With many of England's county cricketers now heading home from their off-season destinations in time for Christmas, we take our monthly look at how they have been performing for their franchises or states so far in the 2011-12 season.
Plus the rest of the day's county news including new contracts for Mike Dunn and Zafar Ansari.
Zimbabwe's domestic Twenty 20 competition, the Stanbic Bank T20, came to its conclusion at the weekend with the Mountaineers franchise ending up as the overall victors and Somerset all-rounder Peter Trego was named as Player of the Tournament.
Also, Glen Chapple has been reappointed as Lancashire captain for 2012.
Plus all the rest of the day's county news including news of Kent's coaching shortlist.
The county season will get underway earlier than ever in 2012, with the traditional Champion County curtain-raiser scheduled to begin on 27th March in Abu Dhabi, and the first of the university fixtures set to kick off on 31st March.
A round up of all the latest county news.
Former ECB chairman David Morgan handed his long-awaited report on the "business of domestic cricket" to the ECB at its board meeting at Lord's today. Morgan was tasked with conducting an extensive review of the county game earlier this year and has canvassed for opinions widely over the summer.
All of the latest from the county circuit, including news of Derbyshire's overseas player for the first part of 2012.
All of the latest county cricket news in our latest County Cricket Round-Up.
Former Somerset and South Africa left-armer Charl Willoughby has signed with Essex on a two-year deal.
Welcome to the second part of Cricket World's look at how county cricketers are faring for their chosen franchises, states or provinces this winter.
England Cricket Legend, Graham Gooch OBE, has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of East London.
Graham, who received the Honorary Doctor of Arts of the University of East London at the School of Architecture and the Visual Arts graduation ceremony in London's 02, is one of England's most illustrious cricketers. Graham first played Test Cricket in 1975 aged 21 against Australia.
Essex left-arm spinner Tim Phillips has signed a new one-year contract with the club.
The 30 year-old, who was born in Cambridge and represented Durham University, enjoyed a prolific Friends Life t20 campaign that saw him take 26 wickets at an average of 13, but, like the team, he endured a frustrating time of things in the County Championship resulting in him being replaced in the side by young leg-spinner Tom Craddock.
We take a look at the latest news from the county scene in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
News of contracts for Shahid Afridi, David Murphy, Rob Newton and Simon Jones in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
News of contract extensions for David Masters and Will Smith in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
Following the high-profile defection of Joe Denly to Middlesex and Leicestershire's predicted loss of James Taylor to either Nottinghamshire or Warwickshire, we examine whether more needs to be done to reward counties who produce talented young players.
We take a look at the latest county news in our regular County Cricket Round-Up.
We take a look at the latest county cricket news in our regular County Cricket Round-Up feature.
Essex have confirmed that they will not be returning to play first-class or List A cricket at Southend next year following a meeting of their General Committee. The matches at Colchester will continue as planned.
A statement from the club announcing the decision said, "The Committee considered very robust and persuasive arguments in favour of continuing, but decided on balance that in the interest of its Members, the Club would be better served by staging the matches at Chelmsford next year."
On a tumultuous day of departures for Kent, we round up that and the rest of the day's County Cricket news.
The county transfer market has been moving apace over the past few days with Essex, Yorkshire and Glamorgan in particular making several new signings in a bid to put a disappointing, and in some cases disastrous, 2011 season behind them. We round up that and the rest of the county news below in our regular close season County Cricket Round-Up feature.
After a disappointing 2011 season Essex have moved quickly ahead of the new season by signing Greg Smith from Derbyshire and extending the contracts of three current players: David Masters, Ben Foakes and Reece Topley.
