Cricket News

Lewis Gregory and Craig Overton shared nine wickets between them to secure MCC a sizeable first-innings lead on the second day of their Champion County fixture against Middlesex in Abu Dhabi. .

Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, has defended the introduction of a new T20 tournament, slated to get underway in 2020, by insisting that the concept will "future-proof" the game in England and Wales

Joe Clarke put an unproductive England Lions tour of Sri Lanka behind him when he made 89 as the MCC struck 332 all out on the opening day of the Champion County clash against Middlesex in Abu Dhabi

James Vince and George Bailey will share Hampshire's captaincy responsibilities for the 2017 season

Jason Gillespie will join Kent as coach on a short-term basis while Allan Donald continues to gen up on a requisite coaching qualification

Former England captain Graham Gooch has committed £50,000 to funding PCA-run courses for all 18 English counties on gambling awareness education

Jason Ratcliffe, formerly second in command at the Professional Cricketers Association, has warned of "the huge gamble" English cricket is taking with the introduction of a new-team T20 competition

Opposition to the proposed eight-team Twenty20 competition looks to be weakening after Sussex signalled that they were ready to abandon their resistance to the plans

Mark Arthur has warned that Yorkshire could lose their ability to host major matches if they are unable to finance a partial redevelopment of their Headingley home "within weeks"

Travis Head, the Australia limited-overs batsman, will return to Headingley this summer as Yorkshire's overseas player for the NatWest T20 Blast

Nottinghamshire have signed the Australia fast bowler James Pattinson for the first half of the English season

Leicestershire have signed New Zealand's Luke Ronchi as a replacement overseas player for Sharjeel Khan

Derbyshire have signed Matt Henry as one of their overseas players for the 2017 NatWest T20 Blast

Daryn Smit, the former Dolphins allrounder, has signed for Derbyshire on a two-year contract

Peter Siddle has withdrawn from his Nottinghamshire contract for 2017 due to a persistent back injury

Colin de Grandhomme, the New Zealand allrounder, has signed for Birmingham Bears for this year's NatWest T20 Blast

The ECB is not intending to implement proposals to downgrade the 18 county academies in favour of regional training hubs

Counties delaying the ECB's plans for a new domestic T20 competition could be penalised according to a new document circulated by the ECB

Derbyshire have announced a sixth successive year of profit, with a surplus of £2653 in 2016

New Zealand legspinner Ish Sodhi was unwanted at the IPL, and often by his country, but has joined Nottinghamshire for the NatWest T20 Blast