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Victoria bowled out South Australia nearly an hour after lunch to record an innings-and-one-run win at the Gliderol Stadium, and strengthen their case for a spot in the final

A collapse which saw them lose seven wickets for 75 runs ended Queensland's hopes of a place in the Sheffield Shield final, as they lost to Western Australia by 95 runs

New South Wales completed a 10-wicket win early on day four after Doug Bollinger blasted out Tasmania's last four wickets in 14 overs at the Bankstown Oval

Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza has continued the debate over picking an extra spinner or batsman in their XI against England on Monday

England will exit the World Cup at the group stage if they lose against a Bangladesh side scenting one of the biggest matches in its history

Kumar Sangakkara has said he will retire from Test cricket "by the end of August"

A few days after Colin Graves appeared to open the door on Kevin Pietersen's return to the England side, Peter Moores has sought to slam it shut again

Glenn Maxwell's first ODI hundred missed the record for the fastest World Cup hundred by one ball, but took Australia to 376

Dave Cameron has been re-elected WICB president for a second term, till 2017, after the Jamaican defeated his sole challenger, former West Indies fast bowler Joel Garner, with a convincing 8 votes to 4 margin

New Zealand bowled Afghanistan out for 186, becoming the first team to dismiss five opposition teams in the World Cup

Such has been their fondness of the batting-order jumble, it is hard to predict whether the Bangladesh team management will consider Imrul Kayes as an opener, a No. 3 or even lower down the order when they set their XI against England.

Left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj finished with a career-best match haul of 10 for 145 to help set up Dolphins' eight-wicket victory against Cape Cobras at Newlands

The two oldest men in the Ireland squad delivered when it mattered. The victory over Zimbabwe would not have happened without them. But the most encouraging thing was the maturity shown by one of their youngest men.

In the end, Zimbabwe's tournament - and this match - came down to a matter of millimetres with Sean Williams caught right on the boundary

Tamil Nadu coach WV Raman has defended his team's decision to prepare spinning wickets for their home matches in the Ranji Trophy, saying they were not left with much of a choice

The south Indian rivalry will come to the fore when defending champions Karnataka take on arch-rivals Tamil Nadu at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai

Western Australia ended the penultimate day with a lead of 291 runs after Queensland declared with a trail of 138 runs in their first innings in pursuit of an outright win

Gurinder Sandhu, Steve O'Keefe and Nathan Lyon propelled New South Wales to a weighty first-innings score before striking with the ball to leave Tasmania in deficit of 10 runs with four wickets in hand

Peter Siddle ran through South Australia's tail and claimed 8 for 54 to make them follow-on on the third day in Adelaide

After what seems like months of sound and fury that have signified very little, England move into a different stage of the World Cup: from now on, every game they play is a must-win