English cricket chief feels heat

LEICESTERSHIRE chairman Neil Davidson has called for England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke to resign over the body’s close links with Allen Stanford.

The ECB have ceased negotiations with Stanford after it emerged he had been charged over a “massive fraud based on false promises” in the US.

The controversial Texan agreed a deal with the ECB last summer for five one-off encounters, to be played annually each November, with an overall prize fund of $20million per match.