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A round-up from the latest Friends Provident Trophy matches

Somerset romp to massive run-chase

A round-up of the matches on the first day of the ICC World Cricket League Division 7 in Guernsey

Rain ruins first-round matches

Daniel Manohar, the Hyderabad batsman, has retired from first-class cricket bringing to an end a career spanning 11 seasons

Daniel Manohar announces retirement

Kolkata Knight Riders captain Brendon McCullum has been reported for showing dissent in Saturday's six-wicket loss to Deccan Chargers in Johannesburg

McCullum reprimanded for dissent

South African bowling coach Vincent Barnes will be working with the Deccan Chargers for the remainder of this season's IPL

Deccan Chargers get Barnes on board

Chappell continues to stay in the lead after a day of two final-over finishes

A quiet day at the top

A round-up from the latest Friends Provident Trophy matches

Patel's six sends Ireland packing

Essex have bolstered their Twenty20 Cup squad by signing Mark Hardinges, the 31-year-old allrounder from Gloucestershire

Essex poach Hardinges for Twenty20 Cup

Runako Morton has been called into West Indies' one-day squad as a replacement for Dale Richards who was forced home with a shoulder injury before the second Test

Morton called into one-day squad

Australia fast bowler Brett Lee believes the four-month lay-off to nurse his injured ankle was the best thing that happened to him

Lay-off was the best thing that happened to me - Lee

The ICC Americas women's championship will be played in Florida starting May 18

USA to feature in ICC Americas women's championship

Zaheer Abbas has said Pakistan will be better served with a specialist batting coach rather than a sports psychologist

Pakistan need batting coach, not psychologist - Zaheer Abbas

The ECB chief executive, David Collier, has defended the decision to stage a low-key two-Test series against West Indies so early in the English season, saying that the board had no choice but to go through with the fixtures because of contractual obligat

Collier defends ECB scheduling

Trumps fail to work wonders for top two, leading to a minuscule rise in the gap

Chappell goes past 8000

Six teams will take the first step on the road to qualification for the 2015 World Cup on Sunday when the ICC World Cricket League Division 7 gets underway in Guernsey

Vettori and Bracken praise minnows' enthusiasm

A round-up from the latest Friends Provident Trophy matches

Durham sweep aside Surrey

England could be forced to go into next month's ICC World Twenty20 without the services of their premier allrounder, Andrew Flintoff, after he revealed that he has yet to start running after undergoing a knee injury sustained during his brief stint at the

Flintoff expected to miss World Twenty20

The former England allrounder, Chris Lewis, has insisted in court that he is innocent of knowingly smuggling cocaine into the country after being given cans of fruit juice to carry onto a flight from St Lucia

Lewis insists innocence over cocaine charges

Steve Harmison's chances of pushing for an England recall have been hit after he picked up a shin problem with concerns it could develop into a stress fracture

Harmison hit by shin problem