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England captain Nasser Hussain praised his team for bowling India out twice to defeat the visitors by 170 runs in the first Test at Lord's

West Indies A ended their tour to England in fine style, with a 44-run win over Gloucestershire at Cheltenham

England had to work hard - rather harder than might have been expected - to secure their victory, but at half past two on a hot and sultry afternoon, Craig White bowled a ball to Ashish Nehra who pushed forward to give a catch to Graham Thorpe at

Graham Thorpe, one of England's leading batsmen over the past decade, has announced that he is to take a break from all cricket and will be unavailable for either Surrey or England in the immediate future

It was second against fourth in the top division of the Norwich Union League as Glamorgan Dragons - backed by their vocal coterie of supporters - did battle with Warwickshire Bears at Edgbaston

Only some stalwart batting from VVS Laxman and Ajit Agarkar who compiled a fifty partnership for the seventh wicket as the shadows lengthened denied England a win within four days

Worcestershire Royals extended their lead at the top of the first division of the Norwich Union League to eight points with a six-wicket victory over Yorkshire Phoenix at Worcester

All Frizzell Women's County Championship matches are one-day 50 over per side

At the start of the third day, England were favourites to win, the draw could not be discounted and there was just an outside chance that India could get back into the match

It would be fair to say that cricketers of no country understand the value of a good line more than England

Lancashire duly secured victory in plenty of time for lunch, giving Hampshire their second Frizzell Championship defeat of the season, which with the ECB imposing a 8 point penalty for a sub-standard pitch meant the home side finished their match

This is no pitch on which to be a bowler

Glamorgan and their captain Steve James had a record breaking day on the second day of their Championship match against Essex at Chelmsford

To sit in the 'Space Ship' that is the press box at Lord's, and watch Zaheer Khan lead the Indian bowling reminds you of just how much things are changing in the world of cricket

Darren Gough today issued the following statement in response to media reports concerning his knee injury

The Essex and England wicket-keeper James Foster today broke his left thumbwhile playing for his county against Glamorgan in the Frizzell CountyChampionship at Chelmsford.

A century from Nasser Hussain and a partnership of 145 for the fourth wicket with John Crawley put England into a commanding position after the first day of the first npower Test against India at Lord's

James Foster's second misfortune with injury this season has ruled him out of the remainder of England's Test series against India

West Indies A opted not to enforce the follow-on in their tour match with Somerset at Taunton

Northants Steelbacks have breezed to a seven-wicket victory over Derbyshire Scorpions in a floodlit Norwich Union League second division tussle at Wantage Road