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Benson under observation after heart palpitations

Mark Benson, the on-field umpire for the ongoing India-South Africa Test at Durban, left the field 20 minutes into the third day's play after suffering heart palpitations

28-Dec-2006•Cricinfo staff

Martin steers Baroda home

A round-up of the fourth day's play of the fifth round of the Ranji Trophy Super League matches

28-Dec-2006•Cricinfo staff

Flintoff still full of cliches

England's captain, Andrew Flintoff, is running out of ways to express his disappointment on this tour. Another day, another defeat, another round of hollow insistences that his team is still full of "character" and "pride"

28-Dec-2006•Andrew Miller at Melbourne

Now Ponting talks about whitewash

Ricky Ponting's "relentless" Australia will push for the second 5-0 result in Ashes history and a 12th win in a row next week in Sydney.

28-Dec-2006•Peter English at Melbourne

'I'm not sad, I'm leaving on top'

Shane Warne feels like he's had "50 Vodka and Red Bulls" whenever he's walked on to the field during the series, but it won't stop him from waving goodbye at the next Test at Sydney

28-Dec-2006•Peter English at Melbourne

Ban rethink defied global guidelines, says panelist

Danish Zaheer, member of the panel that overturned the drugs ban on Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif said that the original tests on the two bowlers were flawed as there was confusion over a urine sample and forms were not dated properly

28-Dec-2006

Pakistan's pace attack will be key - Woolmer

Pakistan's fast bowling resources might hold the key to a tough series in South Africa, according to Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach. At their disposal, as the squad is finalised, will be the likes of Umar Gul, Shahid Nazir, Mohammad Sami, Rana Naveed-ul-

28-Dec-2006•Cricinfo staff

Smith and de Villiers extend lead

South Africa enjoyed the best of yet another truncated day as they ended the third day with a lead of 152

28-Dec-2006•The Bulletin by Anand Vasu

Asif set to be picked for South Africa tour

Pakistan are pondering over sending an extended 17-member squad for next month's tour of South Africa according to Iqbal Qasim

28-Dec-2006•Khalid Hussain

Warne pledges money to Galle reconstruction

Shane Warne has committed his charitable foundation to donate Aus$20,000 to tsunami reconstruction efforts in Sri Lanka

28-Dec-2006•Cricinfo staff

Redbacks hope for fresh start

Even on a cold Melbourne morning with all eyes on the MCG Test, the South Australia allrounder Mark Cleary could not avoid some good-natured sledging about the Redbacks' woeful start to the season

28-Dec-2006•Brydon Coverdale

'Hit-and-giggle' format expanded

The light-hearted nature of Twenty20 cricket was on display in Melbourne today as state players tried to smash balls across the Yarra River to launch the expanded domestic program

28-Dec-2006•Brydon Coverdale

Plans were not stolen say authorities

It was hardly a whodunit of Murder On The Orient Express proportions, by Cricket Australia think that it has discovered the secret of how England's bowling plans came to be leaked to the media

28-Dec-2006•Cricinfo staff

Much ado about not very much

The row over the England bowling plans which were leaked to the media rumbles on, with former England captain Ian Botham getting rather hot under the collar about it all

27-Dec-2006•Cricinfo staff

England routed inside three days

England have long insisted "there's a lot of heart and pride in our dressing-room". Unfortunately, nothing of the sort transferred itself to the middle on the third day at Melbourne

27-Dec-2006•The Bulletin by Andrew Miller at Melbourne

Jayasuriya sizzles in Sri Lanka's win

Sanath Jayasuriya overpowered New Zealand with brutal batting display, crashing 111 off 82 deliveries, and set up an emphatic seven-wicket victory for Sri Lanka in the first match of a five-game series at Napier

27-Dec-2006•The Bulletin by Charlie Austin

Ishant won't be going to South Africa

As of noon on Wednesday Ishant Sharma, the Delhi mediumpacer, knew that he was to join the Indian team in Cape Town for a week. That decision now seems to have been changed - the player himself being told of the no-go - for reasons that are not yet clear

27-Dec-2006•Anand Vasu

'You have to give credit to India' - Prince

Ashwell Prince was up bright and early on Wednesday morning, and he said that the Ashes tussle at the MCG had played its part in inspiring a spirited South African tail-wag on day two

27-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Durban

'I'm happy to keep working on the basics' - Sreesanth

Sreesanth was his colourful self at the press conference on Wednesday evening, offering up candid answers on his development as a cricketer and the state of the match

27-Dec-2006•Dileep Premachandran in Durban

Yashpal stars amid the ruins

A round-up of the third day's play of the fifth round of the Ranji Trophy Plate league matches

27-Dec-2006•Cricinfo staff

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