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Saurabh Tiwary, who is currently touring England with the India A squad, was "quite dazed" when he found he was selected for the Asia Cup

Alan Hunt, who played first class cricket for Auckland, has been appointed coach of the Central District Stags for the next two years

The WICB president Julien Hunte dedicated the Sagicor West Indies Cricket High Performance Centre to fans "who are longing for the glorious past of West Indies cricket to return"

Matthew Wade's promotion to the Australia A team has confirmed him as the next wicketkeeper in line behind Brad Haddin and Tim Paine

Kiran More, India's former chief selector, has criticised the axing of Yuvraj Singh from the Asia Cup squad

England coach Andy Flower has given Andrew Strauss a ringing endorsement over his captaincy of the one-day side

Uganda coach Mohammed Ebrahim Barney has re-called former Under-19 captain Hamza Almuzahim and batsman Nand Kishore Patel

Australia are to be denied the chance to have a look at Steven Finn ahead of the Ashes this winter

Gloucestershire have signed Louis Gegg on an emerging player contract

Saurabh Tiwary, the Jharkhand batsman, has received his maiden call-up in a 15-man team that is significantly stronger than the side which failed to qualify for the tri-series final in Zimbabwe

Peter Borren has been named the Netherlands captain for two ICC tournaments and the solitary ODI against Scotland

Andrew Strauss faces an important period of one-day cricket as he aims to reaffirm his credentials to be England's 50-over captain at next year's World Cup.

Danish Kaneria, who was arrested last month on suspicion of involvement in spot-fixing, is free to play for Essex and Pakistan this summer after the ECB confirmed his registration would not be suspended unless he is proven guilty

A crisis meeting between the Afghanistan Cricket Federation and national team players has agreed to establish a four-member group of "impartial" persons to find and present a solution to several of the players' grievances

Tim Paine is hopeful of making his Test debut next month after being called in to Australia's one-day side to replace the injured Brad Haddin

The R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, one of the venues for the 2011 World Cup in the subcontinent, is still running behind schedule in terms of readiness of the pitch

Durham's Twenty20 Cup match against Worcestershire at Chester-le-Street was washed out on Sunday without a ball bowled

The Plays of the Day from the third day at Old Trafford

The Indian national selectors meet in New Delhi on Monday to pick the team for the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, with the knowledge that they have had little gains from the tri-series in Zimbabwe

Sharad Pawar's claims of not being involved in a bid for a Pune franchise in the IPL has been contradicted by information in a document describing the minutes of a board meeting of a company in which Pawar has a stake