Ashar Zaidi

The experienced Australia seamer has just completed the second of two successful spells at Chelmsford this summer

There was no Aaron Finch-Jason Roy show this time but it did not matter against an Essex side that have been very poor this season

Essex thought Ashar Zaidi had carried them to a competitive total but Gareth Roderick and George Hankins found a response

Tom Westley's hard-hitting 93 off 98 balls helped set up Essex's 25-run victory in their first Royal London Cup match of the season

The defending champions failed to make a mark in this season's BPL. They were one of the first teams to be out of play-off contention after they lost their first five games

Chittagong's new-look squad beat defending champions Comilla Victorians by 29 runs in the first match of the Bangladesh Premier League

A staggering innings by Ashar Zaidi that defied both Middlesex, and more pertinently a tired Lord's pitch, carried Essex to a crucial victory

Ravi Bopara underlined his liking for the Kent attack when he hammered six sixes in an unbeaten 81 to lead Essex to their third successive NatWest T20 Blast victory.

shar Zaidi, the former Sussex allrounder, has joined Essex on a one-year deal, and will be available in all three formats after impressing in the recent Bangladesh Premier League

Injuries and premature player exits left Comilla Victorians struggling to come up with a playing XI, but a ragtag bunch united under an inspirational captain to emerge as unexpected champions

Ashar Zaidi has given Comilla Victorians exactly what they were looking for at the BPL player draft: a genuine allrounder

It has emerged that Craig Overton, the Somerset allrounder who was banned for two games at the end of last season after accumulating nine penalty points, allegedly told Sussex's Ashar Zaidi to "go back to your own f***ing country"

Ashar Zaidi batted Comilla Victorians out of trouble and the bowlers, led by Abu Haider, brought their A-games to subdue Dhaka Dynamites by ten runs

Ravi Bopara brought Sylhet Super Stars their first win of the BPL season, beating Comilla Victorians by four wickets with two balls to spare in a hard-fought contest

Comilla Victorians cruised to eight-wicket win after bowling the Barisal Bulls 89 in the first innings

Sussex and Somerset both know a win will secure their First Division future and Sussex's odd couple, Mike Yardy and Azhar Zaidi, combined to give them the edge at Hove

Sussex, increasingly seen as relegation candidates after a surfeit of bowling injuries, responded by piling up four hundreds and making 600-lus against title fancies Warwickshire

A round-up of the Dhaka Premier Division matches played on December 10, 2014

Rob Keogh led a fightback by Division One basement club Northamptonshire against Sussex on the second day at Wantage Road