The report said that the expansion to 10 teams would happen in the next five years and "the likeliest locations are the south-west, in Bristol and Taunton, and the north-east, at Durham".
Global trends, macroeconomic data announcements and the start of the earnings season would be the major drivers for the equity markets in a holiday-shortened week, analysts said. Equity markets will remain closed on Thursday for Eid-Ul-Fitr. Trading activity of foreign investors, rupee-dollar trends and crude oil prices would also guide trends in markets.
Paul Downton is leaving his position as managing director of England cricket, the England and Wales Cricket Board said on Wednesday.
'The World Cup squad will fly to the Caribbean on May 31 ahead of England's opening group match against Scotland at the Kensington Oval, Barbados, on Wednesday, June 4.'
"Nothing has changed" for Kevin Pietersen's hopes of playing international cricket again, the England and Wales Cricket Board said on Sunday, despite incoming chairman Colin Graves appearing to leave the door open for the exiled batsman's return.
Players from lower-ranked nations have limited opportunities to learn from competing with top-tier teams but franchise cricket has helped them develop their skills by rubbing shoulders with elite cricketers, Zimbabwe's T20 skipper Sikandar Raza has said.
English counties will be rewarded for producing Test players under a development plan announced by the ECB.
ICC is mulling a dedicated fund of at least US$ 15 million for Test cricket that will help increase the players' match fee and address the migration of talent to T20 leagues.
Till now borrowings in the form of ECB were not permitted to be utilised for general corporate purpose.
Jonny Bairstow will be available for the entire duration of the Indian Premier League
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chief executive David Collier said on Sunday he would not resign over the Allen Stanford scandal. Collier and ECB chairman Giles Clarke have come under fire in the media and from within the game over English cricket's association with Texas billionaire Stanford, who has been accused of involvement in an $8 billion securities fraud.
A floodlit Test at Lord's between England and Bangladesh in 2010, complete with so-called "pyjama" clothing, is one of several ideas under discussion to raise the appeal of the longer version of cricket.
The scheduling model, which it said was "broken and unsustainable" and "confusing and chaotic" which was forcing players to choose between "representing their country and optimizing their careers."
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who is also a member of the MCC's World Cricket Committee, is not in favour of tinkering with the hugely popular Twenty20 format as mooted by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has reportedly threatened to stop its county teams from competing in this year's Champions League Twenty20 in India unless the organisers of the event -- the BCCI -- pay them the participation fees in advance.
Miffed at the Board of Control for Cricket in India's selection of venues for England's tour of India later this year, the ECB decided to hold back its approval of the itinerary. The England and Wales Cricket Board received the proposed itinerary for the winter tour and was disappointed not to see major venues, like Kolkata, Bangalore, and Chennai in the itinerary.
Joe Root is being rested for the remainder of England's One-Day International (ODI) series against Ireland
Problems continued to multiply for Pakistan's disgraced leg-spinner Danish Kaneria, who has now been ordered to pay 2,00,000 in costs by the disciplinary panel of the England and Wales Cricket Board.
England appointed Geoff Miller to the newly-created post of national selector and sidelined former chairman of selectors David Graveney. Miller will head up a four-man selection panel which will include head coach Peter Moores, and former Test players Ashley Giles and James Whitaker.
The high level of capital inflows has forced the government to put fresh restrictions on ECBs. In August this year, the Reserve Bank of India tightened ECB rules by limiting the use of foreign loans in India at $20 million per company.
A proposal to abolish the pre-match toss deciding which team bats first will be discussed at a meeting of the England and Wales Cricket Board on Thursday.
The English cricket board must stop treating its players in a "namby-pamby way" and dock money if they put the lucrative Indian Premier League above national duty, former Test batsman Geoffrey Boycott said.
'Higher interest rates make gold less attractive as it doesn't generate yield.' 'However, with rates set to fall, the tables are turning for gold.'
Pakistan's banned leg spinner Danish Kaneria has slammed the Pakistani and English cricket authorities after it was announced on Thursday that fast bowler Mervyn Westfield has been allowed to play lower-level cricket with one year of his spot-fixing ban remaining. "If anything, the permission by the England and Wales Cricket Board to allow special treatment to Westfield, confirms their bias and discrimination towards me throughout this case," Kaneria told PTI in Karachi. The ECB anti-corruption tribunal had banned Kaneria for life in 2012 and Westfield was jailed the same year and banned from professional cricket for five years and club cricket for three years on spot fixing charges. Both were banned after they played together for Essex in the English county championship. Westfield claimed in his testimony that he accepted a 6000 pounds to under-perform in a 40-over pro match between Essex and Durham in September 2009. The paceman claimed Kaneria had groomed him to indulge in spot fixing.
Professor Lord Kamlesh Patel of Bradford, an OBE and a leading voice on health, social care and community cohesion in the UK, has become the first British Asian to join the England and Wales Cricket Board.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Tuesday announced the details of England's tour to West Indies next year when they will play four tests, five one-dayers and a Twenty20 match.
While there is little chance of a reduction in this limit, the central bank is now insisting on a certificate from chartered accountants on the end-use of the funds borrowed.
Suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi and event management company IMG are planning to sue ECB chief Giles Clarke for alleging that they tried to start a 'rebel' Twenty20 league, according to a report in London.
Pollard to join England coaching staff for next year's T20 WC
Allan Donald will stay on as a consultant to England's fast-bowling programme until the end of the Twenty/20 World Championship in his native South Africa in September.
Champions League commissioner Lalit Modi on Thursday dismissed allegations that the England and Wales Cricket Board was not consulted before finalising the dates of the T20 event and asked the ECB to tweak its county schedule.
Jason Roy has given up his incremental contract with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to play in the inaugural edition of the United States' new Twenty20 tournament - Major League Cricket (MLC).
Former Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria was given life ban by the England and Wales Cricket Board for his involvement in the Mervyn Westfield spot-fixing case.
IMAGES from the Day 4 of the 1st Test between England and Sri Lanka in Manchester on Saturday
The PCB rejected a claim for compensation of around 800,000 pounds ($1.49 million) for loss of revenues in relation to abandonment of the Oval Test.
The government on Wednesday said it is contemplating relaxing norms governing external commercial borrowings to enable Indian corporates access higher foreign capital at low cost.
Permitting realty firms to tap ECBs, relaxing borrowing norms for non-banking finance companies, increasing the ECB limit 50 per cent to $750 million under the automatic route (that is, without central bank permission) and raising the price ceiling at which overseas loans can be raised are among proposals the committee is considering. For realty, the committee may relax norms only for integrated township projects, said a top finance ministry official.
India's T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur is set to represent the Surrey Stars in Kia Super League, the T20 tournament hosted by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) after a successful stint with Sydney Thunders in Women's Big Bash League, last year.
