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Lancashire have waited so long for a Championship it would be a music hall joke, if music halls still existed. Even so, they've got nothing on Somerset. While Lancastrians with long memories still have 1950 – when they shared the title – to keep them warm, the pennant has never flown above Taunton.

Australian players have threatened not to sign contracts with Cricket Australia next year if the board deducts 10 per cent from their Indian Premier League salaries.

World champions England were barely tested by hapless Pakistan in Cardiff
tonight as they chalked up their seventh successive Twenty20 victory.

Pakistan face an unenviable task to clear their minds of the 'spot-fixing'
crisis in order to do themselves justice against England - but they will be
getting no sympathy from their hosts.

The Tweeters were brought to book yesterday. In decisive actions demonstrating that misuse of social networking sites has no place in English cricket and that the reputation of the chairman of selectors, Geoff Miller, must be protected at all costs, Kevin Pietersen and Dimitri Mascarenhas were both fined.

During a long and tumultuous week, the monster of match-fixing has grown to irrepressible levels. It is stalking the world of cricket like Godzilla, taking all before it.

Nottinghamshire, heavy defeat against the current champions Durham at Chester-le-Street in their previous outing notwithstanding, will effectively clinch the County Championship title if they beat Yorkshire in the match starting at Trent Bridge this morning.

Kevin Pietersen was one of two cricketers fined for their foul-mouthed
Tweeting today.

Pakistan must try to level their NatWest International Twenty20 series against
England tomorrow, despite still having to contend with a crisis which
refuses to go away.

The ball for the opening Twenty20 international between England and Pakistan was yesterday parachuted on to the ground in the possession of an RAF display team. Nobody exactly said it but the feeling was that you cannot be too careful these days.