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Waqar Younis, the new Pakistan coach, has hailed the appointment of allrounder Shahid Afridi as captain for the World Twenty20 starting next month

Plays of the day from the first day of the second Test between New Zealand and Australia

Ben Stokes guided Durham to victory over UAE with 81 from 40 balls to clinch the Emirates Airline Forty40 title

Andrew Strauss is eager to resume his day job after missing the tour of Bangladesh for a two-month break that he hopes will help England defend the Ashes in Australia next winter

Canada's plans to stage the 2012 Under-19 World Cup were thrown into uncertainty after the national board's former CEO, Atul Ahuja, claimed there are 'no workable pitches' currently in the country. The claim was, however, immediately refuted by Cricket Ca

Ed Joyce, the former England and Ireland batsman, is mulling a return to Irish cricket at the World Cup next year

There's a chair out there. It has India's back-up spinner written on it. Before every series India play, a few hopefuls run around the chair to music, and the first man to sit on the chair when the music stops, gets selected

Ranjit Saini, the newly-elected president of Canada Cricket, has found himself in the midst of scandal after police are investigating allegations that more than £100,000 is missing from the Maple Leaf Cricket club in Toronto, where Saini was president bet

Andy Blignaut is set to return to international cricket after a hiatus of almost five years after he was included in Zimbabwe's squad for the World Twenty20 in West Indies.

Ranjit Saini has been elected president of Cricket Canada. In the election held at the Annual General Meeting on March 22, Saini was elevated from his position as first-vice president

There were no surprises in the 14-member Indian women's squad for the World Twenty20 in the West Indies starting May 5

Andrew Symonds, the Deccan Chargers allrounder, has expressed worries that the increase in the sheer amount of cricket and tighter schedules may affect the quality of the game in subsequent seasons of the IPL

Karnataka fast bowler Vinay Kumar is the only new face in India's 15-man squad to the World Twenty20 while legspinner Piyush Chawla has been handed a recall

New South Wales' most experienced opener has only been spoken of in Test terms when remembering his past exploits

Jeetan Patel has been given the nod ahead of James Franklin but New Zealand's top-order batting remains a concern a day out from the second Test in Hamilton

Luke Ronchi has capped his strong comeback season by winning the Laurie Sawle Medal as Western Australia's Player of the Year

Daniel Vettori is keen to put his 100th Test celebrations behind him early on Saturday and switch his focus to beating Australia

Rilee Rossouw, the 20-year-old Eagles batsman, notched a place in the record books with the fastest triple century in South Africa domestic cricket as he hit 319 off 291 balls

Plays of the Day from the match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings at the Brabourne Stadium

Immediately before Chennai's match, Gautam Gambhir and Ashish Nehra missed Delhi Daredevils' game in Bangalore, leaving the selectors with an almost identical dilemma as last year