England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke believes the controversial Umpire Decision Review System needs to be refined to be effective in international cricket... more
Killjoy cricket officials have banned the Barmy Army's Billy the Trumpet from playing during Friday's Fourth Test as authorities announced they would be clamping down on unruly behaviour at Headingley... more
Cricket: The ECB should never have contemplated an association with Stanford - a private individual - in the first place and the very notion that an England team should play in a 'winner-takes-all' match demonstrated a breathtaking naivety... more
Cricket: Tim Ambrose will play in the Fourth Test against West Indies after England’s No 1 wicketkeeper, Matt Prior, flew home from Barbados this morning following the birth of his first son... more
The revelation that train fares in Britain are 50 per cent more expensive than in the rest of Europe can only exasperate passengers whose New Year increases of six per cent for peak-time fares greatly exceeded inflation... more
Cricket: England cricket bosses Giles Clarke and David Collier are under pressure to resign after Texan businessman Sir Allen Stanford was charged with fraud... more
Cricket: Sir Allen Stanford's public humiliation is a serious blow to the credibility of the England Cricket Board, and particularly to their newly re-elected chairman Giles Clarke... more
The struggle to tackle racism in the police force, renewed today with an investigation launched by the Mayor, is crucial in the fight against crime... more
Jonathan Marland claims he pulled out of the election to become England and Wales Cricket Board chairman because a third of the 18 firstclass counties refused to meet him... more
Hats off to Kaka. He may be a bit weird but his decision to snub £500,000 a week in order to stay loyal to the club that made him is a shining beacon of hope in the amoral darkness of professional football... more
Andrew Strauss has insisted that unity will not be a problem in his England team after heart-to-heart talks ahead of this week's flight to the Caribbean... more
England's cricket bosses are to hold an urgent review into the $20million Stanford Super Series after accepting it has turned into a public relations disaster... more
Sport in general has received a major morale boost with Britain's unexpected success at the Beijing Olympics. Already the excitement is building towards the London 2012 Games.
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Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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