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County cricket's latest snippets include whether Tom Haines blow-dries his eyebrows, the year they threw bananas at Scarborough and whether Shiv Thakor has a cricketing future

The latest snippets from around the English game including the arrival of the world's biggest cricketer, how Yorkshire got it wrong and a match that Allan Donald could do without

The latest snippets from around the English game including wicketkeeping horror shows, a news blackout for Somerset in Fiji, and a Sussex player looking to repair a smashed windscreen

Callum Ferguson's record-breaking debut, plus former Middlesex player caught up in Windrush scandal

Haseeb Hameed finds form away from the limelight, while Michael Carberry has been given time to consider his Leicestershire future

The latest snippets from around the English game including Dom Bess' best friend who played for England in another sport and how Tom Kohler-Cadmore's dad joined him at Yorkshire

News from around the circuit, including a 'Charmed' visit to Edgbaston, and the man whose drop kick-started Jonathan Trott's career

News from around the circuit, including the successful clean up operation at New Road and a Lancashire fanzine editor gone rogue

The ECB's proposals may seem radical, but change is inevitable for a sport that is too deep in crisis to stand still

Five hot takes from the hot topic of the day

News from around the circuit, including Ashley Giles' Commonwealth Games gold touch and which county was absent from the coaches meeting last week

Division One will be hotly contested, with several teams hoping to challenge Essex - but it could be a struggle for newly promoted Nottinghamshire and Worcestershire

The County Championship gets underway in just over a month's time, but it's two-sweater weather around the shires at present ...

Chris Read played only 15 Tests for England but the game has lost a little of its grace now that he has entered retirement

Joe Clarke's graceful batsmanship overflows with England potential and the chance to challenge Notts' treble ambitions at Trent Bridge offers the chance to adorn an in-and-out season

Nottinghamshire can accommodate a specialist batsman at No. 8, and still have six bowlers of varying styles who can bowl four overs each. Those resources, along with smart plans, fetched them their first Blast title

Dan Christian's constant and rapid evolution is very much the story of T20. From a sloggy allrounder he is now a professional franchise cricketer touring the world

The T20 Blast quarter-finals get underway on Tuesday. ESPNcricinfo runs the rule over the eight teams left in the competition

Reece Topley's future, the ignoring of Sam Northeast and the unpredictability of Pakistan cricket jostle for attention in our latest NatWest Blast round-up

Samit Patel's rich vein of form has left him wondering, at 32, if he is a better player than he ever imagined - not a bad mindset before a Lord's one-day final