David Alleyne, now 30, spent five seasons as Middlesex

By late May Sussex were pinching themselves

Wince as Mark Butcher did as Worcestershire

Alamgir Sheriyar

Cricinfo's own Andrew Miller visited Sandhurst to watch the touring Afghanistan national side in action: This was a match-up that few could have envisaged

Durham are not the first side to fall under the spell of Mushtaq Ahmed

Essex seem to have a handy line in talented young openers at the moment

Mike Smith, the left-armer who served the club so ably for 14 summers, sincerely hopes his erstwhile new-ball partner Jon Lewis does not go the same way Smith did after making a much-longed-for Test debut.

Glamorgan

In May alone Derbyshire won as many Championship matches as in the previous two years

In The Times , Pat Gibson raises the much-discussed issue of England's wicketkeeper:-

If only England

While Kent were dodging the downpours at The Rose Bowl, David Fulton found himself in a poker game sitting next to Shane Warne, whose vast wrath Fulton felt last September when that 1,000-1 shot of an arranged chase handed

Mike Gatting has described the demise of the Dubai Cricket Council grounds in Al Jadaf as a “crying shame.” Gatting last played at the ground in March, when he captained the Lord’s Taverners in their annual charity fixture against Fly Emirates.

For years, one of the main perks of being MCC secretary has been the accomodation at No

It is ten years since Chris Lewis played the last of his 32 Tests and six since he retired from the county game

The four-team Atul Shah Memorial Cup kicked off in Mombasa on Wednesday with Kenya A going down by three wickets to Uganda and Coast Cricket Association beating Tanzania by 52 runs

The row over the “catch” taken by Daren Ganga to remove MS Dhoni which tarnished the final session of the fourth day’s play at Antigua’s Recreation Ground was the talk of the Caribbean’s newspapers on Tuesday, with Brian Lara's antics taking