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Zimbabweans give heart against pacy young side

JAMES COYNE AT GRACE ROAD: Sceptical about the worth of modern tour games? I don't blame you. But Zimbabwe gave it everything at Grace Road today, against a young but fast composite county attack

"There's no shortcuts to bowling fitness": Kyle Abbott takes issue with ECB rest policy

JAMES COYNE AT TRENT BRIDGE: Sonny Baker, not John Turner, got the nod to face Nottinghamshire among Hampshire's quicks on England development contracts, but the South African seamer took issue with the ECB's rest and rotation policy around them

T20 World Cup wickets head way out West

JAMES COYNE: Two of the drop-in pitches used in New York have been acquired by Major League Cricket, while Eisenhower Park will return to hosting local cricket again

Grace Scrivens displays England credentials before losing battle of the opener-captains

JAMES COYNE AT LOUGHBOROUGH: Scrivens showed superb temperament to carry her bat for an unbeaten 120, but The Blaze’s collection of international players, highlighted by Tammy Beaumont's 116 not out, won the day

Transgender women banned from playing women's cricket in England

JAMES COYNE: "Only those whose biological sex is female" are now able to play women's cricket in England and Wales after the ECB fell in line with a Supreme Court judgement

BBC agree new digital rights deal for England matches

JAMES COYNE: It means that the BBC Sport website will continue to show near-live digital clips of all England men's and women's red and white-ball matches, plus there will be a traditional TV highlights show, Today at the Test, for all games

Dean Elgar: "England have been playing high-risk, and it hasn't been working"

The former South Africa Test captain speaks to JAMES COYNE about how his international career ended, the challenge of replacing Alastair Cook and England's chances in the Men's Ashes...

A big decision is facing Ricardo Vasconcelos, Northants' man of steel

JAMES COYNE: It's not been plain sailing since being handed the captaincy three years ago, but Vasconcelos has warmed to Darren Lehmann's "fresh energy" and "calmness"

"I fended my first ball off my nose and it cracked a bone in six places; my international career was over"

JAMES COYNE speaks to Jeremy Snape, inventor of the ‘moonball’, who used his short-form prowess for three counties and England and has since become one of the foremost experts on sports psychology

Striking Sobers, star-studded Surrey and leading Edrich: The story of Richard Jefferson

JAMES COYNE catches up with the former allrounder, one of three members of the Jefferson family to play first-class cricket

How Pope Francis blessed cricket projects in Rome and Buenos Aires

JAMES COYNE: Pope Francis was the first in his role to embrace the game as he posed with the Rome-based St Peter's Cricket Club and offered his support to Cricket Sin Fronteras, who use cricket to improve life skills in his native Buenos Aires

The Blaze have all bases covered

WOMEN'S COUNTY TEAM GUIDE 2025: There might be new leadership in the form of head coach Craig Cumming but there are many familiar faces which ensure the east midlanders start on a strong footing

Eoin Morgan in line for plum MCC role

JAMES COYNE: England's World Cup-winning captain is set to become MCC's next chair of cricket

Kyle Verreynne revels in "one of his tougher hundreds"

JAMES COYNE AT TRENT BRIDGE: The South African's form ranks with any red-ball player in the world as his superb century turns around Nottinghamshire's fortunes on the opening day of their County Championship match against Essex

Kyle Verreynne extends dream Nottinghamshire run to lead comeback

JAMES COYNE AT TRENT BRIDGE: Sam Cook looked every bit international-class as he made the ball talk early on, before finding a suitable adversary in South Africa's wicketkeeper, who now averages 359 for his county

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