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Stuart Broad faces a vital week for the short-term prospects of his England place after being dropped for the deciding one-day international at Old Trafford on Saturday

The South Africa A team returned from the triangular series in Zimbabwe having given high performance coach Vincent Barnes “a good idea of what needs to be done at the level below the national team”

Morne van Wyk wants to challenge for a position in South Africa’s top three in limited-overs formats of the game

Zander de Bruyn’s brilliant 179 helped Surrey post a first-innings total of 387 on the first day of their County Championship clash with Kent at The Oval

Half-centuries from Ravi Bopara and James Foster pulled Essex out of trouble on the first day of the County Championship match against Leicestershire at Grace Road

An unbroken 97-run partnership between Steven Croft and Tom Smith helped
impressive Lancashire crush Nottinghamshire by nine wickets in their Friends
Life t20 match at Old Trafford

Robert Croft produced the most economical figures by a Glamorgan bowler in t20 cricket as the Dragons thumped Gloucestershire by 10 wickets in a meaningless Friends Life South Group match at Bristol

Robert Croft produced the most economical figures by a Glamorgan bowler in t20 cricket as the Dragons thumped Gloucestershire by 10 wickets in a meaningless Friends Life South Group match at Bristol

Richard Pyrah claimed Yorkshire’s best-ever t20 figures at Scarborough as his side beat Durham by three wickets to keep alive their slender hopes of going through to the Friends Life quarter-finals

Richard Pyrah claimed Yorkshire’s best-ever t20 figures at Scarborough as his side beat Durham by three wickets to keep alive their slender hopes of going through to the Friends Life quarter-finals