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Regular showers and fading light allowed only 25.3 overs in the day, but there was enough time for Ishant Sharma to extend his domination of Ramnaresh Sarwan

Andrew McDonald produced a Man-of-the-Match display to steer Leicestershire to an eight-wicket win over Yorkshire

A round-up of the action from the sixth match day of the Faysal Bank Super Eight T-20 Cup

Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal took four wickets as Worcestershire beat Northamptonshire by six wickets in the Friends Life t20 at Campbell Park

Umpire Daryl Harper has withdrawn from the third Test between the West Indies and India in Dominica and will be replaced by umpire Richard Kettleborough

Sussex opener Ed Joyce celebrated his promotion to captain with his sixth half-century of the season but it was Warwickshire who took the first-day honours in the Division One clash at Arundel

England Test captain Andrew Strauss failed again with the bat, leaving Chris Rogers fighting almost single-handedly to save Middlesex from following on against Gloucestershire

Half-centuries from Michael Powell and Mark Wallace gave Glamorgan a lifeline going into the final day of their County Championship clash against Derbyshire at Cardiff

The ICC’s decision to slash minnows’ representation at the next two World Twenty20 tournaments has sparked outrage among Associate and Affiliate nations, who have decided to lodge a formal protest at Thursday’s full council

Given Lancashire’s game in hand, talk of this match being a title decider is premature at best and actually a little absurd