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West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan has stressed on the youngsters improving their performances if they are to be a permanent feature in the squad.

Sarwan calls on young guns to fire

01-Jan-2009•Tony Cozier

Elbow injury keeps Smith out of one-day series

Graeme Smith, the South Africa captain, will miss this month's one-day series against Australia because of an ongoing elbow injury, coach Mickey Arthur said

Matthew Hayden has admitted he has not considered retirement despite growing speculation over his career following an extended lean spell

Hayden quiet on retirement talk

Brett Lee will miss the tour to South Africa due while Australia hope to have Andrew Symonds back during the one-day international campaign

Injured Lee out of South Africa tour

The Daily Telegraph have reported that Kevin Pietersen, the England captain, has called emergency talks with the ECB over the role of coach Peter Moores

Pietersen wants crisis talks with ECB

Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the Test Match Special commentator and former Times cricket correspondent, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's New Year's honours list

Christopher Martin-Jenkins awarded MBE

Mahela Jayawardene, the Sri Lanka captain, said his team were fortunate to have the cushion of a 500-plus lead against Banglades

Jayawardene praises Bangladesh fight

Rajeev Nayyar, the Himachal Pradesh batsman, who holds the record for the longest first-class innings, has announced his retirement after a career spanning over 20 years

Nayyar quits first-class cricket

Mohammad Ashaduddin, son of former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin, has been selected for the trials camp of Kolkata Knight Riders on January 6-7 at the Eden Gardens

Azharuddin's son for Kolkata Knight Riders trials

England's decision to send its team back to India barely two weeks after the terror attacks in Mumbai has led to a significant thaw in ties between the two national boards

ECB and BCCI move closer on Champions League

31-Dec-2008•Ajay S Shankar

Johnson hopes fresh faces lift Australia

The past year has been a steep learning curve for Mitchell Johnson, who hopes the injection of youth into Australia's squad for the Sydney Test will lift the team

Ashwell Prince has rated himself a 60% chance of being fit for the Sydney Test, where South Africa will aim for a clean sweep having secured their first series win in Australia on Tuesday

Prince wants South Africa to build momentum

Saurashtra coach Debu Mitra is confident his side has the talent to win the Ranji Trophy for the first time

Saurashtra set sights on big prize

Australia's newest allrounder Andrew McDonald was organising a new-year surfing holiday when he got a phone-call that immediately changed his plans

McDonald confident he can be Test No. 6

Ramnaresh Sarwan is hoping to put aside his poor performance in the two Tests in New Zealand with a better showing in the five-ODI series, which begins in Queenstown on Wednesday

Sarwan looks to reverse form-slump

Pakistan's already troubled quest to organise some international cricket has run into further obstacles after it emerged that Sri Lanka's players would like to push back the tour

Sri Lanka want to shorten Pakistan tour

Bangladesh, led by their captain Mohammad Ashraful, may have extended the first Test against Sri Lankans to the fifth day in Mirpur, but the visitors are confident of winning

'We need only two wickets' - Dilshan

Azeem Rafiq, the 17-year-old Yorkshire offspinner who was embroiled in a registration row during the summer, has been added to England's Under-19 squad to tour South Africa in January

Yorkshire's Rafiq joins England Under-19s

Mumbai's march towards their 38th Ranji crown has been bolstered by the inclusion of Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan to the 15-man squad for their Ranji Trophy semi-final clash against Saurashtra to be played in Chennai from January 4-7.

Tendulkar, Zaheer included in Mumbai's semis squad