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Pakistan have begun a race against time to set up a world-class cricket stadium in Islamabad by 2008, when the country is due to host the ICC Champions Trophy for the first time.

Race against time for Islamabad stadium

26-May-2006•Khalid Hussain

Lara appeals for investment by Caribbean fans

Brian Lara called for the Caribbean public to play their part in the upliftment of the game

26-May-2006•Mark Pouchet

Learning how to win

A squad previously incapable of coming out on the winning side of tight situations has prevailed in the last two matches

26-May-2006•Fazeer Mohammed

Conditioning camp underway without top stars

Pakistan's conditioning camp for the summer tour to England began in Lahore on Thursday shorn of a majority of first-team and senior players and coach Bob Woolmer.

While West Indies have shown with this series win that they won't be pushovers in the World Cup, where did it go wrong for India? An analysis on Cricinfo audio

The road to 2007

Charlie Davis revisits India's 1971 tour

Gavaskar's promise and Bedi's secret

MTN, a cell phone company, are the new event sponsors of international and domestic limited-overs cricket in South Africa after closing a two-year deal with Cricket South Africa

South African board lands two-year sponsorship deal

Rahul Dravid can take unflappability to dangerous levels. With a game down and two to play, he preferred to talk about the simplicity of the task of winning the series

Dravid confident of Indian fightback

25-May-2006•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan in Trinidad

Plunkett and Mahmood fight it out

Daniel Brigham examines the value of England's two reserve pacemen, Liam Plunkett and Sajid Mahmood, who are fighting for one spot in the team

25-May-2006•Daniel Brigham at Edgbaston

Hodge pushes Lancashire forward

A round-up of the latest County Championship matches

Like against South Africa at home, late last year, and in Pakistan a few months back, India's bounce-back-ability will be tested. They've pulled it off before; this one might just be their toughest test yet

India enter Lara country

25-May-2006•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan in Trinidad

Ganguly signs for Northamptonshire

Sourav Ganguly has signed for Northamptonshire as a short-term replacement for the Australian batsman, Chris Rogers, who will be away on A team duty from the end of July

Sri Lanka will take on the Professional Cricketers' Association Masters in a Twenty20 match at Arundel Castle ground in Sussex on June 13

Cairns and Adams to play in Twenty20 against Lanka

After the nightmare performance by their fielders last week at Lord's, Geraint Jones promised a greatly improved effort by England and his team-mates didn't disappoint on the first day of the second Test against Sri Lanka at Edgbaston

England close in after Sri Lanka collapse

25-May-2006•The Bulletin by Will Luke

Rudolph disappointed at omission

Haroon Lorgat admitted that the omission of Jacques Rudolph from the two squads was a difficult decision to make

Cricinfo Audio looks back at the week in county cricket

The County Week

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has threatened its contracted players with disciplinary action if they take part in the National Twenty20 competition

BCCI issues Twenty20 warning

West Indies have made two changes for the final two one-day internationals against India in Trinidad

West Indies make two changes

A round-up of the latest County Championship matches

Sussex crush Durham in two days