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National Club Championship Final (Thu 31 Aug 2000)
Eastbourne Cricket Club, winners of the Club Championship in 1997, will play Sheffield Collegiate Cricket Club, who will be making their debut at Lord's, in this season's final of the National Club Championship on Friday 1 September (11.00am start). [More]

Internet audio commentary reaches global audience (Wed 30 Aug 2000)
Cricket followers from some of the most remote parts of the globe have been following the Cornhill Test Series between England and West Indies, thanks to the live audio commentary service on www.ECB.co.uk/live. [More]

England Winter Tour Squads (Mon 28 Aug 2000)
England today announced their Test and One-Day squads for this winter's tour of Kenya (ICC Trophy), Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The Surrey leg-spinner Ian Salisbury has been recalled to the Test squad after a two-year absence to fulfill spin-bowling duties alongside Warwickshire's Ashley Giles. [More]

England Squad for 5th Cornhill Test v West Indies (Sun 27 Aug 2000)
England today named a squad of 12 players for next week's 5th Cornhill Test Match against West Indies at The Foster's Oval. (August 31-Sept 4) The Warwickshire left-arm spinner Ashley Giles, who has taken 52 wickets and scored two hundreds in First Class cricket this summer, is added to the eleven who won the 4th Test at Headingley. [More]

ECB launches 'play-cricket.com' (Sat 26 Aug 2000)
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), together with Play-Sport New Media, today launches the first internet site to serve the needs of all recreational cricketers - www.play-cricket.com. [More]

Simon Pack to leave his post as International Teams Director (Fri 25 Aug 2000)
The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today announced that Simon Pack, International Teams Director, is to leave its employment next month after three years in the post. [More]

Sun Life Financial of Canada to sponsor Under 15 Club Championship in 2001 season (Tue 22 Aug 2000)
Sun Life Financial of Canada today announced that it is to sponsor the Under 15 Club Championship for the 2001 season. It means that the company will be title sponsors of the competition for 17 consecutive years, having started its association in 1985. [More]

ECB responds to Evening Standard article on future of county cricket (Tue 15 Aug 2000)
The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today issued a statement in response to an article published in this afternoon's Evening Standard newspaper. In the article, Don Trangmar, Chairman of Sussex CCC, was attributed as having made certain remarks about the future of county cricket. [More]

Fixture changes (Tue 15 Aug 2000)
The PPP healthcare County Championship matches, Gloucestershire v Middlesex at Bristol and Worcestershire v Warwickshire at New Road, have been brought forward a day and are now scheduled to be played from Monday 21 - Thursday 24 August. [More]

England Under 19's beat Ireland's Senior team 2-1 (Wed 9 Aug 2000)
The England Women's Under-19 team beat Ireland's Senior Women's team this week in a series of one-day matches, as players prepare for the World Cup later this year. Ireland, who beat Pakistan in Dublin last week, will play England's Senior team at the World Cup. [More]

Vacancy: County Cricket Development Officer (Tue 1 Aug 2000)
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is the national governing body for cricket from playground to Test arena. [More]