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The World Cricket League Division 2 gets underway in the UAE on Friday, with six teams hoping to play in the ICC Intercontinental Cup to be held later this year

Teams gear up for WCL Division 2

South Africa A showed clear intentions of aiming for a win in Potchefstroom, after declaring within the first day and picking up a Bangladesh A wicket

Aggressive South Africa hold edge

Javed Miandad has said he will consider becoming the permanent batting coach of Pakistan, after their tour of the West Indies is completed

Miandad may take batting coach job

Trevor Bayliss, the former Sri Lanka coach, has said there has to be an improvement in management and administration backing the national team

Bayliss calls for improvement in management

John Hastings derailed the Bangladesh Cricket Board XI chase with a hat-trick to spur the visiting Australians to a comprehensive victory in their only warm-up game ahead of the three-match ODI series

Hastings, batsmen set up easy Australian win

After having been ignored for the World Cup, Ishant Sharma is itching to get back in to India's limited-overs side, and is looking forward to making an impact in the IPL to launch his comeback

Ishant hopes to launch comeback through IPL

Royal Challengers Bangalore coach Ray Jennings is determined to push his team to IPL glory this year

Jennings determined to win IPL

Nottinghamshire clinched the County Championship on a thrilling final day last September but it will be tough work to defend the title

Another tight title race on the cards

Hawk-Eye Innovations has dismissed doubts over its technology's accuracy during the semi-final between India and Pakistan when an lbw decision against Sachin Tendulkar was overturned by the referral system

Hawk-Eye dismisses doubts over Tendulkar lbw

Shane Watson has said he is looking forward to an "exciting" new era as his team shifts focus from a disappointing World Cup campaign to the one-day series against Bangladesh

Watson looks ahead to 'exciting' new era

Abdul Razzaq, the Pakistan allrounder, has questioned the basis for his exclusion from the ODIs and Twenty20s on the tour of West Indies

Razzaq questions basis for exclusion

The ICC's decision to exclude Associates from the 2015 World Cup has been met with understandable disappointment from Scotland and Bermuda

'Main reason is to protect Bangladesh and Zimbabwe'

The IPL closely following the World Cup has meant that the franchises' squads have not had much time to prepare as a unit, but that, says Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming, means the players can hit the ground running

'World Cup best build-up for IPL' - Fleming

The Australian domestic Twenty20 competition, the Big Bash League, moved a step closer to its new and revamped avatar, with eight new sides announcing fresh and innovative team names and colours

New look and feel for freshly formed Big Bash teams

The Bombay High Court has dismissed an appeal by Lalit Modi challenging an earlier decision by a single judge that allowed the BCCI's disciplinary proceedings against him to continue

High Court dismisses Lalit Modi appeal

Ireland's coach Phil Simmons has joined the clamour of condemnation following the decision to limit the 2015 World Cup to just the ten Test-playing nations, describing the move as "despicable"

Simmons lashes out at 'despicable' ICC

Gary Kirsten says South Africa needed a more experienced middle order to win crunch games

Weak middle order cost South Africa - Kirsten

Pakistan coach Waqar Younis has said it is time for a new wicketkeeper to be blooded in the side as a replacement for Kamran Akmal

Time to blood a new wicketkeeper - Waqar

Wahab Riaz, who picked up his maiden ODI five-for against India in the World Cup semi-final, had spent three nights planning his strategy against India's batsmen ahead of the clash

Three sleepless nights before semi-final - Riaz