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The six major associations in New Zealand have announced their list of 12 contracted players for the 2010-11 season

NZ domestic teams announce contracted players

Pakistan will tour New Zealand at the end of the year for a series of two Tests, six ODIs and three Twenty20 internationals, New Zealand Cricket has announced

Pakistan's tour of NZ includes six ODIs

Essex leapfrogged Gloucestershire into second place in the Clydesdale Bank 40 Group B with a six-wicket win at Bristol

Essex prevail on slow pitch

Tim Nielsen, the Australian coach, will be in charge until the end of the 2013 Ashes after his contract was extended

Tim Nielsen wins contract extension

Kamran Akmal, the Pakistan wicketkeeper, has said being dropped for the second Test against England at Edgbaston gave him an opportunity for reflection and assessment of his game

Edgbaston Test was a time to reflect - Kamran Akmal

Leicestershire captain, Matthew Hoggard, has demanded the immediate removal of the club's chairman, Neil Davidson

Leicestershire chairman told to quit

23-Aug-2010•George Dobell

Flower concerned by 'underperforming' batsmen

England's coach, Andy Flower, has told his underperforming batsmen there is no place to hide after two poor performances in the third Test at The Oval allowed Pakistan to pull the four-match series scoreline back to 2-1

Titans fast bowler CJ de Villiers has been drafted into the South Africa A squad in Sri Lanka as a replacement for Cobras seamer Francois Plaatjies

CJ de Villiers drafted into South Africa A squad

Afghanistan have suffered another blow as Rashid Latif, who took up the post of batting coach last month, has resigned less than a week after head coach Kabir Khan was dumped by the Afghan Board

Afghanistan lose Latif's services

Tony Palladino has been fined by Essex after deliberately knocking the stumps down during the County Championship game against Somerset at Colchester

Palladino fined by Essex

Andrew Flintoff has given his strongest indication that he will be fit to join Queensland's Twenty20 campaign in January following his lengthy rehabilitation from knee surgery

Flintoff hopeful of joining Queensland for T20s

Scotland beat Leicestershire by 12 runs on the Duckworth-Lewis method in their Clydesdale Bank 40 clash at Mannofield Park in Aberdeen

Scotland claim narrow win

Netherlands slipped to their seventh defeat in nine Clydesdale Bank 40 matches as Northamptonshire beat them by 32 runs on the Duckworth-Lewis method in Rotterdam

Netherlands slip to seventh defeat

An impressive bowling display from Chris Wood helped Hampshire to an eight-wicket victory over Scotland in the Clydesdale Bank 40

Wood sets up Hampshire win

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has permitted the recruitment of foreign players for the country's domestic Twenty20 competition - the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League - to be held later in the year

Bangladesh allows foreign players in domestic T20 competition

England's cricketers are facing a ban from using Twitter and Facebook while on England duty, according to the Mail on Sunday

England players face Twitter ban

England have added Tim Bresnan to their squad for the final Test of the summer against Pakistan at Lord's on Thursday

Bresnan added to England squad

Mohammad Amir believes pressure is something that an individual creates for himself and can be avoided

'I don't let pressure affect me' - Amir