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Jesse Ryder scored his ninth List A hundred as Essex pulled off a successful run chase for the second successive day to make it two wins out of two in the Royal London One-Day Cup

A match replete with English records saw Michael Lumb and Riki Wessels share an opening stand of 342, Nottinghamshire rattle up 445 for 8 and Northants' chase fall only 20 runs short on a day of 35 sixes

Darren Sammy and Shahid Afridi, Hampshire's World T20-winning overseas stars, have echoed Jos Buttler's criticisms of the NatWest T20 Blast

A superb opening partnership of 180 between Phil Mustard and Mark Stoneman, hit in just 27.5 overs, was the foundation Durham needed to compile a formidable total that proved just beyond Leicestershire's capacity

Lancashire fielded four players on 50-over debut, but one of them was England star Jos Buttler and his inventive innings helped make the difference against Warwickshire at Old Trafford

Alex Blake's six saw off Surrey with a ball to spare as Kent won at Beckenham, but Sam Billings is still struggling for form after his return from IPL

Holders Gloucestershire fell to arch rivals Somerset thanks to a game-chanfging last-wicket stand in front of 4,500 at Taunton

Tom Westley's century, assisted by a final spurt from James Foster, helped Essex to chase down a seemingly impregnable Hampshire total

Derbyshire continued their positive response to last week's backroom upheaval when successfully chasing 296 to beat Worcestershire by seven wickets in their opening Royal London Cup fixture at New Road

Leicestershire's bowlers were at their best as the Foxes completed their second T20 victory of the season, beating Durham by six wickets

Despite rapid half-centuries from Riki Wessels and Michael Lumb, Nottinghamshire needed the help of six penalty runs before scraping over the line to defeat Lancashire by two wickets

Varun Chopra returned to the team in the most spectacular style with a brilliant unbeaten 97 to power Birmingham Bears to a nine-wicket NatWest T20 Blast win over Durham

Liam Livingstone scored Lancashire's fastest T20 fifty as Yorkshire were comprehensively defeated at a raucous Old Trafford

England opener Jason Roy scored his third T20 hundred as Surrey proved too strong for previously unbeaten Sussex at Hove.

Derbyshire responded to the shock resignation of elite performance director Graeme Welch by beating Leicestershire by four wickets in a tense T20 Blast game

Josh Cobb and Richard Levi steered Northamptonshire to a third win in three matches in the NatWest T20 Blast

A four-wicket haul for Michael Hogan and Dale Steyn's first three wickets for Glamorgan allowed their team to set up a simple victory against visitors Hampshire.

Chris Gayle marked his return to Taunton with a typically flamboyant innings as Somerset won a T20 Blast game for the first time this season

Gloucestershire overcame a tricky pitch and fading light to pull off a deserved seven-wicket NatWest T20 Blast win over Kent with four deliveries to spare.

Graeme Welch has resigned as Derbyshire's elite performance director just hours before the start of the NatWest T20 Blast match against Leicestershire