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Worcestershire have signed Steven Smith, the Australia legspinner, as an overseas player for the English Twenty20 Cup

Northamptonshire have failed in their bid to retain Johan van der Wath and Riki Wessels for the 2010 season following the change in immigration criteria

Ian Harvey is hoping to bring some of his Twenty20 expertise and success to the Zimbabwe domestic scene as he begins his stint with the Southern Rocks

Kemar Roach is confident about getting Ricky Ponting's scalp in the remaining ODIs and even believes that West Indies can turn things around to win the series

Afghanistan's battle against adversity during their rise up the cricket ranks has all the makings of a Hollywood script

The ANZ stadium in Sydney, the venue of the 2000 Olympics, could play host to one of England's fixtures on their Ashes tour later this year, after the ICC Board gave the green light for international cricket to take place at the venue

Daniel Vettori admitted to misreading the pitch at the AMI Stadium, which contributed to a close finish to the third ODI, but was pleased with his bowlers' performance

Lalit Modi, the Champions League Twenty20 commissioner, has asked the ECB to make "minor adjustments" to its county schedule to enable English participation in the 2010 tournament

A round-up of matches from the first day of the RBS one-day competition

Jesse Ryder, the New Zealand batsman, has faced another setback in his recovery from a groin injury and will undergo surgery next week to reinforce his abdominal wall

Harbhajan Singh has come in for criticism after a lacklustre showing during the defeat in Nagpur, but he defended his performance

The prospect of the Twenty20 roadshow reaching the USA in the near future has moved a step closer following meetings between Don Lockerbie, the chief executive of USACA, and Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, in Dubai

The appeal by the BCCI challenging the 12-month ban imposed by the ICC on the Feroz Shah Kotla, has been dismissed by an independent appeals commissioner

Earlier in a press release, Butt had referred to the CCUSA as an "illegal" institution, and criticised Javed Miandad, the PCB's director-general, for wanting to take an illegitimate cricket team to China

Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, has laid down a challenge to the England & Wales Cricket Board by scheduling this year's lucrative Champions League Twenty20 tournament right at the culmination of England's domestic season

Corrie van Zyl, the South Africa coach, believes that there is enough mental strength in his team to not be intimidated by the prospects of a turning track for the second Test in Kolkata

In what is believed to a reactionary move to the IPL season opener being shifted out of Hyderabad to Mumbai, the Andhra Pradesh sports minister has asked the Deccan Chargers to boycott the tournament altogether

Kris Srikkanth, the chairman of India's selection committee, has said VVS Laxman will definitely play in the second Test against South Africa in Kolkata

The curator at Eden Gardens has said he received a phone call from a BCCI official instructing him to prepare a "turning track" for the second Test

Greg Chappell has turned down an approach from the Pakistan board to coach the national team