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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

McIntosh treads the Richardson path

12-Jan-2009•Marc Ellison

Pietersen threatened to quit in India - Amiss

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

Kulasekara, Mendis demolish Zimbabwe

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

Katich wants Hayden to play on

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

Positive Zimbabwe search for upset win

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

KRL get on board, Faisalabad move to the top

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

Asif was detained in Dubai for possessing opium

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

'Flintoff and I supported Pietersen' - Harmison

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

Smith double-century sets up Windward Islands

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

Ryder returns for series decider

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

Pietersen says he was forced to quit

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

Dhoni left out of East Zone's Duleep opener

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

Hayden to consider his future this week

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

England coaching job excites Lehmann

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

Ford keen on England coaching job

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

Debasis overlooked for East Zone Duleep squad

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

Ball dominates bat again, but just

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

Mumbai's road to the final

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

Uttar Pradesh's road to the final