No 151, Apr 24: The Grumbler's County Cricket Newsletter
🟣 Looking ahead to Champ Rd4 🟡 Women's new era 🟢 County Cricket Day launch 🟠 Jeff Evans RIP 🔴 Durham sign three amid injury crisis 🔵 The Business of Cricket 🟤 Eng goalkeeper's cricket career
County Championship - Rd 4 previews
Click on each team for a different preview
Division One
Nottinghamshire vs Sussex
Sussex bring in teenager Ollie Moore for Trent Bridge trip | The Argus
Surrey vs Somerset
Worcestershire vs Durham
Kashif Ali to Miss Upcoming Fixture for Special Family Moment | Worcestershire CCC
Division Two
Gloucestershire vs Leicestershire
Derbyshire vs Middlesex
South African fast bowler Codi Yusuf joins Durham for County Championship | Cricket World
Jack Blatherwick and Jake Ball join Durham on loan | Durham Cricket
Henry Nicholls: New Zealand batter joins Worcestershire until end of June | BBC Sport
Lehmann happy to see Northants players get a breather after ‘intense’ start to 2025 campaign | Northants Telegraph
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County Championship - Rd 3 review
Did It Bounce? Thrilling County Game Decided By Controversial Caught-And-Bowled Decision | Wisden
County Championship: Middlesex scramble to victory over Glamorgan after rain delay | BBC Sport
County Championship Round 3, 2025 | 365 Sporting Days
County Championship 2025 Round 3 | Ashes Tourist
Drawsome: County Championship battle for mid-table mediocrity rages | King Cricket
News, Views and Interviews
A new era begins for women's county cricket | ESPNcricinfo
Women Tier 1 county - Rebooted women's game seeks the pros of progress | ESPNcricinfo
Durham thump Essex, as Edgbaston plays host to thriller | The Cricketer
MVP spotlight on rising women’s stars | The PCA
England’s Premiership Rugby in talks for revamp inspired by Indian cricket | FT
One of cricket’s great traditions is dying out | Telegraph
Really good chat with an independent journalist on the business of cricket.
Country diary: From the pavilion end, a pied wagtail | The Guardian
Another interview that headlines with the hope that the County Championship survives. But who is actually going to stand up and sacrifice something, anything, to make it real? As the previous Surrey leadership showed before moving to the ECB, talk is cheap.
100%. There are many dumb aspects to cricket, but coming off for bad light when a tight finish is in the offing and you have spent millions on floodlights is right up there.
Wisden calls World Test Championship a ‘shambles’ and makes case for reform | The Guardian
ECB under pressure to finalize revised £975m H*ndred deal amid investor concerns | cricexec
Lancashire CEO - Give BCCI H*ndred stake to unlock Indian players | ESPNcricinfo
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Wisden Almanack Names Five Cricketers Of The Year | Wisden
How Dom Sibley became fun to watch — and is just what England need | Times
Chainsaw sculptor creates world's biggest cricket wickets at Toft club | Knutsford Guardian
Reborn in the USA: has cricket finally cracked the American market? | Cricket | The Guardian
NZC agrees terms with MLC to launch new team after 2027 expansion | ESPNcricinfo
Has Cricket Fully Established in America or Is There Still Time Left? | Sports Illustrated
Given the runaway superiority of the IPL and the overlapping calendars, I have always thought rapid growth in USA cricket and Major League Cricket is the biggest threat to the English domestic game.
LA 2028: Great Britain could have cricket team at Olympics in Los Angeles | BBC Sport
GB cricket team to compete in LA28 | Inside the Games
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