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Cricket chiefs silence England's Barmy Army trumpeter

05.08.09
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

ECB decide to slim down cricket's domestic season

30.07.09
Next year's county season will encompass just three competitions, the England and Wales Cricket Board have announced... more

Lancashire left red-faced as they lose cup bowl-out

30.07.09
Lancashire crashed out of the Twenty20 Cup in embarassing fashion as seven of their eight deliveries in a bowl-out missed the unguarded wicket... more

Sporting Miscellanies

24.07.09
Two years after Bernard Manning's death, Manchester learns to laugh again... more

Clarke's staying, so now he must explain himself

24.02.09
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

Ambrose gets call after Matt’s prior engagement

23.02.09
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

Sacking is too good for Clarke: make him clean up our tainted game

20.02.09
Lord’s has been left embarrassed by its association with Sir Allen Stanford — but the chairman of the ECB should not be allowed to resign... more

Nightmare that's helping the ECB achieve dream of making cricket more like football

19.02.09
Cricket: The man to blame for this hugely enjoyable farce isn't Sir Allen Stanford but England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke ... more

Train fares run off the rails

19.02.09
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

Stanford snaps that didn't reveal the complete picture

18.02.09
Cricket: Cricket chief Giles Clarke should be ashamed that he allowed the Texan billionaire to join forces with the English game ... more

ECB chiefs fighting for survival over Stanford

18.02.09
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

‘Bond’ villain’s thunderball knocks living daylights out of calypso game

18.02.09
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

Tackling racism in the Met

18.02.09
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

Marland is out of ECB vote after county snub

03.02.09
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

Nouveau riche City prove you can't buy class

21.01.09
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

New storms brew as Strauss says his players are united

19.01.09
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

Face it, ECB are the fools in this fiasco

07.01.09
The indecent haste in which England’s cricket managers appointed both coach and captain is what lies behind the shambles... more

A nightmare end to Stanford's dream

17.12.08
Comment: English cricket's association with mega-rich American businessman looks set to end in sorry fashion ... more

Prior fires up team for Test of strength

17.12.08
Wicketkeeper Matt Prior insists England are confident they can strike back against India... more

Tottenham revival has left me open-mouthed

31.10.08
Matthew Norman is staggered by Tottenham's revival, suspicious of the club's plans for a new stadium, and delighted the Stanford Super Series has descended into fiasco... more

Chiefs told to quit over Caribbean calamities

30.10.08
Cricket: England cricket bosses Giles Clarke and David Collier have been urged to quit over the Stanford Super Series fiasco... more

Stanford series in doubt after ECB launch inquiry

29.10.08
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

08.10.08
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. ... more

£300m Sky cricket deal sparks storm

05.08.08
ECB accuse the Beeb of betraying 19 million fans by not putting in bid... more

Tradition is trampled in charge for Twenty20 gravy train

17.07.08
Now we have the IPL, the EPL and the Champions League, do we really need Stanford and his million dollars?... more

Counties double up Twenty20

16.07.08
English cricket bosses have thrown out plans for a nine-team Twenty20 competition along the lines of the Indian Premier League... more

England's stars in £50million bonanza

11.06.08
Eleven England cricketers can pocket £500,000 by winning a single match this November - or fly home with nothing... more

Eyes of the world on new Twenty20 vision

17.04.08
Where will the multi-million pound Indian Premier League end, and just how much it is going to change the face of cricket?... more

This latest Grant farce justifies the fans' fears of a clown

16.04.08
Avram Grant must go, Arsene Wenger should swallow his pride and the English Cricket Board must embrace commercialism, says David Mellor... more

ECB prepared to play hardball

08.04.08
England's stars won't be sent to the multi-billion dollar IPL with a cheery wave... more

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