Bowlers and pitchers: divided by a common cause

Aug 27, 2014: Baseball and cricket - throwing and bowling. We sort out the differences

Notts v Derbyshire, Royal London Cup, Trent Bridge

Taylor's best earns Nottinghamshire semi-final

Aug 26, 2014: James Taylor would be quite justified in asking what more he must do to be given the chance to relaunch his England career

Australia v South Africa, Tri-series, Harare

'I want to play all three formats' - Lyon

Aug 26, 2014: Australia offspinner Nathan Lyon has said his ODI bowling is a "work in progress", and he wants to play all three formats for Australia

Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 2nd ODI, Hambantota

Mathews - 0 hundreds, 22 fifties

Aug 26, 2014: A stats review of the second ODI between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at Hambantota

Australia v South Africa, Tri-series, Harare

De Villiers expects hostilities to resume

Aug 26, 2014: Fierce rivalry takes on a more literal meaning when it is between South Africa and Australia

Pakistan news

Pakistan Super League shelved again

Aug 26, 2014: The Pakistan Super League, the PCB's proposed franchise-based Twenty20 tournament, will not kick off this year

England v India, 2nd ODI, Cardiff

Root rebuffs England criticism

Aug 26, 2014: It does not seem two minutes since Joe Root was making his first steps in the England side and reading so many descriptions of how childlike he still looked that he might have been preparing for the Primary School prom

Bangladesh news

BCB ponders split captaincy

Aug 26, 2014: The Bangladesh Cricket Board is likely to introduce split captaincy after BCB president Nazmul Hassan suggested that it was the way forward

Pakistan news

PCB seeks to weed out suspect actions in domestic game

Aug 26, 2014: In the wake of Saeed Ajmal being reported for a suspect action, the PCB has decided to clamp down on the problem of questionable actions right from the domestic level

Bangladesh news

BCB reduces Shakib suspension

Aug 26, 2014: The Bangladesh Cricket Board has reduced Shakib Al Hasan's six-month suspension by three-and-a-half months.

County news

Northants release Hall and Spriegel

Aug 26, 2014: Andrew Hall and Matthew Spriegel will leave Northamptonshire at the end of the season after not being offered new contracts as the county prepares for life back in Division Two of the Championship

England v India, 2nd ODI, Cardiff

Cook, Dhoni look for on-field statements

Aug 26, 2014: As countdowns for the World Cup go, neither England nor India can claim to have started in the best shape

Australia v South Africa, Tri-series, Harare

ODI equals seek bragging rights

Aug 26, 2014: With Zimbabwe faring feebly in the one-dayers, South Africa and Australia could provide the tri-series with some much-needed competition

Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 2nd ODI, Hambantota

Don't lap sweep when Sangakkara keeps

Aug 26, 2014: Plays of the day from the second ODI between Sri Lanka and Pakistan, in Hambantota

Sri Lanka v Pakistan, 2nd ODI, Hambantota

Sri Lanka defend 310 to square series

Aug 26, 2014: After half-centuries from Angelo Mathews, Mahela Jayawardene and Thisara Perera lifted Sri Lanka to 310, the spinners throttled Pakistan's chase

Australia v Pakistan, ICC Women's Championship, Brisbane

Lanning, Bolton lead Australia to 3-0

Aug 26, 2014: Nicole Bolton and captain Meg Lanning made fifties as Australia made it 3-0 against Pakistan in the women's ODI series in Brisbane with a game to go

West Indies v Bangladesh, 3rd ODI, St Kitts

Ramdin creates West Indies' home records

Aug 26, 2014: Stats highlights from West Indies' clean sweep of the three-match ODI series against Bangladesh, after their win in St Kitts

The parts of cricket that language forgot

Aug 26, 2014: There are feelings and situations in cricket that all of us are familiar with but can't describe succinctly

Starting and ending with half-centuries, and 99 on debut

Aug 26, 2014: Also, Tamim's share of Bangladesh's runs, run out for a duck on debut, most Test wickets against Pakistan, and 40-year-old captains

India's medium-pace tradition must not be allowed to decay

Aug 26, 2014: It's shameful that aspiring young Indian cricketers idolise Ambrose and Waqar rather than Binny and Solkar