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Glamorgan seamer Adam Shantry has been forced into retirement aged 28 due to knee problems

Injury forces Shantry into retirement

Nine months after due to a blood clot in his lung stalled his career Michael Carberry has posted 300 not out, a career-best, sharing a mammoth 523-run stand with Neil McK

Carberry recovers from illness with career-best

Essex's Ravi Bopara has been recalled to England's squad for the third Test against India at Edgbaston

Bopara recalled for injured Trott

Rahul Dravid has made a surprise comeback into India's limited-overs plans, after two years in the wilderness, while the injured duo of Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh are the notable omissions

Dravid makes surprise ODI comeback

Norman Gordon, the lone survivor from the final timeless Test, has become the first Test cricketer to have lived 100 years

Norman Gordon first Test cricketer to 100

06-Aug-2011•Sidharth Monga

Collingwood commits to Durham

Paul Collingwood has ended months of speculation about a possible move away from Durham by signing a three-year contract that will commit him to Chester-le-Street until at least the end of 2014

India's laundry list of injuries in the Test series in England will test the selectors when they assemble on Saturday to pick the team for the limited-overs leg of the tour

Fitness main concern before ODI selection

Having witnessed the evolution of Twenty20 from its formative days, Australia seamer Brett Lee admits that his team's attitude towards the format has evolved over the years

Lee watches Twenty20's rise from joke to juggernaut

Chris Hartley, the Queensland wicketkeeper, has signed with the Brisbane Heat for the Twenty20 Big Bash League

Hartley joins Brisbane Heat

Paddy Upton, India's former mental conditioning coach, has suggested that the increasingly relentless schedules could be draining the players and leaving them with little mental energy

Mental fatigue is a concern for players - Upton

04-Aug-2011•Nagraj Gollapudi in Northampton

Zimbabwe make progress with small victories

Only one day of this Test match has been played, but already, there have been four small victories for Zimbabwe

04-Aug-2011•Firdose Moonda in Harare

Swann declares himself fit for Edgbaston

Graeme Swann has declared himself fit for the third Test against India at Edgbaston following the blow he took to his left hand in Nottingham

Andrew Flintoff, the man whose greatest years as a Test cricketer coincided with England's last sustained run of excellence in five-day cricket, believes the team of 2011 is a better outfit than the 2005 side that won six series in a row

England better than in 2005 - Flintoff

The former Glamorgan allrounder, Allan Watkins, died in hospital in Kidderminster on Wednesday afternoon at the age of 89

Allan Watkins dies aged 89

Lord Harry Woolf, the former Chief Justice of England and Wales, has been named chairman of the independent governance review of the ICC

Woolf to chair ICC's governance review