The ECB has apologised for past failures of safeguarding but insists that its policies have "developed significantly" over the past 20 years, following the publication of a case review into the crimes of Michael Strange, a cricket coach who is serving a jail term for a series of sex offences against under-age boys in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Strange, 65, was first sentenced in 2012 and remains in prison, having been convicted of 34 separate offences, involving ten separate victims, between 1993 and 2004.

The ECB suspended him from all cricket in 2005 when the allegations first came to light, and he was permanently disqualified from all cricket activity in April 2006.

In a 47-page case review, the Cricket Regulator found that Strange was "definitively, a sexual predator", adding that h

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