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Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram has termed the increasingly shrill debate on the future of Indian cricket’s ‘fab four’ meaningless, saying the quartet still has two years of international cricket left.
Akram feels it is hard to imagine an Indian team without Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman right now.
“I don’t understand why [...]

As the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 4 kicks off at various venues in Dar es Salaam today, the ICC President, David Morgan, has hailed Tanzania for hosting the tournament. Three matches are on the card today when the hosts lock horns with Jersey at the Annadil Burhani Ground, at the University of Dar [...]

 International umpire Peter Parker, a member of Australia’s international panel, has announced his retirement. Parker, 49, has quit to focus on his off-field career having accepted a new full-time position with Hastings Deering with which he was working.
“It’s an opportunity that comes along once in a lifetime and I had to make the difficult choice [...]

The batting team will decide when to introduce either the second or the third Powerplay during their innings, starting with the one-day series between New Zealand and Bangladesh in October. The change from the earlier scenario, in which the fielding side decided when Powerplays would be taken, is part of the ICC’s new playing conditions [...]

Ryan Sidebottom wrapped up victory for England with a devastating spell of bowling on the fourth morning of the final Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge.Sidebottom took 6-67 as England secured a 2-0 series win over the tourists. The left-arm fast-bowler claimed four of the five wickets as England needed just an hour in [...]

Pakistan selectors have named senior batsman Muhammad Yousuf in their 16-man squad for a triangular One-day series in Bangladesh from June 8.
India and Bangladesh are the other teams in the competition, which ends on June 14.
Shoaib Malik (Capt),
Salman Butt,
Nasir Jamshed,
Younis Khan,
Muhammad Yousuf,
Misbah-ul-Haq,
Shahid Afridi,
Kamran Akmal,
Muhammad Asif,
Umar Gul,
Sohail Tanvir,
Rao Iftkhar,
Wahab Riaz,
Nomanullah,
Fawad Alam,
Bazid Khan.

Michael Clarke scored a elegant 110 and then picked up two top order wickets as Australia ended the second day of the second Test against West Indies on Saturday with a 354-run first innings lead.
Clarke’s classy innings guided Australia to a dictatorial 479 for seven declared and he then halted a spirited reply from hosts [...]

Scotland bowler John Blain has claimed Scottish cricket has to embrace the Twenty20 game - or keep playing in front of tiny crowds.
Attendances for Friends Provident Trophy matches, as well as new domestic 20-over competition, have been below the audiences south of the border.
And Blain believes there are lessons to be learnt from elsewhere.
He said: [...]

Australia captain Ricky Ponting became just the seventh batsman to reach 10,000 runs in test matches during his innings on Friday, the first day of the second test against West Indies.
Ponting went to the crease needing 61 to become the third Australian to reach the milestone following former captains Allan Border and Steve Waugh.
He reached [...]

Stuart Clarke took a career-best 5-32 to help Australia win the first cricket Test against West Indies by 95 runs and go 1-0 up in the best-of-three contest.
Chasing a target of 287 on the final day at Jamaica’s Sabina Park, the home team was bowled out for 191 shortly before the tea interval after resuming [...]