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Ricky Ponting has said the absence of Kevin Pietersen for the rest of the series will be a major positive for Australia

Pietersen loss 'massive' for England - Ponting

Gary Kirsten said if players are paid substantially more for playing in the Twenty20 league then there will be others like Andrew Flintoff who will quit Tests

Players could quit Tests for high IPL pay - Kirsten

Floyd Reifer has said while he is happy with the balance of the team, the top-order batting remains

Reifer concerned by top-order batting

Richard Hadlee has criticised Stephen Fleming's relationship with the coaches he worked with, saying he "tended to overshadow and almost downgraded the profile and role of the coach"

Fleming downgraded role of coach - Hadlee

Kevin Pietersen has backed Ian Bell, his replacement in England's batting line-up, to come good in the remaining three Ashes Tests against Australia

England 'preying on' Johnson - Pietersen

A round-up of the matches on day five of the Emerging Players Tournament

South Africa on song, New Zealand flounder

Graeme Smith's new book has caused controversy after a former board president claimed there were defamatory remarks about him in the book

Smith's book causes controversy

New Zealand cricketers may choose to play in the lucrative IPL instead of their country in the future if the Twenty20 tournament's schedule clashes with their international commitments, Daniel Vettori has said

Players could put IPL ahead of country - Vettori

Floyd Reifer, the West Indies captain, has said his team has learnt from the loss in the Test series and is confident of handing Bangladesh their first defeat of the tour in Sunday's one-dayer

Reifer expects West Indies to bounce back

Ian Bell will resume his international career after being confirmed as Kevin Pietersen's replacement for the third Test against Australia

Bell returns but focus is on Flintoff

Marks out of ten for Sri Lanka and Pakistan

Young seamers, and a debutant centurion

Middlesex coach Toby Radford has left the club after finding that his role has changed under the new structure

Radford leaves Middlesex

Bangladesh remained unbeaten on their tour of West Indies with a win against University of West Indies Vice Chancellor's XI

Mushfiqur propels Bangladesh to victory

West Indies' leading players may have ended their strike but their board has confirmed that there will be no changes to the weakened 30-man pool they had named for the Champions Trophy earlier in the week

WICB keeps stars out of Champions Trophy pool

Bangladesh Under-19s won the ODI series against England Under-19s after a thrilling one-wicket victory in the deciding fifth one-dayer

Hasan guides Bangladesh to series win

Glenn McGrath has said that Mitchell Johnson's failure in the first two Ashes Tests was due to "mental issues rather than technical ones"

McGrath wants Johnson to keep things simple

A round-up of the fourth day of the latest round of County Championship matches

Rain produces draws across England

Richard LeTang has said that he will respond favourably to West Indies coach John Dyson's requests for pitches with pace and bounce

Windsor Park curator answers Dyson's calls

Cricket Canada has handed central contracts to six players - Harvir Baidwan, Umar Bhatti, Rizwan Cheema, Khurram Chohan, Sunil Dhaniram, and Henry Osinde

Six Canada players receive central contracts