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Narendra Hirwani, the former India legspinner, is set to retire from first-class cricket after 23 years in the game

Hirwani announces his retirement

John Buchanan, the Australia coach, says he will retire after next year's World Cup in West Indies

Buchanan to quit after 2007 World Cup

Karen Rolton takes over as captain of the Australian women's cricket team

Rolton named as Australian women's captain

Matabeleland retained the Faithwear provincial one-day tournament with a crushing eight-wicket win over Msvingo at Harare Sports Club

Matabeleland retain Faithwear title at a canter

Kevin Curran, Zimbabwe's coach, has been accused of trying to persuade some of the country's striking players to sign the controversial new contracts offered to them by the board

Players angry at Curran's interference

05-Feb-2006•Steven Price in Harare

'We're struggling with the slower wickets' - Patel

Dipak Patel, the New Zealand U-19 coach, admitted his side is struggling to cope with playing spin in subcontinent conditions

Ahead of England's tour to India, the England coach Duncan Fletcher has expressed concerns over the amount of cricket his players are faced with in the coming 18 months

Fletcher concerned at burnout fear

Australia trounced South Africa by 57 runs at Sydney on Sunday, but Ricky Ponting pinpointed the toss as the deciding factor, despite another swaggering fifty from Adam Gilchrist

Gilchrist considered going for double hundred

One big defeat at Karachi was all it took for the critics to sharpen their knives but Rahul Dravid, the Indian captain, has insisted that the players are capable of brushing it all aside

'Tendulkar will bounce back' - Dravid

05-Feb-2006•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan in Peshawar

No surprises in tournament openers

Summary of Under-19 World Cup opening matches

05-Feb-2006

McGrath to miss VB Series finals

Glenn McGrath will not play in the VB Series finals beginning on February 10, choosing to spend time with his family after his wife Jane was diagnosed with cancer

Kenya's proposed tour of Zimbabwe is almost certain to be scrapped after Zimbabwe's cricketers refused to sign new contracts

Kenya's Zimbabwe tour likely to be scrapped

Dion Ebrahim, one of the most senior players remaining in Zimbabwe side, has claimed he has not been offered a new contract

Dion Ebrahim left out in the cold

Reports that Zimbabwe's cricketers had signed contracts offered to them by the board have turned out to be false

No progress as Zimbabwe strike continues

04-Feb-2006•Steven Price in Harare

Free State demolish Griqualand West

A round-up from the latest SAA Provincial Cup matches

04-Feb-2006•Keith Lane

'Jumbo' tournament gets underway

On a sultry evening in Colombo the Under-19 World Cup was launched with typical Sri Lankan flair

04-Feb-2006•Andrew McGlashan in Colombo

Buoyant Pakistan ready for India

It's been just two days since they suffered their second-heaviest defeat in Tests, but India's chance for redemption isn't too far away

04-Feb-2006•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan at Peshawar

Under-19 World Cup officially opens

The Under-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka was officially opened on Sunday and was hailed by the ICC chief executive, Malcolm Speed, as an event which has "truly come of age"

After the setback of hearing the news that his wife has suffered a recurrence of cancer, Glenn McGrath could yet continue to play in the VB Series

McGrath keen to play despite wife's cancer setback