Cricket News

The former England captain, Tony Greig, believes that the England & Wales Cricket Board is right to resist calls for its contracted players to be allowed to play in the lucrative Indian Premier League, but has rubbished suggestions from the board's chairm

Surrey appear to have admitted defeat in their bid to get the planned redevelopment of The Oval underway, and it will now not start until after the end of the season

Hampshire may have found a way round the ECB's refusal to allow them to register Shane Bond for the coming season

Nottinghamshire have signed swing bowler Darren Pattinson on a two-year contract

Giles Clarke, the chairman of the England & Wales Cricket Board, has risked incurring the wrath of England's centrally contracted players by effectively vetoing their participation in either of the first two editions of the IPL

Dimitri Mascarenhas is relaxed about his decision to join the IPL and is confident he can retain his England place

David Collier, the ECB chief executive, has said it will be very hard for England's top players to take part in future Indian Premier League (IPL) tournaments because of the international schedule

A number of counties are waiting anxiously for the outcome of the ECB meeting on Wednesday that will determine the fate of player registrations which have been affected by the Indian Cricket League

Worcestershire are confident they have a long-term future at New Road after meetings with the Environment Agency

With the county season less than two weeks away many sides are still trying to come to terms with the impact of the two Indian leagues which are threatening to change the face of domestic cricket

Andrew Flintoff is still targeting the first Test against New Zealand on May 15 as his return to the England team as he prepares to start the domestic season with Lancashire following the fourth ankle operation he underwent last October

Allan Donald, the former South Africa fast bowler, is determined to rekindle Warwickshire's winning spirit of the 1990s which made them such a force in county cricket

The MCC squad for the English season's traditional curtain raiser against the County Champions, Sussex, has been announced. Captained by Ed Joyce, the squad features a number of fringe England players as well as young up-and-comers. There was no place, ho

The Indian board has told Cricinfo that it will be lodging a complaint with the ECB following confirmation that the PCB has issued No Objection Certificates to Mushtaq Ahmed and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan

Lancashire have announced a strong profit for 2007 but their chief executive, Jim Cumbes, has warned about the cost of staging international matches

Shane Warne has announced his retirement from first-class cricket while ending his eight-year association with the county side Hampshire

Mushtaq Ahmed and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan will be available to their respective counties - Sussex and Yorkshire - in the 2008 season

Worcestershire are lining up Cameron White as their overseas player for the Twenty20 Cup

Steve Harmison and Matthew Hoggard will have the opportunity to fight for their England places from the start of the domestic season after being released to their counties for all the matches ahead of the first Test against New Zealand

Yorkshire are reported to have received clearance from the Pakistan Cricket Board for fast bowler Rana Naved-ul-Hasan to play for the county this summer