Northamptonshire

Phillips leaves Northants

Feb 25, 2013: Ben Phillips has announced that he will be leaving Northamptonshire at the end of the season after the county agreed to his request to be released from his contract

Inside edge or clean as a whistle?

Feb 25, 2013: It's 20 years since India and Australia played out a titanic contest at Madras, only the second tie in the history of Test cricket.

Wanted: batting strike rates on players' stats

Feb 25, 2013: Did you know that besides being an all time great batsman the Indian cricket coach is quite Viv Richards-like in qualifying as one of the top all rounders to have played in ODI's?

DLF Cup

When Sachin met Ricky and Brian

Feb 25, 2013: Ben Dorries attempts a look at the lives of Lara, Tendulkar and Ponting in The Courier-Mail .

Bermuda

Bermuda groundsmen look to PVA

Feb 25, 2013: The much-maligned square at the National Sports Centre in Bermuda hosted its first game yesterday since the country qualified for the World Cup

Gloucestershire

Averis released by Gloucestershire

Feb 25, 2013: Gloucestershire have released James Averis after 10 years with the club

Worcestershire

Contract Hick-up

Feb 25, 2013: Graeme Hick playing for a county other than Worcestershire would be almost as unthinkable as New Road without a view of the cathedral

Yorkshire

McGrath marches on

Feb 25, 2013: Anthony McGrath is not a man to blow his own trumpet

English cricket

Flintoff's rousing rooster

Feb 25, 2013:

Northamptonshire

Phillips leaves for personal reasons

Feb 25, 2013: Northamptonshire announced that Ben Phillips will end his four year association with the club at the end of this season

Ashes

Hadlee gives Monty advice on Australian crowds

Feb 25, 2013: Richard Hadlee was the favourite target of Australian supporters in the 1980s and he tells Robert Craddock, of The Courier-Mail , Monty Panesar has done the right thing by seeing a psychologist to deal with potential problems

Selection

How not to treat a keeper

Feb 25, 2013:

Women's cricket

Texts about girls! It's absolutely outrageous!

Feb 25, 2013: There are mountains and there are molehills and The Surfer suspects that the latter is about to turn into the former with the news that a private text allegedly sent by the chairman of Leicestershire, Neil Davidson, has caused much indignation at

Gloucestershire

Ball signs new contract

Feb 25, 2013: Martyn Ball, the Gloucestershire offspinner, has signed a new contract with the club

China

China receives $400,000 investment

Feb 25, 2013: The Asian Cricket Council has announced that it allocated $200,000 to the Chinese cricket authorities to promote the game inside the country, and that sum will be matched by the ICC, making the total investment $400,000.

Dileep Premachandran at the 2006 DLF Cup

Thommo's helping hand

Feb 25, 2013:

Australian cricket

Victorian drought breaks into recycled water

Feb 25, 2013: Chloe Saltau reports in The Age how a Victorian country association has resorted to expensive measures to save their turf competition .

Umpires

More spotlight for men in black and white

Feb 25, 2013: Umpires are in the news again today, starting with Darrell Hair’s belief he will stand in the Champions Trophy

English cricket

Ilford's answer to Murali

Feb 25, 2013: A couple of weeks ago the ECB staged their first 'spin match' at Derby where a collection of the most promising young spinners in the country pitted themselves against promising young batsmen in a range of set-up situations

Somerset

Somerset secure White

Feb 25, 2013: Cameron White, the Australian allrounder, will be returning to Somerset next season after agreeing a new deal with the club