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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

Mushtaq Ahmed and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan will be available to their respective counties - Sussex and Yorkshire - in the 2008 season

Virender Sehwag admitted India's intensity had dropped during the course of the second day

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan winds up the Plays from day two of the first Test between India and South Africa in Chennai

A year after its launch, the unauthorised Indian Cricket League (ICL), is planning a makeover with significant changes that includes matches between international XIs, four-day matches and opening up team ownership to minority stakeholders

Seventy-six years after Bill Brown was run-out without facing a ball on his first-class debut at the Gabba, he was given a farewell at the same ground

Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif has been ruled out of next month's one-day series against Bangladesh

West Indies captain Chris Gayle is looking for a quick regrouping from his team in time for next week's second and final Digicel Test match against Sri Lanka at the Queen's Park Oval

Five New Zealand players signed with the Indian Premier League have been given permission to miss the opening two matches of the England tour

Mahela Jayawardene praised his bowlers as they wrapped up an historic first Test win in the West Indies with only 16 minutes remaining on the final day

To widespread frustration, Cricket Kenya has postponed the three-day part of its Elite League on the eve of the first round of matches

Lalchand Rajput, who was part of the Indian thinktank till recently, is disappointed that the BCCI did not engage him for a long-term contract

The lack of hotel rooms in Colombo has forced in change in the itinerary for India's tour to Sri Lanka in July-August

At 32, Neil McKenzie was offered a last chance to play for South Africa and he has grasped the opportunity gleefully

The wicket is very, very flat and it is hard for the bowlers to keep running in with the same intensity in this heat, Harbhajan Singh said after the day's play

The ICC has told Sunil Gavaskar that he would have to quit from the post of the chairman of the cricket committee if he wishes to continue as a media columnist and commentator

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan presents the Plays of the day from the first day of the first Test between India and South Africa in Chennai

Namibia will be looking to maintain their unbeaten run in the ICC Intercontinental Cup when they take on Netherlands in Windhoek on Thursday. The hosts, who are in third place - 18 points behind the leaders, Kenya - are 14 points ahead of the fourth-place

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police arrested former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya on Wednesday for alleged embezzlement of funds during the 1996 World Cup