Cricket News

A brilliant century from Nick Gubbins anchored Middlesex on an attritional first day of their County Championship decider at Lord's

James Hildreth produced a courageous century alonsgide his fellow centurion Chris Rogers until a wholesale Somerset collapse frittered away a massive advantage against Nottinghamshire at Taunton

Hampshire's attempts to pull off Great Escape 2 started well as they moved towards a formidable first-innings score on a sandy pitch at the Ageas Bowl

Joe Clarke gave another example of his blossoming potential with a sixth first-class hundred of the season for Worcestershire on day one

Lancashire's bowlers piled the pressure on Warwickshire on the opening day of their County Championship relegation battle at Edgbaston

Zac Toumazi, Sussex's chief executive, will step down from his role at the end of 2016, after four years in the position

The chances of England hosting a floodlit Test have receded sharply with the acceptance that there will be no pink ball cricket in the final round of the 2016 County Championship season

Adil Rashid has defended his request to be omitted from Yorkshire's final County Championship match of the season, against Middlesex at Lord's starting tomorrow, citing a family illness as the reason for his absence

More than 50 players between the ages of 17 and 30, including representatives from all 18 first-class counties, have been selected for involvement this winter in the four components of the ECB's rebranded International Pathway programme

Adil Rashid will miss Yorkshire's County Championship decider against Middlesex at Lord's after asking to be rested ahead of England's winter tours

Gareth Batty branded Surrey's performance 'unacceptable' and 'embarrassing' as they slumped to an eight-wicket defeat with almost 20 overs left unused in the Royal London Cup final at Lord's

Warwickshire waltzed the Lord's final by eight wickets with a whopping 19.4 overs to spare, much to the disappointment no doubt of one of the biggest crowds for the 50-over final for years

Gareth Batty has been summoned by England for the Test tour of Bangladesh but at 38, and after a decade out of the side, he is not about to lose focus as he leads Surrey in the final of the Royal London Cup against Warwickshire at Lord's

Tim Murtagh has been given special dispensation to arrive late for Ireland's tour of South Africa later this month, in order to play Middlesex's County Championship decider against Yorkshire at Lord's

Mark Cosgrove's courageous century and a defiant rearguard action from Rob Sayer and Richard Jones earned Leicestershire a draw and denied Derbyshire a first Championship win of the season

Richard Gould, Surrey's chief executive, has called on the ECB to remember the interests of the sport's traditional fans, as the battle for the future of county cricket intensified

Any thoughts this game might end with a victory for either side were extinguished by the strength of both sides' batting and the understandable conservatism of skippers who were content to take five points for the draw

Essex went off for a promotion party slightly bashfully after Michael Hogan's five wickets helped Glamorgan inflict an 11-run defeat

Ben Sanderson completed a fine season with a career-best eight wickets as George Hankins' maiden Championship hundred could not save Gloucestershire at Wantage Road