Alfonso Thomas

No play possible on final day at Grace Road after heavy showers

Former bowler steps up after successful interim spell in charge that saw Foxes win One-Day Cup

Search begins for new head coach after Nixon was placed on gardening leave last month

Spin-bowling coach has worked extensively with Sunil Narine and in franchise cricket

Cricket West Indies has made a number of changes to the coaching and support staff keeping in mind the World Cup Qualifiers and Women's World T20 scheduled for later this year

Today's countdown looks at players who had their season or two of fame at the IPL, only to fade away since

Peter Trego decided attack was the best form of defence as he rode his luck to forge an enterprising partnership of 140 with James Hildreth to put Somerset just 32 behind Sussex with six wickets intact

At tea Hampshire were 66 for 6, a sequence of numbers appropriate for a disastrous day that left their chances in this match in ruins

Somerset left out two promising young bowlers and took a pounding against Brendon Taylor at Taunton as Nottinghamshire took command

A round-up of IPL news on April 2, 2015

Somerset have handed the captaincy of their 50-over and T20 sides to Alfonso Thomas, easing the load on club captain Marcus Trescothick, who will continue to lead in Championship cricket

Acting captain Alfonso Thomas claimed two wickets in the final over as Somerset beat Gloucestershire by seven runs in a NatWest T20 Blast thriller at Taunton.

Alfonso Thomas claimed four wickets in four balls to help Somerset to a victory against Sussex that takes them top of the Division One table

Alfonso Thomas is a cricketer who could have been designed for the age of the pop-up Twenty20 league, but at 37 he has still not done with the rigours of Championship cricket

Perth Scorchers have made two changes to their Champions League squad, with Alfonso Thomas and Shaun Marsh out of the team

Craig Kieswetter blasted a powerful 61 as Somerset made it three Friends Life t20 wins a row with a nine-wicket destruction of arch-rivals Gloucestershire

Adam Hollioake captains ESPNcricinfo's team of the decade, selected to mark ten years of professional Twenty20 cricket in England

Yorkshire crashed to defeat by 131 runs in Saturday's Yorkshire Bank 40 match at Headingley after their batsmen were unable to match a vicious assault from Somerset, who piled up 338 for 5 off their 40 overs.

Alfonso Thomas took a five-for and Farhaan Behardien struck a quick 41, as Titans overhauled Warriors' target to book a place in the final against Lions