Worcestershire v Gloucestershire, New Road, 3rd day

Gloucestershire end 28-year wait for New Road win

Aug 17, 2014: A brilliant innings by former Minor Counties player Richard Oliver failed to prevent Worcestershire's first County Championship defeat of the season as Gloucestershire registered their first victory at New Road since 1986.

Zimbabwe v South Africa, 1st ODI, Bulawayo

Chigumbura quells injury fears

Aug 17, 2014: Zimbabwe's newly appointed captain Elton Chigumbura has cooled fears he may find himself on the sidelines with a quad injury shortly after taking over

Eng v Ind, 5th Investec Test, The Oval, 3rd day

India's third-worst defeat in Tests

Aug 17, 2014: A stats review at the end of the fifth Test between India and England at The Oval

England v India, 5th Investec Test, The Oval, 3rd day

Dhoni quiet on future as Test captain

Aug 17, 2014: Asked whether he might resign India's Test captaincy following defeat to England, MS Dhoni said: "You'll have to wait and watch"

Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 2nd Test, SSC, 4th day

Sangakkara scotches retirement fears

Aug 17, 2014: Kumar Sangakkara's wave of the bat after falling for 58 triggered worries about whether he was set to quit Test cricket

England v India, 5th Investec Test, The Oval, 3rd day

Jadeja incident helped me - Anderson

Aug 17, 2014: James Anderson accepted he may have benefited from the increased scrutiny of his on-field behaviour as England wrapped up the Investec Test series with a crushing victory at The Oval.

Zimbabwe v South Africa, 1st ODI, Bulawayo

De Villiers invents the switch-scoop, almost

Aug 17, 2014: Plays of the day from the first ODI between Zimbabwe and South Africa in Bulawayo

Bangladesh in West Indies 2014

Bangladesh's chance to add to their Caribbean success story

Aug 17, 2014: The West Indies has been the backdrop for many a Bangladesh cricketing landmark, something the team should draw inspiration from as they embark on another Caribbean tour

Lancashire 3/1 for NatWest Blast title

Aug 17, 2014: Lancashire set the pace in the qualifying stage of the NatWest T20 Blast and they enter Finals Day at Edgbaston with a 3/1 chance of finally lifting the title.

Sri Lankan cricket

The many lives Mahela touched

Aug 17, 2014: Sidhanta Patnaik, writing for Wisden India, sheds light on the impact made by Mahela Jayawardene on the lives of cricket lovers, off the field

England v India, 5th Investec Test, The Oval, 3rd day

India befuddled as England complete humiliation

Aug 17, 2014: India might have been transported to another world, a world so unfamiliar that their senses were befuddled. One by one their batsmen came and went as they underwent the third heaviest Test defeat in their history.

Australia A v SA A, 2nd unofficial Test, Townsville, 4th day

Hughes scores 243 in drawn game

Aug 17, 2014: With an unbeaten 243, Phillip Hughes dominated proceedings once again as the second four-day game between Australia A and South Africa A ended in a draw

Zimbabwe v South Africa, 1st ODI, Bulawayo

Amla century steers South Africa to big win

Aug 17, 2014: Hashim Amla's 15th ODI hundred, his third against Zimbabwe and his fourth in six matches, led South Africa through a speedy start, sedate middle and ultimately to a sparkling finish, as the visitors took the series lead in Bulawayo

The edge that wasn't

Aug 17, 2014:

Jayawardene retires from Test cricket

A fitting swansong for Jayawardene

Aug 17, 2014: Mahela Jayawardene's farewell innings was not his most fluent, but at the end of it all, there was no wistful lingering or sentimentality - just a typically restrained acknowledgement of an exhilarating ride

Tridents v Amazon Warriors, CPL 2014 final, Basseterre

Tridents win rain-marred CPL final

Aug 17, 2014: In a final plagued with rain interruptions, Barbados Tridents won the Caribbean Premier League 2014 by a slender margin of eight runs on Duckworth-Lewis

Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 2nd Test, SSC

Junaid to miss rest of the second Test

Aug 17, 2014: Pakistan fast bowler Junaid Khan has been advised rest and will not play the remaining days of the second Test at the SSC after he was hit by a bouncer, while batting on the third day of the Test.

Lloyd fuels optimism, but challenges await

Aug 17, 2014: The new selection chief will have to ride the waves of board politics and a domestic structure on the cusp of change to deliver the best

Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 2nd Test, SSC, 4th day

Pakistan tumble towards big defeat

Aug 17, 2014: Rangana Herath drove away any thoughts of a Sharjah-like chase by breaking the back of Pakistan batting - Azhar Ali, Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan - within his first six overs

USA news

Dainty says USA too busy to have domestic events

Aug 17, 2014: Gladstone Dainty, president of the USA Cricket Association, has said USACA was unable to hold a domestic national tournament for the last three years was because the organisation has "been busy participating in ICC events"