Anthony McGrath, the former England batsman, has been awarded a benefit season in 2009 by Yorkshire, the club he has been with since 1993

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has shown some leniency by allowing one of its ICL recruits, the former seamer Shabbir Ahmed, to train at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore

Daryll Cullinan has expressed concerns over the fitness of the South African players on tour in England, following their defeats in the first two one-day internationals against England

Justin Vaughan, New Zealand Cricket's (NZC) chief executive, says he isn't worried over the number of employees quitting the board as part of its restructuring program

Shaun Tait will make his return to competitive cricket on Australia A's one-day tour of India next month after walking away from the game in January

Shikhar Dhawan, the Delhi batsman, has injured his right thumb and is likely to be out of action for at least two weeks which would ruled him out of both the three-day games against Australia A

Marcus Trescothick revealed he used an objectionable trick to retain the shine on the ball, but failed to ruffle more than a few feathers

A round-up from the latest Championship matches

The fifth ICC Awards will be held in Dubai on September 10, after plans to stage the event in Lahore fell through with the postponement of the Champions Trophy

Everything went Yorkshire's way on the second day of the Scarborough Festival - and in truth they deserved it

Rahwat Wali, who was part of Afghanistan's national team between 2001 and 2006, has been killed in a raid by international troops on his home in the eastern province of Khost

Danish Kaneria, the Pakistan legspinner, will be out of action for six weeks after undergoing a finger surgery

New Zealand Cricket has announced the itineraries for the home series against West Indies and India this summer.

Middlesex's Billy Godleman and Surrey's Stuart Meaker have both received penalty points under the ECB's discipline code

Mitchell Johnson says having only one warm-up game in India before October's Test series is not ideal for Australia, who are still hoping another tour match can be arranged

Michael Hussey and Mitchell Johnson showed little rust after a seven-week break as Australia cruised to victory in their only warm-up match in Darwin as they prepare to take on Bangladesh

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is confident that the Stanford Twenty20 for 20 between England and a Stanford All Stars team will go ahead as scheduled

Mohammad Asif has asked for his preliminary hearing for testing positive for nandrolone, a banned anabolic steroid, to be pushed back from August 30, the scheduled date, to the middle of September

Chaminda Vaas, who became the fourth bowler to reach 400 one-day wickets when he had Yuvraj Singh caught for a duck in the fourth ODI in Colombo, has said he thoroughly enjoyed playing cricket through his career and had no regrets whatsoever

Stephen Fleming will not make a decision on whether he continues to play domestic cricket for Wellington until he sees the season's fixture list