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A round-up of the Ranji Trophy Group B matches played on December 24, 2014

A 15-year old Dinesh Chandimal was watching Sri Lanka play New Zealand on Boxing day when when the Tsunami struck his sea-side home in 2004

The Hagley Oval pitch was fairly green two days out from the Boxing day Test. New Zealand Batting coach Craig McMillan said it will help the quicks, but added that his side was equipped to handle Sri Lanka's seamers

Shakib Al Hasan has been signed by Melbourne Renegades for the second half of the Big Bash League season

Michael Clarke has said he is recovering well from the hamstring injury he suffered during the first Test in Adelaide and hopes to be fit in time for the 2015 World Cup

Shaun Marsh joined the list of Australia's walking wounded at training in Melbourne on Wednesday, after he was struck on the left hand while facing Josh Hazlewood

Ross Turner, the former ICC global development manager, will be the Bangladesh Cricket Board's consultant to formulate its long-term strategic plan from 2015

A round-up of the Ranji Trophy 2014-15 Group C matches played on December 23, 2014

Kedar Jadhav's first century of the season and his unbroken 148-run partnership with Rahul Tripathi all but ensured Maharashtra would deprive Punjab of an outright win

A round-up of the third day's play from Ranji Trophy 2014-15 Group A matches played on December 23, 2014

Bowling coach Chaminda Vaas believes that Sri Lanka's pace quintet can thrive in New Zealand conditions

The inability to generate sufficient funding has cost the Africa Cricket Association (ACA) its memorandum of understanding with the ICC

A round-up of the Ranji Trophy Group B matches played on December 23, 2014

A strong bowling effort followed by a well-constructed chase helped the Sydney Sixers beat the Hobart Hurricanes and move alongside the Adelaide Strikers at the top of the Big Bash League table

Malcolm Waller, the Zimbabwe offspinning allrounder, has become the latest to be suspended from bowling in international cricket

Harbhajan Singh has said that the BCCI initiative to prepare seamer-friendly pitches has given "fake confidence" to medium-pacers and has taken spinners out of the game

New Zealand wicketkeeper BJ Watling hopes the Hagley Oval pitch will offer some help to Trent Boult and Tim Southee ahead of the Boxing Day Test against Sri Lanka

Robin Peterson, the left-arm spinner, is unlikely to play in the second Test against West Indies after cutting his finger during fielding practice

Three days before the Boxing Day Test, Bhuvneshwar Kumar batted in the nets. He has been bowling since Brisbane

Maharashtra's Ankit Bawne has retired hurt after being hit on the helmet at the stroke of lunch on the third day of the Ranji Trophy Group B match against Punjab