Paul Grayson

Diamonds and former Essex head coach to mentor Yorkshire batsmen 

Paul Grayson has been named as the new head coach of Yorkshire Diamonds on a three-year deal.

Ravi Bopara deserves a chance to reshape an Essex side reeling from the departure of coach Paul Grayson and with senior players increasingly failing to deliver

Essex have confirmed the departure of head coach Paul Grayson, ending weeks of speculation over his position at the club

Paul Grayson has been confirmed as Essex coach until the end of the season after the club's general committee overwhelmingly resisted a recommendation from new cricket chairman chairman Ronnie Irani to remove him

Another misfire in the Championship has increased the pressure on Essex's coach ahead of their NatWest T20 Blast quarter-final against the holders

Paul Grayson, the Essex head coach, said English umpires should have called Saeed Ajmal for chucking this season

In the end, the two hours that Mother Nature afforded Essex were not enough for them to secure the victory they deserved

Essex were bowled out for 20, registering the lowest score in their history in falling to a heavy, three-day defeat on an astonishing afternoon at Chelmsford

Essex's head coach Paul Grayson has issued a public apology over what he described as the county's "shambolic" display in losing to Northamptonshire by an innings

Owais Shah could be the first English cricketer to become a full-time freelance player as the growing influence of T20 leagues makes itself felt on county cricket

Paul Grayson, Essex's head coach, has defended the club's signing of South Africa opener Alviro Petersen for the first two months of the season

Paul Grayson, the Essex coach, has admitted the 2011 season fell well below the club's expectations

Former Leicestershire opening batsman John Maunders has signed a one-year deal with Essex after a brief spell with the county at the end of the 2008 season

Paul Grayson's 87 proved the difference in the Minor Counties knock-out final, lifting Suffolk to an insurmountable 219 - and the trophy

Mark Pettini has been confirmed as Essex captain and Paul Grayson as coach

Cricinfo take a look at the major players who have retired after or during the 2005 English season

Paul Grayson, the Essex allrounder, has been granted a benefit year by the club for next season

The nous and obduracy of Somerset's Peter Bowler, hitting his 45th first-class hundred, proved too much for a largely anodyne Essex attack, meaning that both these counties remained winless in the Championship