'If only I'd known this was going to happen, I'd have had a word with Donald Trump,' says the owner of the company that makes Dukes balls. 'Please don't attack anybody before the cricket season starts!'
LAWRENCE BOOTH: Tribe, 21, stood out during the Lions' tour Down Under over the winter, and is now expected to provide competition for both Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett this summer.
The anger of the jilted sportsman is a tale as old as the English batting collapse. And as Liam Livingstone's latest outburst confirms, anger isn't always accompanied by clarity.
INSIDE SPORT: From the farm to the Long Room? Jeremy Clarkson's brewery is in the running to take over as the official beer supplier at Lord's, Inside Sport can reveal.
Over coffee this week, Coles told his Sussex coach Paul Farbrace he had heard there would be interest in his signature at the Hundred auction in central London. There was rather more than that.
LAWRENCE BOOTH: If Brendon McCullum may not enjoy spending the Test summer on probation, then he should console himself with the thought that he's lucky still to be in the role.
LAWRENCE BOOTH: McCullum confirmed his desire to keep his job after England's T20 World Cup semi-final defeat by India in Mumbai on Thursday, and he will be given that chance.
England were eliminated from the T20 World Cup after falling just seven runs short in their spirited chase of 254 against India. LAWRENCE BOOTH has rated each player's T20 World Cup campaign.
RICHARD GIBSON IN MUMBAI: Elimination to India at the semi-final stage for the second tournament in a row hinged on a howler by Brook that reprieved India's Sanju Samson.
RICHARD GIBSON: American footwear company Skechers have become the title sponsors of Birmingham Phoenix - knocking one of the Hundred's controversial brands off the front.
Harry Brook's team are yet to put in a complete performance at the T20 World Cup but here Daily Mail Sport examines the blueprint for success against India in the semi-final.
A close friend and personal assistant of Shane Warne has revealed fresh details about the pressure that the Australian cricket icon had been experiencing in the months prior to his tragic passing.
RICHARD GIBSON IN MUMBAI: Pink ball Tests will not form part of future Ashes series following talks between England and Australia on reciprocal tour arrangements.
Andrew Menczel has hit back at Stuart MacGill in a fiery and unfiltered response after the pair butted heads during an explosive episode of the Cricket Unfiltered podcast.
England are in the T20 World Cup semi-finals after 16 wins out of 18 since Harry Brook became captain. Ahead of the meeting with India, Daily Mail Sport looks at the key factors behind their form.
Drizzly Hove in February does not immediately feel like ground zero for one of English cricket's most vexed debates. But the financial misadventures of Sussex have dictated otherwise.
Australian cricket legend Brett Lee called Dubai "one of the safest places in the world" for women and children after moving his family there, weeks before Iranian missile and drone strikes hit the city.
RICHARD GIBSON: During his international career, Will Jacks has been a frontline batsman and first-choice spinner yet it is only since mastering the art of being neither that he has truly excelled
Jonny Bairstow has appealed for help from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer after becoming stuck in the Middle East while on holiday during the ongoing attack in the region.
Summer Warne has revealed she was involved in a heated altercation with a fellow concertgoer after having water poured down her clothing during an emotional Ed Sheeran performance in Melbourne
NZ players were left confused and struggling to keep their composure after a major technical error saw their national anthem played at the wrong speed before a crucial T20 World Cup match in Colombo
RICHARD GIBSON: This astonishing late heist against New Zealand kept up their 100 per cent record in the Super Eight stage, meaning they will likely be heading for the second semi-final.
Earlier this week at the Twenty20 World Cup, Harry Brook sauntered into a press conference, clocked the facial expressions of those present and suggested a smile wouldn't go amiss.
Brook has spent several weeks vowing to take responsibility for his off-field actions that to within a whisker of being stripped of the white-ball captaincy.