Cricket News

Essex allrounder Graham Napier is keen on joining the Mumbai Indians for the second season of the IPL which gets underway in South Africa from April 18

Essex kept their cool in testing conditions at the Sheik Zayed Stadium on Wednesday night to add the Pro ARCH Trophy to their Friends Provident Trophy success of last season after beating Middlesex in an evenly contested final

An explosive five-wicket haul from Essex's Jamaican-born paceman Maurice Chambers blew away Sussex's middle-order to hand a comfortable 47-run win and catapult his side into Wednesday's Pro Arch Trophy final

Essex were pushed to their limits by a team of amateur players representing the Pro Arch Trophy sponsors, Emirates Airline, but survived a double injury scare to go on and post a six-wicket win on a steamy evening in Dubai

Essex's plans to redevelop their ground have been put on hold after an inquiry was launched into the proposed building work following fears put forward by local residents and concerns over flooding

Essex's wicketkeeper, James Foster, has signed a contract extension until the end of the 2011 season

A week ago Ravi Bopara was in the sleepy city of Christchurch, but the world is a small place these days. Now he is England's Test No. 6 and is going to take some shifting

Rod Bransgrove has suggested that the first-class counties hand back the £18,000 they each received as a result of England's participation in the Stanford 20/20 for 20

Essex's chief executive David East has praised his club's players for stumping up with the cash to fund their pre-season tour of Abu Dhabi

Essex's players have volunteered to pay their own way for a club tour to Abu Dhabi for the pre-season Pro Arch Trophy 2009

Mervyn Westfield, the 20-year-old fast bowler, has extended his contract with Essex until 2010

The reigning county champions, Durham, will begin their 2009 title defence against Yorkshire on April 22 with the traditional season-opener against the MCC, at Lord's, on April 9

English counties who loose centrally contracted players to the IPL next year will seek compensation, which may have to come from the pockets of the players themselves

The announcement of the 2009 English domestic fixtures has been delayed by up to a month because of the uncertainty surrounding who the first set of tourists will be

Former Leicestershire opening batsman John Maunders has signed a one-year deal with Essex after a brief spell with the county at the end of the 2008 season

Chick Cray, one of the diminishing number of cricketers who played first-class cricket before the war, has died in a Torquay hospital at the age of 87

Maurice Chambers, the Essex fast bowler, has extended his contract with the club by two seasons

Graham Napier, the Essex allrounder, has confirmed he is in talks to join the Indian Premier League (IPL) next year

The ECB has announced a 150% increase in prize money for next season's domestic tournaments, with the biggest prize going to winner of the County Championship

Yorkshire are the first county to confirm they will be returning to the UAE to take part in the pre-season Pro Arch Trophy, a tournament they won in 2008