John Stephenson

Marylebone Cricket Club will call for restricting batsmen's power by prohibiting use any other bat handles than the traditional ones made of rubber, cane and glue.

Essex County Cricket Club chairman John Faragher has resigned from his role over a historical allegation that he used racist language at a board meeting in 2017, the team said on Friday.

In order to bring about a balance between bat and ball, the game's lawmakers - Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) - has recommended limiting bat size edges and depths.

ECB's proposed first day-night Test match between England and Bangladesh was nipped in the bud after two counties refused to try the pink ball in their four-day Championship final round match.

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Sussex chair Jon Filby said the recommendations proposed in the England & Wales Cricket Board's (ECB) high-performance review of men's cricket in England were needed for the game but were "unworkable" when looked at through a holistic lens.

English county club Essex pledged on Monday to investigate fresh allegations of historical racism made by their former Jamaican-born fast bowler Maurice Chambers.

International cricket chiefs have banned hi-tech cricket bats that give an unfair advantage to batsmen, saying the move will help prevent the game becoming too predictable.

Another former player of English county Essex has said he suffered racist abuse at the club following allegations made by Zoheb Sharif and Maurice Chambers in the last week.

The Marylebone Cricket Club has decided to re-write a key law related to the bat to safeguard the traditional balance of the game in view of the changing face of the sport.

With Test cricket steadily losing out to more instant versions of the game, MCC has come round to the view that day/night Tests might be the answer.

In a move that has infuriated the purists, the England Cricket Board is planning to introduce coloured clothing for the first day-night Test that pits England against Bangladesh next year.

The ICC has decided to grant T20 International status to all its existing 104 members in a bid to popularize the game across the globe.

The International Cricket Council's Executive Board has voted to split the role of the president and the chairman as recommended by the contentious independent governance review headed by Lord Woolf from 2014 onwards.

Two new balls in One-day internationals and the use of two bouncers per over are among the issues likely to be discussed at the International Cricket Council's annual cricket committee meeting which begins here from Monday.

In an appointment that was backed by the BCCI, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan replaced Tim May as a players' representative on the ICC Cricket Committee.

The committee has also recommended the adoption of the majority of the changes to the laws, most significantly giving umpires the power to send off players from the field in response to the most serious incidents of player misconduct, such as violence on the field.

Out-of-favour India batsman Virender Sehwag and Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan will lead two MCC sides in a series of matches in the Middle East to help launch the new county season.

Custodian of cricket laws, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), has announced a 12-member squad dominated by English County regulars to play three matches in Pakistan next month under the captaincy of its current president Kumar Sangakkara.

New Zealand's Mike Hesson on Wednesday replaced Australian Darren Lehmann as the coach representative in the ICC Cricket Committee led by former India captain Anil Kumble.