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Teddy Griffith has been appointed to the new board of the company established to administer the 2007 World Cup because of "the background and the information"

Gordon defends Griffith's appointment

17-Oct-2005•Tony Cozier

Nimbus throws its hat in the ring

Nimbus Communications Ltd, a noted production house, has offered to produce and market the forthcoming ODI series against Sri Lanka and South Africa

Andrew Flintoff has denied any suggestions that he does not get along with Graeme Smith, World XI captain for the recently concluded Super Test against Australia, and backed his statement with a hostile bowling spell to help dismiss Australia for 199 in

Flintoff denies rift with Smith

Sourav Ganguly should be fit enough to play for East Zone in the Duleep Trophy match against North Zone from October 20

Ganguly likely to play Duleep Trophy

Cameron Borgas and Gary Putland are likely to make their ING Cup debut for South Australia, when they take on New South Wales in their opening game on October 23

Redbacks include Borgas and Putland

New Zealand comfortably beat South Africa A for the second time in three days, at Potchefstroom on Sunday

Fleming and Bond continue NZ's winning form

Michael Vaughan has highlighted the need for his team to acclimatise quickly to the testing conditions of the subcontinent

Acclimatisation vital for England's subcontinent success

The suspense over the contentious telecast rights continues as the marketing committee of the Indian board felt that they needed a bit more time to sort out "some legal issues"

Uncertainty over telecast rights continues

Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison were pleased with the way their bowling had gone on the third day

It's possible to chase 350 - Flintoff

Sharad Pawar has denied that he resigned from the marketing committee of the board because he was dissatisfied with its functioning

Lack of time forced me to resign - Pawar

Ball-by-ball details of the seven magical deliveries Muttiah Muralitharan bowled to Simon Katich and Adam Gilchrist

Murali's magic

16-Oct-2005•Anand Vasu

Almeida skittles Easterns for 85

Gauteng crushed Easterns and North West reached a credible draw with Northerns on the third day of their UCB Provincial Cup matches

15-Oct-2005•Keith Lane

Another defeat by Kenya adds to Zimbabwe's woes

Zimbabwe cricket suffered another major blow at the Harare Academy ground on Saturday when Kenya beat Zimbabwe A by 30 runs in a low-scoring match played on a substandard pitch

When Glenn McGrath had Brian Lara trapped lbw on the second day of the Super Test at Sydney, he surpassed Courtney Walsh's tally of 519 Test wickets

McGrath surpasses Walsh's record

Mushtaq Ahmed, the Pakistan and Sussex legspinner, has done his chances of being selected for the Test team to face England no harm by finding a place in the Rest of Pakistan side set to play a Pakistan XI beginning October 26.

Mushtaq for Rest of Pakistan

With the tour of Pakistan around the corner, Andrew Strauss believes that England are weakened by the absence of Simon Jones, the Glamorgan fast bowler

Strauss - 'We need Simon'

Stuart MacGill is tired of hearing that his style does not complement Shane Warne's

The Warne-MacGill partnership

15-Oct-2005•Peter English

BCCI accuse PCA of financial mismanagement

Less than 48 hours have passed since the final of the Challenger Trophy at Mohali, and the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) finds itself embroiled in a new controversy over television rights with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)