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Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja got the nod, Cameron Bancroft and Shaun Marsh just missed out, but there was also plenty of discussion about the veteran Michael Klinger in Australia's selection meeting ahead of the first Test against New Zealand

Nathan McCullum, 35, has said that he will retire from international cricket at the end of this New Zealand international season to spend more time with his family

Mark Wood has been rested from the final Test against Pakistan, in Sharjah, as part of the management of his chronic ankle problem

New Zealand's coach Mike Hesson has equated the Blacktown Oval pitch with "day four in Abu Dhabi" and defended his team's insistence that the strip was unsafe for play after the Cricket Australia XI ran up a tally of 1 for 503

West Indies Women's bowlers, led by the pace pair of Tremayne Smartt and allrounder Deandra Dottin, laid the foundation for the side's eight-wicket win in Grenada by restricting Pakistan Women to 74 for 9, a total the hosts chased down in 16.2 overs.

Rolling coverage of the fifth round of the Ranji Trophy 2015-16

Pitch concerns raised by the New Zealand touring team have led to the abandonment of their tour match against a Cricket Australia XI at Blacktown Oval in Sydney's west

Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja have been preferred to the younger Cameron Bancroft in Australia's 12-man squad for the first two Tests against New Zealand

The question of why criminal charges were not brought against Lou Vincent has been raised by Chris Cairns' defence in his perjury trial at Southwark Crown Court

The PCB has asked Misbah-ul-Haq to keep retirement plans on hold and play on through Pakistan's tours of England and Australia next year

Anurag Thakur, the BCCI secretary, has made a number of proposals to revive the Asian Cricket Council which had its operations in Malaysia closed on June 30 this year

Bangladesh fast bowler Taskin Ahmed has said that he is fit for the ODI and T20 series against Zimbabwe next month

JP Duminy will take no part in the South Africans' two-day warm-up match in Mumbai as he continues to recover from a cut to his right hand sustained during the third ODI against India

Mitchell Starc placed New South Wales' foot firmly on South Australia's throat before Steven Smith ensured it stayed there on the second night of the Sheffield Shield fixture in Adelaide

Five players from each of the two suspended teams, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, will be allowed to be picked by the two new franchises for the next two years of the IPL, which will continue to remain an eight-team tournament until 2017

A breakneck 193-run eighth-wicket stand between Carlos Brathwaite and Andre Russell transformed West Indians' position from dire to dominant in the Colombo practice match, which the visitors went on to win by 43 runs

The PCB has said BCCI president Shashank Manohar has conveyed "his regret" over the cancellation of his meeting with PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan

Shane Warne has paid a visit to Pakistan's training session in Sharjah to have a one-on-one session with legspinner Yasir Shah

Michael Klinger scored the fifth double-century of his first-class career and Ashton Agar registered his maiden hundred as Western Australia dominated the second day against Tasmania in Hobart

Travis Dean scored a half-century on first-class debut as Victoria chipped away at Queensland's 444 on the second day in Melbourne