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Two of England's leading international grounds, Lord's and The Oval, are considering making an offer to stage exhibition games involving sides from the IPL

Rahul Dravid became the sixth batsmen in Test history to break the 10,000-run barrier when he went from 79 to 80 on the fourth day

Brett Geeves has been named Tasmania's Player of the Year while Shaun Marsh picked up the equivalent prize at Western Australia

Johann Louw, the South African-born allrounder, has rejoined Northamptonshire for the 2008 season. Louw last played for the club in 2004, after which he signed for Middlesex

South Africa have refused a proposal for a Test series in Pakistan before even receiving it

Virender Sehwag admitted that being dropped from the Test side "motivated" him to concentrate better, enabling him to produce what he termed as his "best innings".

Mickey Arthur, the South African coach, said he had not visualised the game taking such a course in his "wildest dreams", admitting that he had not seen a better Test innings than Virender Sehwag's 309 in Chennai

Salim Dhanji, who was chairman of the Nairobi Provincial Cricket Association until January 2007, has contacted Cricinfo to confirm that rather than being absent from Kenya, he resigned on leaving for a two-year sabbatical in Australia

Rahul Dravid termed Virender Sehwag's triple-hundred a "really audacious knock"

The Indian board has told Cricinfo that it will be lodging a complaint with the ECB following confirmation that the PCB has issued No Objection Certificates to Mushtaq Ahmed and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan

Sunil Gavaskar has found it difficult to decide between which of his two roles, that as a media columnist and also as chairman of the ICC's cricket committee, he should remain in

Neil Drysdale meets the Scotland coach, Peter Steindl

Scottish cricket received a significant boost this week with the confirmation that a sponsor has been found to back a new national Twenty20 competition across Scotland this summer

South African opening batsman Herschelle Gibbs was arrested in the early hours of Friday morning for drink-driving in Cape Town

Former West Indies batsman Desmond Haynes wants a regional cricket academy to be set up in order to get West Indies cricket back up the ladder

Darren Wates, the Western Australia allrounder who played 15 first-class games, has stepped down to concentrate on his job as a lawyer

The Indian Premier League has leading England players in its sights, according to its chairman, Lalit Modi

Sri Lanka's tour game against West Indies A in Tobago has been cancelled

Lancashire have announced a strong profit for 2007 but their chief executive, Jim Cumbes, has warned about the cost of staging international matches

Shane Warne has announced his retirement from first-class cricket while ending his eight-year association with the county side Hampshire