Nottinghamshire v Essex, Specsavers Championship Division One, Trent Bridge

Simon Harmer, M Vijay bring Essex back into contention

Sep 12, 2018: Simon Harmer's best figures of the season and Murali Vijay's second half-century of the match have given Essex a chance of toppling Nottinghamshire

Australia news

Smith, Warner leadership failure leads to defining vice-captain's role

Sep 12, 2018: Selectors will interview the interested players for the role of vice-captain and make a decision before the first Test against Pakistan on October 7

Leicestershire v Warwickshire, Specsavers Championship, Division Two, Grace Road

Keith Barker and Jeetan Patel dismantle Leicestershire

Sep 12, 2018: Warwickshire took further strides towards promotion with an innings win well inside three days

India in England, 2018

Curran's Kapil act; Kohli's one-man show

Sep 12, 2018: Some of the stand-out numbers from the five-match Test series came from the fast bowlers of both sides and India captain Virat Kohli

India in England 2018

Strange selections and the Ashwin question - five mistakes that cost India

Sep 12, 2018: Virat Kohli said after the series defeat to England that his team is competitive enough to win overseas, but that they need to first rectify mistakes. What are they?

Middlesex v Kent, Specsavers Championship, Division Two, Lord's

Sam Billings sees Kent home and ends Middlesex chances

Sep 12, 2018: Kent moved to the top of Division Two as it was confirmed that they have signed Nottinghamshsire seamer Matt Milnes

England news

Don't rest me for winter tours, James Anderson tells selectors

Sep 12, 2018: Fast bowler believes eight-week break until Sri Lanka Tests will be ample time to recover from exertions in India series

India in England 2018

Anderson adds the edge in England's bits-and-pieces summer

Sep 12, 2018: From Curran's courage to Malan's misses, here's who made the grade for England this summer ... and who didn't

If India want to win overseas, they need to not care too much about winning at home

Sep 12, 2018: Why picking your teams based on the need to succeed abroad is the way to go

Women's news

Australia pick uncapped teenagers Wareham, Vlaeminck for NZ T20Is

Sep 12, 2018: Duo were part of the national performance squad programme over the winter; Jess Jonassen misses out due to knee injury

Women's news

Satterthwaite appointed captain after Bates steps down

Sep 12, 2018: Outgoing captain led the side for six years, but feels she can contribute better now by focussing on her performances as a player only

Living the last of Alastair Cook's Test match life

Sep 12, 2018: He finished as he began, with a century. The game is better for his place in its history

Australia news

Maxwell confirms mixed selection messages

Sep 12, 2018: Axed batsman disappointed he missed opportunities to score the runs that the selectors want by being asked not to play county cricket and then being left out of Australia A

Guyana Amazon Warriors v Trinbago Knight Riders, CPL 2018 Qualifier 1, Providence

Tanvir's penultimate-ball six takes Amazon Warriors into CPL final

Sep 12, 2018: Knight Riders now await the winner of the Eliminator between Patriots and Tallawahs; they will face the winner of that match in the second qualifier for a spot in the CPL final

Pakistan news

Peshawar fly the regional banner as pitches under scrutiny again

Sep 12, 2018: Peshawar kept their perfect run going in the Quaid-e-Azam trophy, while Mohammad Hafeez made a successful return to the competition after being overlooked for the international side

County news

Sharp finds contentment in the Faithful City

Sep 12, 2018: Worcestershire's appearance at their first Finals Day is a success for quintessential rural England at a time of great change

Vitality Blast Finals Day

Gregory's calm head and whirring bat keeps Somerset on course

Sep 12, 2018: Somerset's captain Lewis Gregory anticipates Finals Day in the Blast and admits: "Two years ago I wouldn't have been the one trying to calm everybody down"

What we remember # 9

The 438 ODI

Sep 12, 2018: Four hundred had never been breached before in ODIs. On a March evening in Johannesburg, the mark was surpassed twice

The road to 700 Test wickets

James Anderson reaches 700 Test wickets - The milestone moments

Sep 11, 2018: James Anderson has become the first seam bowler to 700 Test wickets. We look back at the key milestones of his 21-year career

England in Sri Lanka 2018-19

Jamie Overton, Olly Stone in frame for Sri Lanka Test call-ups

Sep 11, 2018: Pace pair in consideration with a view to England's transition to life after James Anderson and Stuart Broad