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Brendon McCullum has said tracks in Barbados should give his team's top-order batsmen a better opportunity to post bigger scores

Rashid Latif, the former Pakistan captain and wicketkeeper, has called on coach Waqar Younis and his deputy Ijaz Ahmed to exercise calm and remain positive under pressure in the World Twenty20 to motivate their players

The former South Australia allrounder Mark Cleary has signed with Victoria for next season, when they will aim to defend their Sheffield Shield and Big Bash titles

Western Australia have handed out four new contracts to develop their squad while cutting five players who failed to convince in 2009-10

Australia's batsmen have got until Friday to perfect a plan to deal with India's spinners after they overcame a scare against Bangladesh

From the summit of playing South Africa at one of world's finest cricket grounds Afghanistan now step back to the Associate level which they are beginning to dominate

William Porterfield, the Ireland captain, knows his country faces a challenge to prevent further players qualifying for England in search of Test match honours, but hopes that Full Member status will come Ireland's way in the near future

The Bombay High Court has directed that Sharad Pawar be made party in a petition regarding the levy of entertainment tax by the Maharashtra government on IPL matches held in the state

Andrew Hudson, South Africa's newly appointed convener of selectors, sees his role as one that will allow him to "give something back to the game"

Stephen Fleming has attributed Suresh Raina's impressive show in the IPL and the ongoing World Twenty20 to his determination and effort to combat his weakness against the short ball

The veteran batsman Michael Dighton has been left out of Tasmania's list of contracted players for 2010-11, a group with few other changes from last season's squad

Andrew Symonds has stepped up his commitment to Queensland by signing a Twenty20 contract with the state for next summer

Australia's coach Tim Nielsen is confident the Kensington Oval pitch will favour the team's fast bowlers when they take on Bangladesh on Wednesday

The statistician Frank Duckworth has launched a robust defence of the eponymous formula that he devised, in partnership with Tony Lewis, to recalculate run-chases in rain-affected one-day games

Netherlands cricket has secured an important new sponsor after signing an agreement with United Dutch Breweries

Murray Goodwin, Sussex's stand-in captain while Michael Yardy is away on England duty, has received a penalty after a breach of the ECB's discipline code.

In its quest to maintain India's No.1 Test ranking the BCCI has sent a proposal to Cricket Australia to convert the seven-match ODI series in October to two Tests and three ODIs

The ICC has appointed Ronnie Flanagan, one of the United Kingdom's most senior former policemen, as the new chairman of the ICC Anti-Corruption and Security Unit

The MCC members are set to vote on a number of changes to the Laws of Cricket at the annual general meeting at Lord's on Wednesday and, if passed, the changes will come into effect on October 1