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Strauss plans tour warm-up trip to India: Richard Gibson
England captain Andrew Strauss’ latest Test warm-up has been pencilled in for India in December, alongside 11 members of the England Performance Programme. Strauss, 34, prepared for the Test tour of New Zealand in early 2008 by playing some limited-overs … Continue reading
Goodbye to the Tiflex ball: Paul Bolton
The England and Wales Cricket Board has decided to end a three-year experiment with the controversial Tiflex cricket balls in the second division of the County Championship. The Tiflex balls were introduced in Division Two cricket only in 2009 but … Continue reading
Van Jaarsveld looks to 2012 to end career on better note
What odds might you have got at the start of the summer on Kent run-machine Martin van Jaarsveld going the whole County Championship campaign without scoring a century, let alone reaching 1,000 first-class runs? In his five previous seasons with … Continue reading