England will carry on celebrating their Champions Trophy victories - but only ‘carefully’ after Joe Root’s unfortunate bar-room encounter with Australia batsman David Warner.
George Bailey admits confidence within the Australia camp is running dry following their early elimination from the Champions Trophy.
Group A: Sri Lanka win by 20 runs
Surrey have sacked team director Chris Adams and coach Ian Salisbury, with former England captain Alec Stewart taking temporary charge.
Captain Alastair Cook and England head into the Champions Trophy semi-finals confident they can beat whoever is put in front of them.
Yorkshire Bank 40 Group B: Lancashire beat Essex by 64 runs
England captain Alastair Cook was a relieved man after seeing his side end a “stressful day” with a hard-fought victory over New Zealand that sealed their place in the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy.
England overcame New Zealand when it mattered most, and narrowly beat the Cardiff weather too, to book their place in the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy.
Kevin Pietersen has confirmed his own comeback date, for Surrey against Yorkshire at Headingley this week.
England bowler James Anderson has branded the claims of ball-tampering by Bob Willis “very disappointing and frustrating” and categorically not true.
India beat Pakistan by eight wickets
County Championship day four: Sussex draw with Surrey
England insist they have no ball-tamperers in their midst and nothing to hide over their methods of reverse-swing.
New Zealand are hoping to stay out of the ball-tampering controversy which has engulfed opponents England before tomorrow’s crucial Champions Trophy match in Cardiff.
Australia captain Michael Clarke has denied reports that batsman Shane Watson approached coach Mickey Arthur after being unhappy with the handling of the David Warner affair.
England’s cricketers will not face new ground rules as a result of David Warner’s bar-room bust-up with Joe Root.
England’s limited-overs coach Ashley Giles today denied his players tamper with the ball in the wake of allegations made by former captain Bob Willis.
Essex were yesterday bowled out for their lowest-ever score of 20 as Lancashire crushed them at Chelmsford.
Wasim Khan, the chief executive of the Cricket Foundation and the first British-born Pakistani to play professional cricket in England, has received an MBE for services to cricket and the community in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Television presenter Clare Balding is among a number of Londoners and other individuals connected to sport in the capital that have been named in today’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Vikram Solanki made his first century as a Surrey player as his side threatened Sussex’s unbeaten record in the LV= County Championship after dominating the third day at Arundel.
Essex head coach Paul Grayson had no explanation for his side’s tame capitulation as the county recorded its lowest ever total in first-class cricket today.
South Africa scraped into the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy as a dramatic finish saw their Group B clash with West Indies end in a tie under the Duckworth-Lewis method.
County Championship Division Two day three: Lancashire (398) beat Essex (273 & 20) by an innings and 105 runs
Gareth Berg felt that fatigue played its part after Middlesex crashed to their first home County Championship defeat in over two years against Yorkshire.
County Championship Division One day four: Yorkshire beat Middlesex by 10 wickets
Michael Clarke insists Australia’s Ashes preparations will not be disrupted by the David Warner’s drink-fuelled night which ended with him punching Joe Root.
At just 28, Alastair Cook already seems certain to end his career as one of England’s greatest batsmen.
David Warner has been warned that his attack on England player Joe Root has left his career as an international cricketer in the balance.
Captain Alastair Cook has reminded England they are still in charge of their own destiny despite seeing their Champions Trophy hopes dented by the brilliance of Kumar Sangakkara.