive chase to defeat the Antigua Hawksbills by five wickets with four balls remaining at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua.

Malik helps Tridents trump Hawksbills

Cricket South Africa has suspended four women players from their national academy, three of who have played at international level, and ordered them to undergo counselling after being found guilty of alcohol abuse

CSA suspends women players for alcohol abuse

Graeme Swann, the former England offspinner, lent support to India offspinner R Ashwin saying he should have been playing at Lord's

Ashwin should have played at Lord's - Swann

David Richardson. the ICC's chief executive, has admitted that the BCCI had indulged in "gamesmanship" during negotiations over the controversial restructure of the ICC

Richardson points to BCCI 'gamesmanship' during ICC restructure

A procession of Lancashire batsmen enjoyed themselves on a firm pitch to pile up 225 for 7, the highest short-form total ever recorded on the ground

Lancashire secure home quarter final

18-Jul-2014•Paul Edwards at Old Trafford

Kent put paid to Somerset's hopes

Somerset's slim hopes of a quarter-final berth were extinguished by a powerful Kent display

18-Jul-2014•Ryan Bailey

Mitchell leaves Northants on precipice

Daryl Mitchell's maiden five wicket haul in T20s left holders Northamptonshire on the verge of elimination from the Natwest T20 Blast.

Leicestershire beat Durham by three wickets with one ball to spare in a low-scoring thriller in the T20 Blast North Group clash at Grace Road.

Boyce ends Durham's slim hopes

Michael Carberry's superlative unbeaten 87 propelled Hampshire into the quarter-finals of the NatWest Twenty20 Blast, despite an unbeaten century by Luke Wright

Wright ton in vain as Hampshire qualify

18-Jul-2014•Ivo Tennant at the Ageas Bowl

Ryder secures Essex a home quarter

Hard-hitting Jesse Ryder scored a quickfire half-century to help Essex seal a home tie in the NatWest T20 Blast quarter-finals with a seven-wicket win over Glamorgan at Cardiff.

New Zealand offspinner Jeetan Patel rocked Yorkshire with a brilliant hat-trick as Warwickshire stalled their advance to the quarter-finals of the NatWest Blast by winning with two balls to spare.

Evans upstages Patel hat-trick

18-Jul-2014•Jon Culley at Headingley

Pathirana stars in opening Sri Lanka A win

Sri Lanka A have opened their campaign in England with a five-wicket win over the Unicorns in a 50-over warm-up, as slow-bowling allrounder Sachith Pathirana made significant contributions in both disciplines

18-Jul-2014•ESPNcricinfo staff

'Unfair' treatment hurts Kamran

Kamran Akmal, the Pakistan wicketkeeper, has expressed disappointment for being left out from the Test and ODI squads for the tour of Sri Lanka

18-Jul-2014•ESPNcricinfo staff

Ansari, Dunn see Surrey qualify

Surrey made sure of a place in the NatWest T20 Blast quarter-finals with a five-run victory over Gloucestershire in front of a sell-out Cheltenham Festival crowd.