On day two in Ranchi, it was Australia's quicks who troubled India's batsmen with bounce and reverse swing, as the pitch continued to throw pre-match predictions out the window

Auckland, by virtue of this victory, have earned maximum bonus points from round seven of the Plunket Shield and trail top-ranked Canterbury by one position, while Northern Districts are placed third

ESPNcricinfo's wrap of the second day of the Sheffield Shield match between Western Australia and New South Wales in Perth

ESPNcricinfo's wrap of the second day of the Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and Victoria in Brisbane

ESPNcricinfo's wrap of the second day of the Sheffield Shield match between Tasmania and South Australia in Hobart

A fire accident at the Jharkhand team hotel forced their Vijay Hazare Trophy game against Bengal to be postponed to Saturday

Each of the IPL's ten highest totals came from sides batting first, and eventually proved match-winning by varying margins

Chad Bowes' fourth first-class hundred, sandwiched between five-wicket hauls from Andrew Ellis and Logan van Beek, gave Canterbury their fourth outright win out of eight games

Dinesh Karthik's 77 off 107 anchored Tamil Nadu's chase after left-arm spinner R Sai Kishore's four-wicket haul had helped restrict Baroda to 219 in the first semi-final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy

A daily report on the three biggest talking points of the series: the pitches, the on-field aggression and the reviews

ESPNcricinfo's wrap of the first day of the Sheffield Shield match between Western Australia and New South Wales in Perth

ESPNcricinfo's wrap of the first day of the Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and Victoria in Brisbane

ESPNcricinfo's wrap of the first day of the Sheffield Shield match between Tasmania and South Australia in Hobart

Dolphins opened up the gap at the top of the points table with a 118-run drubbing of Lions in Potchefstroom

Hat-tricks in cricket are the bastion of specialist bowlers and usually come in match-winning causes, but the IPL has thrown up outliers on both counts

Ben Duckett and James Vince warmed up for the North-South Series with fluent centuries on a high-scoring day at the ICC Academy in Dubai

Leicestershire have signed New Zealand's Luke Ronchi as a replacement overseas player for Sharjeel Khan

His second stint as BCCI chairman lasted just seven months, and now his time as independent ICC chairman is over after eight

The BCB has revealed it has objected to two proposals in the new ICC constitution that was agreed on in principle by a 7-2 majority vote of Full Members in February

Bengal knocked Maharashtra out in a last-over thriller chasing 319 while Jharkhand dismantled Vidarbha for 159 as both teams marched into the knockouts