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Only one day of this Test match has been played, but already, there have been four small victories for Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe make progress with small victories

04-Aug-2011•Firdose Moonda in Harare

Rain ruins Durham push

Durham were frustrated by the weather on day three at Chester-le-Street, where only 12.2 overs were bowled in the Championship leaders' Division One match against Nottinghamshire

Alfonso Thomas completed match figures of 10 for 88 as Somerset moved into the thick of the County Championship Division One title race with a nine-wicket victory over Sussex at Taunton

Thomas stars in Sussex slump

Graeme Swann has declared himself fit for the third Test against India at Edgbaston following the blow he took to his left hand in Nottingham

Swann declares himself fit for Edgbaston

Andrew Flintoff, the man whose greatest years as a Test cricketer coincided with England's last sustained run of excellence in five-day cricket, believes the team of 2011 is a better outfit than the 2005 side that won six series in a row

England better than in 2005 - Flintoff

The former Glamorgan allrounder, Allan Watkins, died in hospital in Kidderminster on Wednesday afternoon at the age of 89

Allan Watkins dies aged 89

Lord Harry Woolf, the former Chief Justice of England and Wales, has been named chairman of the independent governance review of the ICC

Woolf to chair ICC's governance review

Surrey maintained their unbeaten record in Clydesdale Bank 40 Group B with a dramatic 12-run victory over Northamptonshire under the lights at the Oval

Hamilton-Brown keeps Surrey top

A consequence of Simon Katich's removal from the Australian team is that Ricky Ponting is the only member of the Sri Lanka tour squad to have played a Test match on the island.

Ponting's local knowledge in demand

04-Aug-2011•Daniel Brettig

Top order puts Zimbabwe in command

Zimbabwe's top four ensured that their return to Test cricket was impressive as they achieved a balance between aggression and caution

04-Aug-2011•The Report by Firdose Moonda in Harare

Clarke forecasts Sri Lanka success

Australia's new captain Michael Clarke refused to concede his team may be facing some painful days ahead as he departed for the tour of Sri Lanka

04-Aug-2011•Daniel Brettig

Afghanistan, Canada and PNG win

A round-up of the fifth day's matches in the ICC Under-19 World Cup Qualifier

03-Aug-2011•ESPNcricinfo staff

Croft ton shares limelight with Clarke's catching

It was a day with two outstanding figures, one of them, unusually, a fielder. Steven Croft's first century for three years - only the second of the all-rounder's career in first-class cricket - had the most influence on the match

03-Aug-2011•Jon Culley at Aigburth

India bank on Sehwag for turnaround

India's own Rocket Man has finally turned up on the tour during which the sun has gone down fairly rapidly on India's No.1 Test ranking

03-Aug-2011•Sharda Ugra in Northampton

Craddock gives another display of his talent

Tom Craddock took four wickets and Owais Shah and Jaik Mickleburgh weighed in with half-centuries as Essex fought back on the second day against Glamorgan

Jos Buttler struck a superb 109-ball century to rescue Somerset on the second day of their County Championship match against Sussex at Taunton

Buttler responds after Panesar's five

Former England batsman Anthony McGrath scored a century for Yorkshire as bottom-placed Hampshire endured another miserable day in the field at the Rose Bowl

Yorkshire pile up huge total

A superb unbeaten 133 by Nottinghamshire skipper Chris Read was finally upstaged by a six-wicket haul for Graham Onions

Read and Onions share honours

A devastating spell from Kent's left-arm seamer Adam Ball left their County Championship Division Two game against fellow strugglers Leicestershire finely poised at Grace Road

Ball keeps match in the balance