A round-up from the latest County Championship matches

Simon Katich says he is a certain starter for the third Test against West Indies, which starts in Barbados on Thursday, after he took a nasty blow to the ribs while making a century in the second Test in Antigua

Lancashire perhaps had slightly the better of a bread-and-butter opening day at Old Trafford against Nottinghamshire

Jack Birkenshaw has been named Mark Lane's deputy as England women's assistant coach, a post he will hold until July 2009

Plans are afoot to make Test matches more attractive and ensure the Twenty20 format does not destroy the traditional five-day game

Beau Casson says he is ready to become Australia's latest Test debutant if the opportunity arises when the third Test against West Indies begins in Barbados next week

A left side strain leaves Sreesanth, the India fast bowler, in doubt for the Kitply Cup in Bangladesh, which starts on June 8

John Dyson, the West Indies coach, is optimistic of Chris Gayle's chances of playing the third and final Test against Australia at the Kensington Oval

Peter Moores has released England's one-day squad for the opening round of Twenty20 Cup matches on Wednesday

Vic Wilson, who was Yorkshire's captain between 1960 and 1962, has died at his home at Yedingham

Allan Wise, the left-arm fast bowler, has left Victoria to join South Australia for 2008-09. The recruitment of Wise in the second round of contract offers completes a long list of changes to the Redbacks' squad for next season

Test legend Mike Gatting cannot wait to return to the "excellent" Hong Kong Cricket Sixes later this year.

Virat Kohli, the captain of the India under-19s, and team-mates Pradeep Sangwan and Tanmay Srivastava, have been awarded the Border-Gavaskar scholarship for 2008, whichwill enable them to train for six weeks at Cricket Australia's Centre of Excellence in

Luke Ronchi, the Western Australia wicketkeeper, will fly to the West Indies as a shadow player for Brad Haddin, who is recuperating from a broken finger

Six, eight, five, four - why has cricket not been able to make up its mind about how long a bowling unit should last?

Kent booked themselves a trip to Durham in the FP Trophy semi-finals with a 37-run victory over Somerset at Beckenham

The row over the number of Kolpak players in English cricket rumbles on

Geoff Lawson has said the latest controversy involving Mohammad Asif would disrupt his comeback into the side after a series of injuries

Tasmania have retained the fast bowler Adam Griffith, who did not sign in the first round of contract offers, and as expected they have regained Gerard Denton from Victoria

Mohammad Asif will find out on Sunday whether he will be charged with possession of illegal substances or if he will be allowed to return home