Cricket News

Led by Kemar Roach, the fast bowler, West Indies Cricket Board President's XI bowlers took advantage of helpful conditions to restrict New Zealanders to 137 for 8

Two near-perfect overs from the offspinner Mahmudullah proved the difference between two well-matched sides

James Fuller hit his highest first-class score to help Gloucestershire to a handy first-innings lead over Leicestershire

Moeen Ali claimed another six wickets to fire out Lancashire in their second-innings to take a 205-run victory at Old Trafford

Nick Compton, that most consistent of runmakers, guided Somerset past the follow-on figure and made Warwickshire's task of forcing victory doubly difficult.

MS Dhoni says the break has revitalised the Indian team, which hasn't had much of a rest in recent years

A five-for in the only innings so far of Glamorgan's match with Kent means that James Harris is well and truly back in business

Steve Magoffin broke the back of the Durham innings to give Sussex the chance of claiming an important Championship victory

Rahul Sharma, the India legspinner, and Wayne Parnell, the South Africa fast bowler, have reportedly tested positive for recreational drugs

Darren Pattinson looks to be coming to the end of his first-class career in England by signing to play for Melbourne Renegades as a home-based player in the 2012-13 edition of Australia's Big Bash League.

The preview of the first ODI between Sri Lanka and India, in Hambantota

Sachin Tendulkar is among five Indian players who will be compensated by the BCCI for missing IPL and Champions League T20 matches in 2011 due to injuries sustained while representing India

The preview of the tri-series final between Zimbabwe A and South Africa A in Harare

This is what a contest for the No. 1 ranking should be like; intense, gripping and fluctuating

The top three teams from Group A and B, and the top two from Group C, will qualify for the quarter-finals of the upcoming season of the Ranji Trophy

Sunil Narine has signed for the Sydney Sixers, Kemar Roach will play for the Brisbane Heat and Kieron Pollard will turn out for the Adelaide Strikers in this summer's Big Bash League

The legspinner Tarun Nethula will have the chance to audition for a Test debut after he was named in the New Zealand side for their tour match against the WICB President's XI, to begin in Antigua on Friday

Mike Hesson has been named as the new head coach of New Zealand and has been handed a contract until the end of the 2015 World Cup

Ian Saxelby took career-best figures 6 for 48 as Gloucestershire dismissed Leicestershire for 162 in their County Championship Division Two match at Cheltenham.