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New Road, Worcestershire's home ground, has been hit by another flood just as it was on the path to recovery after twice being underwater last season.

So quick are the prospects in Perth that Australia are likely to go in without a specialist spinner for the first time in 16 years

Gary Kirsten, soon to take over as India's Test coach, says he personally feels Rahul Dravid is better suited to the No.3 position

A round-up of the fifth round of matches in the State Shield

The Queensland batsman Greg Moller has finally overcome a hamstring injury

New Zealand have announced their 15-player squad for the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia next month

South Australia reached the final against New South Wales thanks to an emphatic 140-run win over Victoria under the lights in Adelaide on Friday

Ricky Ponting has used the strong public reaction to his side over the past week to pin-point areas Australia need to improve

The Australian team held a round-table discussion on the spirit of cricket on Sunday night

Gatorade Pacers' Bangalore edition was successfully held at the National Cricket Academy ground

Ashley Giles, Warwickshire's director of cricket, has expressed interest in signing Shaun Pollock, the South Africa allrounder who retired from international cricket on Friday

Marlon Samuels has been reported after the umpires during the Durban Test between South Africa and West Indies decided that aspects of his action were suspect

Former Zimbabwe fast bowler Henry Olonga and MP Kate Hoey have added to calls for the British government to ban Zimbabwe from touring in 2009

Pakistan have announced a 21-man shortlist for the five-ODI series against Zimbabwe, which starts in Karachi on January 21

Pat Symcox, the former South Africa spinner, has blamed South Africa's selectors for Shaun Pollock's sudden retirement from international cricket

A report in the Sunday Telegraph claims that England's hunt for a new chairman of selectors is not going as smoothly as hoped and that an appointment is unlikely to be made by the end of January

Brett Lee, the Australian fast bowler, doesn't think that his image would be tarnished in India following the controversial Test in Sydney last week

Michael Clarke says he has cleared the air with Anil Kumble over two of the controversies that flared in the second innings of the Sydney Test

Chris Rogers is one step closer to a dream international debut on his home ground after he was added to Australia's squad for the WACA Test as cover for Matthew Hayden, who has a hamstring injury

Gary Kirsten, the former South Africa batsman who will take over as the Indian coach in March, feels it is a good time to join the Indian team, mid-way through an Australian tour marred by controversy