Shaun Tait, the South Australia fast bowler, has said quick bowlers will relish bowling on the fresh pitches in South Africa during the Champions League Twenty20

Paul Stirling, the 20-year-old Ireland opener, played the innings of his life, smashing 177 from 134 deliveries to set up an easy win over Canada and tie the two-match ODI series

England's Twenty20 cricketers were barely forced to break sweat as they sauntered to a crushing six-wicket victory in Cardiff, against a Pakistan side whose off-field woes appeared to have seeped out into the middle with them

Kevin Pietersen made a second-ball duck on his first-class Surrey debut as his team-mates otherwise enjoyed a good first day with the bat to reach 324 for 6 in their County Championship match with Glamorgan

Jaik Mickleburgh again showed his liking for the Durham attack with another polished effort that underpinned the Essex innings in the Country Championship clash at Chelmsford

Former England batsman Usman Afzaal has been released by Surrey leaving him searching for a new county

Sussex put themselves in a great position to win promotion with a game to spare by dominating Northamptonshire on day one of their match at Hove

Nottinghamshire's County Championship aspirations took a hammer blow after being bowled out by challengers Yorkshire in their first innings for 59 - their lowest total in 22 years

Kent captain Rob Key praised the character of Sri Lankan Malinga Bandara after the under fire wrist-spinner bagged season's best figures of four for 42 to help skittle Hampshire for 204

Teenager Nathan Buck took a starring role to spearhead a Leicestershire fightback on the first day of their final home County Championship game of the season against Gloucestershire at Grace Road

Toby Roland-Jones fell foul of the London tube strike congestion to miss the first 40 minutes of play but returned to help Middlesex bowl out promotion-chasing Worcestershire for 313

Charl Willoughby claimed 4 for 60 as Somerset bowled out Lancashire for 259 on the opening day of their County Championship clash at Taunton

Franchises in the IPL believe that the league's new format and the player retention clause take away their control over their players and also affect their bottom lines

Bad light ruled out what would have been an intriguing final two overs of the first one-dayer in Toronto, but Canada won't be complaining as it secured them a surprise win

Afghanistan seamer Khaliq Dad has leant his support to Pakistan, saying his side was ready to travel to the terror-hit country when other international teams were reluctant to play there

Gloucestershire have released Steve Kirby from the final two years of his contract after he requested the chance to play Division One Championship cricket to push his England claims

Two Pakistan cricketers were issued notices by the ICC seeking information nearly a month before the spot-fixing scandal broke during the Lord's Test last month, ESPNcricinfo has learned

Morne van Wyk scored an unbeaten century to lead South Africa A to a comfortable victory over Sri Lanka A in the final of the triangular series

Matthew Hayden, the former Australian opening batsman, has said it is practically impossible to completely eradicate corruption from cricket.

The allrounder James Hopes has been awarded the Queensland captaincy after Chris Simpson stood down