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Mohammad Yousuf has said that he has obtained a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) from the rebel Indian Cricket League, paving the way for him to return to international cricket for Pakistan

Yousuf says he's been released from ICL

Pakistan's cricket authorities have said they weren't contacted at all with regard to their ouster from the pool of teams that form the lucrative Champions League, to be held later this year in India, a further worrying indicator of their increasing isola

Pakistan not consulted over Champions League exclusion

26-May-2009•Osman Samiuddin

Crowd numbers suggest Twenty20 overkill

Has the public's waning interest in Twenty20 registered on the ECB's radar?

Shoaib Akhtar has been barred from playing in the national Twenty20 tournament by the Pakistan board

Shoaib barred from domestic Twenty20 tournament

Brett Lee and Stuart Clark will have to wait until the first two tour games to secure their spots in the bowling pecking order for the Ashes

Lee and Clark no certainties for first Test

26-May-2009•Peter English

Ponting sharpens Twenty20 vision

Ricky Ponting flies to England on Wednesday as one of Australia's most accomplished Test and one-day players, but his reputation in the Twenty20 set-up is less certain

26-May-2009•Peter English

McCullum in demand for Champions League

New South Wales could fork out US$250,000 to secure Brendon McCullum for October's Champions League Twenty20 after his New Zealand domestic team, Otago, also qualified

Administrators must strike a balance between Twenty20 and traditional formats, the SA cricket boss has said

Handling Twenty20 domination needs new mindset - Majola

25-May-2009•Ajay S Shankar

Gilchrist reflects on a job well done

The Deccan Chargers captain has said he would have picked team-mate Andrew Symonds in Australia's Ashes squad

Ireland coach Phil Simmons has big ambitions for his team at the ICC World Twenty20 and will be disappointed if the side don't make it through to the Super Eight stage of the tournament

Simmons wants Super Eights berth

Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam is hopeful the sessions spent by the players with the sports psychologist Maqbool Babri will toughen them up ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 in England next month

Alam welcomes appointment of psychologist

Shaun Udal, the captain of English Twenty20 champions Middlesex, has warned of an overkill of Twenty20, especially since there will be two English domestic competitions in that format from next year

Udal warns of Twenty20 overkill

The IPL final could have gone either way but Andrew Symonds' back-to-back strikes tilted the balance in favour of the Deccan Chargers, believes captain Adam Gilchrist and rival Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Anil Kumble

Symonds' double blow proves crucial

The ICC has cleared the bowling action of Pakistan offspinner Saeed Ajmal

Ajmal action gets ICC's green signal

The domestic Twenty20 winners of West Indies, Sri Lanka and New Zealand, as well as Delhi Daredevils, will also get an opportunity to participate in the inaugural Champions Twenty20 League, to be held from October 8-23 in India, just after the Champions T

Champions League expanded from eight to 12 teams

West Indies women captain Merissa Aguilleira is confident of a much-improved performance in the women's World Twenty20

Aguilleira tips improved West Indies performance

Royal Challengers Bangalore reached the final on the back of a five-game winning streak, and captain Anil Kumble has asked for one more victory to cap their resurgence

'One more win will be nice' - Kumble

Sachin Tendulkar has stressed the need for adequate rest for Indian players ahead of the World Twenty20 in June, and particularly for the openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir

Sehwag, Gambhir have to shed fatigue - Tendulkar