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The ECB40, currently known as the Clydesdale Bank 40 (CB40) for sponsorship reasons, is a forty over limited overs cricket competition for the English first class counties. It began in the 2010 English cricket season as a replacement for the Pro40 and Friends Provident Trophy competitions. Clydesdale Bank are the current sponsors, and have a three year deal signed with the England and Wales Cricket Board. Warwickshire won the inaugural tournament. In 2009, in light of the growth of Twenty20

The National Cricket Performance Centre first came into existence in the winter of 2001 2002 and has been based at Loughborough University since 2003. In 2007 following the Schofield Report the National Academy was renamed The National Cricket Performance Centre. It consists of a state of the art £4.5 million indoor training complex. Facilities include lanes enabling full runups for fast bowlers and wicket keepers stood back, Hawk Eye cameras and advanced biomechanics analysis equipment. In

In 1997 the ECB published Raising the Standard , the ECB Management Board Blueprint for the Future Playing Structure of cricket. This introduced the concept of ECB Premier Leagues, designed to raise the playing standard of the top tier of club cricket and to bridge the gap between recreational cricket and the First Class game. A national network of Premier Leagues was established, with funding from the ECB. The Leagues have to meet the published ECB assessment criteria and they receive

Reverend Dr Ewan Christian Brew Corlett, OBE, FREng (11 February 1923 – August 2005) was a British author, naval architect and consultant. He was pivotal to the restoration of the SS Great Britain from a sandbank in the Falklands, to Bristol. He also wrote several papers on the subject of naval architecture and books on the SS Great Britain. He read Engineering Science at Queens' College, Oxford, 1941 4. He then worked for the Naval Construction Department of the Admiralty. After the war he did