Essex

Former pacer Jahid Khan accuses Essex of racism, sponsor pulls out

Jahid is the third player from Essex to accuse it of racism that has rocked English cricket in the wake of the Yorkshire-Azeem Rafiq episode.

Essex cricket chairman John Faragher quits over racism allegations

John Faragher, who stepped down on Thursday, denies the allegations against him, which relate to an Essex board meeting in 2017, but the club are looking into why the incident was not fully and independently investigated at the time.

County Championship: COVID positive case forces abandonment of Derbyshire vs Essex

The unnamed player has begun to self isolate and other members of the Derbyshire squad have been identified as close contacts.

South African fast bowler Marchant De Lange signs two-year contract with Somerset

The 30-year-old, who made the last of his 12 international appearances for the Proteas in 2016, already has county experience after four seasons with Welsh club Glamorgan.

ECB says County Championship will return in 2021 with new-look group-stage format

The County Championship will return next year in a group-stage format after it was scrapped this season due to the coronavirus pandemic, the England and Wales Cricket Board said.

Alastair Cook shines as Essex clinch inaugural Bob Willis Trophy after draw against Somerset

Reigning county champions Essex extended their red-ball dominance after edging the first in what could be a new tradition of first-class season deciders for English counties.

Shoaib Akhtar says only 'one or two' Pakistan teammates mistreated Danish Kaneria for his religious identity

Akhtar said he immediately stepped in to stop those players from discriminating against Danish Kaneria, which shows that as a society, they don't indulge in racial discrimination

Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon to join Hampshire for next season's County Championship

Lyon is the latest Australian to sign with an English county for the 2020 season, with Travis Head joining Sussex, Cameron Bancroft at Durham and Peter Siddle returning to Essex

Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara set to captain MCC against county champions Essex at Galle International Stadium

Sangakkara — whose 15-year international career encompassed 134 Test appearances and over 400 one day internationals — will lead out his side in the English domestic season's traditional curtain-raiser at the Galle International Stadium

Essex crowned England's county champions after Ryan ten Doeschate's men see off spirited Somerset on final day

Essex won England's County Championship for the second time in three years after holding off a spirited charge by Somerset on the final day of the season