Cricket

Darren Stevens hit the fastest hundred of the county season from 44 balls under the lights at Canterbury

Ryan Harris will make his return to the bowling crease in Australia A's match against Gloucestershire in Bristol on Friday, as he steels himself for an Ashes campaign that looms as the defining moment of his international career

The confusion over who will represent India in ICC thickened with 3 names - Dalmiya, Srinivasan and Jaitley - cropping up as "BCCI representatives".

There were wins for Nottinghamshire and Glamorgan in tonight's Yorkshire Bank 40 action. We also preview the first of the eleventh round LV= County Championship matches.

India take on Sri Lanka in Cardiff with England awaiting the winners in Sunday's ICC Champions Trophy 2013 semi-final at Edgbaston. The two sides are no strangers to each other, having contested the 2011 World Cup final, which India won on home soil, while India hold the upper hand having won their previous four meetings in England and Wales.

"I think on and off, each player is likely to have a few games where they'll go for runs. It's important to keep backing these guys," said Indian skipper MS Dhoni.

James Taylor led Nottinghamshire to a four-wicket win over Netherlands, extending their perfect record in the Yorkshire Bank 40 to seven games

Leicestershire's hopes of reaching the semi-finals of the Yorkshire Bank 40 took a massive blow as they crashed to a 34-run defeat against Glamorgan at Grace Road

If not MS Dhoni, Angelo Mathews will certainly pray for the rain to stay away. He may find this opportunity, a knockout in an ICC tournament, apt for revenge.

Gary Kirsten's time in charge of South Africa finished the way of a few men before him and there appears no end in sight to the team's quest to banish their demons