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Kenya have announced a 13-man squad for the first four-day match against the visiting Pakistan Academy, with brothers Collins and David Obuya along with Ragheb Aga being excluded from the side that toured Europe

Obuya brothers miss out

Bryce McGain is likely to make his Test debut at 36 and he has turned to his former Victoria legspinning colleague Shane Warne for advice on how to tackle India's batsmen

McGain seeks Warne's advice on India

12-Sep-2008•Brydon Coverdale

Zimbabwe Board XI coach calls for more four-day games

Steven Mangongo, the Zimbabwe Board XI coach, has stressed the need for more international four-day games for cricket to develop in the country

Andrew Symonds will not play Australia's Tests in India while the incumbent slow bowler Beau Casson has also been overlooked in favour of the uncapped 36-year-old legspinner Bryce McGain

Symonds out, McGain in for India

Jesse Ryder is in line for a possible Test debut after earning a call-up into the 15-man New Zealand squad for their two-Test tour of Bangladesh

Ryder in New Zealand Test squad

The row between the West Indies Cricket Board and its sponsors, Digicel, took another twist on Thursday with a proposal from the company to settle its dispute with the board

Digicel proposes compromise to contract row

Six of Bermuda's cricketers will go to Australia later this month for a six-week intensive training programme at the Sports Gateway Academy in Brisbane

Bermuda players to attend camp in Australia

A change in their tour schedule means New Zealand have more time to acclimatise to subcontinental conditions before the ODI and Test series against Bangladesh

New Zealand to arrive early in Bangladesh

The International Cricket Council is exploring ways to ensure that Test cricket remains the pinnacle of the world game

ICC revives notion of Test Championship

Katherine Brunt, the England fast bowler, capped off a remarkable comeback from a career-threatening back injury to win the Player-of-the-Series award for the England-India ODIs

Brunt relishes successful comeback

Lance Klusener won't be offered a new contract by Northamptonshire after the club said they want to increase the number of England qualified players on the staff

Northants release Klusener and Brown

Glamorgan's chief executive, Mike Fatkin, has parted company with the county with immediate effect, according to the WalesOnline website

Fatkin leaves Glamorgan

Sreesanth has recovered from his side strain that laid him low after the Indian Premier League but is still recuperating from a back problem which kept him out of the India A games against Australia A

Sreesanth recovering from stiff back

11-Sep-2008•Sriram Veera in Bangalore

Women to feature in SCG double-header

Australia will stage a women's and men's Twenty20 international double-header again this season after successfully trialling the concept last summer

The Champions League Twenty20 has become the highest valued cricket tournament on a per-game basis after EPSN-Star Sports secured the ten-year commercial rights for US$900 million

Champions League rights sell for $900 million

England's captain, Charlotte Edwards, has won the Women's Cricketer of the Year award at the ICC Awards ceremony in Dubai

Edwards is Women's Player of Year

South Africa's strike bowler, Dale Steyn, has won the Test Player of the Year award at the ICC Awards ceremony in Dubai

Steyn is Test Player of Year

India's flamboyant batsman, Yuvraj Singh, became the inaugural winner of the Twenty20 International Performance of the Year Award

Yuvraj wins Twenty20 award

The West Indies batsman, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, has become the fifth player to win the coveted Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy

Chanderpaul is ICC Cricketer of Year