James Tredwell

Matt Quinn finally broke a monumental record eighth-wicket stand of 222 between Sam Northeast and James Tredwell to set up Essex for their third Championship win of the season

Kent conceded 492 but had the ambition to pull off a pulsating win at Derby, routing them for 94 in their second innings and finishing a chase organised by Daniel Bell-Drummond with a fusillade of sixes

The MCC's spinners, James Tredwell and Samit Patel, combined to take five wickets in Yorkshire's second innings in Abu Dhabi to set up an intriguing final day

ESPNcricinfo looks at the dilemmas facing the England selectors in the coming weeks

England have made Moeen Ali available to play in the forthcoming round of the Championship, as well as four of the six Yorkshire players taken to the West Indies

The series against West Indies showed England what they already knew: trouble with a second opener, a paucity of spin options and the importance of James Anderson

There will be no kneejerk reaction to Jonathan Trott's tough return to Test cricket in his new position of opener following the double failure in Antigua

There seemed to be little use for offspinners in the modern world of mystery spin. But James Tredwell, with his control, reliability and outstanding slip catching, was there waiting for his country

England have added offspinning allrounder Moeen Ali to their squad ahead of the second Test in Grenada, which starts on April 21.

An absorbing Test match continued to unfold in Antigua on a day that included a maiden Test century, a four-wicket haul for a spinner who could not get in his county's first XI last year and a searing opening spell of fast outswing

Moeen Ali looks set to replace Adil Rashid in the England Test squad touring the Caribbean

Moeen Ali is on track to return to the England side in time to play the second Test of the series against West Indies in Grenada.

Ben Stokes is slipping alarmingly from England's greatest asset to a liability they are struggling to carry

England's decision to field Ben Stokes instead of James Tredwell may have contributed to them going 3-1 down in the series but they have accepted that there will be some collateral damage

England have discovered that ODI cricket is becoming a jungle where only the sharpest, most ruthless survive, so their venture into Sri Lanka's deep south for the third match of the series at Hambantota seems symbolic

Hampshire are safely over the penultimate fence but dragged their hind legs through it

Kent retained their unbeaten tag in the Royal London Cup and stretched their Group B lead to four points with a hard-earned 59-run win over Sussex in a rain-affected clash at Canterbury

James Tredwell made a triumphant return for Kent under the Canterbury floodlights by helping then chase down a daunting Durham target

For only the second time since the war, Sussex have completed the double over Warwickshire.