Morgan didn't play in the competition last season but returns to the highly lucrative tournament that will be used by man of the world's top stars as a warm-up to the T20 World Cup next year.

An improbable career-best knock of 92 from nightwatchman Jack Leach underpinned England’s fightback against Ireland at Lord’s but the visitors remained in the hunt for one of Test cricket’s biggest upsets.

THE developers of Altitude Resort — a €430 million all-weather ski slope and nursery slopes development planned for the north-east — expect to have the first phase open by the end of next year.