Cricket Australia's team performance executive, Pat Howard, will remain in his position until 2019 after being handed a two-year contract extension

West Indies women's squad for the World Cup, which will be played in England in June-July, features four new faces, including 16-year-old fast bowler Qiana Joseph

This week's round-up of the most interesting social media posts about the IPL centres on a couple of early finishes

The duo guided Hyderabad to seventh win off 13 matches, which put them fourth in the points table

Mohammad Nawaz has been issued a notice of demand to appear before the PCB's security and vigilance department for possible breaches of the board's anti-corruption code

Lancashire have signed Sri Lanka batsman Mahela Jayawardene for this year's NatWest T20 Blast as a non-overseas player

Mohammed Shami, who last played ODIs in the 2015 World Cup, was among the 15 men chosen to represent India in England

Sunil Narine scored 28 runs through the long-off region, including three sixes

Dwayne Smith scored 31 runs off 14 balls after being dropped by David Miller in the sixth over

Peter Handscomb's maiden List A century fired Yorkshire to a 15-run Royal London One-Day Cup win over Derbyshire at Headingley

Essex missed the chance to maintain their 100% record in the competition when they lost in an exciting last over finish against Glamorgan who gained their second win from five games

Keaton Jennings and Michael Richardson continued their superb form with a stand of 158 in to propel Durham to a 19-run Royal London Cup win against Northamptonshire

Steven Croft's violent century lifted Lancashire to a much-needed 26-run victory over Warwickshire in the Royal London Cup at Edgbaston

Part-time legspinner Joe Denly was the unlikely bowling hero as Kent opened their Royal London Cup win account with a 46-run victory over South Group rivals Middlesex in Canterbury

Nottinghamshire boosted their hopes of qualifying for the knock-out stages of the Royal London Cup with a six-wicket victory over Leicestershire at Welbeck

Chris Nash's 82 from 87 balls, with three sixes and eight fours, spearheaded a fine all-round effort by Sussex at Hove

Half-centuries for Tom Alsop and James Vince kept alive Hampshire's ambition of Royal London Cup progression as they beat Gloucestershire by eight wickets

The BCCI has unanimously decided at its special general meeting on Sunday that India will participate in the Champions Trophy in June

Lendl Simmons, playing his first game of the season, and Parthiv Patel added 76 runs in 52 balls after a slow start to set a strong base for Mumbai Indians' 212, a total they defended by 146 runs

Ben Stokes and Jaydev Unadkat combined to take eight wickets to help Rising Pune Supergiant breach the Sunrisers Hyderabad fortress