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Ruthless Bears make or break for Grayson's Essex

A ruthless Birmingham Bears side represent a formidable hurdle for Paul Grayson's Essex as promotion hopes dim and season reaches a critical juncture

11-Aug-2015•Will Macpherson

T20 platform allows Willey to dream

Northamptonshire's combative allrounder may have to move clubs to achieve his ambition of Test cricket but is targeting success in the format where he made his breakthrough

11-Aug-2015•Jon Culley

Wright's know-how is key to Sussex success

Luke Wright is that rarity in England: a T20 cricketer with experience in the best leagues in the world. Sussex have had the sense to let him run the show - and he is a game away from guiding them to Finals Day

11-Aug-2015•Will Macpherson

Giving England's young players a helping hand

The England Development Programme's focus on working closely with counties has helped players make an easier transition to the top level and also helped keep them grounded

04-Aug-2015•Vithushan Ehantharajah

Domestic cricket hopes for 50-over flourish

Ahead of the start of the Royal London One-Day Cup campaign, a panel of county cricketers - Steven Crook, Lewis Gregory and Ravi Patel - plus England selector, and Middlesex director of cricket, Angus Fraser discuss how the 50-over game is evolving

24-Jul-2015•George Dobell

Bairstow returns with reputation enhanced

Jonny Bairstow is back for England in Test cricket for the first time since England's Ashes whitewash and in Yorkshire they will tell you he is much improved after an 18-month lay-off

21-Jul-2015•David Hopps

Australia must heed lessons of the past

Australia must learn from the lessons of past Ashes contests early enough to mean they can succeed even if England do play well, as they are doubtless likely to do again this series

15-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig

A priceless peek into the county cricket story

In so far as the County Championship has a single history, Stephen Chalke strives mightily and successfully to tell it through a visually wonderful new book

11-Jul-2015•Paul Edwards

Footitt pushes claims to England's left-arm vacancy

Mark Footitt has had a rare opportunity to impress a man who matters by bowling against England's captain Alastair Cook with England selectors in attendance. is he the left-arm quick England need?

15-Jun-2015•Tim Wigmore

Three Ashes and countless battles

As Matt Prior hangs up his gloves, a look back at some of the highs and lows of his career which included three victorious Ashes series

11-Jun-2015•Andrew McGlashan

Gayle still wants to be a West Indies force

His impact with Somerset has reinforced his reputation as a roving T20 gun but Chris Gayle still considers himself to be the king of all formats

11-Jun-2015•Andrew Miller

The Yorkshire Academy: elitism that dares speak its name

One minute Matthew Fisher is bowling in front of a capacity crowd at Headingley, the next he is back learning his trade - at the place where Joe Root and Adil Rashid did theirs

10-Jun-2015•Paul Edwards

Brendan Taylor finds peace in the shires

There are cricketing careers, and then there is that of Zimbabwe's Brendan Taylor, who has seen more of the best and worst of cricket than men twice his age

08-Jun-2015•Mike Jakeman

Three months that made Kieswetter a World T20 winner

In the space of a few months in 2010, Craig Kieswetter went from an England Lions cricketer to a key part of the only England team to win global silverware

05-Jun-2015•Andrew McGlashan

English cricket should bemoan Hales' IPL jaunt

Alex Hales' departure to the final stages of the IPL is symptomatic of the ECB's failure to back its own T20 tournament

17-May-2015•George Dobell

Overseas influx for the biggest Blast yet

Never has the Twenty20 Blast attracted such a wide array of overseas talent. From Brendon McCullum to Chris Gayle and Shahid Afridi to Glenn Maxwell, the Blast's imports are the envy of T20 leagues the world over, the IPL apart

14-May-2015•Tim Wigmore

Pietersen's campaign to swing the voters

Runs were plundered in Cardiff, but not by Kevin Pietersen in his first meaningful innings of the season. Still, this was just the start of his quest for an extraordinary return to the England team

19-Apr-2015•David Hopps in Cardiff

Leicestershire's last chance to shine

Wasim Khan has gone from tending to the game's grassroots to attempting a full-scale revolution at Grace Road. No wonder there is a sense of urgency

17-Apr-2015•Andrew Miller

Giles must negotiate tricky transformation

ESPNcricinfo previews the chances of all nine Division Two teams

11-Apr-2015•Alan Gardner, Alex Winter and David Hopps

England calls handicap Yorkshire title defence

ESPNcricinfo previews the chances of all nine Division One teams

11-Apr-2015•Alan Gardner, Alex Winter and David Hopps

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