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South Africa allrounder Wayne Parnell will begin his return from injury with the South Africa A side on its tour of Sri Lanka in August

South Africa's captain Graeme Smith was confident of his sides preparation ahead of the first Test against West Indies

Warwickshire's plans to introduce some innovation to bowling by using the double-bouncing ball during their Friends Provident T20 game against Derbyshire was quashed by the ECB, which outlawed the delivery

Brendan Nash, the West Indies middle-order batsman, has said his team is desperate to end its losing run and turn things for the better in the Test series against South Africa that begins on Thursday

Josh Hazlewood, the teenage fast bowler, has been catapulted into Australia's one-day squad after Mitchell Johnson was ruled out of the series in England with an elbow infection

The ICC is determined the World Cup will still be a 50-over competition in 2015, despite Cricket Australia considering a new two-innings one-day format

In the absence of the injured Jerome Taylor, and with Kemar Roach struggling to shake off an ankle problem, Ravi Rampaul has become the likely spearhead for West Indies' pace attack

Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lanka's stand-in captain, has said he is thrilled with the performances of youngsters like wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Chandimal and allrounder Jeewan Mendis

Forty-year-old opener Sanath Jayasuriya has been dropped from the 15-member Sri Lanka squad for the Asia Cup

Virender Sehwag has backed Yuvraj Singh to make a speedy comeback to the Indian team following his axing from the squad for the Asia Cup

Waqar Younis has said the damage caused to the team by the turbulence of the last few months was the worst Pakistan had suffered in the last few decades

Bangladesh batsman Aftab Ahmed has been left out of the squad for the Asia Cup beginning in Sri Lanka in June

Sreesanth, the Kerala fast bowler, has said he might switch teams in the next domestic season

Cricket Ireland have shared their plans for continued progress with ICC President David Morgan as they continue to push their case for an ascent to Full Membership of cricket's governing body

Karachi opener Shahzaib Hasan, one of three new faces in Pakistan's side for the upcoming Asia Cup, believes he is ready for the challenges of international one-day cricket

Peter Borren, the newly-appointed Netherlands captain, has backed his team to upstage Scotland in the upcoming Intercontinental Cup fixture in Deventer

Cricket Australia is considering introducing a completely new limited-overs format as soon as next season, in what could be another nail in the coffin of the 50-over game

Zimbabwe have taken major steps towards regaining their position in the cricketing hierarchy

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has suspended the national cricket team's shadow coach Chandika Hathurusingha on disciplinary grounds

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) have named three debutants in the squad to tour Bermuda in July