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The former Australia batsman has been part of the IPL as player and coach for several franchises, and brings an insider's view to how teams operate

Ben Phillips: vital runs and wickets as Northants beat Hampshire Surrey 401 & 251 for 3 dec beat Kent 352 for 5 dec & 114 by 186 runs at The Oval Scorecard Saqlain Mushtaq and Ian Salisbury shared seven wickets as Surrey spun Kent

Australia's T20 veteran signs three-year deal, will report to Virender Sehwag

That Gujarat Lions have managed to take only one wicket in two games has prompted the management to rethink their strategy of playing four overseas batsmen

Sydney Sixers saw all their wickets fall in a 70-run period, as they were all out for 104, chasing 153

Ian Bell and Mitchell Johnson were the stars for Perth Scorchers as they brushed aside the Adelaide Strikers for a comfortable 48-run win in their first match of the season

Brad Hodge hit six fours and as many sixes in his unbeaten 45-ball 85 as Peshawar recovered from 69 for 4 in 11.5 overs to overhaul Karachi's 152 for 7 with nine balls to spare

Suresh Raina has been named captain of the new Rajkot IPL franchise, which will be called Gujarat Lions, and former Australia batsman Brad Hodge has been appointed coach of the team

A record partnership between Brad Hodge and Alex Ross powered Adelaide Strikers' 19-run win over Melbourne Stars

Half-centuries from Assad Fudadin and Brad Hodge, followed by a four-wicket haul from fast bowler Ronsford Beaton helped Guyana Amazon Warriors crush Jamaica Tallawahs by 84 runs at Sabina Park

Brad Hodge's 61 in a 36-ball assault gave Guyana Amazon Warriors an easy 23-run win against St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in Basseterre

Two excellent bowling performances and one brutal six produced the first close finish of this Big Bash League season as the Adelaide Strikers clambered over the line to beat the Perth Scorchers by one wicket at the WACA

Owais Shah and Ben Dunk have been signed as replacements for Ahmed Shehzad and Thisara Perera in the Caribbean Premier League

South Australia have escaped Cricket Australia's Big Bash League recruitment investigation with a bloody nose as their former high performance chief Jamie Cox looks for work following his pre-emptive sacking for the Adelaide Strikers' recruitment activiti

Former England captain Kevin Pietersen has been drafted by St Lucia Zouks for his first season of the Caribbean Premier League

Brad Hogg could become the oldest man ever to play a Twenty20 international after being called up along with fellow veteran Brad Hodge for Australia's World Twenty20 campaign in Bangladesh

As Twenty20 wins go, this was comprehensive. So comprehensive that Brad Hodge did not even get to bat in his first international for nearly six years

Brad Hodge could play his first match for Australia in nearly six years after being called into the squad for the second Twenty20 in Melbourne on Friday

A vintage Brad Hodge half-century and a polished bowling display by John Hastings helped an understrength Melbourne Stars stroll through to the semi-finals undefeated after beating Perth Scorchers by 20 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Brad Hodge might be holding on to a slim hope of being called up for the World Twenty20 after Australia's selectors named him in the Prime Minister's XI to take on England in Canberra next week