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DerbyshireIN: Andy Carter (Nottinghamshire), Tom Milnes (Warwickshire), Neil Broom (UK passport)
OUT: Mark Footitt (Surrey), Wayne White (Leicestershire), Jonathan Clare (released)
OVERSEAS: Hamish Rutherford, James Neesham (T20)DurhamIN:
OUT:
OVERSEAS: John HastingsEssexIN: Matthew Quinn (UK passport), Aaron Beard (academy), Ashar Zaidi (Sussex), Matt Dixon (UK passport)
OUT: Reece Topley (Hampshire), Mark Pettini (Leicestershire), Monty Panesar, Greg Smith, Matt Salisbury, Saf Imtiaz (all released)
OVERSEAS: Jesse Ryder, Adam Milne (T20), Wahab Riaz (T20)GlamorganIN: Craig Meschede (Somerset), Nick Selman, Timm van der Gugten (Dutch passport), Harry Podmore (Middlesex – loan)
OUT: Ben Wright (retired)
OVERSEAS: Jacques Rudolph, Shaun Tait (T20)GloucestershireIN: Chris Liddle (Sussex), Josh Shaw (Yorkshire – loan)
OUT: James Fuller (Middlesex), Geraint Jones (retired), Cameron Herring, Robbie Montgomery (both released)
OVERSEAS: Michael Klinger, Andrew Tye, Cameron Bancroft (April-May)HampshireIN: Reece Topley (Essex)
OUT: Danny Briggs (Sussex), Basil Akram, Tom Barber, Joe Gatting (all released). Sean Terry (mutual agreement). Yasir Arafat (Somerset, loan).
OVERSEAS: Ryan McLaren and Shahid Afridi (T20).KentIN: Adam Rouse
OUT: Brendan Nash (released), Ben Harmison (released)
OVERSEAS: Tom Latham, Kagiso Rabada (July)LancashireIN: Alviro Petersen
OUT: Ashwell Prince (retired), Paul Horton (Leicestershire)
OVERSEAS: Neil WagnerLeicestershireIN: Paul Horton (Lancashire), Neil Dexter (Middlesex), Wayne White (Derbyshire), Kevin O’Brien (limited-overs), Mark Pettini (Essex)
OUT: Matthew Boyce (retired), Andrea Agathangelou, Dan Redfern, Alex Wyatt, Neil Pinner (all released)
OVERSEAS: Clint McKay, Umar Akmal (T20), Rilee Rossouw (T20)MiddlesexIN: James Fuller (Gloucestershire)
OUT: Neil Dexter (Leicestershire), Gurjit Sandhu (released), Harry Podmore (Glamorgan – loan)
OVERSEAS: Adam Voges, Brendon McCullum (T20), Mitchell McClenaghan (T20)NorthamptonshireIN: Richard Levi (Kolpak), Ben Sanderson.
OUT: David Willey (Yorkshire), Stephen Peters (retired), Kyle Coetzer, Maurice Chambers (both released)
OVERSEAS: Rory Kleinveldt, Seekkuge PrasannaNottinghamshireIN:
OUT: Andy Carter (Derbyshire), Gary Keedy, Paul Franks (both retired)
OVERSEAS: Jackson Bird, Dan Christian (limited-overs)SomersetIN: Ryan Davies (Kent), Roelof van der Merwe (Dutch passport), Yasir Arafat (Hampshire, loan)
OUT: Craig Meschede (Glamorgan), Alfonso Thomas, Adam Dibble, George Dockrell, James Regan (all released)
OVERSEAS: Chris Rogers, Chris Gayle (T20), Mahela Jayawardene (T20).SurreyIN: Mark Footitt (Derbyshire), Ravi Rampaul (Kolpak), Mathew Pillans (ancestral visa), Conor McKerr (UK passport)
OUT: Kevin Pietersen (released), Vikram Solanki, Tim Linley, Chris Tremlett (all retired)
OVERSEAS: Kumar Sangakkara, Dwayne Bravo (T20), Chris Morris (T20), Aaron Finch (July-August)SussexIN: Danny Briggs (Hampshire)
OUT: Michael Yardy, Steffan Piolet (both retired), Chris Liddle (Gloucestershire), Ashar Zaidi (Essex), Callum Jackson (released), Matt Hobden (deceased)
OVERSEAS: Ross Taylor, Mustafizur Rahman (limited-overs)WarwickshireIN: Alex Mellor
OUT: Tom Milnes (Derbyshire), Tom Lewis, Pete McKay (both released)
OVERSEAS: Jeetan PatelWorcestershireIN:
OUT: Gareth Andrew (released), Alex Gidman (retired), Richard Oliver, Shaaiq Choudhry (released)
OVERSEAS: Matt Henry (Apr-June), Kyle Abbott (Jul-Sep), Mitchell Santner (T20)YorkshireIN: David Willey (Northamptonshire)
OUT: Josh Shaw (Gloucestershire – loan), Rich Pyrah (retired), Moin Ashraf, Dan Hodgson, Jonny Tattersall (all released)
OVERSEAS: Kane Williamson (June-July), Travis Head (July onwards)

The mind games ahead of Euro 2012 have already started with former France boss Raymond Domenech claiming that England will be easily dispatched in the group stage as Roy Hodgson’s team lack any real quality to hurt them. England certainly has all the motivation they ever needed against the French and Hodgson should perhaps keep record of these comments and present them in his pre-match team talk on June 11th.

Elsewhere in the news talk of Sir Alex Ferguson stepping down has been dismissed; Beckenbauer believes that penalty shoot-outs should remain, while Jose Mourinho has hinted at a return to England in the near future.

Headlines

Roy Hodgson was delighted with England’s performance in Oslo and singled out Andy Carroll and Rob Green for special praise – Sky Sports

Franz Beckenbauer has thrown his weight behind penalty shoot-outs, in light of Sepp Blatter calls to seek an alternative – Guardian

Gareth Barry is a doubt for Euro 2012 after limping off in yesterday’s friendly with a groin injury – Guardian

Bacaray Sagna is confident that Robin van Persie will stay at Arsenal and has also called on Wenger to sign Yann M’Villa – Sky Sports

Sir Alex Ferguson will not be stepping down as manager of Manchester United any time soon, despite claims from Dave Whelan – Daily Telegraph

FSG have made an approach to Louis van Gaal to become Liverpool’s new Sporting Director – Daily Telegraph

Spurs have had a £14m bid for Internacional striker Leandro Damiao rejected, as Redknapp looks to strengthen his attack – Metro

Jose Mourinho has hinted at a return to England in the near future as he believes it provides the privacy he wants for his family – Independent

Mike Dean revealed that Carlos Tevez would have been showed a straight red card in the incident prior to Joey Barton’s sending off, had he seen it – Daily Mail

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Eddie Newton reveals that he and Roberto Di Matteo are none the wiser about their Chelsea futures – Daily Mail

Les Ferdinand believes that Tottenham have another summer fight on their hands to retain the services of their best players, having missed out on Champions League football – Sun

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All-round efforts from R Vinay Kumar and J Suchith ensured that Karnataka overcame a middling batting effort to register a 38-run win over Haryana in Bangalore. The defending champions lost Mayank Agarwal in the first over after being put in to bat but looked to recover through partnerships between KL Rahul, debutant Sadiq Kirmani and Manish Pandey. They collapsed from 99 for 2 to 104 for 6 in the space of three overs, with Yuzvendra Chahal accounting for Rahul and Karun Nair off consecutive deliveries in the 28th over. Two partnerships of 58 and 54, between Stuart Binny and Suchith and later Vinay Kumar and and Suchith lifted the score past 200. Suchith scored 46 off 63 deliveries while Vinay Kumar struck a 30-ball 41. Harshal Patel was Haryana’s most expensive bowler but also picked up four wickets for 62 runs.By the fourth over, Haryana’s chase had been reduced to 10 for 3. Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dagar tried to stabilize the innings with an 86-run partnership for the fourth wicket, but Karnataka kept chipping at the wickets. Dagar finished unbeaten on 96 and watched from the other end as Haryana were bowled out for 204 in the 47th over.VA Jagadeesh’s fourth List A century helped set up Kerala‘s 60-run win over Railways in Alur. The opening batsman struck 121 off 137 balls to lead Kerala to 256, although the side suffered due to a cluster of late wickets. Anureet Singh had the best returns for Railways, claiming 4 for 40 off his 10 overs. The Kerala bowlers then combined to bowl out Railways for 196. Saurabh Wakaskar and Arindam Ghosh scored 77 and 53 respectively but the rest of the batsmen could not match their efforts as the side was bowled out in the 44th over.

Haidee Tiffen and Charlotte Edwards rock on ahead of their clashes in Blackpool on Sunday and Monday © ECB

The open-top bus ride in London to celebrate the Ashes is now nothing but a wistful journey down memory lane for England’s women, who are staring at a home series defeat to New Zealand. England are two down with three to play and need to win their next match to stay in the series.Perhaps another open-top bus ride – the wind whistling through their hair and blowing away the cobwebs of defeat – may help them stir memories of victorious scenes two years ago. A nice idea, although this time around they are 2-0 down already and the bus is heading through Blackpool.Gone are the hordes of adoring well-wishers lining the capital’s streets all the way up to the euphoric encore in Trafalgar Square. Instead, there are a few quizzical pensioners, stags on does, hens on nights and happy families all enjoying the sunshine on the promenade in the north-west of England.The trip, though, is just as much for the women to see Blackpool – indeed, most of the England players come from the south – as it is an awareness raiser. Now Arran Brindle and Laura Newton, of Lancashire, have quit and Yorkshire’s Katherine Brunt is injured, the most northerly representatives are Nottinghamshire trio Nicky Shaw, Jenny Gunn and Jane Smit. Sussex is the current hotbed of talent, with five of the 14-player squad coming from the county.Speaking of others who are unlikely to have witnessed what the resort has to offer, the New Zealand players were also on the bus to take in the sights, enjoying a breather and sitting pretty on their lead.But Blackpool – with its kiss-me-quick hats, Victorian grandeur and end-of-pier attractions – can always bring a smile to even the glummest of faces and Charlotte Edwards and co are keen to raise such a cheer. They hope that England’s return to the resort, for the first time in 25 years, will be a happy homecoming. Winning their last three matches would be a feat equivalent to scaling the iconic tower blindfold, while holding a candyfloss in one hand and an ice-cream in the other. Highly unlikely yet still, with enough application, not impossible.England started their summer against New Zealand well, coasting to success in the Twenty20s, but then had a big dipper, losing two one-dayers, with a third washed out. Now they must really push for the big one, a fact that has not escaped Edwards: “It’s a must-win fixture for us and the players are really up for it. They’re a strong side, but we know we’re capable of beating them and hopefully that’s what we’ll do come Sunday.”If they are to have any hope, they will need to be as solid as the rock they had specially commissioned for the matches, and which they will be giving away at the grounds in the ties on Sunday and Monday. And, at the moment, it’s hard to even make a dent in a strong New Zealand.

Essex, Sussex, Derbyshire and Glamorgan contest the inaugural Twenty20 Floodlit Cup, starting this week with the semi-final stage.The competition was set up towards the end of last season among the four counties to have permanent floodlights at their headquarters (at that time).Sussex and Essex meet over two legs at Hove and Chelmsford on Tuesday and Thursday respectively while Glamorgan and Derbyshire meet over corresponding days in the other semi-final.Should either tie end with one victory apiece then a period of extra-time will be played after the second semi-final. This will consist of an additional period of four-overs-per-side – or Four4 if you like – to decide the winners.In a week of historical firsts in cricket, it is understand that should either (or both) game be decided in this manner then it would be the first such occasion when ‘extra-time’ has been used to finish a game.The semi-final winners will then meet in a two-legged final on September 13 and 15 and the losers will meet in a third-place play-off on the same dates (with extra-time again coming into operation if required).

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Naved-ul-Hasan during his spell of four wickets in six balls at Lord’s © Cricinfo

At Lord’s, Middlesex crashed to an embarrassing innings-and-232-run defeat at the hands of a rampant Sussex after being bowled out twice in a day. Click here for a full report.Mark Ramprakash, who will be 36 next month, guided Surrey into a useful lead against Gloucestershire with a typically stylish 185, cutting and driving with elegance. His fourth century of the season allowed Surrey to recover from a poor start, when they slumped to 40 for 3 following the loss of Mark Butcher for six. Graham Thorpe added 98 with Ramprakash then Jonathan Batty combined in a stand of 133. When Malinga Bandara dismissed Ali Brown and Azhar Mahmood in the space of three balls Gloucestershire would have had ambitions of restricting Surrey to a similar total as their own. “This was the best Ramps has looked this season, the most relaxed and complete,” said Steve Rixon, Surrey’s coach. “I said it last year and I’ll say it again – he’s the best batsman in county cricket.”

Division Two

A record stand of 223 between Mark Chilton and Iain Sutcliffe gave Lancashire a brilliant start in their first innings response to Yorkshire’s 417 all out. Click here for a full report.Luke Sutton and Mohamed Sheikh both hit half-centuries to lead Derbyshire to an imposing first-innings score of 426 against Essex. Starting the day on 272 for 6, Sutton and Sheikh put on 120 for the seventh wicket. The Pakistani leg-spinner, Danish Kaneria, finished with the impressive figures of 60.1 overs 6 for 111. Sheik’s followed on from his excellent innings of 55 to take the wicket of Alistair Cook for just one. Graeme Welch took two further wickets, as Essex finished on 113 for 4. Derbyshire are still looking for their first win of the season, but are very well placed in this match with two days to go.Worcestershire completely dominated the second day of their game against Somerset, with a powerful and dominating batting display. Stephen Peters fell for a well-compiled innings of 88, but Zander de Bruyn, playing in his final Championship match before being replaced by Chris Gayle, struck a superb 161 from 213 balls. The other centurion was Ben Smith, who remains unbeaten on 117 as Worcestershire closed the day on 492, having lost just three wickets in the day. They hold a very handy lead of 174, and Somerset will be desperate for early wickets tomorrow morning.

John Carr: accused of putting forward ‘crackpot proposals’© Getty Images

Under fire from the ECB for being to blame for many of the ills affecting county cricket, one of the county chairmen attacked recently by the board has hit back. In an exclusive interview in today’s Daily Telegraph, Neil Davidson, chairman of Leicestershire, accused the ECB of “talking nonsense”.Davidson, who runs Arla Foods, the country’s biggest milk supplier, defended the position of his fellow chairmen. “The majority of us are not old farts, but are either entrepreneurs or running businesses, and the average age of the chairmen is 50. So when John Read [the then ECB press spokesman] says county cricket is holding back English cricket he is talking nonsense. The counties are English cricket. Without us there would be no Test team and no cricket in this country.”What really upset Davidson was the recent proposal put forward by the ECB, and rejected by the chairmen, for domestic reform. “These were crackpot proposals,” he told the paper. “Lamb did not say much at the meeting but John Carr [cricket director] said this was for the good of cricket. But they had not tested it with the consumers.”Davidson admitted that four-day cricket will never draw the crowds in significant numbers, but said that it was vital for the future of the game. “[It’s] not a bum-on-seat event. However it is necessary to produce players for the Test team and that is are our prize asset and our cash cow. But Twenty20 and the other one-day matches are bums-on-seats events and we need to make them happenings, like baseball in America.”I would like the ECB to provide floodlights for all counties, to see Twenty20 made into a national league and played on a Friday evening so people can bring their kids and those who would otherwise go to the pub and drink, could drink at cricket. The National League should be 40 overs starting at 5pm.”And, like many of his colleagues, he was not happy with the way the Zimbabwe issue was handled. “The ECB were unfortunate to be caught in a political situation, but how did England find itself isolated on the world stage? The chairmen kept being told by the ECB we are going, when we really don’t want to go. That is no way to handle such an issue.”

The England wicketkeeper James Foster has been severely reprimanded and fined by his county Essex for verbally abusing a spectator during Wednesday’s Championship match against Lancashire at Chelmsford.Essex’s chief executive David East said: “James has acknowledged that his outburst yesterday was totally unacceptable and has apologised to the spectator. He has been fined £400 by the club and made aware of his responsibilities for the future. With the agreement of the gentleman concerned the matter is now closed.”

New Zealand’s cricketers have successfully provided answers for some of their critics during the drawn tour match against Queensland in Brisbane.But they still walked away from the ‘Gabba with question marks persisting over several aspects of their game in the lead-up to the start of the FirstTest against Australia later this week.Prior to a finish half an hour before the scheduled close, the Black Caps lost no friends today with another highly competitive performance againstAustralian domestic cricket’s premier team. But, as batsmen from both teams sufficiently dominated the fourth and final day to ensure that ahigh-scoring game ended in a stalemate, so attention turned rapidly to thoughts of what lies in store when five-day cricket comes back to the ‘Gabbaon Thursday.Of pressing concern to the visitors will be the form of their top order batsmen, and to the on-tour travails of openers Matthew Bell and MarkRichardson in particular. They have only posted one half-century stand on the entire visit, and they each looked low on confidence as they providedtwo more dismal starts in this one. To make matters worse, the task only becomes harder now, with Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie likely to betheir next new ball foes.And even number three Mathew Sinclair, who struck a defiant 80, wasn’t wholly convincing in scoring his runs today. The right hander hit somelavish drives into the arc between mid off and mid on, but his innings was a mixture.He did not always move his feet perfectly, and often played well away from his body at deliveries outside the line of off stump. He was also made tofeel particularly uncomfortable by left arm paceman Mitchell Johnson (1/42) throughout a pre-lunch duel that led to an edge to Martin Love at slip.Injury worries persist too. Nathan Astle (9*) returned to the crease briefly after his first innings double century, but remained off the field with agroin strain otherwise. And, even when there, he didn’t look entirely comfortable, playing and missing at least six times at Johnson.With Daniel Vettori and Dion Nash already in the stands as well, Adam Parore (24) joined the throng after he experienced soreness in a leg musclewhile batting. Though all remain well in contention to appear in the Test – and Astle, Nash and Parore are considered near-certainties to be fit toplay – it acted as another unnecessary distraction.Craig McMillan (43) provided an encouraging innings, and Chris Cairns (31*) boosted his average and confidence with a characteristicallyswashbuckling batting cameo, but further worries lingered on into the afternoon.After Queensland had been set the imposing task of scoring 311 runs from just 54 overs to win, new ball bowlers Cairns (0/39) and ShayneO’Connor (1/18) were unable to shift the makeshift opening pairing of Jimmy Maher (47) and Love (42).Off spinner Glen Sulzberger (2/75) and paceman Chris Martin (1/59) were also undone in the middle of the afternoon when Andrew Symonds (47)returned Cairns’ favour with a display of typically pyrotechnical hitting.Ultimately, Sulzberger lured Symonds into thrashing a catch to deep mid wicket, therein confirming the widely-accepted belief that the game wasdestined for the early conclusion that arrived with the Bulls placed at 4/202 and still 108 runs behind overall.But, unless the Black Caps can redress their problems quickly, confidence in their prospects later in the week won’t be nearly as high.

Jerome Jayaratne, Sri Lanka Cricket’s head of coaching, has been appointed interim head coach of the Sri Lanka team for the upcoming home series against West Indies. Jayaratne’s appointment came four days after Marvan Atapattu had resigned as the national team coach.Jayaratne was appointed SLC’s head of coaching in 2008, a role that did not extend to the national team coached at the time by Trevor Bayliss. Jayaratne has coaching certificates from Cricket Australia and the ECB, and previously held the posts of manager-coaching as well as coach of the SLC academy squad. He also played 22 first-class matches between 1990-91 and 1995-96.Atapattu had quit after Sri Lanka lost Test series to Pakistan and India, only the second time they have lost two home series in a year. He had officially held the position since September last year, but had effectively been head coach since April 2014, after Paul Farbrace’s departure. Before that, Atapattu had worked as batting coach of the team since 2011.