Cricket News

Jesse Ryder's career-best figures put Essex in firm control against Glamorgan at Chelmsford, snapping the visitors' excellent run of recent form with the bat

An innings by Warwickshire's Sam Hain which cannot have failed to impress watching selector James Whitaker was ended before the close on a rain-shortened day but Hain top-scored with 57 as the visitors replied to Durham's 314 with 167 for 7

Aaron Finch's bleak run in T20 looks set to continue with injury expected to cut short his involvement with Yorkshire in the NatWest Blast just as it did with Mumbai Indians in the IPL

At the end of an absorbing opening day at Chelmsford, a late burst with the ball by Jesse Ryder ensured that Essex claimed the honours

Depleted Warwickshire battled back at Chester-le-Street after Mark Stoneman's second century in successive Championship innings for Durham

Steven Finn took 4 for 41 to spearhead a second-day Middlesex thrust with the ball as Somerset slipped to 185 for 8 in their Championship Division One match

Richard Levi's superb 67 in just 28 balls kept up Northamptonshire's push for the NatWest T20 Blast quarter-finals and effectively eliminated Leicestershire with a nine-wicket win at Wantage Road

Yorkshire's fading hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the NatWest T20 Blast were dealt another blow when they lost by four wickets to bottom-of-the-table Derbyshire in the North Group match at Chesterfield

Alex Blake smashed an unbeaten 59 off just 24 balls as Kent made sure of a place in the NatWest T20 Blast quarter-finals with a three-wicket win over Gloucestershire at Cheltenham

Nick Compton made a courageous return to the crease, five hours after being forced to retire hurt when he was hit on the head by a Jamie Overton bouncer, to help Middlesex reach 283 all out on the first day of their LV= County Championship Division One ma

Luke Wright took his run-total in this season's NatWest T20 Blast to 522 with an unbeaten 92 as Sussex Sharks strengthened their bid for a quarter-final place with an eight-wicket win over Glamorgan at Hove

This season's NatWest T20 Blast has shown, quite clearly, that it is a myth that England's T20 tournament needs to be played in a block to attract high-quality overseas talent

Teenage leg-spinner Mason Crane took 2 for 35 on his full debut to help Hampshire to a seventh straight home victory against Surrey.

Nottinghamshire held off derby rivals Derbyshire in a last-ball thriller to keep alive their quarter-final hopes in front of a record T20 crowd of more than 13,000 at Trent Bridge

Half-centuries from Karl Brown, Paul Horton and Steven Croft enabled fast-improving Lancashire to set Leicestershire a target that proved far beyond them on a good pitch at Grace Road

Middlesex beat Essex by six wickets with three overs to spare in the NatWest Twenty20 Blast match at Richmond on Friday night to put a dent in the Eagles' hopes of reaching the knockout stages.

NatWest T20 Blast champions Birmingham Bears are guaranteed a quarter-final place in this year's competition after beating closest rivals Worcestershire Rapids by five wickets in front of a sell-out crowd at New Road

ESPNcricinfo previews the latest round of matches in the T20 Blast as a bunched field heads towards the final straight

Nick Browne made a half-century to go with 103 in the first innings as Essex staved off the threat of defeat after being made to follow on