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Kumar Sangakkara has reclaimed the top position in the ICC Test Players Rankings, following the second Test against New Zealand in Wellington, which the hosts won by 193 runs

Sangakkara returns to top of Test rankings

Pakistan Women secured an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three ODI series against Sri Lanka Women, defending a total of 138 runs for a 12-run victory in the second match in Sharjah

Pakistan defend 138 to clinch series

Sydney Sixers made light work of a 148-run chase against Brisbane Heat in Woollongabba, as their top and middle-order batsmen all chipped in with handy knocks to complete a six-wicket win

Clinical Sixers cruise to victory

Kevin Pietersen has received some sympathy from a former team-mate over the way his international career ended

Pietersen sacking 'unnecessary' - Broad

A stranglehold by the Perth Scorchers bowlers dried up the boundaries for Hobart Hurricanes as they aimed for the final push in their chase but fell comfortably short of a middling target at Bellerive Oval

Bowlers' strangle wins it for Scorchers

A list of all the World Cup squads

A list of the World Cup squads

Chris Gayle and Sunil Narine have refused the annual retainer contracts offered to them by the WICB, while it would appear Kieron Pollard wasn't offered one

Gayle and Narine refuse WICB contracts

Test opener Chris Rogers will captain the Prime Minister's XI against England in Canberra this Wednesday after Michael Hussey was withdrawn from the match due to a calf injury

Rogers to captain Prime Minister's XI

Ed Joyce's 51 and a steady 52-run partnership between Andy Balbirnie and Alex Cusack helped Ireland survive a couple of batting wobbles to secure a three-wicket win against Afghanistan in their opening game of the Dubai triangular series

Ireland survive wobble to win

A century from Sohaib Maqsood helped Baluchistan Warriors gun down 316 in just 41 overs against Punjab Badshahs and book their place in the Pentangular One Day Cup final

Warriors in final after chasing 316

Kevin Pietersen said he wants to face his former team-mates after a spot opened up in the Prime Minister's XI

Pietersen wants to face England

Wellington finally won their first match in this season's Ford Trophy, their first in five attempts, on the back of a century from Stephen Murdoch and a four-for from fast bowler Brent Arnel

Murdoch ton hands Wellington first win

Mohammad Tauqir has been named captain of UAE's squad for the World Cup, replacing Khurram Khan

Mohammad Tauqir to captain UAE at World Cup

Half-centuries by Shahid Yousuf, Umar Akmal and Umar Siddiq helped Punjab Badshahs hand Sindh Knights their fourth straight loss

Badshahs hand Knights fourth loss

Preston Mommsen will lead Scotland into their third World Cup campaign after Cricket Scotland named their squad of 15 to travel to Australia and New Zealand.

Mommsen chases history with Scotland

A fifty from opener Marina Iqbal and an unbeaten 37 from Nida Dar steered Pakistan Women to a five-wicket win against Sri Lanka Women in the opening match of the three ODI-series in Sharjah

Dar, Iqbal lead Pakistan to win

Mitchell Santner's quickfire half-century pipped Todd Astle's to secure Northern Districts' victory over Canterbury by four wickets

Santner fifty trumps Canterbury

Former New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond will quit as the national team's bowling coach at the end of the 2015 World Cup

Bond to quit as NZ bowling coach after World Cup

New Zealand will be without Ross Taylor and Tim Southee, who has a "slight hammy niggle", for the first ODI against Sri Lanka

New Zealand without Southee, Taylor for first ODI