Cricket News

Ireland tightened their grip over the Intercontinental Cup game against UAE in Dublin, seamers Craig Young and John Mooney chipping away at the visitors' batting to reduce them to 207 for 8 in pursuit of the hosts' massive total

Samiullah Shenwari and Mohammad Nabi took eight wickets for 48 runs to lead a strong display for Afghanistan in their Intercontinental Cup match against Scotland in Stirling

Billy Godleman staged a one-man road block to halt Gloucestershire's victory charge and steer Derbyshire to a draw on the final day of the LV Championship Division Two match at Derby

A fourth innings target of 270 in 54 overs proved beyond Middlesex at Lord's as they settled for a draw against Warwickshire in the Division One match at Lord's after a disruptive spell from Rikki Clarke

At the Oval 3351 days ago, Kevin Pietersen arrived at the crease with the Ashes at stake. His first ball, from Glenn McGrath, was nasty, brutish and short

Rob Newton's century was in vain as Glamorgan claimed a 10-wicket victory over Northamptonshire at the Swalec Stadium to move up to third in Division Two of the LV= County Championship

Worcestershire bowler Joe Leach celebrated his best match figures but Will Smith and Adam Wheater's fifties saved the game for Hampshire as the sides drew at the Ageas Bowl

Five wickets for Harry Gurney - a career-best 5 for 43 in fact - ensured that the magnificent contribution of the two rookie pace bowlers, Luke Wood and Jake Ball, was made to count as Sussex were finished off in 32 overs

Jehan Mubarak's fielding has caught the eye of Jonty Rhodes, who is in Sri Lanka to conduct a 10-day training camp. Rhodes said Mubarak could be an asset to Sri Lanka in the field in the upcoming Test series against Pakistan

There will be not just a new look but a new approach from England's ODI team in the series against New Zealand, according to their interim coach, Paul Farbrace

At one minute past one, with lunch looming and Essex's fielders resigned to their fate, Leicestershire's Lewis Hill nudged the single into the covers that consigned to history one of the most ignominious runs of failure in the history of county cricket

Thirteen wickets made for an eventful opening day of the series in Dominica, and it was Australia who went to stumps in the stronger position. Denesh Ramdin gave his men the chance to bat first but they survived only two sessions for their 148 before Aust

Zimbabwe's cricketers were given a guarantee of $12,500 each by the Pakistan Cricket Board before they agreed to tour that country for a historic series last month, ESPNcricinfo has learned

With a 199-run second Test victory over England at Headingley, the current New Zealand side added evidence to a case which suggests this is the country's best Test era under the captaincy of Brendon McCullum and stewardship of Mike Hesson

Fast bowler Rubel Hossain has replaced Shahadat Hossain in Bangladesh's squad for the only Test against India, beginning on June 10

Ahmed Shehzad and Shan Masood have been included in Pakistan's 15-man squad for the Test series in Sri Lanka in June while offspinner Saeed Ajmal has been left out

Glamorgan moved into a commanding position in pursuit of their second LV= County Championship Division Two win of the season as they pressed home a dominant position against Northamptonshire

Two days still remain in this match, the weather is at last warming up and batting conditions will become easier, yet you suspect that Nottinghamshire's lead will be enough to break their duck for the season

On a day when those old-school virtues of patience and judgment were suddenly being pined for up at Headingley, what England might have given for some of Nick Compton's obduracy at the head of their futile rearguard

James Faulkner struck his maiden first-class hundred to lift Lancashire out of trouble on a lively day at The Oval