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Mark Davies collected his first five-wicket bag of the season to given Kent a clear but certainly not decisive advantage at the halfway stage of this crucial contest

Owais Shah made an unbeaten hundred as Essex fought back with bat and ball on day two against Hampshire

Chris Nash made his third Championship hundred of the season as Sussex tightened their hold on the game against Somerset

Lancashire, desperately trying to stave off relegation a year after winning the Championship, made amends for a sloppy first day in the field with a professional display with the bat at Lord's.

Chris Read's battling knock hauled Notts over 200 on the second day at The Oval

Liam Plunkett has been given permission to talk to other counties. He has a year to go on his Durham contract but has played only one Championship match this season after losing form and confidence.

Pakistan began their warm-up for the ICC World Twenty20 with a comprehensive win over Australia in Dubai, where their spinners flummoxed Australia's long batting line-up

The Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) is hoping to get the Sawai Mansingh stadium in Jaipur ready for the forthcoming Irani Cup, having got possession of the ground just two weeks prior the match

Jonathan Trott has been ruled out of action for three to four weeks meaning he will miss the end of the English domestic season, after scans revealed a fracture to his right hand

South Africa levelled the one-day series with a resounding seven-wicket victory at Trent Bridge after England's batting had subsided

Mitchell Starc and Glenn Maxwell have set an example that Australia's captain Michael Clarke wants to see followed by others as the home summer draws closer

Paul Valthaty, the Mumbai batsman who hit the headlines with a century for Kings XI Punjab in the 2011 IPL, has decided to return to Mumbai cricket

The ICC has shot down the PCB's objection to Saeed Ajmal's omission from the ICC's Cricketer of the Year award shortlist

ESPNcricinfo's preview of the first T20I between Pakistan and Australia in Dubai

Yorkshire's quest for one of the victories which would be likely to secure promotion was looking a lot healthier at the end of the first day at Headingley than it was half way through it.

Brian Rose, Somerset's director of cricket, has agreed by mutual consent to leave the county at the end of the season. It brings to an end eight years at Taunton, a period in which he has revived the county's fortunes.

James Fuller and Liam Norwell fought back with three wickets each for Gloucestershire to reduced Northamptonshire to 73 for 7 by the close on day one at Bristol.

Abdur Rehman flew straight in from Dubai to take three wickets as Somerset closed on top at Hove

Pakistan's Twenty20 captain Mohammad Hafeez has said his side would also seek positive bowling performances from bowlers other than Saeed Ajmal to be successful in the three-match T20I series against Australia

Aided by excellent slip catching, Hampshire kept their promotion hopes alive by bowling Essex out cheaply on a helpful surface on day one at West End