Rikki Clarke

Rikki Clarke bowled with masterful precision and subtlety from the Vauxhall End to claim career-best figures of 7 for 55

The T20 Blast quarter-finals get underway on Tuesday. ESPNcricinfo runs the rule over the eight teams left in the competition

For the second night running Surrey held their nerve in a low-scoring NatWest T20 Blast thriller to land a 10-run over Kent that secured their place in the knockout stages

Veteran allrounder joins Surrey as a back-up for the Curran brothers while Warwickshire snap up Adam Hose from Somerset

Steven Croft's violent century lifted Lancashire to a much-needed 26-run victory over Warwickshire in the Royal London Cup at Edgbaston

In the end, the spectre of relegation did not materialise for either team, even though the heaviest defeat of their season in terms of runs left Lancashire sweating for a few hours

Jack Leach finished with 6 for 42 as Somerset completed a 32-run Specsavers County Championship victory over Warwickshire on the third morning at Taunton

Perhaps numbers do never reveal the full story, but they tell a large part of it fairly well

Yorkshire may learn between now and the end of the season how much they have missed Ryan Sidebottom during the seven matches he has been forced to miss because of an ankle injury

Rikki Clarke's limited-overs best figures of 5 for 26 set Warwickshire cruising to an eight-wicket Royal London Cup victory over Worcestershire at Edgbaston

Offspinner Jeetan Patel sparked a Surrey collapsed and ended with a ten-wicket match haul as Warwickshire raced to victory

Warwickshire's middle-order came to the rescue once again to help them gain the initiative on the second day of an engrossing match against Nottinghamshire

Ian Bell could not quite make the same early statement as Gary Ballance managed in Abu Dhabi but a lower-order fightback lifted the MCC to a first-innings lead against Yorkshire

How the slower delivery came to become an essential weapon in every seamer's armoury

NatWest T20 Blast champions Birmingham Bears are guaranteed a quarter-final place in this year's competition after beating closest rivals Worcestershire Rapids by five wickets in front of a sell-out crowd at New Road

A fine all-round performance from Rikki Clarke saw Birmingham through to an impressive victory over Leicestershire at Grace Road

Keith Barker and Rikki Clarke combined to mop up Durham and complete a comfortable eight-wicket win

A small but determined band of spectators was rewarded in the end with a tiny bit of cricket after six and half hours of drizzle but for Rikki Clarke, without a Championship century since 2012, the wait continues.

With talk rampant about whether Warwickshire can emulate the class of 1994 and win the treble, the first day at Lord's perfectly encapsulated the qualities that have got the club this far