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Fourteen wickets tumbled on the second day at Sophia Gardens but Glamorgan held the edge with a lead of 236 runs with four wickets in hand

Croft gives Glamorgan the advantage

Stephen Peters fell one run short of what would have been the first double-century of his career after batting for just over nine hours to put Northamptonshire in a commanding position against Middlesex at Lord's

Peters puts Middlesex to the sword

Leicestershire spinners Claude Henderson and Jigar Naik combined superbly to inflict an innings and 60-run defeat on Surrey in their County Championship Division Two match at The Brit Oval

Surrey crash to innings defeat

A season's-best unbeaten 181 by Darren Stevens took Kent into a strong position before rain and lightning arrived at Tunbridge Wells to halt play with the hosts on 478 for 6

Stevens and Tredwell prosper before the rain

The players spent the second day indoors for close to two full sessions as rain wrecked all chances of substantial play at Leeds, unlike the opening day when 473 runs were scored in 95 overs

Rain wins the day at Leeds

The Plays of the Day from the third day at Old Trafford

Follow-ons and repeat failures

06-Jun-2010•Andrew McGlashan at Old Trafford

Rested players likely to return for India

The Indian national selectors meet in New Delhi on Monday to pick the team for the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, with the knowledge that they have had little gains from the tri-series in Zimbabwe

Steven Finn bounced through Bangladesh to complete his second five-wicket of the series, after James Anderson had broken their resistance in an unplayable spell of new-ball swing bowling

Anderson and Finn rout Bangladesh

06-Jun-2010•The Bulletin by Andrew Miller

Chance to experiment in dead rubber

In the five games so far, the team chasing has won all games so tomorrow's contest offers a chance for the team batting first to get sufficient practice in case they are put in again in the final

06-Jun-2010•The Preview by Kanishkaa Balachandran

Canada and Bermuda sail through to semis

A round-up of the second day of the World Cricket League Americas Division One Twenty20

Sharad Pawar's claims of not being involved in a bid for a Pune franchise in the IPL has been contradicted by information in a document describing the minutes of a board meeting of a company in which Pawar has a stake

More trouble for Pawar over IPL bid

06-Jun-2010•Nagraj Gollapudi

'System not producing enough black cricketers' - Ntini

Makhaya Ntini, the South Africa fast bowler, has said the existing structure to identify black cricketers in the country's rural areas is not yielding the desired results

Kieron Pollard has turned down a place on the one-day leg of the West Indies A tour to England in favour of his deal with Somerset

Pollard chooses Somerset over A tour

06-Jun-2010•Andrew McGlashan

Walker resists as Essex struggle

James Tomlinson took three wickets as Hampshire seized the upper hand in their County Championship Division One clash with Essex at the Rose Bowl

Stephen Peters and Alex Wakely scored a century apiece as they shared a third-wicket partnership of 182 to take Northamptonshire to 280 for 4

Peters and Wakely cash in with tons

Andrew McGlashan provides the Plays of the Day from the second day at Old Trafford

Shades of Warne ... and Simon Jones

05-Jun-2010•Andrew McGlashan at Old Trafford

Henderson tilts game for Leicestershire

Claude Henderson re-established Leicestershire's authority with two key wickets in five balls after Surrey had battled their way back in the match

A dogged half-century from captain Rob Key and a contrasting unbeaten 80, from 83 balls, by Darren Stevens underpinned Kent's shaky second-day reply to Nottinghamshire's 462

Stevens and Key keep Kent ticking