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Kaushal Lokuarachchi, the Sri Lankan legspinner, has been handed a suspended jail sentence for driving carelessly and killing a woman pedestrian in 2003

New Zealand Cricket will take a decision next week on whether to allow the five players who have joined the Indian Premier League to miss the start of the England tour

James Anderson has given England an injury scare after going over on his left ankle during a warm-down game of football after the third day in Wellington

Canterbury posted their second State Championship win over Central Districts in a week and had Michael Davidson to thank for the success

Andrew Miller presents the plays of the day from the third day of the second Test between New Zealand and England

The ICC's executive board meets in Dubai over the next few days and one of the main issues on the agenda will be the selection of a chief executive to replace Malcolm Speed

Martin Williamson looks ahead to the executive meeting of the ICC in Dubai and which is one of the most important in the organisation's 99-year existence

Marcus Trescothick has withdrawn from Somerset's pre-season tour to UAE after a recurrence of the stress-related illness that has twice forced him to quit recent England overseas trips

Hartley Reid, the West Indies' regional umpires' association president, has called on the WICB to take action following scathing remarks by Chris Gayle following Jamaica's 17-run loss to Barbados

Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium will not be hosting any of the matches of the Indian Premier League

VVS Laxman injured his finger while taking Manoj Tiwary's catch during South Zone's Deodhar Trophy encounter against East Zone

Mickey Arthur, the South Africa coach, has said that it is important to be No. 1 in the one-day rankings but what his team really wants is to beat India in the upcoming three-Test series

Cricinfo has learned that attempts to broker a compromise over plans to reduce the number of Associate countries at the 2011 World Cup were scuppered by the host countries, led by India

Kent have signed Yasir Arafat as their overseas player for the 2008 season

Ashish Nehra, the left-arm fast bowler, has signed up with the Indian Premier League's Mumbai franchise

A Standard Bank National Academy team will tour Bangladesh in April to play two four-day matches against a Bangladesh Cricket Board National Academy team and a and a triangular one-day series

Yorkshire have ended speculation over whether South African fast bowler Morne Morkel will play for them this season by confirming that he will honour his contract

All in all, New Zealand are up against it in the second Test, but Brendon McCullum says it was not for want of effort on their part

The sixth-round Carib Beer matches that were under threat because of a withdrawal of services by the West Indies Cricket Umpires Association (WICUA) are likely to go ahead with qualified officials in place

Associate Member Bermuda picked up two prizes in the ICC Development Program Annual Awards, making them the success story in this year's competition