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Canterbury and Auckland will battle to meet Wellington in the State Championship final during the last round of preliminary matches starting on Sunday

A group calling itself Save Zimbabwe Cricket says it will study the recent results of a forensic audit of Zimbabwe Cricket accounts by KPMG South Africa and take legal action either in Zimbabwe or possibly abroad

Andrew Miller with the plays of the day from the fourth day of the third Test in Napier

Sunil Gavaskar will be given the option to choose either function, the executive board of ICC has decided

Ramnaresh Sarwan says West Indies have been done no favours by a Providence Stadium pitch more typical of Sri Lankan grounds than Caribbean conditions

Beau Casson, the New South Wales left-arm wrist-spinner, is firming as a possible back-up to Stuart MacGill for Australia's tour of the West Indies in May

Virender Sehwag has a useful session with India's mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton

Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladesh's captain, has been fined for slapping a spectator who called his recent performance against South Africa "rubbish," according to the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB)

The Economic and Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police has found that former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya misappropriated funds to the tune of Rs 2.9 crore during the 1996 World

The appointment of long-term support staff and ratifying the decisions taken by the various sub-committees will be the key points on the agenda of the board's working committee meeting on Tuesday in Chennai

Dale Steyn said he was going to bowl to the "weaknesses" of the batsmen, ahead of South Africa's three-Test series against India

India's new coach Gary Kirsten and his associate Paddy Upton have begun their official stints with workshops of an "exploratory nature"

Mark Boucher is hoping that both upcoming series against India will be played in the right spirit

Sri Lanka have asked Pakistan to schedule the bilateral one-day series, which was proposed to fill the gap caused by Australia's pull-out, so that the dates do not clash with those of the Indian Premier League

The Asgiriya Stadium in Kandy will not host the visiting Indian team during their tour to Sri Lanka in July. This will be the first time India will not play at the Asgiriya Stadium while taking part in a three-Test series in Sri Lanka

England lead by 501 with two days remaining in the Napier Test. Jeetan Patel, however, believes that New Zealand can save the match

Andrew Strauss, speaking after scoring first hundred after 16 Tests, said his unbeaten 173 was long overdue

The Pakistan board is all set to send a formal proposal to the South Africa board for a three-Test match series to be played after the Champions Trophy in September

Pakistan have delayed announcing their squad for the Under-15 World Cup, which begins in April in the West Indies, because several players were found to be overage after wrist tests were conducted on the 37 probables

Arjuna Ranatunga, the CEO of Sri Lanka Cricket, has held talks with Canadian Cricket Association officials about how his board could assist the development of the sport in the country