A Round up of the Super Smash matches held on December 23, 2016

The pair were released from their contracts after Cricket Wellington's chief executive Peter Clinton said the "team was unhappy about how they prepared" for their match on December 18

New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman Luke Ronchi said his exclusion from the ODI team for the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy was justified given his poor form in the lead-up

Yorkshire fast bowler Matthew Fisher has been named as England Under-19s captain for their five-match one-day series in India

Aaron Finch, the Australia opener, will return to Surrey for the whole of the 2017 NatWest T20 Blast

A wrap of all the first round matches of the National Cricket League held across Bangladesh

Having posted 173 for 5 after electing to bat, Wellington bowled Auckland out for 140 with four balls left

Unless you went to school with him

India offspinner R Ashwin has claimed the top ICC awards for 2015-16, having been named the ICC Cricketer of the Year and the Test Cricketer of the Year

Dan Christian will return for Nottinghamshire in the 2017 NatWest Blast

BCCI president Anurag Thakur has strongly denied that he had lied under oath to the Supreme Court

Tom Abell, who replaces Chris Rogers, will be 23 by the time the 2017 season starts, making him one of the youngest captains on the county circuit

Cricket Ireland has announced its list of centrally contracted players for 2017, with the return of Ed Joyce and a specialist wicketkeeping role for Niall O'Brien among the most significant developments

For the first time since 1974, two Indian bowlers - R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja - occupy the top spots in the ICC Test bowling rankings

Hamish Rutherford and Mahela Jayawardene hammered centuries in New Plymouth, making it the highest-aggregated T20 ever

Andre Russell's jet-black bat has been banned by Cricket Australia after discovering that the bat left visible marks on the ball

Ravindra Jadeja produced a match-winning spell, by claiming seven wickets for the first time in a Test innings, to help India thrash England by an innings and 75 runs in the fifth and final Test that ended in Chennai on Tuesday.

The reactions on Twitter after India completed a 4-0 series win

Alastair Cook has said that the ECB needs to give serious consideration to employing a full-time spin-bowling coach for the national side after the punishment inflicted on the England attack in India.

A round-up of the Regional 4 Day Tournament matches that were played between December 16-19