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LONDON - Australian Darren Lehmann struck his fifth century of theseason on Thursday to keep Yorkshire firmly on course to win its firstEnglish county cricket championship title since 1968.

A maiden Test century from Kumar Sangakkara and a dramatic second innings collapse by the India's top order in the evening left Sri Lanka on the verge of an emphatic victory in the first Test at the Galle International Stadium on Thursday

Sussex CCC are pleased to announce the appointment of 32-year-old Keith Greenfield as its inaugural ECB-linked Academy Director

Ricky Ponting shrugged off his Ashes blues to make a long overdue and superb century at Headingley to give Australia another sizzling success to celebrate in the Fourth npower Test Match

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has finally realized that squad for the forthcoming Asian Test Championships cannot be named after analyzing the performance of its players in limited overs games

Australian Daryl Foster arrived in city late Monday evening and was to business Tuesday when he had his initial workouts with the Pakistan fast bowlers

Pakistan has invited the Indian junior cricket team to play matches in an under-19 tournament in preparation for next year's Youth World Cup to be held in New Zealand

Yorkshire today officially opened the new Sir Leonard Hutton Gates at Headingley, the day before the Fourth npower Test is due to start

Derbyshire have invited Dominic Cork to continue as captain next season

Somerset Under-12's saved their best for the match against the old enemy Gloucestershire at Cheltenham College

Graeme Hick's fifth CricInfo Championship century of the season and the 116th of his first-class career derailed promotion hopefuls Warwickshire at Edgbaston

John Crawley hit the fifth double century of his career as Lancashire made Northants suffer on the first day at Old Trafford

Paul Johnson hit a fine 149 to steer Nottinghamshire to 322 on the first day of their CricInfo Championship Division Two match with Gloucestershire at Bristol

Durham went to the top of the Norwich Union League second division when they beat third-placed Hampshire by 17-runs under the Duckworth/Lewis method at Chester-le-Street tonight

While it remains hard to believe that a month has already passed since the 2001 ICC Trophy tournament was completed, the event will, assuredly, be far more difficult to forget.

Alec Stewart has ended speculation about his imminent retirement from top cricket by confirming that he hopes to remain in the first-class game for at least another two years

After all the recent speculation in the newspapers, the first thing I can do is shed some light on my plans for the future

The present reported unrest in parts of Zimbabwe has received wide coverage by local and international press and various agencies around the world are calling for the possible cancellation of the above tours

Owing to recent events and increased security precautions in London, Routine searches will be made throughout the 5th npower Test at the AMP Oval, 23rd - 27th August, when England play Australia

Adam Gilchrist steps into the cricketing spotlight tomorrow hoping to show that he has what it takes to lead Australia in the longer term