Kartik and Malan to stay put at Middlesex
London: Murali Kartik is set to feature for Middlesex in the upcoming Stanford Super Series and the inaugural Champions League after the Lord's-based county announced Tuesday they'd re-signed the India spinner. ...

 Gloucester sign Brendon Drew as overseas player
London: Tasmanian paceman bowler Brendan Drew will replace his fellow countryman Marcus North as overseas player for Gloucestershire county club. The 24-year-old seamer, who represents Tasmania in the Australian provincial cricket, ...

 England release Colly, Cook and Bopara for county ties
London: English ODI stars Paul Collingwood, Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara will join their counties for Sunday’s NatWest Pro40 matches. The trio, who are part of the hosts’ squad for the ...

  Stubborn Chanderpaul guides Durham home
London: West Indian batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul slammed 77 off 85 balls as Durham Dynamos posted 178 for nine to win a rain-interrupted NatWest Pro40 League Division One match Tuesday against Nottinghamshire ...

 Flower blooms as Essex clinch FP Trophy
London: Former Zimbabwe batsman Grant Flower steered Essex to a five-wicket victory over Kent in the final of the Friends Provident Trophy at Lord's here on Saturday. Thirty-seven-year-old Flower, brother of ...

 Rikki Clarke steps down as Derbyshire captain
London: Rikki Clarke has stepped down as captain of Derbyshire after less than a season in charge. The bowling all-rounder joined Derby at the start of the county championship season from ...

 Ramprakash scores 100th first-class century
London: The old horse Mark Ramprakash became the first player in a decade to reach 100 first-class hundreds when he hit his third century of the season during Surrey's county championship ...

 Middlesex clinch Twenty20 Cup, courtesy Henderson
Southampton: South Africa's Tyron Henderson held his nerve as Middlesex beat Kent by three runs in the final of English county cricket's Twenty20 Cup at the Rose Bowl here Saturday to ...

 BCCI vetoes Laxman's Nottingham move
  London: India batsman VVS Laxman's planned move to Nottinghamshire has fallen through after the deal was vetoed by the Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI), the English county said. The ...

 More urges players to protest BCCI diktat
Mumbai: India's former chief selector Kiran More slammed BCCI for barring Indian players from playing for English counties with ICL connection. "I think the BCCI is carrying this a bit too ...