Cricket News

Ben Harmison scored his second hundred of the season against Gloucestershire and Darren Stevens hit an unbeaten 98 as Kent recovered from a poor start to dominate the opening day of their Championship Divistion Two clash at Canterbury

Derbyshire extended their overnight score by over 100 runs before removing six Middlesex wickets to take a firm grip on the match

Five weeks to go and one or two at the wrong end of the table are starting to get twitchy, including now Nottinghamshire

Laurie Evans and Ateeq Javid added an unbroken 245 runs for the fourth wicket to restore Warwickshire's fortunes against Somerset

13 wickets fell on the opening day at Swansea, five of them to Australian Australian seamer Michael Hogan, who took 5 for 43 as Glamorgan dismissed Leicestershire cheaply before falling into their own difficulties

Monty Panesar will not readily forget his debut for Essex. He was required to do so much bowling that he seemed to be on at both ends at once as Northamptonshire racked up 531

Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has suggested the idea of having a franchise-based Twenty20 league to groom young talent in the absence of any international cricket in Pakistan

Australia's former coach Mickey Arthur has revealed the tourists planned to inflict damage and gain intelligence on England in the away series before pushing hardest to regain the Ashes in the return bout at home

The Pakistan Cricket Board has sought the advice of a neurologist to further examine the batsman Umar Akmal, who spent a night at a hospital after a seizure on the flight to Jamaica last Wednesday

Two senior members of the National Cricket Academy's coaching staff, batting coach Dinesh Nanavati and bowling coach Bharat Arun, have resigned, putting a question mark on the BCCI's plans of restructuring the Bangalore institution

Kyle Jarvis has signed up for Lancashire on a three-year contract as a non-overseas player, subject to registration

When Zimbabwe's players wanted advice on how to establish their own players' association, they turned to their big brothers for assistance

Shane Watson took the highest score of his Test career off a reshaped and none-too-convincing England attack as Australia reached 307 for 4 at the close of day one

Derbyshire's captain, Wayne Madsen, became the first batsmen to 1000 Championship runs this season as he compiled a brilliant century at the County Ground

Darren Lehmann has launched an extraordinary outburst against Stuart Broad, underlining his anger over Broad's decision to not walk at a crucial juncture of the first Test

Jesse Ryder, the New Zealand batsman, has admitted it was carelessness on his part that led to his consuming a banned substance, and that he was relieved to have been banned for only six months

Alastair Cook has assured Monty Panesar that the door is not closed on him in terms of an England comeback.

Lancashire maintained the pressure on Group B leaders Hampshire by beating them in a Yorkshire Bank 40 thriller at Old Trafford

Somerset's modest supremacy was exercised by Craig Kieswetter, who was twice dropped on his way to making his first Championship century of the season

Mosharraf Hossain has continued to claim that his bowling figures from Dhaka Gladiators' February 2 BPL match against Chittagong Kings are enough evidence to prove his innocence