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No, Geoff hasn't given himself an ironic middle name

Dennis Lillee has been helping Shane Watson, who is recovering from a shoulder injury, refine his action and he now believes Watson is good enough to get into the Australian side on his bowling alone:

A dissident group of umpires were yesterday pondering the collapse of the Association of Umpires & Scorers special meeting at the Derbyshire County Ground on Saturday

Isa Guha writes in the Bucks Free Press about her ambitions, on playing against Australia and her forthcoming trip to Lord's to face India

Vish Lekhram writes enthusiastically about the USA team who today head to Sri Lanka for the Under-19 World Cup:

Richard Boock is full of praise of the just-retired Chris Cairns who, he considers , is a genius:

Tony Munro's second piece this week surrounds Uganda, their preparation for the Under-19 World Cup and all the latest news on the local competitions and happenings .

Shaun Tait is recovering well from his injury and met Chloe Saltau in The Age :

Tony Munro, Cricinfo's Beyond the Test World columnist, has written about Chile and their forthcoming preparations for the ICC tournament

A photo of the Nepali team departing for the forthcoming Under-19 World Cup

Stephen Brenkley writes an interesting article on Dusty Rhodes , who played once for England in 1959 and who was called for throwing:

The NepalCricket.com blog has an excellent photo of children playing cricket in the street, following a curfew which left the roads empty .

Mike Atherton comments in the Sunday Telegraph that modern players are increasingly ignorant of the players that came before them

The Sunday Times have a "Big Interview" with Andrew Flintoff

He didn't have a terrific tour of Pakistan, and by all accounts his new nickname - Shaun Noodle (geddit?) - won't be leaving him any time soon :

A club's cricket square near Cowbridge, South Wales, was vandalised last week , and the club is offering a £200 reward to anyone who can help prosecute the vandals responsible

Bob Simpson, Australia's former coach, has taken aim at Ricky Ponting and Australia's attitude towards sledging which reminds him "of the behaviour of small children and the bravado they use to disguise their own fallibilities".

A 15-year-old cricketer from Australia was bitten by a brown snake last Thursday, and the following morning promptly took a hat-trick in his first A-grade game:

The Newkerala reports that "most" of the Indians travelling to Pakistan on so-called "cricket visas" aren't there to watch the cricket at all

Fears that the ECB - and other cricket boards - would be penalised have eased, following a hearing at the Delhi Supreme Court last week