It's full speed ahead for Jones the Ashes hero

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'I've worked hard in the winter and I feel as good as I have ever done,' said former Glamorgan paceman Jones, 29, who has been plagued by injury since helping England beat Australia in 2005.

'I've played all the warm-up games and I've had no twinges at all. I see no reason why I shouldn't be bowling at full throttle by the time the season starts and I'm very confident at the moment.'

Andrew Flintoff, another England player embarking on a comeback after injuries, was a frustrated onlooker as Lancashire's friendly with Yorkshire was rained off. The Roses counties will try again at Old Trafford on Wednesday.

South African batsman Dominic Telo has signed a two-year contract with Derbyshire.

The 22-year-old played for Western Province last season when he scored 648 runs in eight matches, hitting three centuries and averaging 58.90.

Giles Clarke has received support from an unlikely source in his attempt to keep England's best players out of the clutches of the Indian Premier League.

Tony Greig, then the England captain, led a players' revolt when he was the chief recruiting officer for World Series Cricket in 1977 and ECB chairman Clarke suggested there were similarities between the Packer revolt of 31 years ago and the Indian Twenty20 competition.

Even though Greig thinks that is stretching a point he believes the ECB are right to insist that their centrally contracted players should resist the riches on offer in India next year.

Greig said yesterday: 'Clarke is on the right track. All he and his board need to do now is form the England Twenty20 League and play it sometime during the English summer when all the best players from around the world will be available.'

Clarke has asked the ECB's Domestic Structure Review Group to consider changes to the format of the English Twenty20 Cup as a matter of urgency.