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Duncan Fletcher will continue to combine his role of head coach with that of tour manager in all of England's overseas series

There will be plenty on the table when the top decision-makers of the International Cricket Council (ICC) meet next week at Lord's

Sri Lanka will rest some of their big guns, including their injured wicketkeeper Romesh Kaluwitharana, for the three-day practice match against a West Indies Cricket Board President's XI starting at Arnos Vale grounds here on June 14

On the eve of the launch of the new Twenty20 Cup competition that gets underway at the County Ground this evening when Somerset entertain Warwickshire the county have received some good news regarding one of their favourite adopted sons

Dropped catches cost Minor Counties dearly, together with some wayward seam bowling on a pitch of variable bounce and slow pace, enabling Northants to score 271 for 8 in their 50 overs

1970 Birth of Chris Cairns , the star of a largely faceless New Zealand team

As if the prospect of playing two Tests against Australia wasn't daunting enough for Bangladesh, John Buchanan, Australia's coach, has warned that his side won't be easing off during next month's two-Test series

Harbhajan Singh's on-off move to Lancashire is finally - officially - off

So, the new era of Twenty20 cricket has begun

The Celtic fringe is rising

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Richard Johnson has been ruled out of next week's NatWest Challenge series against Pakistan after sustaining a knee injury

Essex have become the latest county to take advantage of a loophole in European employment legislation, by signing the 22-year-old South African allrounder Ryan ten Doeschate for the remainder of this season

At its meeting yesterday, the ECB Management Board endorsed the recommendations contained within the Report of the Chairman of the International Teams Management Group (ITMG), Dennis Amiss, reviewing England's Winter Tours 2002/3

Mammoth cricketing weekend in store for Austria, with the official opening of Concordia CC's ground, visits from teams from Slovakia, Germany, India and Australia.

It had better work

English cricket needs television but television needs England to do better

Martin Saggers has been forced to miss the Twenty20 Cup after undergoing keyhole surgery on a troublesome knee

Already this week, Scotland and Ireland have demonstrated that Britain's less-heralded international teams cannot be under-estimated by Test opposition

The new Twenty20 Cup competition was voted a hit by those who attended the first match at the County Ground in Taunton on Friday evening