Martin Williamson

As widely expected , the ICC executive board approved proposals to reduce the number of Associates participating at the 2011 World Cup from six to four.

The Ealing Gazette reports that Watford Grammar School for Boys pupil Will Jones has landed a 12-month contract with Middlesex Cricket Academy

Cricinfo has learned that attempts to broker a compromise over plans to reduce the number of Associate countries at the 2011 World Cup by introducing an eight-team pre-qualifier were scuppered by the host countries, led by India.

Proof that there are some fairly sick people in the world comes from US magazine Sports Illustrated which reports that the hotel room in which Bob Woolmer died has become a tourist attraction.

Associate Member Bermuda picked up two prizes in the ICC Development Program Annual awards, making them the winners in this year’s competition

In The Times Christopher Martin-Jenkins pulls no punches in putting forward his views on the ECB’s plans for Twenty20 cricket this coming summer, describing them as a “knee-jerk” reaction to the IPL.

The Hong Kong women's team will tour Bangladesh from March 20 to 29 to play four one-day matches against Bangladesh

Martin Williamson chats with Ram Varadarajan, a man who has emerged from the shadows to offer a credible challenge to Gladstone Dainty in the race to become the new president of the USA Cricket Association.

David Waters, one of the most respected administrators in the country, has resigned as the head of Kenya’s selectors as well relinquishing his place in the Cricket Kenya executive.

Durham will embark on their pre-season tour to South Africa on Friday March 28, returning to the Riverside on Wednesday April 9.

Two decades after touring apartheid South Africa, John Emburey, English cricket's foremost rebel is at it again, coaching in the unofficial Indian Cricket League and dreaming of a global inter-city event

There are three candidates seeking to become the new USACA president in elections set to take place on March 29.

ICC Europe has announced the schedule and venues for the ICC European Division 1 Championship to be held in Ireland from the July 25 to 31, 2008.

Kenya's Elite One-Day League was thrown wide open as both teams that lost last week won in the second round of the competition

The newly-constituted Irish board cricket met for the first time this week, and announced that the trading name of Irish Cricket Union Ltd will now be Cricket Ireland.

All first-class cricketers in England will be tested for skin cancer this season

China have recruited former Pakistan Test player Rashid Khan to coach the national team for the 2010 Asian Games in Beijing

Hampshire

Chris Adams has said that Mushtaq Ahmed would not have signed for the unauthorised Indian Cricket League if he thought it would cost him his Sussex place.

The USACA elections take place on March 29, and Gladtone Dainty and his incumbents face a tough battle against an organised group headed by Ram Varadarajan.