Glamorgan's Darren Thomas flew out to New Zealand last night to join the England 'A' Squad in place of Chris Silverwood who last week joined the England Touring Party in South Africa

The first games of the newly structured two-division PPP County Championship will start on April 26 when six sides play the opening ties of the competition

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has welcomed a report entitled 'Racial Equality in Cricket' which makes a series of recommendations on how to make the game more inclusive of ethnic minorities

Keith Dutch of Middlesex has won the 1999 Second XI Player of the Year Award

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today announced that the former Worcestershire captain Phil Neale has been appointed as the England team's Operations Manager for the next two years

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today announced that John Hampshire has been nominated to the ICC Panel of International Umpires

SEAM bowler Katharine Winks has been named in the full England squad who tour Australia and New Zealand early next year

Cricket's 18 First Class Counties and the MCC have agreed to amend and simplify the regulations for the qualification for registration for competitive County Cricket

The Governance of cricket should be streamlined, according to the First Class Forum (FCF) - the 18 First Class Counties and the MCC

Martin Gray is to become the new Non-Executive Chairman of the Marketing Advisory Committee of the England and Wales Cricket Board with an automatic seat on the ECB Management Board with effect from 1 January 2000

The 1999 Cricket World Cup attracted a new generation of cricket followers - with significant interest from the female audience, according to research commissioned by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today announced that floodlit One-Day Internationals will be staged for the first time in England next summer as part of the international schedule for the 2000 season

Short form cricket will not now be introduced into next year's domestic First Class fixture programme, although it will be promoted heavily at secondary school level, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced today (Thursday 16

KATE LOWE and GILL RICHARDS join the England Women's Cricket Squad for the first time for the One Day International Series and Test Match against India in July