London: The leaked proposal for a Twenty20 league starting in 2010 for a nine-franchise English Premier League received a timely boost last night before today's potentially fractious meeting of the ECB executives here at Lord's when the influential Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA), called it as an 'opportunistic' plan.
London: Shane Warne could be forced to sit out the rest of the English season after fracturing a rib in Hampshire's drawn County Championship match against Lancashire on Friday.
London: Pakistan duo Mushtaq Ahmed and Naved ul-Hasan combined to put Sussex on top of the English county championship on Thursday and spoil Andrew Flintoff's return to duty.
Colombo:Sri Lanka's star fast bowler Lasith Malinga is to join English county Kent for just under a month, the governing body of the sport here, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), said.
London:England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff returned to action following a third ankle operation with a 40-ball innings of 25 for Lancashire in a one-day friendly win against Sri Lanka A at Liverpool.
London:England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff's long-awaited return from injury was delayed after the first day of Lancashire's second XI match was washed out.
London:England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will make his latest return from injury by playing in a county reserve match.
More imagesSydney:Andrew Symonds urged Australian cricket fans not to taunt Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan if he passes Shane Warne's Test wicket world record while touring Down Under this year.
London:Stylish India middle order bat VVS Laxman is set to join Lancashire county at the completion of the three-match Test Series against England.
Manchester:English county championship side Lancashire have set their sights on Indian batsman VVS Laxman to replace Australia's Brad Hodge for their last four games of the season.
