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The BCCI is toying with the idea of inviting Sri Lanka to tour India early next year, in order to meet its contractual obligations to Doordarshan, the national broadcaster

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Paul Collingwood should be back in action in four weeks time

Five Continents took a step closer to reaching the semi-finals of the Open League at the weekend with a seven wicket win against Ljubljana CC at Markommannenstrasse on Saturday, their win putting them ahead 14 points ahead of United Nations CC, who

Shane Bond is still some time away from getting back into bowling training as the New Zealand team start to look towards their next mission, the tour of India in September-October

The predictability of Australia's thumping victory over Bangladesh in their first Test at Darwin at the weekend is reflected in the Test ratings - the victory didn't raise a blip on the ratings monitor

Increased opportunities for South Pacific nations to get regular international cricket competition over recent years has seen a significant rise in playing standards

Brian Lara was named Trinidad's Cricketer of the Year by Gus Logie, the West Indies coach, at the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board's 47th annual presentation function last week

There has been no let-up for Bangladesh following their innings defeat by Australia in the first Test at Darwin

Steve Waugh meets the local children The Australian cricketers should have been playing the final day of their Test match with Bangladesh today, but instead they spent the day eating buffalo and fishing with Aborigines on the remote Tiwi

Omar Henry, South Africa's convenor of selectors, said that South Africa would cope with the loss of allrounder Jacques Kallis for the first npower Test against England at Edgbaston starting on Thursday (July 24)

Pakistan's highly-controversial women's team joined Ireland and the Netherlands in the winner's circle on the first day of the International Women's Cricket Council Trophy tournament in Amstelveen and Leiden yesterday

Hampshire 250 for 4 beat Nottinghamshire 249 for 6 by six wickets at Trent Bridge Scorecard Hampshire put themselves in the reckoning for promotion with a last-gasp victory over Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, overcoming a slow pitch and the

Brett Lee, who has been cleared to play in the second Test against Bangladesh on Friday despite a back problem, is expecting plenty of success on a pacy wicket at Cairns

In the August issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly Luke Alfred meets South Africa's leading batsman, whose style earned him the title "mayor of Cape Town" Herschelle Gibbs: his jolling credentials are legendary in Cape Town

Umpires through all levels of cricket in New Zealand this summer will not be giving explanations to players for their decisions

New Zealand might be without their newly-appointed coach John Bracewell when they tour India in September-October but his stand-in Ashley Ross is looking forward to the challenge and told Wisden CricInfo today that no matter where the first Test is

Alec Stewart: "It's not something I have taken lightly" Alec Stewart has announced that he will retire from international cricket at the end of this summer's five-Test series against South Africa

Vinod Kambli has been named in a list of contenders for the Mumbai team that will take part in the forthcoming domestic season

Following their first Frizzell Championship victory of the season in the amazing turnaround against Glamorgan, Hampshire take 14 for the trip to the seaside resort of Scarborough for the match against Yorkshire starting on Wednesday (23rd July).