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Mumbai have expressed their dismay and surprise at the rules for the Ranji Trophy final that state that if a team's first innings is incomplete, the winner will be decided on the run rate

Final rule confuses Mumbai

11-Jan-2009•Sriram Veera in Hyderabad

'Flintoff and I supported Pietersen' - Harmison

Steve Harmison has termed as "nonsense" reports that he and other senior England players, including Andrew Flintoff and Andrew Strauss, supported sacked coach Peter Moores ahead of Kevin Pietersen

A round-up of day two of the Regional Four Day competition

Smith double-century sets up Windward Islands

New Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder has been recalled for the fifth and final ODI against the West Indies to be played in Napier on Tuesday

Ryder returns for series decider

Kevin Pietersen has said that he was forced to resign as England captain by the ECB and had not been given any explanation as to why he was asked to stand down

Pietersen says he was forced to quit

Unable to get in touch with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the East Zone selectors decided to leave him from the Duleep Trophy squad for the game against West, starting from January 29 to February 2 in Mumbai

Dhoni left out of East Zone's Duleep opener

Matthew Hayden will spend the next week pondering his future after insisting he had not yet decided whether to retire from international cricket having been axed from Australia's one-day team

Hayden to consider his future this week

The former Australia batsman Darren Lehmann is interested in taking up the England coach's job

England coaching job excites Lehmann

The way Johan Botha returned stronger after his bowling action was cited and eventually cleared impressed South Africa's coach Mickey Arthur so much that Botha is now in charge of the one-day side

Undaunted Botha 'a leader of men'

11-Jan-2009•Brydon Coverdale

Ford keen on England coaching job

Graham Ford, the Kent director of cricket, has said he is interested in the vacant England coaching job provided the ECB "do their homework"

Debasis Mohanty is a notable absentee from the East Zone squad, to be captained by former Test opener Shiv Sunder Das, announced for the Duleep Trophy

Debasis overlooked for East Zone Duleep squad

A round-up of day one of the Regional Four Day competition

Shillingford puts Windwards on top

Daniel Vettori, the New Zealand captain, has hailed Martin Guptill's debut century in the fourth ODI against West Indies in Auckland as "one of the best I've seen in a long time"

Vettori salutes composed Guptill

It has been a tough, exhausting and emotional few weeks for the South African squad and the coach Mickey Arthur is pleased they can now they welcome new faces for the limited-overs portion of the tour

Arthur happy to see new faces after long haul

10-Jan-2009•Brydon Coverdale

Atapattu and Jayawardene prosper

Marvan Atapattu and Mahela Jayawardene struck hundreds to pull Sri Lanka out of a difficult position and into one from where they could get close to New Zealand's tall score

10-Jan-2009•The Bulletin by Charlie Austin

Johnson set to ignore IPL again

Mitchell Johnson has changed his mind on appearing in the IPL this year after deciding it would be better for his long-term future to skip the tournament

Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan batsman, was involved in an altercation with spectators during a domestic match on Friday. Afridi was accused of slapping a fan in the face, though he denied the speculation

Afridi involved in altercation with spectators

Renovation work on the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore has been stopped with immediate effect by the PCB, after the board claimed they had discovered "massive irregularities" in the construction of the far end pavilion

Renovation work at Gaddafi halted

Tom Moody, the former Australia batsman and Sri Lanka coach, has refused to rule himself out to become the new England coach following the sacking of Peter Moores

Moody keeps door open to England coaching role