Cricket News

Michael Klinger eased the painful memory of his last game at Derby by rescuing Gloucestershire on a rain-shortened opening day.

Every spell that Steven Finn sends down this season comes laden with caveats. Is it safe to suppose that he is really getting back to his best? Dare we whisper about a return to the Test squad with the Ashes around the corner?

With most English cricket followers absorbed in another engrossing Test match, albeit briefly diverted by Chris Gayle's unbeaten 151 in the Natwest T20 Blast, there was little attention on Pietersen's return. Perhaps that was just as well.

Ben Raine returned career-best figures of 5 for 48 in 18 overs as Leicestershire took the honours on a rain-affected day at Chelmsford.

Bowlers Joe Leach and Jack Shantry took three late wickets to swing the first day in Worcestershire's favour at the Ageas Bowl

A bristling half-century from Riki Wessels and an inspirational debut performance from West Indies international Darren Sammy helped Nottinghamshire to a 15-run victory over Durham in their NatWest T20 Blast match at Trent Bridge

Bangladesh are unlikely to make many changes to their squad for the solitary Test against India, which starts from June 10 in Fatullah

Chris Gayle's remarkable century on his home debut for Somerset was all in vain as Kent won by three runs in an extraordinary NatWest T20 Blast match at the County Ground.

BJ Watling made his fifth Test hundred - and first against England - as New Zealand moved into a commanding position at Headingley

Zimbabwe made a formidable start in pursuit of Pakistan's 296 for 9 before the third ODI at the Gaddafi Stadium went through a checklist of delays, which prevented the match from progressing beyond the ninth over of the second innings

Azmat Rana, the former Pakistan cricketer, has died due to cardiac arrest in his home aged 63

Eighty-six runs short of the record for most runs by a West Indian, Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been left out of the first Test against Australia on June 3

Pakistan's win in the second ODI has reduced the last game of the series to a dead rubber but it's a match that Pakistan have to win to keep their chances of qualifying for the 2017 Champions Trophy alive

Alastair Cook became England's highest Test runscorer, overhauling Graham Gooch, when he reached 32 against New Zealand in the second Investec Test at Headingley

Alastair Cook went past Graham Gooch as England's leading Test run-scorer as he and Adam Lyth made his maiden Test hundred before New Zealand fought back in the evening

The final ODI between Zimbabwe and Pakistan will go ahead after the visiting team had a meeting with PCB and security officials following what federal information minister Pervaiz Rashid said was a suicide attack near Gaddafi Stadium during the second mat

For an hour or so on the final day it appeared as though the WICB President's XI would have the option of enforcing the follow-on against their better-known opposition

Durham christened their new floodlights with an exciting six-run win over previously unbeaten Yorkshire in the NatWest T20 Blast.

Hashim Amla's fifty guided Derbyshire to an impressive all-round victory against Lancashire

Chris Gayle only met his Somerset team-mates hours before the match but three years after they first tried to sign him he delivered in style with a domineering innings to set up a last-ball victory