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Worcestershire moved into third place in the Friends Life t20 North Group after squeezing home by six runs in a tense, low-scoring battle with Midlands rivals Warwickshire at New Road

For one more day this is very much Alastair Cook’s England team and regardless of the result in the deciding one-day international there has been enough evidence to suggest he can make a success of his role.

It was overcast and damp in Manchester on Friday, the sort of conditions that make England a force to be reckoned with in one-day cricket, but the forecast for match-day is more sunshine and less cloud

Australia A registered a thrilling two-run win against South Africa A in the final of the Zimbabwe A Team Tri-Series in Harare

Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka is going ahead as scheduled, after the Australian department of Foreign Affairs and Trade raised no objection to Cricket Australia’s plans

Sussex batsman Murray Goodwin has been handed a one-match ban by an England and Wales Cricket Board disciplinary hearing despite already being reprimanded through his county’s internal disciplinary process

Claire Taylor, the first woman to be named one of Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year, has retired from international cricket

Harbhajan Singh, who took his 400th Test wicket on Thursday, believes he has age on his side and will strive to achieve something really special in Test cricket

Warwickshire offspinner Maurice Holmes has been suspended from bowling after an independent analysis of his action