ESPNcricinfo staff

The ICC today confirmed it had responded formally by rejecting the legal claims initiated last week by the PCB concerning the hosting of the 2011 World Cup matches

ICC clears air over PCB's claims

Match home for England v West Indies, 2nd Test, Riverside

England v West Indies, 2nd Test, Chester-le-Street

14-May-2009

Rajasthan and Middlesex to play charity game

Rajasthan Royals and Middlesex, the IPL and the English Twenty20 champions, will face off for the British Asian Cup on July 6 at Lord's

The IPL's technical committee has decided to add an extra hour, if necessary, to complete the league games, and two extra hours for the semi-finals and final

Extra hours for matches in case of rain

After seizing pole position from Sambit Bal yesterday, Ian Chappell has opened up a 346-point lead over Cricinfo's editor

Another good day for Chappell

The former Sussex captain John Barclay has been nominated as the next president of Marylebone Cricket Club

John Barclay named as MCC president

A round-up from the latest Friends Provident Trophy matches

Ramprakash stars for Surrey again

Chris Gayle has said that he wasn't looking to remain the West Indies captain for a long period of time and would be "giving it up shortly" because of the pressure the job entailed

Gayle ponders Test future

The Australian Test umpire, Simon Taufel, believes the pink ball being trialled by MCC could have a future in the game after watching it in action during a match at Lord's on Wednesday

Taufel gives backing to pink ball

Shoaib Akhtar's latest fitness concern, a skin problem, has ruled him out of Pakistan's training camp for the World Twenty20, coach Intikhab Alam said

Shoaib to miss training camp

Australia's captain, Ricky Ponting, believes that England's Ashes veterans, Michael Vaughan and Steve Harmison, will be back to face his team come the start of the series

Ponting expects Vaughan to return

The PCB has filed a case in a Lahore court against the ICC's decision to move the headquarters of the 2011 World Cup from Lahore to Mumbai

PCB files case in Lahore against WC secretariat move

Cricket has become an Asian Games sport after it was approved by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) on Wednesday

Cricket to be part of 2010 Asian Games

Julian Hunte, the WICB president, has said that Chris Gayle's comment about not wanting to captain West Indies was an "unfortunate development"

Gayle's comments an 'unfortunate development' - Hunte

West Indies have stuck with largely the same women's squad for World Twenty20 that represented them at the World Cup

Nero back in Windies women's squad for World Twenty20

The intense scrap at the top of the table continues as Ian Chappell regains the No. 1 position from Sambit Bal

Chappell wrests back top spot

A round-up from the latest Friends Provident Trophy matches

Mascarenhas puts Hampshire top

This summer's Ashes series will be one of the last in which the umpire's decision is final, after the ICC confirmed that its controversial Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) is set to be introduced permanently into the game

No referrals for Ashes series

Durham's chief executive, David Harker, believes that ticket prices may have to fall for future Test series, after his county managed to sell barely half of the seats available for Thursday's second Test against West Indies at the Riverside

Durham ponders cheaper ticket prices