ESPNcricinfo staff

The Ashes have only just been regained by Australia, but already the board is planning the next home series over six games in 2010-11

Australia want six Ashes Tests

15-Jan-2007•Cricinfo staff & AFP

White Ferns announce squad to India

Haidee Tiffen has been retained as the captain while two new players have been included from the Canterbury side - wicketkeeper Rowan Milburn and offbreak bowler Selena Charteris

Ross Taylor and James Franklin have been cleared to play in New Zealand's second match of the CB Series against England at Hobart tomorrow after recovering from their respective ailments

Taylor and Franklin passed fit for England clash

Ricky Ponting will take his annual mid-season holiday and miss Australia's CB Series match against England in Brisbane on Friday

Ponting rested for England clash

New South Wales Breakers will aim for back-to-back National Women's Cricket League titles after they sealed second place

New South Wales set up finals date with Victoria

Cameron White's re-entry into the Australia team has been so strong that he has out-hit Andrew Symonds in their past two partnerships

Cameron strikes white-hot form

Damien Fleming believes Ben Hilfenhaus is a "natural" one-day bowler and should be considered for the World Cup in the West Indies

Hilfenhaus on track for World Cup

Scotland failed to guarantee themselves a place in the final after their match with UAE ended in a draw

Scotland cling on for draw

Defending champions Sialkot suffered a setback as they conceded a crucial 28-run first innings lead to Faisalabad, but then by the second day's close in their four-day, second round 49th Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Cricket Championship Gold League match, they str

Nazir resucitates Sialkot

A summary of 5th day's play of the Ranji Plate Group semi-final between Himachal Pradesh and Railways

Himachal in next season's Super League

A round-up of the State Twenty20 games that took place on January 14

Papps and Stewart guide Canterbury to easy win

The PCB has responded to charges in a local newspaper of nepotism and cronyism among journalists while asserting that Nasim Ashraf, chairman of the board, remains committed to the reorganization of the administration of cricket on modern lines.

PCB hits back at claims of nepotism

New Zealand selectors announce 30-member provisional squad

Mills and Oram in World Cup preliminary squad

Jason Gillespie insists he is still one of Australia's best bowlers and the selectors should stop looking at his age

Old-age perception annoys Gillespie

New Zealand's batsmen were unable to follow up on Shane Bond's hat-trick and fell 105 runs short of Australia's 289 despite Ross Taylor's fighting 84

Bond hat-trick can't save NZ from 105-run defeat

13-Jan-2007•Brydon Coverdale

Hair to umpire in World Cricket League

Darrell Hair will stand in the forthcoming World Cricket League Division One competition in Nairobi

Ryan Steede, the medium-pacer and Kwame Tucker, the wicketkeeper, are the two notable omissions of Bermuda's squad for the World Cricket League to be held in Kenya later this month

Steede and Tucker miss out

Neil McCallum's excellent 109, his maiden first-class hundred, helped Scotland take a useful 25-run first-innings lead on the third day of their Intercontinental Cup match against UAE at Sharjah. The home side batted aggressively in response, however, and

UAE hit back after McCallum hundred