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The battle for the National League ends this weekend when Midlands square up against Manicaland at Kwekwe Sports Club

Midlands square up to Manicaland in final

Brian Lara's "feet are on the ground" as he speaks to media persons after winning the one-day series against India at Port-of-Spain

'My feet are on the ground' - Lara

Two domestic teams in South Africa, Griqualand West and Free State have merged and will be known as Gestetner-Diamond-Eagles

Griqualand West and Free State merge

Only when Kevin Pietersen raised his arms to cheer his sublime hundred did he show his one sign of fallibility during the entire innings: he dropped his bat

Pietersen's intoxicating mix

26-May-2006•Daniel Brigham at Edgbaston

Trott guides Warwickshire

A round-up of the latest County Championship matches

Wayne Morton expressed his disappointment at Geoffrey Boycott's recent remarks on Michael Vaughan's injury

Physio insists Vaughan on target

Lou Vincent, the New Zealand batsman, will replace Phil Jaques at Worcestershire for five weeks when Jaques returns to Australia for the Top End Series which starts at the end of June

Vincent replaces Jaques at New Road

Pakistan will host the Hong Kong Women's national team for a series of three ODIs in order to determine which team will progress to the Women's World Cup Qualifying tournament later this year.

Pakistan women to host Hong Kong

Two memorable debuts from the 1996 Lord's Test

Two beginnings

26-May-2006•Harsha Bhogle

Mohammad Hafeez could lose A team spot

Mohammad Hafeez, the former Test opener and ODI regular, is in danger of losing his place in the Pakistan A squad for this summer's tour of Australia

Pakistan's conditioning camp for the summer tour to England began in Lahore on Thursday shorn of a majority of first-team and senior players and coach Bob Woolmer.

Conditioning camp underway without top stars

While West Indies have shown with this series win that they won't be pushovers in the World Cup, where did it go wrong for India? An analysis on Cricinfo audio

The road to 2007

Charlie Davis revisits India's 1971 tour

Gavaskar's promise and Bedi's secret

MTN, a cell phone company, are the new event sponsors of international and domestic limited-overs cricket in South Africa after closing a two-year deal with Cricket South Africa

South African board lands two-year sponsorship deal

A round-up of the latest County Championship matches

Hodge pushes Lancashire forward

Sourav Ganguly has signed for Northamptonshire as a short-term replacement for the Australian batsman, Chris Rogers, who will be away on A team duty from the end of July

Ganguly signs for Northamptonshire

Sri Lanka will take on the Professional Cricketers' Association Masters in a Twenty20 match at Arundel Castle ground in Sussex on June 13

Cairns and Adams to play in Twenty20 against Lanka