West Indies batsman Kieron Pollard has been officially reprimanded for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during his side's third ODI against New Zealand at Wellington

Nottinghamshire have signed Ali Brown, the former Surrey batsman, on a two-year deal as they build for the new season

South Africa will have to wait until the return series next month to try to steal the official No. 1 Test ranking from Australia, but captain Graeme Smith is boosted in the knowledge his side can beat any one in the world.

Mohammad Ashraful and Mushfiqur Rahim of Bangladesh have been fined for excessive appealing during the third day of the second Test against Sri Lanka in Chittagong which finished on Tuesday

Kevin Pietersen has stepped down as England captain with immediate effect and Peter Moores has been sacked as coach after a dramatic day

Australia's 103-run victory against South Africa in the third and final match of the series in Sydney has ensured they stay top of the ICC Test rankings. However, the gap at the top has been reduced to just five rating points as South Africa clinched the

Ramesh Powar and Dhawal Kulkarni shared the five remaining Saurashtra wickets to clinch Mumbai's place in the final of the Ranji Trophy on the basis of a first-innings lead

Ross Taylor's aggressive half-century led New Zealand to a comfortable seven-wicket victory against West Indies in the third ODI in Wellington, leaving the five match series level at 1-1

Jamie Siddons, the Bangladesh coach, said his batsmen were a bit overawed by the prospect of facing Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis in tandem

Mervyn Westfield, the 20-year-old fast bowler, has extended his contract with Essex until 2010

Twenty two wickets fell on an action-packed opening day to the Zimbabwean's tour match against a Bangladesh Academy side at Bogra

A round-up of the remaining Group B matches in the second round of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy

Shoaib Malik has been retained as Pakistan's captain for an indefinite period. The decision was made by PCB chairman Ijaz Butt

Shoaib Akhtar is the main beneficiary after the PCB announced their latest central contracts, while Mohammad Asif has been dumped altogether

Lancashire will begin assessing the applications for their new first-team coach this week and are hopeful of having the position filled in time for the successful candidate to play a significant role in pre-season training

An electrifying 65 from David Warner led New South Wales to a four-wicket win over South Australia at the Adelaide Oval

Steve Harmison has become the first England squad player to speak out on the rift between Peter Moores and Kevin Pietersen

Mushtaq Ahmed, the former Pakistan legspinner, will return to Hove as Sussex's coach for three months this year

Michael Hussey has seen no signs from Matthew Hayden that he is about to retire and would be stunned if the opener was not part of next month's tour to South Africa. Hayden scored 39 in the second innings to continue his horrible run at home this season a

Saurashtra's third attempt at making it to the Ranji final is likely to end in disappointment despite a valiant effort from Shitanshu Kotak, who fell in the penultimate over of the day to hand Mumbai control of the game