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Dan Feist, Deputy CEO of Essex Cricket talks about the great start to the season and how newbies Dean Elgar and Jordan Cox have fitted in to the team. After a difficult couple of years off the field, Dan updates on possible sanctions still hanging over the club and the lessons that the club has learned.

On a brighter note, there is the fantastic news of Essex Cricket being awarded Tier 1 for women's cricket and what this news will mean for the game in the region. We also talk about plans to upgrade or relocate the ground and salute all the hard work that is going on around the club to ensure a bright future.


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We have now reached the halfway point in this year's edition of the IPL. I caught up with Matt Kabir Floyd, who is covering the tournament for Sky Sports to get his views on what he has seen so far. I ask him if it is too long and what could be the effect of the IPL franchises spreading their tentacles across the cricketing globe.
He also talks about his new podcast "It's Not Just Cricket" , which starts on May 1st with guest Azeem Rafiq.


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The ECB has sanctioned the use of the Kookaburra red ball for the start of the 2024 County Championship. But amid all the wind and rain, journalist and broadcaster Mel Farrell takes a look at its effectiveness and asks if it can achieve its goal of preparing England's players for the Ashes in Australia at the end of 2025?

#countycricket #cricket #kookaburra #weather #Wisden #England #Ashes

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The cricket season is finally here and HUW TURBERVILL, editor of "The Cricketer" magazine talks about finance in the English game. Is foreign investment required to ensure the survival of county cricket and make the white ball game competitive on the global stage?



#cricket #countycricket #thehundred #money


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Victoria Polley from BBC Essex looks forward to the 2024 county cricket season and assesses the chances of a new-look Essex in the wake of Sir Alastair Cook's retirement and the departure of Dan Lawrence. Dean Elgar and Jordan Cox look like exciting replacements!

Victoria also talks about the return of her weekly cricket show "Around the Wicket" on BBC Essex, as well as the BBC's continued coverage of every ball of every game up and down the country.


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Hot on the heels of "How to be a Cricket Fan", Matt Appleby's new book "Lost Cricket Stickers", all about the one year (1983) that Panini published a sticker collection album devoted to English cricket players. Jim Carter of "Downton Abbey" fame wrote the introduction and we discuss why the concept never took off and wonder whether it is worth resurrecting!



Get your copy here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Cricket-Stickers-Search-Sticker/dp/1801506914/ref=sr_1_2?crid=R6RF5YKWYBA4&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ymfStipkPeDHY5WxAiFumcdoriIsiKNG_U4Cswfw2mRLk1aL3ViSwA9gyqqGH3i1yB7PF8C5Z0Hje1Kk5HcNsPuvx0sDqB_FZTH3MgfDJTcZyBBCv--fu7KXByipO8PhC0r1pKwBrmglha0Ds8vsAOowmBFnlV-XbNaK0BM1ij0ljksh5bjnuiJEWcrzlUIOABdiVn8qkNk0YML0x1aWsbidqboaGzdqqkJgLTBkfZUwrHVI0qE2xiIf0bjiX3UiRAFGKj36Jkeq8TF_keK_08kdfLUx_nvN0rxuf2VNaC8.3-GCyU6V9oFIuHcgdNOQKY_mEYvJqtUphrZf4GHqRNE&dib_tag=se&keywords=lost+cricket+stickers&qid=1711299542&sprefix=lost+cricket%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-2






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