BARKER BOWLS BEARS TO WIN

WARWICKSHIRE today restated their commitment to maintaining a “home-grown” policy in this summer’s Twenty20. In the last two weeks several counties have announced the signing of overseas players on short-term T20 contracts. Essex, for example, have recru

Edgbaston cricket ground could be renamed the City of Birmingham Edgbaston Stadium in a £4 million bid to promote the city around the world. Under a proposed ten-year sponsorship deal with the council the name of Warwickshire CCC's one-day team would als

Yorkshire will go all out to mark their 150th year by winning the LV= County Championship, says captain Andrew Gale. The White Rose are the most successful county in English cricket having won the Championship 31 times and Gale is aiming to wrestle the p

Warwickshire spin-bowler Chris Metters has suffered more rotten luck after it emerged that surgery on his injured shoulder last year has not corrected the problem. After missing all of last season following an operation, Metters was progressing well this

A Bradford-born fast-medium bowler, Moin Ashraf made his First-Class debut against Loughborough University in May 2010. He signed his first professional contract for Yorkshire at the end of the 2010 season, having made an impact in the last two matches o

Jimmy Adams will hope to build on a relatively productive 2012 next season. Northamptonshire have signed unheralded Pakistani-born fast-bowler Mohammad Azharullah for the 2013 season. The 29 year-old will not qualify as an overseas player as he is a perm