Cricket News

The two Sussex-born players returned to the county and played key roles as Hampshire made it two wins out of two in the NatWest T20 Blast

Luke Fletcher 'feels lucky to be here' after his blow on the head while bowling in the NatWest Blast and he fears he may not be the last to be injured in this way

Tamim Iqbal and Essex have determinedly played down the reasons for Tamim's abrupt abandonment of his stint at the county

Nottinghamshire's seam bowler Luke Fletcher has been ruled out for the rest of the season after being struck on the head in his followthrough in a T20 Blast fixture

Tamim Iqbal has been forced to pull out of his T20 stint with Essex due to "personal reasons" which have required him to return to Bangladesh

Colin Ingram achieved Glamorgan's fastest hundred in T20 cricket, Luke Wright responded with a ton of his own and tranquil Arundel soaked it all in

Surrey survived an explosive innings by Corey Anderson and a 12-run penalty to scrape home before 15,000 at Kia Oval

Three-time champions Leicestershire got their latest NatWest T20 Blast campaign off to a flyer by beating Lancashire at Liverpool, chasing down 174 off the last ball

Ben Duckett's 72 helped champions Northamptonshire home by six wickets with four balls to spare in the repeat of last year's NatWest T20 Blast final against Durham at Chester-le-Street

Nottinghamshire's seam bowler, Luke Fletcher, was taken to hospital after he was struck on the head in a serious-looking incident at Edgbaston, with the T20 Blast match against Birmingham Bears suspended while he received treatment

Derbyshire Falcons celebrated a second win in 24 hours when they beat Yorkshire Vikings by three runs in a thrilling NatWest Blast T20 match at Chesterfield.

Tom Curran kept his head in the final over to carry Surrey to a sensational two-run victory in the opening NatWest T20 Blast game of the season at Chelmsford

A partnership of 95 between Lewis McManus and George Bailey, and a spell of 4 for 20 in four overs by leg-spinner Shahid Afridi were enough to give Hampshire the perfect start to their T20 Blast campaign

John Wright's reign as Derbyshire's specialist T20 coach began in style wth defeat of the champions Northants at Wantage Road

Yorkshire recorded their biggest Headingley score in T20 and their biggest crowd outside a Roses match in a satisfying defeat of Royal London Cup champions Nottinghamshire

Essex have signed Tamim Iqbal, the Bangladesh opener, for an eight-game spell in the NatWest T20 Blast

Benny Howell took a wicket off the final ball to earn Gloucestershire a tie against Middlesex in a thrilling T20 Blast game at Cheltenham College.