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Sussex County Cricket Club have teamed up with, arguably the best Indian restaurants in Brighton and Hove, Indian Summer this July.

Indian Summer will be catering for the crowds and the players when the Indian tourists visit the County Ground from July 7-July 10. The talented chefs will be cooking light take away Indian street food as well as some more substantial dishes in a specially erected marquee.

Gus Mackay Chief Executive at Sussex CCC said; “we are delighted to welcome the highly acclaimed Indian Summer chefs to the County Ground, they will certainly provide a delicious addition to the atmosphere we know the tourists will bring to the county.”

Minesh Agnihotri  Co-owner of Indian Summer said; ” My team are very excited to be creating dishes for the crowds at the India game but also to be cooking for the likes of Tendulkar and Ganguly is amazing for the restaurant.”

There will also be Indian head massage and henna tatooists among the crowds to add to the festival atmosphere at the weekend.

Tickets for Sussex vs India are £20 and  are available from  www.sussexcricket.co.uk or by calling 0871 282 2000

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talkSPORT, the UK’s only national commercial speech radio station, today announced that former England and Essex all-rounder Ronnie Irani is to join the station as a presenter on the massively successful Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast Show.

From Tuesday 25th September, recently retired Irani will join Alan Brazil on talkSPORT’s No.1 show.  With the Premier League getting in to full swing and the Rugby World Cup preparing to kick off, the show’s one million listeners will put Irani’s sporting knowledge to the test when he arrives at the station.

Prior to joining talkSPORT, Irani, 35, was an accomplished cricketer, playing first for his native Lancashire before moving to Essex in 1994, becoming captain in 2000.  A genuine all-rounder, he made 232 first-class appearances scoring 13,472 runs and taking 339 first-class wickets.  With the bat, his career best came in what was ironically to be his last first-class innings at The Ford County Ground when in April of this year he knocked Glamorgan for 218.

Irani announced his retirement from first-class cricket on Thursday 21st June 2007.  Having sustained a knee injury in a match earlier this season Irani was advised that if he continued to play professional sport he risked his lifestyle and health so the decision was made that he should retire from the game with immediate effect.

Since its conception in 2000, the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast has gained a cult following with more than a million avid listeners tuning in every week.  Former Scotland international and Manchester United striker Alan Brazil has made the slot his own with his unique blend of football insight, disdain for ‘numpties’ and amazing anecdotes.

On joining talkSPORT, Irani said: “I cannot wait to start!  I’ve worked with Alan before and we had a brilliant chemistry on air.  I love my sport, not just cricket, so to get the chance to talk about and express a view on football, rugby, tennis, and any sport in fact, has massive appeal and I cannot think of a better place to do it than talkSPORT.”

Bill Ridley, talkSPORT, programme director, added:  “Ronnie is a cracking coup for us and I am sure he will prove to be a great broadcaster.

“He’s not afraid to express his opinion, and nor is [Alan] Brazil, so their pairing should make for brilliant speech radio.”

Before taking up his full-time role on Breakfast, Irani will be appearing on talkSPORT throughout the summer as a pundit on the County Championship.

Graham Beecroft, who is currently on the Alan Brazil Breakfast Show, will stay with the station by providing match reports from his native North West as well as standing in for regular presenters.  Mike Parry will continue to co-present on Mondays.

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Essex batsman Alastair Cook has earned a recall to the England one-day squad for the upcoming series against the West Indies.

The 22-year-old left-hander made his first two international appearances in limited overs cricket during the NatWest Series against Sri Lanka last summer when he scored 80 runs at an average of 40.

Cook has now been given another opportunity when England take on their Caribbean opponents in the NatWest International Twenty20 series on June 28 and 29 and the NatWest Series from July 1 to July 7.

He has made an outstanding start to the 2007 season with six centuries to his name already, including an eye-catching 125 against Surrey Brown Caps at one-day level in the Friends Provident Trophy at Whitgift School at the start of June.

Essex Captain Ronnie Irani spoke to the Essex CCC website (www.essexcricket.org.uk) of his delight at his young team-mate’s selection:

“This is fantastic news and a deserved reward for his fine form. I’m sure he can do a great job at the top of the order.

“I would personally have liked him to have been picked as Captain (Paul Collingwood was today named as the new England ODI skipper) to allow him to make a natural progression into the role in all forms of the game with England. But first things first it is a great effort to get into the squad and I can see him producing big things in all formats.”

Having featured in the fourth Test against the West Indies at the Riverside Cook will be rested from Essex’s Twenty20 Cup group games on June 22 against Sussex Sharks and June 23 against Kent Spitfires.

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