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The recently floated Indian Cricket League (ICL) has found that "reactions have been positive" in its hunt to recruit domestic players

Indian Cricket League starts hunt for domestic players

Jonty Rhodes is the latest big name to have evinced more than a passing interest in the new parallel Indian Cricket League.

Rhodes shows guarded interest in ICL

The assistant coach will be appointed for an initial period of two years and the board is accepting applications for the post till August 15

Pakistan board advertises for assistant coach to Lawson

An ECB security delegation is expected to give the all-clear for the tour of Sri Lanka to go ahead despite escalating violence on the island

England officials happy with security arrangements

29-Jul-2007•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Penney has thoughts of coming back to Sri Lanka

More than in their victories, Sri Lanka benefited immensely from the coaching of Tom Moody and Trevor Penney in the individual development of the players

29-Jul-2007•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Mostly tentative, Tendulkar still thrills

After India's depressing denouement at the World Cup, there may yet be a glorious finale in prospect for an extraordinary generation

28-Jul-2007•Andrew Miller at Trent Bridge

'A hundred was on the cards' - Karthik

Karthik, along with Wasim Jaffer, has brought a certain solidity to the top of the order

28-Jul-2007•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan at Trent Bridge

What's luck got to do with it?

India's opening pair appeared to have luck on their side but their fighting performance suggests they made their luck

28-Jul-2007•Sambit Bal at Trent Bridge

ECB assesses Sri Lanka security

An ECB delegation, led by director of England cricket John Carr, has flown to Sri Lanka to make a security assessment ahead of England's winter tours to the country

Mark Cosgrove, the South Australia batsman suspended from the Centre of Excellence, insists he did not damage his Brisbane apartment and was punished for leaving it untidy

Cosgrove accepts ban and heads for surgery

Pakistan's top cricketers have pledged to raise funds for victims of the recent cyclone and subsequent floods

Cricketers to raise funds for flood victims

Bring on fast pitches, say Pakistan

Pakistan want lively tracks in South Africa

Aaqib Javed believes Shoaib Akhtar's return to national colours will make Pakistan one of the favourites for the Twenty20 World Championship

Shoaib's return strengthens Pakistan - Aaqib

The Indian squads for the seven-match ODI series against England and for the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa will be chosen on August 7

Indian ODI & Twenty20 squads to be picked on August 7

28-Jul-2007•PTI

One step forward, two steps backward

It's not too often that both captains admit to wanting to bowl first in a Test, but India - having learned their lessons from a wayward first 90 minutes at Lord's - were in the mood and form to capitalise on the conditions

27-Jul-2007•Andrew Miller at Trent Bridge

Durham sign Chanderpaul

Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been signed by Durham as a replacement for Scott Styris for the remainder of this season

Akeliah Antoine and Toneita Phillip were the first two girls selected for the Digicel coaching clinic yesterday, at the Sir Frank Worrell Cricket Centre in Trinidad

Coaching roadshow arrives in Trinidad

It's high time we had another caption competition and, fortunately for us (and you), Graeme Smith was spotted on the back of a Harley Davidson

Graeme Smith and his Harley

Lord's will stage its first floodlit match on September 10 when Middlesex take on Derbyshire in a Pro40 match

Lord's to stage floodlit match