The rush to grab tickets for England's encounter against Ireland has started, with £100,000 raised from ticket sales - even before they've gone on sale

The Uganda Cricket Association has received a major shipment of equipment from Australia , the largest ever donation in the history of Ugandan cricket

The Swaziland Cricket Association has presented 35 ICC Basic Coaching Certificates to sports teachers who attended the coaching clinics held last month

As the debate over the disparity in income between English counties whose grounds host Tests and those who don't rumbles on, Dennis Amiss, Warwickshire's retiring chairman, told Christopher Martin-Jenkins in The Times that there was more to the

Writing in the Guardian , Mike Selvey says the Australian team is in danger of becoming a laughing stock after recalling four players to play South Africa

The Daily Telegraph has a remarkable report on how cricket is making a big comeback in Cuba after disappearing for almost 30 years

The Daily Telegraph has a remarkable report on how cricket is making a big comeback in Cuba after disappearing for almost 30 years

The USA Cricket Association is again under pressure, this time following the request to the ICC by the rival Major League Cricket to take control of the games Stateside

ICC big cheese Malcolm Speed has engaged in a Q&A session with readers of the UK's Guardian newspaper

The New Vision website reports that Uganda won four of the nine annual Africa regional development awards given out by the ICC

In the Daily Telegraph , Mihir Bose writes about the importance of the maidan in Indian cricket:

Sam Walusimbi, Uganda’s Under-19 coach, said the World Cup was a learning curve to the side that finished 14th out of the 16 playing nations.

The ICC announced a dramatic increase in the programme of one-day internationals for the six Associate Member countries that will participate in the 2007 World Cup.

The Swazi Observer reports that three local companies have been brought in as the new national shirt is unveilled

Fancy a job in paradise

Anyone who has followed US cricket in the last 18 months will be familiar with the shambles among those running the game there, with the USA Cricket Association slammed – and shunned – by the ICC and attempts to remove the executive quashed in court

In the Daily Telegraph , Derek Pringle writes that beating Australia might earn a gong and champagne with the Queen, but winning a Test series in India is a prize achieved by only a few .

In 2002 former West Indies allrounder Rawl Lewis was seriously thinking about packing in cricket

In the Sunday Telegraph , Scyld Berry writes that Zimbabwe's time is now up, and the takeover of cricket by the government has left an administration who can intimidate and bully, but know little about the game of cricket :

The crowd problems seen in Australia this summer have rightly caused concern