The South African team are disappointed by the decision to keep the Champions Trophy in Pakistan.

James Neesham hit 20 runs in five deliveries to bring up a last-ball win for New Zealand Under-19s against an ECB Under-17 side at Sleaford CC.

The best cricketers in the six Associate countries are gearing up for the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier to be held in Belfast in two weeks' time. Bermuda, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, Scotland and Kenya have each announced their squads, with plenty at stake: the two finalists, plus the winner of the play-off, will qualify for the ICC World Twenty20.

The Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA) has launched an "addictive behaviour programme", which will help players deal with problems of drug abuse, alcohol and gambling.

Dileep Premachandran rewinds the Plays of the day from the second day at the SSC.

Finals day of England's Twenty20 Cup is to be held at the Rose Bowl this Saturday but only two of the four teams in the fray - Essex and Middlesex - have chances of qualifying for the Champions League because they have no ICL links, IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has said.

Syed Rasel, the Bangladesh left-arm medium-pacer, is expected to be sidelined for two months after suffering an injury last week.

The ECB plan to grow the Cockspur Club Twenty20 in 2009 following the success of this year's tournament.

The winners of the Twenty20 Cup at the Rose Bowl on Saturday could be set to join in Allen Stanford's winner-takes-all bonanza in Antigua in November.

Victory is in sight for Nottinghamshire who, having set Yorkshire an unlikely victory target of 403 after a dour batting effort of their own, reduced them to 107 for 4 by the close of the third day.

A round-up of the County Championship action on July 24, 2008.

Just 20 days after it managed to strike a delicate balance over the Zimbabwe crisis, the ICC will once again be walking the tightrope over a teleconference spanning continents which starts at 8.30 GMT on Thursday - and this time, its executive board will hope to arrive at a consensus among the eight participating nations on the issue of staging the Champions Trophy in Pakistan this September.

The International Cricket Council has concerns over the threat of match-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), ICC general manager Dave Richardson said.

Allen Standford, the Antigua-based billionaire who is bankrolling the Stanford 20/20 for 20, has said that the structure of West Indies cricket administration needs to be "streamlined" and that there were "too many players handling too few dollars" at present.

Mohammad Asif, the Pakistan fast bowler, is trying to hire the services of Dr Graham Durgan, a sports medicine expert from England, to plead his case against the dope charges after he tested positive for a banned substance during the Indian Premier League.