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The curse of the left-arm spinner returned to haunt Kevin Pietersen in the final Test in Dubai only hours after he insisted that he had eradicated the weakness from his game.

Chris Tremlett is facing a lengthy break from the game after specialists decided his back injury may require surgery. He will now miss England’s tour to Sri Lanka at the end of March.

If MCG bosses weren't taking the Sydney Olympic Stadium threat seriously before the game, they are now.

Canterbury Cricket have released another 1000 tickets for Canterbury's Twenty20 match against South Africa after the initial lot of 2000 tickets were snapped up more than two weeks before the game.South Africa play Canterbury on…

NEW DELHI: Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan has blamed the lucrative Twenty20 Indian Premier League for India’s recent dismal Test showing, saying the focus should be on the game’s longer format.

NEW DELHI, Jan 31, 2012 (AFP) -Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan has blamed the lucrative Twenty20 Indian Premier League for India's recent dismal Test showing, saying the focus should be on the game's longer format.

George Bailey, Australia’s new T20 captain, has set himself the marker of ensuring the high standards reached by the Test team against India do not slacken in the game’s shortest format.

In the Sydney Morning Herald, Sourav Ganguly says Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman have earned the right to decide when they should quit the Test side, and the selectors should give them that respect. I do not disagree that performance is the sole criteria in picking teams, but the seniors need to be handled well. They are mature enough to know what is right for the team as they have huge contributions to the game in our part of the world, and I firmly believe they should be…

Watching the movie Moneyball got Stuart MacGill thinking about how much use statistical analysis has in sport. Having worked with John Buchanan, a notorious statistics boffin, MacGill says computers and stats have a role to play in sport, but the basic principles of the game are more important. The only statistics that matter in cricket, MacGill writes in the Sydney Morning Herald, are: make more runs than the opposition and bowl them out twice. John excitedly told me that whenever I pitched the ball on off stump, the batsman wasn’t…

The Duleep Trophy quarter-final in Valsad remained in the balance as neither West Zone or East Zone were able to take a grip on the game by the end of the second day