We're a year away from the 2007 World Cup, and yet thoughts are already turning to the 2011 event, as Tony Munro finds out in this week's Beyond the Test World column .

Ireland have secured the services of Saqlain Mushtaq , the former Pakistan offspinner, for their C&G Trophy campaign this season.

No, we're not talking about the Rolling Stones or even AC/DC

In April, Jamie Nussbaumer, James Mullen and Johnny Clark are off to Spain and the La Manga sport resort to undergo intensive week-long training programmes

A bunch of New Zealand cricketers have been spending time at an alleged "haunted house," and each has come down, rather spookily, with injuries :

We had an unfortunate period of downtime which lasted 48 hours and affected all our blogs

As reported by the BBC :

We have full coverage of the Under-19 World Cup from Sri Lanka, including scorecards and reports from countries we feature in Beyond the Test World.

Welcome to our third discussion and debate on Wicket to Wicket

Bermuda's dreadful tour of the United Arab Emirates continued yesterday with their fourth defeat in as many games

Chris Waters looks back at Fred Trueman's start to international cricket in today's Yorkshire Post :

The Guardian's John Plunkett is enraged about England's contract with BSkyB :

Hellas, otherwise known as Greece, return to Lord's in February to defend their title of the European Cricket Council (ECC) Indoor Championship

Ryan Hinds has achieved a remarkable feat: he is the first batsman in the history of West Indies cricket to make more than 150 in both innings of a first-class match .

Well, not strictly goalkeeping, but he's coaching Forest Green's footballers :

Mike Atherton, in his Sunday column , chats with Michael Vaughan about Golf, leadership...and nerves:

Tony Munro's weekly column has been published today

Vin Maskell has had enough of TV's constant slow-motion replays, and questions whether cricket on TV is losing its appeal :

Rod kindly wrote in to remind us (and you) of MCC's tour of Argentina which gets underway soon

Ireland play England in a one-dayer on June 13 which is expected to be a sell-out, as reported by us yesterday.