Former chief operating officer of the PCB, Shafqat Naghmi, has said the renovation work at the Gaddafi Stadium may still be completed for Rs 184 million (around $2.3 million) and that the figure had not spiralled to Rs 471 million as the board claimed.

A round-up of the semi-finals in South Africa's domestic one-day competition

New Zealand's latest Test centurion Tim McIntosh has had to wait in a long queue before being granted an opportunity to open for his country

Kevin Pietersen had threatened to quit as England captain during the tour of India but was persuaded not to by ECB officials

A fine display from Ed Rainsford and a disciplined performance from the spinners helped Zimbabwe restrict Sri Lanka to 210 in the second match of the Tri-Nation Tournament in Bangladesh

Simon Katich hopes his Test opening partner Matthew Hayden does not walk away from the game in the next few weeks despite his disappointing returns this season

Cricinfo's preview of the second match of the tri-series between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe in Mirpur

A round-up of the third day's play in the third round of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy

Mohammad Asif cannot re-enter UAE after being deported from Dubai last year for possession of an opium substance weighing 0.24 grams, documents with Cricinfo have confirmed

Steve Harmison has termed as "nonsense" reports that he and other senior England players, including Andrew Flintoff and Andrew Strauss, supported sacked coach Peter Moores ahead of Kevin Pietersen

A round-up of day two of the Regional Four Day competition

New Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder has been recalled for the fifth and final ODI against the West Indies to be played in Napier on Tuesday

Kevin Pietersen has said that he was forced to resign as England captain by the ECB and had not been given any explanation as to why he was asked to stand down

Unable to get in touch with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the East Zone selectors decided to leave him from the Duleep Trophy squad for the game against West, starting from January 29 to February 2 in Mumbai

Matthew Hayden will spend the next week pondering his future after insisting he had not yet decided whether to retire from international cricket having been axed from Australia's one-day team

The former Australia batsman Darren Lehmann is interested in taking up the England coach's job

Graham Ford, the Kent director of cricket, has said he is interested in the vacant England coaching job provided the ECB "do their homework"

Debasis Mohanty is a notable absentee from the East Zone squad, to be captained by former Test opener Shiv Sunder Das, announced for the Duleep Trophy

A round-up of the second day's play in the third round of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy

Cricinfo traces Mumbai's path to the final of the Super League of the 2008-09 Ranji Trophy