Cricket News

Jamie Overton should still be able to play "a significant part" in Somerset's season, despite being diagnosed with a 'hot-spot' in his lower back

Sussex have appointed wicketkeeper Ben Brown as their Championship captain for the rest of the season, with Ross Taylor taking charge in the NatWest T20 Blast

Shaun Marsh is heading to Yorkshire for this season's NatWest Blast

Travis Head will no longer be representing Yorkshire in this summer's NatWest T20 Blast competition due to international commitments

Shahid Afridi will return to Hampshire for the NatWest T20 Blast and will be available for the entire tournament

Gloucestershire have announced that their Australian quick Andrew Tye will not be joining them for this season's NatWest T20 Blast

Tim Southee, the New Zealand fast bowler, has signed for Middlesex as their second overseas player for the NatWest T20 Blast

Alec Stewart, Surrey's director of cricket, admits that the club has "lost the battle" in its attempts to prevent the ECB from embarking on a radical restructuring of T20 cricket

New Zealand fast bowler Adam Milne is in discussions to play in this season's NatWest T20 Blast as an overseas player

Grant Elliott, the New Zealand allrounder who played a starring role in his country's run to the World Cup final in 2015, is to announce his retirement from international cricket

Travis Head, the Australia limited-overs batsman, will return to Headingley this summer as Yorkshire's overseas player for the NatWest T20 Blast

Colin de Grandhomme, the New Zealand allrounder, has signed for Birmingham Bears for this year's NatWest T20 Blast

Warwickshire will build on the success of last season's T20 double-header by once again scheduling fixtures for Birmingham Bears' men's and women's teams on the same day

Kevin Pietersen has rejoined Surrey for this year's NatWest T20 Blast, after withdrawing from the Caribbean Premier League.

New Zealand legspinner Ish Sodhi was unwanted at the IPL, and often by his country, but has joined Nottinghamshire for the NatWest T20 Blast

The Pakistan fast bowler, Junaid Khan, will be rejoining Lancashire for this summer's NatWest T20 Blast

Sussex have confirmed that Ross Taylor will re-join them as an overseas player for the 2017 NatWest T20 Blast

Daniel Vettori, the former New Zealand spinner, has joined Middlesex on a three-year contract to serve as the club's head coach for the T20 Blast

Australian fast bowler Andrew Tye is returning to Gloucestershire in 2017 to play in the NatWest T20 Blast