Day: August 3, 2011

Zimbabwe and Bangladesh have grown accustomed to playing each other in limited-overs cricket in recent years, but have not met in a Test for more than five years

Jos Buttler struck a superb 109-ball century to rescue Somerset on the second day of their County Championship match against Sussex at Taunton

It was a day with two outstanding figures, one of them, unusually, a fielder. Steven Croft’s first century for three years – only the second of the all-rounder’s career in first-class cricket – had the most influence on the match

Former England batsman Anthony McGrath scored a century for Yorkshire as bottom-placed Hampshire endured another miserable day in the field at the Rose Bowl

A devastating spell from Kent’s left-arm seamer Adam Ball left their County Championship Division Two game against fellow strugglers Leicestershire finely poised at Grace Road

Tatenda Taibu’s place in the Zimbabwe starting line-up is secure, despite his flagrant criticism of administrators on the brink of the country’s return to Test cricket

Tatenda Taibu’s place in the Zimbabwe starting line-up is secure, despite his flagrant criticism of administrators on the brink of the country’s return to Test cricket

Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh have been ruled out of the remainder of the England Test series on account of injuries sustained during the second Test at Trent Bridge