David Hopps

Pujara's running issues reach Yorkshire but Ballance holds firm

21-Apr-2018•David Hopps at Headingley

Hopps: 100-ball tournament betrays both fans and players

Many lovers of short-form cricket have been shocked by the ECB's 100-ball proposal and the response of the players over the coming weeks and months could be critical

21-Apr-2018•David Hopps

Yorkshire's tail rallies to leave Headingley's faithful with something to care for

As spectators soaked up the sunshine on an entertaining day, conversation often turned to the ECB's controversial plans for 100-ball cricket

20-Apr-2018•David Hopps at Headingley

Middlesex eye swift return as Gillespie stirs Sussex

The 2012 and 2016 County Champions will be battling it out in the second tier, but Warwickshire and Middlesex won't find life easy among a competitive division

12-Apr-2018•David Hopps and Subhankar Bhattacharya

Essex to repeat their title trick?

Division One will be hotly contested, with several teams hoping to challenge Essex - but it could be a struggle for newly promoted Nottinghamshire and Worcestershire

11-Apr-2018•David Hopps

Willey IPL bound as Super Kings come calling

Yorkshire's director of cricket, Martyn Moxon, heads to a crisis meeting at Edgbaston complaining of "an impossible situation" as David Willey's late call makes him the 12th English player in the tournament

09-Apr-2018•David Hopps

Duckett knuckles down after unwanted Ashes attention

Northamptonshire's talented batsman is hoping to make headlines for his form after getting into trouble for pouring a drink over James Anderson in Australia

09-Apr-2018•David Hopps

Morgan's Championship absence set to continue

Eoin Morgan insists he can still play Championship cricket this season after breaking a thumb in the nets, but events could conspire against it

04-Apr-2018•David Hopps and George Dobell

The spirit of Boycott stalks Headingley as Yorkshire go back to basics

Yorkshire are challenging the attacking mindset in four-day cricket that they believe is a detrimental consequence of the rise of Twenty20

03-Apr-2018•David Hopps

Counties call crisis meeting to address T20 drain

Yorkshire's Martyn Moxon will chair the meeting at Edgbaston aimed at considering how to fight back against the lure of sundry worldwide Twenty20 leagues

02-Apr-2018•David Hopps

Somerset pull Bancroft deal after ball-tampering outcry

Andy Hurry offered sympathy for Bancroft's predicament, but Somerset have fallen into line with Cricket Australia

29-Mar-2018•David Hopps

Plunkett resists temptation to become white-ball specialist

Liam Plunkett is a fast bowler about to celebrate his 33rd birthday and a World Cup in England is on the horizon but he remains wedded to playing all three forms of the game

29-Mar-2018•David Hopps

North v South could expand into red ball cricket

England's all-consuming emphasis on World Cup preparations could kibosh the tournament in 2019, but Andrew Strauss imagines it might return in an expanded form

24-Mar-2018•David Hopps

Glamorgan reveal £2.5m compensation from ECB for not staging Tests

Confirmation of Glamorgan's £2.5m payout from ECB comes ahead of an emergency meeting of county chairmen on March 26

22-Mar-2018•David Hopps

ECB grants permission for concussion replacements

Medical professionals will judge whether a player is unfit to continue as the ECB takes on the thorny challenge of like-for-like replacements

21-Mar-2018•David Hopps

County players could be sent off as ECB gets tough

The MCC's toughened-up Law on player behaviour has been adopted across all professional competitions in England this season

21-Mar-2018•David Hopps

More changes at Somerset as now Cooper steps down

Somerset's upheaval has continued as chief executive, Lee Cooper, has signalled his intention to step down after only nine months in the job

14-Mar-2018•David Hopps

The ball of the century

We look back at 25 memorable moments, events and developments in cricket in the period 1993-2017. First up: Gatting b Warne, Old Trafford

06-Mar-2018•David Hopps

Cotton off as Derbyshire trim playing staff

Ben Cotton has joined the exodus of young players from Derbyshire as the county continues to slash the numbers in its first-team squad in an effort to lift expectations

02-Feb-2018•David Hopps

Dawid Malan is 30 and an international novice but one day might he captain England?

Middlesex have made Dawid Malan club captain and that begged the question whether a man with leadership ambitions might one day fill the most demanding role of all

01-Feb-2018•David Hopps

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