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Nottinghamshire have signed Luke Fletcher, a 19-year-old fast bowler from their second XI, on a one-year contract

Steve Rhodes, the Worcestershire director of cricket, has urged caution over the fitness and future of Simon Jones, the England fast bowler, who joined the club from Glamorgan over the winter

Allan Donald, the former South Africa fast bowler, is determined to rekindle Warwickshire's winning spirit of the 1990s which made them such a force in county cricket

Virender Sehwag, fresh from scoring 319 in the first Test against South Africa in Chennai, has said that the aggressive nature of his batting has hampered his progress in one-dayers

Shaun Marsh has credited Western Australia's decision to suspend him for two matches after a drinking session in November as the wake-up call he needed to set him on the path to his first tour with the national side

The WICB was caught in the middle of a stand-off triggered by differences between two umpiring bodies in Trinidad and Tobago, only one of which is recognised by the Trinidad and Tobago board

Michael Clarke has been named as Australia's new vice-captain following the retirement of Adam Gilchrist

Australia have included the uncapped trio of Beau Casson, Ashley Noffke and Ben Hilfenhaus in their 15-man Test squad to tour the West Indies next month, while Simon Katich earned a recall after his record-breaking domestic season

Shivnarine Chanderpaul might have picked up a host of honours at the West Indies Players' Association awards but in doing so he infuriated both his own team and his opponents in their ongoing Carib Beer Series match

Shivnarine Chanderpaul won all three major awards at the annual West Indies Players' Association's (WIPA) awards

South Africa have unveiled their list of centrally contracted players for the 2004-05 season, and as anticipated, it has been trimmed from a squad of 20 to just 13 elite players

Rumours continue to do the rounds that all is not well within the South African camp

Omar Henry has been replaced as convenor of selectors by the South African cricket board, but will remain on the selection committee

Omar Henry, who has Test match and international one-day cricket on his CV as well as the captaincy of Scotland, has been appointed convener of the South African selectors in what amounts to an almost total clean-out of Rushdi Magiet's discredited

Herschelle Gibbs and Charl Langeveldt have been included in South Africa's 14-man squad for the second and third Tests against England

Haroon Lorgat of Western Province and Border's Peter Bacela are the two new faces on the six-man South African selection panel chosen by the General Council at the United Cricket Board's annual meeting on Saturday

Several players from South Africa and Pakistan, who featured in the youth Under-19 World Cup last month in Malaysia, are part of academy sides to tour Bangladesh in April for the Grameenphone Academy Cup

The ICC is looking at a speedy resolution to the search for its next chief executive officer and Haroon Lorgat has emerged as a strong candidate for the post

Shafiq-ul-Haq, the former Bangladesh captain, has been appointed the national team's operations manager

Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar will face a disciplinary committee on April 1 and faces a possible life ban for breaching the Pakistan Cricket Board's Code of Conduct