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Piyush Chawla, the legspinner, has been drafted into the India Green team in place of Murali Kartik

The Indian squad will undergo a two-day camp in Kolkata from November 2 in preparation for the home series against Pakistan, which includes five ODIs and three Tests

Warwickshire's former captain, Michael Powell, has been awarded a benefit year for the 2008 season

Cricinfo profiles the lesser-known players in the Challengers

Dilip Vengsarkar says the Twenty20 match in Mumbai showed India too can be dominant

Sarwan had pulled out of Guyana's previous match against Trinidad and Trinidad on October 20 after he was injured during training

The Bangladesh Cricket Board's bid to appoint a new foreign coach for the national team received a blow when John Dyson, the former Australian batsman who was one of the contenders, decided to take up the West Indies job

Michael Hussey will make his return to first-class cricket when Western Australia take on Victoria in a Pura Cup match at Melbourne starting on Friday

Dav Whatmore, the former Australian batsmen who has tasted success coaching subcontinent teams, can't wait to start his latest assignment with the National Cricket Academy in India (NCA)

Ricky Ponting has asked Australian fans to forget about the racism row that simmered during the recent ODI series when India visit Australia later this year

Glenn McGrath has confirmed he will make one final appearance for New South Wales this season in a Twenty20 match on January 8

John Buchanan is set to continue his involvement with Australian cricket in a new role as the ambassador for Cricket Australia's coaching accreditation program

Tim Nielsen, Australia's new coach, believes the three replacements for the holes left by Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Justin Langer have still not been decided

Dr. Donald Peters has been named as the new chief executive officer of the West Indies Cricket Board, succeeding Bruce Aanensen, who resigned in August after less than four months in the job

Pakistan's continuing troubles with their opening combination have forced the selectors to call up Khalid Latif and release Mohammad Hafeez

Andrew Strauss says he is still coming to terms with being omitted from England's Test squad for the tour of Sri Lanka and has yet to decide on his next option

Sunil Gavaskar said while the blame rested on the management of the teams for letting the situation deteriorate the umpires and match referee were no less culpable

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has sanctioned Rs56 million (US$495,421) to be spent on ten Tier A clubs of the domestic tournaments this season in an effort to make the tournament more professional

Doeta Dippenaar has been named captain of a South African Invitation XI for the four-day warm-up match against the New Zealanders in Bloemfontein, which begins on October 25

The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to defend Mohammad Yousuf and said that the Indian Cricket Leage (ICL) cannot stop him from playing for his country after the league organisers sent out a legal notice to the batsman