Leicestershire’s former director of cricket Phil Whitticase has left the club, ending a 31-year association with the county.
The 49-year-old started out at Grace Road as a teenage wicketkeeper and made his debut in 1984, the start of a 12-year playing career, spanning 132 first-class matches.
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Australia captain Michael Clarke will undergo surgery on his right hamstring in a bid to save his career, Cricket Australia have announced.
The 33-year-old limped out of his side’s first Test victory against India last week and will go under the knife in Melbourne on Tuesday.
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Sean Abbott, the Australian bowler whose bouncer fatally injured Phillip Hughes, claimed career-best figures of 6-14 as New South Wales defeat Queensland in the Sheffield Shield.
There had been worries the 22-year old paceman may have been too traumatised to play again after Hughes died from being hit by one among his ascending balls in the Sydney Cricket Ground last month.
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New Zealand’s expert spinner Daniel Vettori believed it wasn’t proper to declare the conclusion of his Test career following the heartbreaking passing of Phillip Hughes.
The 35-year old stopped an lack of 28 months in the five-day format by helping New Zealand into a dominant win over Pakistan in the last Test in Sharjah, a match overshadowed by the Hughes disaster.
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Ravi Bopara is assured Alastair Cook’s resilience may help the England captain transform both his and the national team’s inferior form.
Bopara is a teammate of Cook’s for at least 15 years because the pair started their careers at Essex and is happy to spell out the England skipper as a ‘combatant’ who’s effective at showing his critics wrong.
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Kevin Pietersen has spoken of his despair at Phillip Hughes’ departure and considers the Australian was on class to really have a glittering career.
The former England batsman said he respected the 25-year old’s flamboyant batting fashion as well as work ethic.
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Left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny maintained career-best bodies as Bangladesh went 2-0 upward in their ODI series against Zimbabwe.
Sunny chose 4-29 to help Bangladesh to a 68-run triumph after they won the toss and elected to bat first.
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Mitchell Johnson’s ICC Cricketer of the Year accolade is just reward for turning his career around, says Dominic Cork.
Australian left-arm quick Johnson, who was also named Test Cricketer of the Year, pipped Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara and Angelo Mathews as well as South Africa’s AB de Villiers to scoop the gong for a second time, having first won it in 2009.
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Somerset have signed Pakistan bowler Abdur Rehman as their overseas player for 2015.
Rehman returns to the County Ground after playing for Somerset in the year 2012, when claimed 27 wickets at a mean of 14.19, including a career-best 9-65 in a tournament match against Worcestershire.
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Andrew Strauss says that despite the fallout from Kevin Pietersen’s autobiography, Andy Flower, Matt Prior and Pietersen himself should all look back on their England careers with pride.
Pietersen has blasted Flower’s man-management and Prior’s involvement in a “bullying culture” in the team in his new book.
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Kevin Pietersen has launched a fresh attack on his former England team director Andy Flower, saying that a decent man-manager could have healed the divisions in the dressing room and prevented the premature end to his international career.
Pietersen also claims that senior management in English cricket cannot expect him to be an explosive maverick on the field and an introverted choirboy off it.
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Allrounder Ravi Bopara has signed a fresh one-year deal to prolong his stay at Essex.
Bopara, who had been recalled to the England squad for their one day series in Sri Lanka earlier this week, has spent his whole first class career together with the county and made his introduction 12 years ago.
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Chris Rogers finished the 11th first class double century of his prolific career as Middlesex still relegation worries by batting out a draw in the last day of their LV=County Championship match with Somerset at Taunton.
Unbeaten on 97 overnight, the experienced Australian took his amount of first class hundreds to 70 and went to bat through the day to enroll 203 not out. His side closed on 328-4 – directing by 28 runs – when the players shook hands at 4.20pm, Joe Denly having given a precious 60.
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Hampshire started their penultimate regular as strong favourites to make certain of the next promotion place from Division Two of the County Championship, but their troubles at home to Kent and an Essex success have complicated the equations.
Opener Daniel Bell-Drummond batted for nearly seven-and-a-half hours in Southampton, taking his career-best to 153 after he and Sam Northeast (128) prolonged their fourth-wicket partnership to 244.
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Jesse Ryder claimed career-best first class bowling figures to keep Essex in competition for promotion to the initial day of their LV= County Championship Division Two match against Leicestershire at Grace Road.
The underside-of-the-table hosts were dismissed for 138 in 36.4 overs, with New Zealand allrounder Ryder taking 5-50.
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Alex Gidman will end his long association with Gloucestershire at the end of the season to join Worcestershire on a two-year deal.
The 33-year-old has spent his entire first-class career to date at Bristol, scoring 23 first-class hundreds and managing nearly 17,000 runs in all forms of cricket for the county.
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George Bailey has stepped down as captain of Australia’s T20 side in order to focus on reviving his Test career.
Bailey, 31, will miss the sole T20 against Pakistan in the UAE in October as well as the three games against South Africa in November, with opening batsman Aaron Finch the favourite to succeed him.
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