Paul Moon rages against the avaricious ECB and reveals that Allen Stanford is "no cricket purist." Gee, do ya think so?

As Test match crowds dwindle outside England, and with Pakistan beset by security fears, Giles Clarke (chairman of the ECB) wants English cities with big ethnic populations to stage neutral Tests. He believes that Pakistan, for example, might get a better crowd in Leeds than in Karachi.

Stewart Regan (chief executive of Yorkshire) was positively saliva