BIOGRAPHIES of Imran Khan, Kim Hughes and Harold Larwood compete with a fresh look at the cricket writings of Alan Gibson and an historical analysis of South African cricketing themes in this year’s short list for The Cricket Society and MCC book of the year award 2010, worth £3,000 to the winner.

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CELEBRITY chef Paul Heathcote MBE has been appointed by Lancashire as catering consultant to develop standards at The Point, the new £12 million conference and events facility at Old Trafford due to be completed in July this year.

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THE former Middlesex and Berkshire seam bowler Tim Bloomfield has become landlord of the Union Inn at Old Windsor and is welcoming county members with a heavy discount.

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ZIMBABWE have appointed the former England batsman Alan Butcher as their new head coach with the target of returning the country to Test cricket in 2011. The appointment of an Englishman is further evidence that this ravaged country is returning to normal after the abandonment last year of the worthless Zimbabwe dollar in favour of the American dollar and South African rand.

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THE ECB chairman Giles Clarke paid tribute to Vodafone during the fourth Test against South Africa at The Wanderers, the final match of their 12-year sponsorship of the England team.

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THE island of Grenada has opened a Caribbean cricket heritage centre in the south stand of the magnificent National Stadium in St George's.

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THE England women batsman Ebony Rainford-Brent has been drafted into the Surrey Academy for 2010 as the only female among six players.

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THE official song for the ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies, Bring It by a duet of Mr Vegas and Fay Ann Lyons, has been released and has already been given air time on Caribbean radio stations and dance halls. To many pop music lovers the sound might be disappointingly hip-hop until the song warms up about halfway through.

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KENT have disclosed that they lost £190,000 in staging two pop concerts at their St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury during the 2009 summer, shocking news for a county already under financial stress.

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A CANTERBURY batsman who gave the touring England Lions a miserable time in North Island has been drafted into New Zealand's provisional squad for the ICC World Twenty20, but the mystery of Graham Napier, well respected on North Island, continues.

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THE content of the 147th Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack will be exceptionally interesting this spring because 2009 was an eventful year. The third edition to be edited by Sunday Telegraph cricket correspondent Scyld Berry is due to be published on April 15.

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THE West Indies have shown off their Twenty20 skills by losing to Zimbabwe, but they expect success as hosts of the ICC World Twenty20 in May -- at the discipline of partying.

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AN investigation is to be held by the ICC into the events surrounding the Pepsi ICC World League Division Five match between Nepal and United States, which was interrupted by an unruly crowd at the Tribhuvan University ground in Kathmandu last week.

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CRICKET won this time. The final of the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division Five tournament in Kathmandu lodged in the memory for seven wickets by a 17 year-old left-arm spinner as Nepal defeated United States by five wickets. The ugly crowd scenes from the previous day were not repeated.

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RIOT police moved in to subdue an angry 12,000 crowd as a sensational match between Nepal and the United States was interrupted by rock-throwing in Kathmandu today.

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