Ajay S Shankar

The BCCI-backed Champions League Twenty20 tournament will be played this year in India but may not feature a team from England

Options being considered are to hold a five-ODI series or rework the dates of the Test and one-day series, Graeme Labrooy, the secretary of the Sri Lanka Cricketers' Association (SLCA), said

A sample taken from random testing at the inaugural season of the IPL has tested positive, IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has confirmed to Cricinfo

The ICC has taken the first significant step towards resolving the contentious issue of unauthorised cricket by setting up a high-powered committee

Cricket Australia has joined the BCCI and Cricket South Africa in adopting a strong position against allowing players associated with the ICL to participate in the proposed Champions League

Zimbabwe have agreed to pull out of next year's Twenty20 World Cup in England, clearing the roadblocks for the competition to be staged there, but will retain their status as Full Member of the ICC and receive funding as usual

The Champions League, a proposed multi-nation tournament featuring top domestic Twenty20 teams, took a short step forward on Thursday with officials from India, South Africa, Australia and England wrapping up a "basic discussion"

The ICC executive board's discussion on Zimbabwe was finally "put on hold overnight to enable offline discussions" and will resume at 9 am on Friday.

A compromise has been identified - that Zimbabwe stay out of the World Twenty20 to be held in England next year but retain its Full Member status - but has not yet found acceptance

The Zimbabwe issue is not about politics in the country or their ICC membership but concerns the development of cricket there, Ray Mali, the ICC president, told Cricinfo

In its first official reaction to the Zimbabwe issue, which tops the agenda for the ICC's annual meeting in Dubai next week, the Indian board has said it "would like to fully support" Zimbabwe Cricket on the issue of full membership of the world

A two-thirds majority vote within the ICC board - seven out of 10 votes - is needed for any resolution to be moved on Zimbabwe

Matthew Hayden and Michael Hussey, Australia's key batsmen, will drop out of a pre-Test series practice match in India and instead play for Chennai Super Kings

Sharad Pawar has said that all teams participating in the proposed Champions League have the freedom to include players of their choice for the event

Mahela Jayawardene feels that the new umpire decision review system should be utilized in a manner that shows respect to the on-field umpires

England is working on developing their Twenty20 model; South Africa is convinced by the success of IPL and is already reviewing their current franchise format; Cricket Australia may launch their IPL version as soon as next year; and even Pakistan is think

Jonty Rhodes will be the top draw in a unique Israel team that will take on an India A squad to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel

Some players - Indian and foreign - are yet to receive their first paycheques, due to a wall of paperwork IPL authorities and franchise officials are trying to clear

The IPL, which began on April 18, had fixed a cap of eight foreign players per franchise for the first auction in February, but subsequently stretched it to nine per squad

Harbhajan Singh, who was recently banned for 11 IPL matches for slapping Sreesanth at the end of a match, has been handed a five-match ODI ban from the Indian board