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Virender Sehwag has been ruled out of the first one-dayer against South Africa to be played in Johannesburg on Sunday

Glenn McGrath believes he still has plenty to offer despite Australia's selectors looking to the future by choosing Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson and Shaun Tait alongside him in the first-Test squad

England's build-up to next week's opening Ashes Test has suffered another blow with Steve Harmison forced out of the tour match against South Australia with a side strain

Michael Clarke was desperately unlucky to miss out on a place in Australia's squad for the first Test, according to Darren Lehmann

Shaun Tait wasted no time after being picked in a 13-man Test squad to outline his plans for the future

Zimbabwe Cricket is poised for its busiest domestic season ever

Richard Caborn, the UK sports minister, has called on ICC to stamp out racial taunts from spectators

Ronnie Irani, the Essex captain, has declared his hip operation a success after returning from Colorado

Rahul Bhattacharya looks at Gravy

Monty Panesar has been encouraged to give the ball more air and slow his speed as he competes with England's senior spinner, Ashley Giles, for England's starting XI at Brisbane next week

Vinod Kambli, the former Indian middle-order batsman whose 664-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar in school cricket was recently bettered by a Hyderabad duo, has hailed the "incredible" feat

David Fulton, the former Kent captain, has announced his retirement from first-class cricket after being released at the end of the last season

Inzamam-ul-Haq has renewed calls for Test matches in Pakistan to be extended to six days to reduce the impact of bad light and poor weather

Bob Woolmer lauded Pakistan's all-round performance in the nine-wicket win over West Indies in Lahore, but warned that the going might not be as smooth in the second Test

Scotland will play four home games at The Grange in the ECB One-Day Trophy (formerly the C&G Trophy) next season

In the same week that a leaked ICC report revealed that Darrell Hair was rated as their second-best umpire comes the news that he has been voted Umpire of the Season in poll carried out by The Wisden Cricketer

Tasmania face a difficult task in the Ford Ranger Cup game in Hobart on Sunday

Marcus Trescothick's enforced departure from the Ashes tour of Australia is a bitter-sweet outcome for Paul Collingwood who is expected to play in next week's Brisbane Test

Vikram Solanki and Kabir Ali have arrived in India to play for Rajasthan in domestic cricket

Sourav Ganguly has been named captain of a 14-man Bengal squad to take on Punjab in a Ranji Trophy Elite Group match beginning November 23 in Mohali