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Keith Barker and Jeetan Patel each took three wickets as Warwickshire beat Northamptonshire by six wickets in their Friends Life t20 encounter at Wantage Road

Pakistan bowler Wahab Riaz starred with the ball and compatriot Azhar Mahmood excelled with the bat as Kent defeated Gloucestershire by eight wickets

Chris Whelan returned his best competition figures to set up an unlikely 15-run victory for Worcestershire against Derbyshire

Marcus Trescothick clubbed a superb unbeaten 108 for the biggest Friends Life t20 innings of the season as Somerset beat Essex by 143 runs at Chelmsford

Shahid Afridi has withdrawn his petition filed in the Sindh High Court against the PCB, signalling another step towards the resolution of the ongoing dispute

West Indies have an opportunity to secure a scoreline that will flatter their performances in the series against India

England captain Andrew Strauss insists his team are focussed on the task of finishing their series against Sri Lanka on a high, despite India’s impending arrival

If his two-year stint as Sri Lanka’s captain was anything like as stressful as it appears from the outside to have been, Kumar Sangakkara is currently 33 going on 40

Adrian Barath returns from injury and Ravi Rampaul is back after being rested, but there is still no place for Chris Gayle in the West Indies squad

South Africa coach Gary Kirsten believes the Twenty20 format should be limited to domestic cricket