Hamish Bennett's seven-wicket haul helped dismiss Wellington for 188 on a rain-affected third day at Basin Reserve and gave Canterbury a slender 27-run lead

Australia are scheduled to arrive in India for a four-Test series on September 29, one day after the Champions Trophy final in Lahore

Glenn McGrath heads a list of international cricketers who have arrived early in India to take part in practice sessions with their respective franchise teams

The inaugural edition of the IPL will overlap with Australia's tour of West Indies and New Zealand's summer in England

Shaun Marsh, the Western Australia top-order batsman, has signed with Mohali in the Indian Premier League

David Hussey, Doug Bollinger, Shaun Marsh and Beau Casson have earned their first Cricket Australia contracts but Chris Rogers was the major omission in the 25-man squad for 2008-09

Nearly half of the players contracted by Cricket Australia and the six states would consider early retirement to play in an Indian Twenty20 league, according to a survey conducted by the Australian Cricketers' Association

The Indian Premier League released on Tuesday its revised guidelines for media coverage of the inaugural tournament, formally withdrawing some of the original contentious clauses but maintaining its hardline stand on websites

Even before the start of the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League, the organisers have announced that the second edition is tentatively scheduled between April 10 and May 29 next year

Peter Willey, the chairman of the umpires' association, has admitted he is pleased to see Darrell Hair restored to the ICC's elite panel

Jeremy Snape will team up with his England Twenty20 team-mate, Dimitri Mascarenhas, after joining the Rajasthan Royals franchise as a performance coach for the forthcoming Indian Premier League

The Nashua Dolphins allrounder, Jon Kent, has been found guilty of dissent and suspended for one match following a disciplinary hearing in Johannesburg

An allround show enabled Saurashtra to overcome Vidarbha by five wickets and enter the final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Visakhapatnam

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) have announced a 14-member squad for next month's women's Asia Cup, which also features India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

Pakistan have delayed announcing their squad for the Under-15 World Cup, which begins in April in the West Indies, because several players were found to be overage after wrist tests were conducted on the 37 probables

Twenty-two year old South African batsman Dominic Telo has signed a two-year Kolpak contract with Derbyshire

The former England captain, Tony Greig, believes that the England & Wales Cricket Board is right to resist calls for its contracted players to be allowed to play in the lucrative Indian Premier League, but has rubbished suggestions from the board's chairm

The old pavilion at Kidderminster's Chester Road ground has been destroyed by fire

Surrey appear to have admitted defeat in their bid to get the planned redevelopment of The Oval underway, and it will now not start until after the end of the season

Hampshire may have found a way round the ECB's refusal to allow them to register Shane Bond for the coming season