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Twenty20 matches could be part of Glasgow's blueprint for the Commonwealth Games in 2014, say Cricket Scotland's chief executive Roddy Smith

Ditched from England's Test team and out of their World Cup plans, Geraint Jones is returning to his roots after agreeing to play the remainder of the Brisbane first-grade season with Beenleigh-Logan

Wayne Clark, the Western Australia coach, will step down from the role at the end of the season after a total of ten years in charge

The ECB have turned to the world of golf as they search for answers as to where they disastrous Ashes tour went wrong

Alyssa Healy, the niece of the former wicketkeeper Ian Healy, has been chosen in the 13-woman Australia Under-23 squad to tour New Zealand next month

Simon Katich hopes to meet with Australia's selectors to discover where he stands after the Test exits of Damien Martyn and Justin Langer

Brad Hodge's faith in the national selectors has been restored after he was chosen to replace Ricky Ponting for the CB Series match against England in Brisbane on Friday

Cricket Kenya has confirmed that Kennedy Otieno and Hitesh Modi will not be considered for selection for the World Cup, as reported last week by Cricinfo

Essex have announced that Andy Bichel, the Australian bowler, will rejoin the county for the second half of the 2007 season.

Former Zimbabwean Under-19 and Matabeleland allrounder Mathew Townshend is reported to have opened a cricket academy at the Whitestone school in Bulawayo

Sam Collins rounds up all the domestic action in South Africa for the week ending January 14, 2006

Herschelle Gibbs, the South African batsman, will miss the remainder of the series against Pakistan after being banned for two Tests by the ICC. Gibbs was charged under Level 3.3 of the ICC's Code of Conduct for making abusive comments about a section of

Haidee Tiffen has been retained as the captain while two new players have been included from the Canterbury side - wicketkeeper Rowan Milburn and offbreak bowler Selena Charteris

Ross Taylor and James Franklin have been cleared to play in New Zealand's second match of the CB Series against England at Hobart tomorrow after recovering from their respective ailments

Ricky Ponting will take his annual mid-season holiday and miss Australia's CB Series match against England in Brisbane on Friday

New South Wales Breakers will aim for back-to-back National Women's Cricket League titles after they sealed second place

Cameron White's re-entry into the Australia team has been so strong that he has out-hit Andrew Symonds in their past two partnerships

Damien Fleming believes Ben Hilfenhaus is a "natural" one-day bowler and should be considered for the World Cup in the West Indies

Reviewing the work done by the interim committee in the past 21 months, Dharmadasa said he was happy the way things had gone

Jayantha Dharmadasa, the Sri Lanka Cricket president, said he had spoken to Gerald Majola, the South African Cricket president, and that South Africa were willing to come and play in Sri Lanka