Tatenda Taibu's second century of the match kept Zimbabwe XI alive in their four-day game against Afghanistan in Mutare

Herschelle Gibbs will represent Cape Cobras in the Champions League, and not the Deccan Chargers, with whom he won the IPL

Regulations will force teams like Delhi Daredevils to cut down on their foreign strength to minimise a payout for "away" players

Simon Guy, the 30-year-old wicket-keeper, has been released by Yorkshire after struggling to push for a first team place

Gloucestershire have signed 18-year-old academy players David Payne and Chris Dent on two-year contracts

Senior West Indies players including Chris Gayle, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Jerome Taylor, will be available for the team's tour of Australia despite being left out of the Champions Trophy squad

Marcus Trescothick, Somerset's leading performer on Twenty20 Cup Finals Day at Edgbaston, is now faced with a tough decision as to whether he will travel to India to play at the Champions League in October

Former South African umpire Wilf Diedricks died early on Tuesday morning after a lengthy illness at the age of 64

Two Zimbabwe first class cricketers - Simba Kusano and Mbekezeli Mabuza - were seriously injured when they were involved in a car crash near Bulawayo on Sunday evening

Uganda recovered from losing four quick wickets to move within 20 runs of Bermuda's paltry total on the opening day of the Intercontinental Shield match

Though Flintoff has played the Ashes with a dodgy knee, Geoff Miller, the chairman of selectors, said the board was keen to have him play as many one-dayers as possible

Left-arm spinner Hiren Varaiya weaved his magic as Kenya stormed to a 247-run victory against Canada at the Maple Leaf South-West Ground in Toronto

Virender Sehwag has denied reported allegations from Delhi and Districts Cricket Association officials that he tried to influence selection to get his cousin picked in the Ranji team

Richard Hadlee has sounded a dire warning that Test cricket will be seriously threatened unless the ICC steps in to halt the spread of Twenty20

Irfan Pathan has vowed to come back strongly in the international circuit after not being considered for the ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa

Gordon Goudie and Majid Haq took nine wickets between them on a cold day in Aberdeen to dismiss defending champions Ireland for 202 at Mannofield Park

Deep Dasgupta and Rohan Gavaskar are among six former ICL players to have been named in a 35-man Bengal probables squad for the forthcoming Ranji Trophy season

First-class umpire Johan Cloete has been promoted by CSA to the ICC's TV Umpire Panel as reward for consistency in domestic cricket

As expected, the West Indian selectors have named a squad without most of the leading players for the Champions Trophy

Peer comparison table - opening batsmen