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New Zealand will go into this week's one-day cricket finals series as the surprise packet of the tournament, but carrying a fatal flaw.

Five days of Ranji quarter-final excitement kicked off for Punjab and Orissa at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium in Mohali

Looking out from his office overlooking the County Ground on a bright sunny morning earlier today, Somerset Chief Executive turned his thoughts to the new season which is only just over two months away

New Zealand Cricket boss Martin Snedden has been delighted with the way the ICC Under-19 World Cup has worked out

Nasser Hussain obviously called the right shots as he led England from 1-3 down to draw the one-day series 3-all with India earlier this week, and he was still playing the right strokes when he brought his England team into Auckland this afternoon

The six match one-day series ended in Mumbai amidst great excitement with both teams winning three each

The most striking result of the second round of the Busta Cup came from Bridgetown, Barbados, where the home team, current holders of the title, suffered a 71-run defeat at the hands of the under-rated Windward Islands

Somerset all rounder Ian Blackwell is beginning to feel the benefits of his new dietary regime

Konica Queensland Fire duo Julia Price and Sally Cooper have wonselection in the Australian women's cricket team for the coming seriesagainst world champions New Zealand.

Looking out from his office overlooking the County Ground on a bright sunny morning earlier today, Somerset Chief Executive turned his thoughts to the new season which is only just over two months away

The Standard Bank Cup comes to an end this Friday night (9 February) when the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins take on their Western Province opponents at Kingsmead in the final day-night clash of the season

New Zealand seem almost certain to complete their postponed tour of Pakistan between April 20 and May 18 now that Pakistan authorities have received a government assurance of safe passage for the New Zealanders out of Pakistan in the event of any

As histories of Australia's failure to qualify for the VB Series finals this season begin to be written, one thing is already becoming clear

The men in suits at Lord's might not approve, but the touring England cricketers are not unhappy that their big all-rounder Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff did a soccer-style strip of his shirt after England beat India by five runs on Monday to square the

It was yet another humdinger of a match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, and England again came out on top, this time by five runs

Yet another lesson is that the lack of an all-rounder continues to have considerable impact on the middle overs

The WACA has declared a huge success and congratulated its patrons for the quality of the One-Day internationals held at the WACA ground over the past weekend.

There's nothing like a bit of trans-Tasman sledging to fire people up and the furore over the bonus points shutting Australia out of the finals of their own series has newsprint industrialists rubbing their hands together with glee

© CricInfo The course of the English tour of India has seen many in the press shower plaudits on Nasser Hussain's captaincy, and it must be admitted that they were, for the most part, deserved

Key allrounder Chris Cairns and pace revelation Shane Bond will return to bolster New Zealand for the opening game of the tri series finals against South Africa at the MCG on Wednesday.