Jacques Rudolph will captain Glamorgan in all formats of the game after he was announced as club captain.
South African Rudolph, who joined Glamorgan in September 2013, takes on the captain’s responsibilities after an impressive run of form in the 2014 season.
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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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Former Australia paceman Jason Gillespie thinks the time has come to give Ireland full Test status.
Test match crowds are dwindling at the moment and Gillespie, who currently coaches Yorkshire, thinks the presence of Ireland and their ‘Blarney Army’ fan club could help to reverse that trend.
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Surrey have made their very first manager of women’s cricket – with former England and Surrey allrounder Ebony Rainford-Brent returning to the team to fill the job.
In her new place, Rainford Brent will work alongside Academy Director Gareth Townsend as well as the Performance Section, counseling on all girls’s Cricket played in the team. She’ll also work together with the Surrey Cricket Board in the creation of the girls’s game and strategies to boost involvement at all levels.
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Young fast bowler Harry Podmore has signed a one-year contract extension to his present deal at Middlesex.
The statement from Lord’s means the 20-year old remains in the team until at least the conclusion of the 2016 national season.
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Chris Read has signed a fresh contract with Nottinghamshire, prolonging his stay at Trent Bridge until 2016.
The 36-year old wicketkeeper made 54 catches behind the stumps last season and says he needs continue in the club after enjoying a fruitful year.
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Phillip Joel Hughes was born on 30 November 1988 into a banana-farming dad Greg and an Italian mom Virginia in Macksville, a little northern New South Wales town of just 2,500 inhabitants on the Nambucca River midway between Brisbane and Sydney.
A 12-year old Hughes was already making significant strides in the cricket field, making his debut for the Macksville R.S.L. Cricket Club’s A-Class team, where he played until he was 17, when the glowing lights of Sydney beckoned.
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Warwickshire all-rounder Ateeq Javid has signed a three-year extension to his contract, keeping him at the club until the end of the 2017 season.
Javid, 23, is a product of the club’s academy, having joined the club at the Under 10s level.
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Essex all-rounder Ryan ten Doeschate has signed a brand new contract that will keep him with the team until at least the ending of the 2016 season.
The 34-year old Netherlands international has been with Essex since making his debut in 2003 and has acquired a reputation as a hard hitting middle-order batsman along with a dependable seam bowler.
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Somerset all-rounder Peter Trego has signed a contract extension which will see him stay at the County Ground until at least the ending of the 2016 season.
Trego made his first class debut for Somerset in 2000 and has gone to develop into a vital performer for the Taunton-based team.
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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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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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Essex batsman Mark Pettini has signed a fresh one-year contract with all the team.
The 31-year old, who made his debut for the county in 2001, has agreed the deal that will keep him at the team before the conclusion of the 2015 season.
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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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Leicestershire fast bowler Charlie Shreck has signed a new one-year contract at Grace Road.
Veteran Shreck, 36, took 57 wickets across all formats in his first season with the club after joining them from Kent.
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Derbyshire are hoping India Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara will return to the club as their overseas player for the 2015 season.
Pujara spent the closing stages of the 2014 season at Derby, scoring 219 runs in the last three matches.
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Mike Watkinson has ended his long association with Lancashire after stepping down from his role as the club’s cricket director.
The 53-year-old announced he is “looking forward to a new challenge” as he confirmed he would be leaving the Red Rose county after a successful 32 years at Old Trafford.
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Middlesex batsman Dawid Malan has been rewarded for his good form with a new three-year contract which will keep him at the club until the end of the 2017 season at least.
The 27-year-old, who has played more than 260 first XI games for the club after joining in 2006, notched 1,137 runs last year at an average of more than 45.
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Hampshire and Worcestershire clinched promotion but things are going from bad to worse at Leicestershire. We review the Division Two season club-by-club…
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Yorkshire’s opening batsmen Adam Lyth and Alex Lees have claimed the top honours in the Cricket Writers’ Club Awards.
The pair played a vital part in Yorkshire’s LV= County Championship title success this season so that as a result Lyth continues to be named the William Hill CWC Championship Player of the Year, with Lees picking up the CWC Young Cricketer of the Year award.
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