Cricket News

Kevin Pietersen has blamed his decision to retire from limited-overs international cricket on England's unrelenting schedule but reiterated his desire to play in the World T20 in September.

Sussex moved level with Warwickshire at the top of Group C in the CB40 despite their clash with Derbyshire at Horsham being rained off.

Gloucestershire gave their CB40 campaign a boost after an impressive performance with bat and ball by Will Gidman helped them record a crushing 109-run victory over Worcestershire at New Road.

The 100th Tunbridge Wells festival week suffered more frustration when Kent's CB40 Group C match against Northamptonshire was abandoned as a no result with only 33 overs of play possible because of rain.

Eoin Morgan sent a timely reminder to the England selectors by hitting the fastest century of the season as Middlesex crushed Lancashire by 167 runs at Lord's.

Simon Jones, the former England fast bowler, took four wickets as Glamorgan claimed their first win of the season by beating Durham by 15 runs in a low-scoring CB40 match at Colwyn Bay.

Sri Lanka coach Graham Ford has said allrounder Thisara Perera could establish himself in the Test side, if he can replicate the bowling form he showed in Saturday's ODI against Pakistan with more consistency

Virat Kohli, India's one-day vice-captain, has said he been working on improving his on-field attitude with his captain, MS Dhoni

Tino Best, whose career as a Test batsman was previously best known for Andrew Flintoff's "mind the windows" jibe at Lord's eight years ago, struck back with the innings of his life

Ireland allrounder Kevin O'Brien has been signed by Somerset for five of the forthcoming FLt20 matches

Michael Hussey has been allowed to skip Australia's tour of Ireland and England to be with his family after the premature birth of his child

India A gained the upper hand in the second unofficial Test against West Indies A in St Vincent, after their bowlers restricted the hosts to 212 for 8 on the opening day

Lancashire's hopes of retaining the County Championship may have disappeared already but they are unbeaten in four and their draw against Notts revealed their competitive edge.

It took until the last half-hour but Sussex finally broke Surrey's resistance and completed a ten-wicket victory at Horsham

The BCB president said: "I have said it repeatedly that it is BCB's obligation that if any player is unpaid, the board will make the payments"

Ravi Bopara gave the England selectors another huge nudge with his second century of the week

Ben Harmison was booed by Kent supporters at Tunbridge Wells as a last day run-chase against Hampshire run out of steam in near identical circumstances to last month's pursuit in Canterbury against Northamptonshire.

Cricket's sole appearance in the Olympic Games will be re-enacted later this month when teams from France and Britain meet to reprise a match that took place in Paris 112 years ago.

Ravi Sawani, the head of the BCCI's new anti-corruption wing, has submitted his report into allegations of corruptions levelled against five domestic Indian players to board president N Srinivasan

Glamorgan's County Championship Division Two clash with Yorkshire at Colwyn Bay was abandoned as a draw on Saturday with no play possible on any of the final three days.