Despite Luke Sugg’s unbeaten 107, England Visually Impaired cricket team suffered an eight wicket defeat in the second One-Day International against Australia at Malvern College yesterday.
The Warwickshire batsman shared a 77-run partnership with Andy Powers who hit his second century of the series.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket Committee has recommended further changes be made to One-Day International cricket.
In a report ready to go before the ICC Board in June, they recommend a reduction in the number of powerplay overs, changes to field settings and allowing bowlers to be able to deliver two short balls per over.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has unveiled its summer cricket programme for 2013, which includes tours by Australia and New Zealand and the ICC Champions Trophy.
The Ashes Tests will be hosted by Trent Bridge, Lord's, Old Trafford, The Kia Oval and the Emirates Durham International Cricket Ground.
A cricket betting video for Cricket World TV about the latest cricket betting odds as John Pennington and Alastair Symondson look ahead to international cricket matches coming up in the next week.
With Kevin Pietersen retiring from ODI and T20 cricket taking the headlines, they consider the impact on England's ICC World Twenty20 chances as well as looking ahead to the third Test between England and the West Indies at Edgbaston.
A cricket video for Cricket World TV about the latest cricket news as we discuss the news of Kevin Pietersen retiring from international limited overs cricket.
Pietersen has decided to focus solely on Test cricket, bringing an end to a career in which he blasted more than 4,000 runs in ODI cricket and 1,000 runs in T20I cricket and helped England to victory in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 World Cup competition.
England batsman and former captain Kevin Pietersen has announced his retirement from One-Day and Twenty20 International cricket with immediate effect.
The 31-year-old will remain available for Test cricket, however, and he ends his limited overs career with England having played 127 ODIs and 36 T20 Internationals.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has set up a new anti-corruption team which will closely monitor limited overs matches in domestic cricket.
The news comes on the same day that Mazhar Majeed and Mervyn Westfield both lost appeals against their sentences for involvement in separate spot-fixing cases.
Despite Andy Powers' 118-run stand, England Visually Impaired cricket team were defeated by Australia in the first one-day International of the three match series, at Malvern College yesterday.
The hosts opted to insert Australia and bowled the tourists out for 319 in the 40th over. As England openers Matt Dean and Mo Khatri took to the crease, the game unfolded to be one of tactics as both teams were evenly matched on talent.
It is England all-rounder Tim Bresnan who wins this week's award. The 27 year-old from Pontefract put behind him a relatively poor performance at Lord's to return his best Test match figures of eight for 141. He also chipped in with a doughty 39 not out to prevent a collapse in England's first innings.
A cricket video for Cricket World TV about the latest cricket news as we look back at the second Test at Trent Bridge - which saw England beat West Indies by nine wickets to move into a 2-0 series lead with one match to play.
Tim Bresnan turned in a man-of-the-match performance, taking eight wickets on a good pitch in hot conditions, as England made it seven home series wins in a row and Bresnan himself has now won each of the 12 Tests he has played in.
England moved into an unassailable 2-0 series lead over the West Indies by confidently wrapping up a nine-wicket win on day four of the second Test at Trent Bridge.
Marlon Samuels was the tourists' lone beacon of resistance and after they were bowled out for 165 in their second innings, England were largely untroubled as they closed on111 for one.
England's newest Test cap, Yorkshire wicketkeeper-batsman Jonathan Bairstow has been handed an incremental contract by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
Bairstow has earned the contract after being selected for the second Test against the West Indies at Trent Bridge, having earlier made his debut in the opening match of the series at Lord's.
All four current England Cricket Captains; Andrew Strauss, Stuart Broad, Alastair Cook and Charlotte Edwards brought cricket to some of Nottingham's inner-city youngsters when The Lord’s Taverners staged a special coaching session ahead of the England Test with West Indies at Trent Bridge.
As cricket's number one charity, The Lord's Taverners is dedicated to giving young people access to sporting and recreational opportunities.
England batsman Kevin Pietersen has been fined and warned by the England and Wales Cricket Board for making negative comments on Twitter.
He used the microblogging platform to criticise former England international Nick Knight's role as a SKY commentator during the opening Test against the West Indies at Lord's.
Investec, the specialist bank and asset manager, have brought together England cricketers Stuart Broad and Steven Finn with former Masters Champion, Charl Schwartzel, for a golf lesson with a difference.
Investec, title sponsors of Test Cricket, provided the two England Cricketers with a chance to perfect their swing, under the expert eye of Charl, also sponsored by Investec.
England Women have recalled World Cup winners Katherine Brunt and Holly Colvin to a 15-member squad which will take on India Women for two Twenty20 Internationals and five One-Day Internationals in June and July.
Brunt was rested for the recent tours of South Africa and New Zealand while Colvin was unavailable due to university commitments.
England will play four Tests and two Twenty20 Internationals in India before Christmas and then return in January for a five-match series of One-Day Internationals.
The Test squad will depart on 25th October, stopping off in Dubai before heading to Mumbai and Ahmedabad for three tour games ahead of the Tests in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Kolkata and Nagpur.
Fans look back on the opening Test between England and the West Indies at Lord's. They pay tribute to England's performance, lauding Andrew Strauss, Suart Broad, Alastair Cook and Ian Bell in particular.
They also look ahead to the second Test at Trent Bridge and pay tribute to an improving West Indies side.
Andrew Strauss pipped his team-mate Stuart Broad to this week's Cricket World Player of the Week award, as he responded to his media critics and ended his long wait for a Test century with the 20th of his career at Lord's.
England have named an unchanged squad for the second Test against the West Indies, which begins at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, on Friday (25th May).
The selectors have kept faith with the 11 players who pulled off a five-wicket win at Lord's with fast bowlers Graham Onions and Steven Finn also in the squad.
