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Watson hit 15 sixes

Watson sets sixes record as Australia thump Bangladesh  new

Shane Watson hit a record 15 sixes to guide Australia to a series-clinching nine-wicket win over Bangladesh in Mirpur today.

Inside Cricket

The Yorkshire bowler Moin Ashraf

Rashid takes five to ensure perfect start for Yorkshire

Monday, 11 April 2011

Worcestershire 286 & 137 Yorkshire 368 & 56-1: Yorkshire signalled their intention to be challengers this year, registering the first victory of the campaign.

Ben Stokes

Stokes' day: Three wickets, a century and five sixes in a row

Monday, 11 April 2011

Durham teenager Ben Stokes signalled his accelerating progress with an astonishing one-man show against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl yesterday.

A handful of spectators watch the action on the first day of the new county season as Worcestershire host Yorkshire

Robin Scott-Elliot: A brave new world for cricket must take county game outside existing boundaries

Monday, 11 April 2011

Next summer, 2012, will be much tougher, with cricket floored by the combined sportingclout of the European Championship and the London Olympics

Missing out on the World Cup hurt: 'I would have loved the chance to have ridden that wave further'

Alastair Cook: So where did it all go spectacularly right?

Sunday, 10 April 2011

David Lloyd: Ashes hero opens up on darts, helping out on the farm, the secret of batting and whether he expects to be the next England cricket captain...

Yorkshire's Gerard Brophy hits out against Worcestershire

Brophy finds his timing to dig Yorkshire out of hole

Sunday, 10 April 2011

Worcestershire 286 Yorkshire 284-7 (Yorkshire trail by 3 runs): Clearly there is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in some cricketers.

A hat-trick from Leicestershire captain Matthew Hoggard put Glamorgan on the back foot in their Division Two match at Grace Road

County Championship round-up: Harmison hurt as injury crisis mounts for Durham

Sunday, 10 April 2011

Jon Culley: The injury jinx that was a factor in Durham's failure to win a third successive Championship in 2010 is still dogging Phil Mustard's team.

Adil Rashid celebrates taking the wicket of Vikram Solanki at New Road yesterday as Daryl Mitchell turns away

Rashid makes glowing start in the sun as Worcestershire roll over

Saturday, 9 April 2011

Worcestershire 286 Yorkshire

Michael Clarke is in confident mood having taken over from Ricky Ponting

Clarke targets whitewash as Australia rebuild

Saturday, 9 April 2011

Humbled at the World Cup, Australia and Bangladesh have an early chance to put some of the massive disappointment behind them in a series of three one-day internationals starting today.

Stevens skittles Essex after Northeast ton

Saturday, 9 April 2011

Kent's Sam Northeast and Durham's Dale Benkenstein registered the first centuries of the Championship season.

Champions Nottinghamshire celebrate last September, but many counties face a struggle to remain viable

Talent is shining but the county game can't dodge financial clouds

Friday, 8 April 2011

Will Hawkes: April has arrived wreathed in warm sunshine and today the county programme gets under way with the domestic game basking in the glory of the role it played in England's Ashes success.

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