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The National Museum of Australia has paid Aus$11,000 for a decorative boomerang that was used to entertain the crowds when an Aboriginal cricket team toured England in 1868

There has been a stinging attack on the way that Zimbabwe Cricket operates in one of the country's state-run newspapers

Ahead of the start of the new international cricket season, which gets underway later this month, Cricket Ireland has revealed its new ticketing pricing structure for 2008

The News Broadcasters Association, whose members control the major national news channels, has decided to put its coverage of the IPL on hold

The Rajasthan Royals have drafted in Darren Lehmann, the former Australian batsman, to fill in for Graeme Smith

Editorial operations of cricket websites, including Cricinfo, during the Indian Premier League will be severely restricted despite a considerable climbdown by the league on its accreditation guidelines for the print media and news agencies

Despite the growing popularity of Twenty20 among fans, Shaun Pollock said he would "hate" to see Test cricket losing out to the shortest form of the game

Logistical reasons have forced a switch in the dates for the two Standard Bank Pro20 tournament semi-finals

Surrey have announced their highest ever profits in the club's 163-year history. Last year, their annual turnover was £23,407,000 and they recorded pre-tax profits in excess of £721,000, an increase of 108.4% from 2006

England players have been warned by the Indian Premier League to not take drastic measures in order to take part in the league

Jacques Kallis and Mark Boucher feel that age and their reputation as Test players will not be a barrier when they play for the Bangalore Royal Challengers

Sajid Mahmood says being dropped from the national side allowed him to fine-tune his skills in a manner that leaves him in prime form for the upcoming county season

Jamie Siddons, the Bangladesh coach, has called on Mohammad Ashraful to start performing ahead of their fourth ODI against Pakistan in Multan

South Australia could be on the brink of signing up to four New South Wales players, according to Redbacks coach Mark Sorell

Zaheer Khan has overcome his ankle injury and will play for the Royal Challengers in their match against the Kolkata Knight Riders on April 18

Doug Bollinger has been included in Australia's Test squad to tour the West Indies as a replacement for Ben Hilfenhaus, who is suffering from a recurrence of a stress fracture in his lower back

Jesse Ryder should have been happy at securing a New Zealand Cricket contract on Monday but instead the prospect of potentially missing the ODI tour of England was weighing him down

Darren Sammy, the first international cricketer to come from St Lucia, says he cannot wait for his first chance to play an ODI in front of his home crowd

Steve Harmison has hit back at the critics - most recently Andrew Caddick - who have questioned his desire to play international cricket, and claims that he is ready to fight his way back into the Test team

The Pakistan senate committee on sports has decided the process for Shoaib Akhtar's appeal regarding his five-year ban should continue and that the appellate tribunal should be allowed to take its decision independently