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Adeel Raja, the Netherlands' offspinner, has been banned for two years after failing a random drugs test during a domestic match in September

Twenty eight of Europe's most promising young cricketers will travel to La Manga Club, Spain in April next year to take part in the tenth annual ICC European Centre of Excellence

David Smith will take over from Paul Maylard-Mason as Leicestershire's chief executive in January

Shaun Tait has shown no signs of discomfort in his troublesome right elbow despite claiming he bowled at his fastest in Australia's dominant Twenty20 victory

Andrew Symonds is expected to play the first match of the Chappell-Hadlee Series in Adelaide on Friday despite injuring his right ankle

The third day at the SSC couldn't have gone much better for Mahela Jayawardene. His unbeaten 167 led Sri Lanka to a 28-run lead over England with six wickets remaining and in the process he became his country's leading run scorer

India's fragile fast bowlers are the selectors' chief concern as they meet on Wednesday to whittle down the list of 24 probables for India's tour of Australia

Geoff Lawson said Pakistan would go for a win if the target India set them is not "ridiculous"

Luke Pomersbach made one of cricket's more unusual international debuts when summoned to stand in for Brad Hodge

The executive board of the Asian Cricket Council has confirmed that the ninth Asia Cup in Pakistan will go ahead as scheduled in June 2008

Sourav Ganguly, named Indian captain only for the series against Pakistan, reflected on his years as captain, playing Pakistan and John Wright's future in an interview with Mumbai's Mid Day

Andrew Miller provides the plays of the day from the third day between Sri Lanka and England in Colombo

Nicky Boje, the former South Africa left-arm spinner, has denied all charges of his alleged involvement in the 2000 match-fixing scandal, while being questioned by the Delhi police

Zimbabwe have stepped up their preparations for the Under-19 World Cup next year with a junior tour of South Africa

George Binoy presents the Plays of the day for the fourth day of the Bangalore Test between India and Pakistan

Glenn McGrath believes the MCG Test is the ideal time for Australia to relax the tradition of playing a spinner and pick a pace quartet instead

Graham Gooch, the former England captain, has declared his interest in applying for the position of national selector

New Zealand Cricket has backed Dunedin's University Oval to produce a Test-quality pitch within the next four weeks

Mohammad Yousuf has said that he didn't expect Anil Kumble to sledge at him, which led to a loss of concentration and eventually, to his dismissal

Australia are looking to the future by giving Michael Clarke the captaincy for today's Twenty20 match against New Zealand, but the future is the furthest thing from Clarke's mind in the lead-up to the game