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Give Flower all the power

Boyd Rankin has admitted nerves made his Test debut a painful experience and revealed he had suffered a back spasm the night before being handed his cap at the SCG

Nerves ruined my debut - Rankin

Warriors beat Knights by five wickets in East London to record their second win

All-round Smuts leads Warriors to win

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

Hodge named for Prime Minister's XI

Tony Hill has stepped down from the ICC elite panel of umpires to take up the role of New Zealand Cricket umpire coach

Hill steps down from elite panel

Sunil Gavaskar has said both Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh can still force their way back into the Indian team

Gavaskar says Yuvraj and Sehwag down but not out

Usman Arshad scored a crucial first-innings 91 to help lay the platform for State Bank of Pakistan's seven-wicket win over Port Qasim Authority in Karachi

Arshad, bowlers set up big win for SBP

Tendulkar and us

Dwayne Bravo is happy to have "competition" in the squad, after a couple of his team's replacement batsmen came good to square the ODI series against New Zealand in Hamilton

Bravo pleased replacements causing 'competition' in squad

England players Matt Prior and Stuart Broad were reportedly involved in preventing a man jump from a bridge near the team's hotel in Sydney

Prior, Broad talk man down from bridge

A round-up of the HRV Cup matches played on January 8, 2014

Otago win high-scoring thriller

ESPNcricinfo presents the plays of the day from the fifth one-day international between New Zealand and West Indies

The hundred grand catch

Live blog of the quarterfinals of the Ranji Trophy 2013-14

Ranji Trophy quarter-finals, 5th day

Dale Steyn is suffering from a minor fracture to his rib but is set to recover in time for the home series against Australia, the first Test of which begins on February 12

Steyn recovering from rib injury

Understandably in the wake of England's humiliating 5-0 defeat in Australia, there has been much scrutiny about the future of the coach and captain, Andy Flower and Alastair Cook

Cook remains England's best option

A wrap of Quaid-e-Azam games that finished on Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Rehman takes 11 in Karachi Whites' win

Alan Richardson has confirmed his retirement from cricket in order to take up the role of bowling coach at Warwickshire

Richardson confirmed as Warwickshire bowling coach

Nathan Coulter-Nile and Yasir Arafat bowled superbly at the death to derail Hobart Hurricanes close to the finish line

Coulter-Nile, Arafat snatch win for Scorchers

The BCCI could have let the six India ODI players who are part of teams in the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals to play for their state before leaving for the New Zealand tour, Rahul Dravid has said

'Players could have left for NZ after quarterfinals' - Dravid