ESPNcricinfo staff

The BCCI is considering performance-based financial incentives for its international cricketers

BCCI considering performance-based incentives for Indian team

England have stuck with the team who drew 1-1 with New Zealand for the first Investec Ashes Test in Cardiff while adding Adil Rashid and Steven Finn to a 13-man squad

Rashid, Finn in England Test squad

Mohammad Hafeez will miss the third Test against Sri Lanka in Pallekele to undergo a test on his bowling action, which was found suspect after the Galle Test

Hafeez to miss third Test, set to undergo test on bowling action

Chris Gayle's red hot T20 form carried over to Warner Park in St Kitts on Tuesday night where his unbeaten 72 led Jamaica Tallawahs to a seven-wicket win against St Kitts & Nevis Patriots

Gayle outdoes Samuels, Guptill in Tallawahs win

Grant Elliott, Doug Bracewell and Mitchell Santner are the three additions to the New Zealand Cricket central contract list for 2015-16

Elliott returns to NZ central contract list

Stephan Myburgh's unbeaten 60-ball 67 laid the platform for Netherlands to pull off an 18-run win over Nepal in the first T20 in Amstelveen

Myburgh, Malik see off Nepal challenge

A couple of weeks ago, Ajinkya Rahane couldn't even make India's ODI XI, but after surprisingly being named captain for the limited-overs tour of Zimbabwe, the batsman has said that he is "very confident to handle this new responsibility."

'My aim is to instill confidence in the players' - Rahane

Sri Lanka batsman Upul Tharanga has replaced Kumar Sangakkara for the third Test against Pakistan starting Friday in Pallekele

Tharanga replaces Sangakkara for third Test

Sri Lanka Cricket has appointed allrounder Shashikala Siriwardene captain of the Women's ODI and T2OI teams, while batsman Chamari Atapattu has been named vice-captain

Siriwardene reappointed SL Women captain

ICC chairman N Srinivasan believes there will be great difficulty setting up and sustaining rebel cricket leagues despite the amount of money they might offer players

Hard to see rebel leagues succeeding - Srinivasan

Mitchell Johnson has admitted that the death of Phillip Hughes in November 2014 had caused a mental block and a dip in pace.

Hughes' death affected my bowling - Johnson

Zafar Ansari and Tom Curran underlined their potential as two of the best young bowlers in English cricket by completing career-best figures to send Gloucestershire plunging to an innings and 180-run defeat against Surrey at a sun-baked Kia Oval

Ansari follows Curran with a glimpse of the future

29-Jun-2015•ECB/PA

Misbah replaces Malik for Barbados Tridents

Pakistan's Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq has been named as a replacement for Shoaib Malik for Barbados Tridents

The ICC's ACSU is understood to have found no corroborating evidence against the three international cricketers who had been accused by former IPL chairman Lalit Modi of having received affluent gifts from an Indian businessman

Players given clean chit, says BCCI

Sri Lanka thwart Pakistan, rain

A trial court in Delhi has adjourned the hearing on framing of charges on the alleged betting and fixing activities of the three cricketers who have been chargesheeted during the 2013 IPL corruption scandal

Trial court adjourns spot-fixing hearing

Ajinkya Rahane has been selected to lead a second-string India side to Zimbabwe for the proposed three ODIs and two T20Is

Rahane to lead second-string side in Zimbabwe

Chris Gayle struck nine sixes on his way to an unbeaten 90 off 36 deliveries as Jamaica Tallawahs crushed St Lucia Zouks by ten wickets in Gros Islet for their first win of the tournament

Gayle assault powers Tallawahs home