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Amid frenzied debate surrounding his form, fitness, discipline and commitment, Shoaib Akhtar finally turned up to the national training camp

Shoaib finally turns up for training

Jason Gillespie's fightback into Australian contention suffered another setback when he was ruled out of the Pura Cup with a bruised lung

Bruised lung floors Gillespie

Brett Dorey, the Western Australia fast bowler, is expected to be fit for the ING Cup game against Victoria despite suffering a leg injury yesterday

Warriors unchanged as Dorey recovers

West Indies will receive a thorough workout for the first Test when they face a Queensland side containing eight internationals

West Indies face full-strength Queensland

Steve Waugh believes Stuart MacGill has a brilliant case for selection in the first Test against West Indies even though the venue is the Gabba

MacGill a must for Gabba - Waugh

England's chairman of selectors David Graveney believes that series wins in Pakistan and India will mean the team are the best in the world

Graveney believes England can be number one

Allan Donald has been appointed as a specialist coach for the high performance programme

Donald joins South Africa coaching staff

23-Oct-2005•Ken Borland

England may be vulnerable - Woolmer

Bob Woolmer has said that England may be vulnerable as they play Pakistan in their first series after their triumphant Ashes campaign

India are the new champions of the Hong Kong Sixes

India take Hong Kong sixes title

King said on arrival that he was especially keen to recruit legspinners to give the West Indies batsmen practice

West Indies gear up for a tough tour

23-Oct-2005•Tony Cozier

Lara voted the most dangerous batsman

Brian Lara has been voted the most dangerous opposing batsman, ahead of Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, by Australian cricketers

Nimbus Sports International have sealed a deal with the Indian board to distribute all media rights outside India for the telecast of the forthcoming one-day series

Nimbus gets overseas rights

Zimbabwe cricket was heading towards another crisis after the provincial associations passed a vote of no confidence on the Peter Chingoka-led Zimbabwe Cricket board

Zimbabwe facing crisis as stakeholders revolt

22-Oct-2005•Steven Price in Harare

England security officials to visit Pakistan

England are to send two security officials to Pakistan to assess the safety arrangements for the team's forthcoming tour

In the latest of a spate of books published in the wake of the Ashes, Ricky Ponting has written of his fury at Andrew Symonds' behaviour during the tour of England

Ponting fury at Symonds's drinking

Duncan Fletcher has said his side will cope with the pressure and expectations that are upon them, following their successful Ashes summer

England can cope with expectations

Four members of Ireland's squad finally arrived last night in Namibia, for their Intercontinental semi-final against UAE at Windhoek on Sunday, after a 31-hour journey

Ireland players finally arrive in Namibia

Ahead of his side's first practice match, Ramnaresh Sarwan has spoken of his excitement at facing Australia in the forthcoming Test series

Consistency the key for West Indies - Sarwan

Luke Sutton, the 29-year-old wicketkeeper and former captain of Derbyshire, has signed for Lancashire

Luke Sutton joins Lancashire