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Players want the ECB to reduce one-day as well as four-day cricket in the new-look structure for 2011 amid concern that Twenty20 is about to pass the point of overkill this summer. Read More
England’s most senior cricket administrator believes that the first-class counties are ready to accept a shorter championship because Twenty20 is now the “bread and butter” of their finances. Read More
Eoin Morgan was today awarded an incremental contract by the England and Wales Cricket Board just a day after scoring his maiden international century for England against Bangladesh. Read More
There is a battered grey sofa randomly abandoned in one of the stands at the Sharjah Cricket Ground, about 100 yards from the England Lions dressing room. Like the rather unloved stadium, the solitary piece of furnishing looks like it has seen better days. Read More
The ECB has rejected calls for a “minor adjustment” to this summer’s fixture list to enable English counties to compete in the second Twenty20 Champions League.
Lalit Modi, the Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner, insisted that all other options were considered before the league’s governing council scheduled the event for September 10 to 26, which he announced on Wednesday on Twitter.
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The England and Wales Cricket Board says there is no truth reports that bowling coach Ottis Gibson is to resign and take over as West Indies coach. Radio Jamaica claims on its website that Gibson "is set to arrive in time to take up the job before South Africa's tour of the Caribbean in May." Read More
England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke has described the governing body's implementation of the decision review system as "a shambles".
"We're better off with the old system. If the umpire is as blind as a bat," he said, before the International Cricket Council opted to review its procedures.
The criticism follows Daryl Harper's umpiring on the second day of the final
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Ravi Bopara and Monty Panesar were the most conspicuous absentees from the England Performance Programme squad announced yesterday.
Surely one of the longest lists unveiled by the selectors featured 41 names in three categories, with Amjad Khan, Mark Davies, Stephen Moore and Michael Carberry at the head of the pyramid.
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Npower, the sponsor of Test cricket, has dealt a severe embarrassment to the ECB by welcoming a possible return of the Ashes to terrestrial television despite warnings from the governing body that its ability to fund the game’s grass roots would be severely curtailed. Read More
Hugh Robertson, the Conservative shadow sports minister, has joined other stakeholders in cricket in telling Observer Sport that the England and Wales Cricket Board, the domestic game's governing body, should consider the London 2012 Olympic Stadium as a future venue for the sport. Read More
