Cricket News

Hampshire returned to winning ways in Group B of the Royal London Cup with a 23-run Duckworth-Lewis victory over Warwickshire in a rain-damaged contest at Edgbaston

Essex moved within touching distance of a place in the quarter-finals of the Royal London Cup when Ravi Bopara shephered a successful chase of a testing Middlesex tareget at Castle Park

Kent's hopes of salvaging any sort of result from their 164th Canterbury Week game with Northamptonshire rest squarely on the shoulders of Rob Key

Gloucestershire joined Surrey in qualifying for the Royal London Cup quarter-finals with a four-wicket win against Worcestershire Rapids at New Road - but teenager Joe Clarke pushed them close with a brilliant hundred

Somerset kept alive their slim hopes of Royal London Cup quarter-final qualification with a convincing six-wicket victory over Yorkshire at Scarborough as Alex Lees' captaincy trial began with defeat

ames Faulkner has been banned from driving for two years and fined £10,000 after he admitted the drink-driving offence which will lead to him missing the forthcoming limited-overs leg of Australia's tour of England

Andrew Gale has relinquished the Yorkshire captaincy for all limited-overs cricket with immediate effect in the wake of a poor Twenty20 campaign which saw the county finish bottom of the North Group.

Surrey secured themselves a place in the quarter-finals of the Royal London Cup after beating Worcestershire by 36 runs at the Kia Oval.

Essex batsmen Mark Pettini, Nick Browne and Tom Westley all scored fifties as the Eagles eased to a six-wicket win against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl.

Derbyshire boosted their quarter-final hopes by thrashing local rivals Leicestershire by six wickets in a one-sided Royal London Cup Group A match at Derby.

Kent's woeful batting display ensured that the opening day of their 164th Canterbury Week will not linger long in the memory as visitors Northamptonshire bossed proceedings from start until stumps.

Northamptonshire chief executive, Ray Payne, has admitted that the club are talking to the ECB about financial assistance but denied that they are considering selling their ground and moving to a new home

Dawid Malan and Nick Gubbins both made excellent hundreds as Middlesex squeezed past Sussex by three runs in a thriller at Hove to maintain their hopes of reaching the knockout stages of the Royal London Cup.

David Willey's powerful run-a-ball 91 led Northamptonshire to a comfortable four-wicket win over Somerset at Wantage Road and kept their quest for a Royal London Cup quarter-final on track.

A career-best one-day knock of 90 from Leicestershire opener Angus Robson, the highest of the match, could not stop Yorkshire completing a 31-run victory over their visitors in the Royal London Cup clash at Headingley

Eoin Morgan, England's limited-overs captain, has been given a break by Middlesex amid a form slump that has not seen him pass fifty since the one-day series against New Zealand

The future of Northamptonshire County Cricket Club looks uncertain after a request to the ECB for emergency financial help and an examination of the benefits of selling their ground and moving to an out-of-town location

A second successive innings of substance by Glenn Maxwell carried Yorkshire to a 32-run win under Duckworth-Lewis-Stern in their Royal London Cup tie against Durham