We round up all of the latest county news from the last few days in our latest County Cricket Round-Up.
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.
Somerset have tentatively announced that they have secured the services of South African all-rounder Vernon Philander as their overseas player for the first two months of the 2012 season. Philander's availability is dependent on him not being selected to play in the Indian Premier League.
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.
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.
Plus news of the Gloucester festival and Nottinghamshire's trip to Barbados in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
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.
A look at all of the latest county cricket news in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
A new contract for Mahmood, plus news from Sussex, Yorkshire and Gloucestershire among others in our regular County Cricket Round-Up.
Sussex have extended the contract of Chris Nash, plus news from Kent, Warwickshire and Somerset in our County Cricket Round-Up feature.
News from Kent, Lancashire, Hampshire and Sussex in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
News from Sussex, Warwickshire, Durham, Yorkshire and Somerset in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
News of contract extensions for Matt Prior and Jim Allenby and more in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
We take a look at the latest news from the county scene in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
News of contracts for four Midlands players in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
Middlesex Director of Cricket Angus Fraser has been busy readying his squad for life in Division One over the past couple of days by securing the services of three players and dispensing with all-rounder Jamie Dalrymple for the second time in his career.
Middlesex, Durham and Kent are the clubs making the news in today's County Cricket Round-Up.
Sussex have signed Matt Machan on his first professional contract on a deal that will see him remain with the club for at least the next two seasons.
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.
News of a contract extension for Monty Panesar and more in today's County Round-Up.
We round up the latest county news from the past couple of days in our regular County Cricket Round-Up feature.
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.
In spite of the 2011 season being barely finished and far from forgotten, the ECB have announced the draw for the 2012 Clydesdale Bank 40 competition.
The Netherlands, Scotland and Unicorns are allocated to group A, B and C respectively with the rest of the places decided by a free draw.
