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Geoffrey Boycott believes England are ready for the challenge of taking on India, the world’s No. 1 Test team, who arrive in the country next month for the start of a four-Test series

In the bigger picture England captain Andrew Strauss had plenty reasons to be content after securing a 1-0 win over Sri Lanka ahead of India’s visit

Despite the rain, spectators at the Rose Bowl were left with the consolation of having watched one of the game’s modern greats produce an innings that has been long overdue

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has decided to snap contact with the president of the West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) Dinanath Ramnarine

The figures might be unremarkable, but Boyd Rankin produced an unusually fine spell of fast bowling on the first day of Warwickshire Championship match with Somerset

Sam Robson and Scott Newman put together an almost certainly decisive opening stand of 120 as Middlesex closed in on their fourth County Championship win of the season in a controversial Division Two game against Kent at Lord’s

Stephen Peters just missed out on a century while David Lucas and Lee Daggett both hit career-best scores as Northamptonshire took a stranglehold on their County Championship game against Leicestershire at Grace Road

Nottinghamshire were once again reliant on club stalwarts Paul Franks and Chris Read to dig them out of a hole on the first day of the Division One meeting with Lancashire

The announcement of England’s limited-overs squads to face Sri Lanka could represent a significant changing of the guard as they begin to look towards the 2015 World Cup

Paul Collingwood’s first Durham century since making six in 2005 put the Championship leaders in command against struggling Yorkshire at Chester-le-Street