In a match that continues to swing between two evenly-matched sides, Sri Lanka Under-19s ended the third day with a lead of 270 after Chathura Peiris's left-arm seamers kept England Under-19s to 286

Greg Smith made his highest score for nearly two months to give Derbyshire a chance of a first Championship victory since late April at Derby

A resurgent Netherlands, fresh from their six-wicket trouncing of a full-strength Bangladesh side in Glasgow three days ago, have handed out similar treatment to the touring Zimbabwe XI

Essex have signed Australian legspinner Bryce McGain until the end of the current county season

Scotland pulled off a last-ball win against Ireland in Belfast on the opening day of the European Under-19 Championships, while Netherlands and Jersey registered easy wins against Guernsey and Denmark respectively

Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza and coach Jamie Siddons had contrasting views on the side's tour of England

The tributes pour in as Muttiah Muralitharan ends his Test career with 800 wickets

Having relinquished wicketkeeping duties in Test cricket, Brendon McCullum is looking to reinvent his role in the New Zealand side by moving up the order as an unorthodox opener in the longest format

Scott Styris will return to Northern Districts for the 2010-11 domestic season after playing for Auckland Aces for the past five seasons.

A disciplined performance from Jamaica's bowlers, followed by Xavier Marshall's half-century, was too much for Leeward Islands to overcome

The inaugural Caribbean T20 had a low-key beginning in a fairly one-sided encounter at the Kensington Oval in Barbados

Derbyshire opener Wayne Madsen was denied a batting 'hat-trick' as Worcestershire's bowlers hit back on a rain interrupted day in their County Championship Division Two clash at the County Ground

England Under-19s made steady progress on a rain-interrupted second day to finish 32 runs behind Sri Lanka Under-19s in the first Test at Northampton

Robert Croft created history by becoming the first player Glamorgan player to achieve the 1,000-wicket, 10,000-run double in county cricket on the second day of their County Championship clash against Leicestershire at Swansea

Andrew Strauss was dismissed for just eight as Middlesex fought to stay in the game against Sussex in a weather-affected County Championship Division Two match at Uxbridge

There was some irony in the timing of a reunion of three of Warwickshire's treble-winners. For even as Andy Moles, Paul Smith and Gladstone Small were reminiscing over the glory days of 1994, they were witnessing the current vintage of Warwickshire batsme

Jason Gillespie, the former Australian fast bowler, is heading to Zimbabwe to take up a position as head coach of the Kwekwe-based MidWest Rhinos franchise

Paul Delany has announced that he will step down as coach of the Ireland women's team after the European Championships in Scotland next month

Peter Ingram has won a recall to New Zealand's one-day side and will replace Jesse Ryder for the tri-series in Sri Lanka

Luke Wright hit the last ball of the day from Steven Finn for six to reach his first hundred of the season in spectacular style after leading a lower-order fightback by Sussex on the first day of their County Championship game against Middlesex