ESPNcricinfo previews the Group A World Twenty20 match between Afghanistan and England in Colombo

A hard-working team, Ireland will need to get past two strong teams in Group B to make it to the knockouts

Hampshire have proved more than a few times this season that it pays not to write them off and here they did so again to win on the last ball

England Women romped to victory in the first of five Twenty20 internationals against West Indies Women, taking just 9.4 overs to chase 72

ESPNcricinfo previews the first T20 international between England and South Africa at Chester-le-Street

Hampshire remain on course for a domestic double in limited-overs cricket after Sussex's semi-final frailties were exposed for the second week running

Preview of the second one-day international between England and South Africa at West End

Kevin Pietersen's chances of being reconciled to the England set-up and winning a place in their World Twenty20 squad appear to have receded

ESPNcricinfo previews the second Test between England and South Africa at Headingley

Scott Styris, the former New Zealand allrounder, has described his 37-ball hundred in Sussex's FLt20 quarter-final victory over Gloucestershire as one of his "better" innings

Yorkshire reached their first T20 Finals Day with a 29-run win over Worcestershire, inspired by Joe Root's maiden Twenty20 half-century

Preview of the first Test of the series between England and South Africa at The Oval

Graeme Smith plays his 100th Test when South Africa take on England at The Oval and ESPNcricinfo looks back on his career

AB de Villiers says he is "looking forward to the challenge" of combining his role as a batsman with succeeding Mark Boucher, as expected, as South Africa's Test wicketkeeper.

A month after his last knock, in the third Test against West Indies, Andrew Strauss displayed the traditional virtues that his team-mates had forgotten to score more than half of Middlesex's runs in a sorry first-innings at Uxbridge

If anything could sum up the struggles of this season's Friends Life t20 to achieve lift-off, it was surely Kevin Pietersen's first-ball duck against Hampshire.

The lawyer acting for the Pakistan bowler, Danish Kaneria, has called for his appeal against a life ban from cricket imposed by the ECB to take the form of an open hearing

Surrey's last-ball defeat at Essex at least allowed the healing process to begin in their first match since the death of Tom Maynard.

Danish Kaneria, the Pakistan legspinner, has been found guilty of corruption by an ECB disciplinary panel in relation to the spot-fixing case involving Mervyn Westfield

England have omitted James Anderson from their squad for the third Test against West Indies