Cricket

Phil Neale, the Warwickshire manager, is to manage England's Under-19 tour to Pakistan this winter. The appointment signals Neale's return to the international scene two years after he managed the England A tour to India.

Dennis Silk, the outgoing chairman of the Test and Cricket County Board, said yesterday that the Ray Illingworth affair had proved that English Cricket's disciplinary procedures needed an overhaul. Silk, delighted that Illingworth had won his appeal, called on the Board to give Gerard Elias QC, the Glamorgan vice-chairman, its current discipline committee chairman, the power to put in place a new disciplinary system.