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Rain and an unbeaten seventh-wicket stand of 85 runs between Rob Taylor and Jigar Naik put a dent in Surrey's promotion ambitions as Leicestershire held out for a draw in their encounter at Grace Road

Stubborn Leicestershire deny Surrey

Hampshire's spinners got to work on the final day at Canterbury to land their fifth win of the County Championship campaign and bolster their promotion hopes by sweeping Kent aside by 196 runs at Canterbury.

Spinners deliver Hants fifth win

An unbeaten century from in-form Alex Hales enabled Nottinghamshire to maintain their challenge for the Championship title with a five-wicket success over Northamptonshire at Wantage Road

Hales continues form of his life

A welcome, but overdue landmark

Shaharyar Khan has been named chairman of the PCB, after he was elected unanimously by the board of governors at a special meeting in Lahore on Monday

Shaharyar Khan elected PCB chairman

Monty Panesar completed match figures of 11 for 168 as Essex kept up their promotion hopes by easing to their fourth Division Two win of the season, beating Glamorgan by 63 runs on the final morning at Swansea.

Essex stay in promotion hunt with win

The Bangladesh side started their West Indies tour on a positive note, with a 95-run victory over Grenada in the only tour game before the ODI series

Bangladeshi batsmen thrive in practice game

MS Dhoni and India have been fined for maintaining slow over-rate during the Oval Test

Dhoni fined for slow over-rate

David Andrews has been appointed coach of the Maharashtra senior team

David Andrews appointed Maharashtra coach

Hampshire's promotion thrust toward the Division One of the County Championship continued to gather momentum at Canterbury putting them in the position to push for a last day victory over Kent.

Hampshire promotion push gathers pace

Northamptonshire's batsmen put up a strong show of resistance on the third day of their LV= County Championship match against Nottinghamshire at Wantage Road

Rossington leaves tricky chase

Like Frank Watson and Harry Pilling from earlier eras in Lancashire's history, Ashwell Prince's skills are not those to delight cricket's aesthete. But who cares?

Prince earns Lancashire a rare lead

17-Aug-2014•Paul Edwards at Old Trafford

Panesar ten has Essex on victory path

Monty Panesar completed a match haul of 10 wickets to help Essex to the brink of victory going into the final day of their against Glamorgan at Swansea.

Tom Alsop smashed an 80-ball hundred as part of a strong England batting display before four wickets for Josh Shaw wrapped up a big win over South Africa

Alsop ton helps England to 2-0 lead

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Burns century puts Surrey in control

Opener Rory Burns hit a century to boost Surrey's promotion push and their hopes of victory over Leicestershire Grace Road.

Varun Chopra might easily be vying to replace Sam Robson opening the batting for England but has endured a miserable 2014 in whites. All of which made his first first-class century of the season particularly commendable.

Chopra restates England case

17-Aug-2014•Tim Wigmore at Taunton

Gloucestershire end 28-year wait for New Road win

A brilliant innings by former Minor Counties player Richard Oliver failed to prevent Worcestershire's first County Championship defeat of the season as Gloucestershire registered their first victory at New Road since 1986.