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Vikram Solanki has received three penalty points under the ECB's discipline code, following an incident during Worcestershire's drawn County Championship fixture against Sussex at Hove on May 25-27

Shoaib Akhtar has been included in the Pakistan squad for the Asia Cup to be played in Sri Lanka from June 15 to 24

The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) was caught off guard by the BCCI's decision to not send its teams to the event in China in November

Ian Butler, the New Zealand fast bowler, has signed up with Gloucestershire as their second overseas player for the Friends Provident t20 tournament

Ireland wicketkeeper Niall O'Brien has decided to postpone surgery on a fractured finger and as a result will be available to play the ODI against Australia

Andrew Hudson has said Makhaya Ntini's form for Kent in the County Championship was encouraging and that he would be considered for selection

Ricky Ponting is confident Australia can get the better of Shahid Afridi, the new Pakistan captain, during the two Tests in England in July

Ricky Ponting believes Steven Smith could be thrown into Test cricket in India later this year, if he is not given a chance even sooner in the games against Pakistan in England

Ajmal Shahzad could be in line to make his Test debut against Bangladesh at Old Trafford on Friday, following the foot injury to Tim Bresnan that ruled him out of the reckoning

Ottis Gibson has said the West Indies players backed Chris Gayle's criticism of Sulieman Benn after the left-arm spinner was ordered off the field for disobeying his captain during the fourth ODI in Dominica

Dwayne Smith has performed for Sussex but can't secure a place with West Indies

Waqar Younis, the Pakistan coach, echoed captain Shahid Afridi's call for the inclusion of young talent for the upcoming Asia Cup and the tour of England

The Pakistan opening batsman has been appointed the team's vice-captain for the upcoming Asia Cup in Sri Lanka and the tour of England

CB Ratnayake retained Somachandra de Silva and Nishantha Ranatunga as chairman and secretary respectively while appointing three new members to the committee

England women have announced an unchanged squad for the forthcoming Twenty20 and ODI series against New Zealand, despite their disappointing showing at the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean last month

C Ganapathy, the Tamil Nadu allrounder, has been named as Abhimanyu Mithun's replacement for India A's tour of England starting this month

Phillip Hughes is hoping to get back on the field before the end of the English summer as he continues to recover from a serious shoulder injury

Australia could one day have separate Twenty20 and Test teams playing simultaneously, according to the chief executive of Cricket Australia James Sutherland

Steve Elworthy, the ECB's head of communication and marketing, has outlined the lengths that English cricket has gone to in order to ensure that its competitions are not tainted by scandal and corruption

Copy of Lalit Modi's reply to the second show-cause notice issued by the BCCI concerning charges made by ECB president Giles Clarke