The West Indies have contained off-spinner Sunil Narine in their provisional World Cup squad for Australia and New Zealand next year.
Narine was pulled in the ill fated tour of India in October after being reported for a suspect bowling action through the Champions League Twenty20 series.
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Defending champs India have contained just four of their 2011 World Cup winners in their 30-man preliminary squad for next year’s tournament.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and Ravichandran Ashwin are the sole survivors in the squad that beat Sri Lanka in the final in Mumbai.
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Nottinghamshire allrounder Steven Mullaney has agreed a contract extension that will keep him at Trent Bridge before the close of the 2017 season.
The 28-year old helped Notts win the 2010 County Championship title following his move from Lancashire and he was named the county’s player of the year in 2013.
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County winners Yorkshire will start the defence of the title at New Road against encouraged Worcestershire to the opening day of the 2015 season.
The new effort begins on Sunday, April 12, with eight matches over both divisions. Division Two winners Hampshire host Sussex in Southampton while Somerset take on Durham in Taunton and 2014 runnersup Nottinghamshire journey to Lord’s to confront Middlesex.
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Joe Root has signed a two-year contract extension with Yorkshire, keeping him with the county winners until 2016.
The England batsman is among 10 players to sign new deals at Headingley – including wicketkeeper Andrew Hodd and legspinner Adil Rashid.
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Seamer Lewis Hatchett has signed a fresh two-year deal with Sussex.
The left-armer, 24, made his debut for the county in 2010 and played in eight of their LV= County Championship matches last season, taking 22 wickets.
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Northamptonshire captain Alex Wakely has signed a contract committing him to the county for two more seasons.
The middle-order batsman missed the whole of last season with an Achilles injury, and in his absence Northants were relegated to Division Two of the County Championship.
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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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Middlesex have signed seasoned Australia batsman Adam Voges as their overseas player for 2015.
Voges will captain Middlesex in the County Championship and replaces Chris Rogers, who’s likely to be an important element of Australia’s Test set next summer, after formerly doing the same in 2013.
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Former England wicketkeeper Geraint Jones has joined Gloucestershire on a two-year contract and been named the club’s captain.
Jones, who arrives after leaving Kent by the end of last season, will replace the Australian opener Michael Klinger – who will not arrive until June next season – as skipper in the Tournament.
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Leicestershire bowlers Charlie Shreck and Ben Raine and Derbyshire opener Billy Godleman happen to be given penalty points below the England and Wales Cricket Board’s disciplinary code.
Quick bowler Shreck was guilty of a degree two show of serious dissent against an umpire’s choice in the County Championship match against Essex,
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Middlesex County Cricket Club’s one day side have switched their name from Middlesex Panthers to Middlesex CCC.
Known as the Panthers for the past five years, Middlesex have reverted to the name used by their four-day County Championship side to ensure brand consistency across all structures of the match.
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Jonathan Trott has signed a fresh three-year contract extension with Warwickshire, keeping him at the county before the conclusion of the 2017 season.
Trott scored 1,156 runs across all three formats last season – including five centuries – as Warwickshire finished runners up in the County Championship and the Royal London One Day Cup.
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Worcestershire captain Daryl Mitchell has signed a fresh four-year contract together with the county.
The 30-year old scored 1,334 runs last season at the top of the sequence to head his side back to Division One of the LV= County Championship, while he was also their leading scorer in Twenty20 cricket.
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Leicestershire have declared the function of manager of cricket will be fought in a training restructure, but incumbent Phil Whitticase hasn’t left the team.
The Foxes have ran a review of the set up after another depressing summer by which they failed to win a County Championship match to get a second consecutive season.
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Highly-rated wicket-keeper/batsman Ned Eckersley has handed Leicestershire a much-needed boost by signing a one-year contract extension.
The Foxes have had a terrible year, finishing bottom of Division Two for the second season in succession, and, just like 2013, they failed to win a single Championship match.
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Highly-rated wicket-keeper/batsman Ned Eckersley has handed Leicestershire a much-needed boost by signing a one-year contract extension.
The Foxes have had a terrible year, finishing bottom of Division Two for the second year in succession, and, just like 2013, they failed to win a single Championship match.
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Sky Sports has won the rights to show some of international cricket’s biggest events including the ICC Cricket World Cup, World Twenty20 and Champions Trophy.
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Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale has denied he is a racist and expressed remorse for his tirade towards Lancashire batsman Ashwell Prince.
The 30-year-old received a two-match ban, denying him the chance to lift the County Championship trophy, after he reportedly called Prince a “Kolpak” during last month’s Roses clash at Old Trafford.
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Suresh Raina smashed a brilliant unbeaten century as Chennai Super Kings romped to an eight-wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders in the Champions League T20 final in Bangalore.
Kolkata made 180-6 in their 20 overs after being put in to bat, opener Gautam Gambhir scoring 80, but the Super Kings reached their target with nine balls to spare and claimed the title for the second time.
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