Steve Harmison has continued his excellent recovery from hernia surgery by being named captain of Durham against Sri Lanka A.

England are sweating over the fitness of star player Kevin Pietersen today, after the batsman missed training due to an illness.

The experienced trio of Abdul Razzaq, Mohammad Yousuf and Naved Ul-Hasan have been omitted from Pakistan’s Twenty20 World Cup squad.

Mahendra Dhoni has been named captain of India’s Twenty20 World Cup side, with Harbhajan Singh and Virender Sehwag also included.

The Sri Lankan Cricket Board have released Marvan Atapattu from his national contract clearing the way for him to play in the ICL.

The Bangladesh squad will hold a bootcamp at the warfare wing of the Bangladesh army’s school of infantry and tactics in Sylhet.

There was no place for Test batsmen Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss when England’s 15 man Twenty20 squad was revealed today.

Wavell Hinds has been banned from Jamaican cricket for the rest of the year after being found guilty of verbal abuse of umpires.

Glenn McGrath has told the AFP news association that he is interested in playing in the Indian Cricket League.

Former Sri Lankan captain Marvan Atapattu has written to the Sri Lankan Cricket Board asking to be released from his central contract.