When Shane is here he tops it all off by being an exceptionally good captain, a genius with the ball - and he gets the best out of players too.

Over the season, there are lots of ifs and buts about the way it turned out, but they deserve their success.

A few little injuries have slowed Alan down and it's probably the right time to retire.

I feel we are not at a crisis yet as far as funding the building of the new high school. But we do need to find the land now.

He has been a great servant for Leicestershire, Hampshire and England and he's been a really popular bloke in the dressing room. His humour will be missed.

In the end it was comfortable, the guys set about things in a thoroughly professional manner and played some good cricket.

These are preliminary data. But if it holds up, it's obviously very good news.