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Surrey all-rounder Yasir Arafat returned to his old stomping ground in Kent to help dismiss his former county for 266 on the opening day of the 160th Canterbury Festival Week clash

Sri Lanka A edged a high-scoring day at Trent Bridge, chasing down a rain-reduced target of 272 with five wickets to spare to beat Nottinghamshire

Martin Guptill and Wes Durston dented Gloucestershire’s promotion hopes with a
double century stand to put Derbyshire on top in the County Championship
match at Derby

The weather continues to disrupt Durham’s bid for a third County
Championship title in four years

Worcestershire squandered a decent position on the first day of their County Championship match at Sussex despite a debut half-century from teenager Aneesh Kapil

Jonny Bairstow scored his maiden one-day century in his first innings at Lord’s as bottom-of-the-table Yorkshire beat Middlesex by 22 runs

Jonny Bairstow scored his maiden one-day century in his first innings at Lord’s as bottom-of-the-table Yorkshire beat Middlesex by 22 runs

It’s a mark of the high standards that England now set that India’s eventual total of 224 felt a few too many but the openers reached 84 without loss

Plays of the Day from the first day of the third Test between England and India at Edgbaston

Mitchell Johnson produced the fourth-best figures in Australia’s one-day history to set his team on the path to a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in Pallekele