Cricket News

Opener Dawid Malan smashed an unbeaten 115 off 64 balls as Middlesex cruised to their second convincing NatWest T20 Blast victory in 24 hours after beating Sussex by 42 runs at Hove

Hampshire bounced back from defeat last week with a NatWest Blast T20 victory over Glamorgan by 21 runs on a tired pitch at the SWALEC Stadium with Mark Wood the stand-out bowler with four cheap wickets

Birmingham claimed their second NatWest t20 Blast victory of the season but were made to wait until the final ball to complete a five-wicket win over Northamptonshire at Wantage Road

A brilliant 96 by Sam Northeast off 47 balls powered Kent to a 23-run win over Surrey in the NatWest T20 Blast South Group local derby at Beckenham

A second match in 24 hours was a step too far for Leicestershire as their NatWest T20 Blast challenge took a blow with a six-wicket defeat by Worcestershire at New Road.

A loud noise halfway through the Pakistan innings, audible to those in the ground and even inside the enclosed press box, has been explained by the police as a transformer blast

Several club cricket administrators have voiced opposition to the changes to domestic structure proposed by Sri Lanka Cricket

Tom Latham and Luke Ronchi both scored 80s as New Zealand recovered from 2 for 2 and 144 for 5 after being inserted at Headingley

All-rounder Con de Lange and 19-year-old batsman Andrew Umeed have been named in Scotland's 13-man squad for their Intercontinental Cup fixture against Afghanistan, beginning on June 2 in Stirling

Azhar Ali followed up a 79 in the first ODI with his second ODI hundred - both as captain - to seal only their third successful chase of 250 or more in the last four years

ESPNcricinfo brings you the team news ahead of the third round of the NatWest T20 Blast

Wicketkeeper batsman Dane Vilas will lead South Africa A's four-day squad while left-hand batsman Dean Elgar will captain the 50-overs team on the tour of India

Windward Islands wicketkeeper Andre Fletcher has reportedly been arrested at the Douglas Charles airport in Dominica on possession of ammunition, Dominica News Online reported

Shaun Marsh shored up his Test spot while a trio of more certain selections failed to spend much time in the middle as the Australian tourists were made to battle by the WICB President's XI in Antigua

For most counties Friday is T20 night but Middlesex have always preferred Thursdays. The stroll from St John's Wood to Lord's, brimming with City types anticipating their first T20 game of the season, showed why.

Leicestershire made it consecutive wins in the NatWest T20 North Division as Durham's batsmen struggled to come to terms with a well-grassed but relatively slow pitch at Grace Road.

If the County Championship is extended to 21 teams and a Minor County needs to be elevated, a combined Devon and Cornwall team could be the answer

Thailand will host the ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier from November 28 to December 5 later this year

Zimbabwe stand-in captain Hamilton Masakadza has described the suspension of in-form batsman and captain Elton Chigumbura as a ''big blow'' for his team ahead of the second ODI

Michael Holding, the former West Indies fast bowler, has backed the chairman of selectors Clive Lloyd's logic of jettisoning Shivnarine Chanderpaul for the Australia series