Day: June 22, 2011

Spearheaded by the efforts of Gowkaran Roopnarine, Aditya Mishra and Neil McGarrell, Atlantic Region won the first-ever USA Cricket Association Twenty20 championship on June 19 in Newark, New Jersey

New Zealand’s coach, John Wright, is confident Brendon McCullum and Ross Taylor can work together after the drawn-out jostle to become the team’s captain

Paul Marsh, the Australian players union chief executive, has defended the weighting of state and Big Bash League contracts for next summer.

Cricket Kenya has appointed former international Alpesh Vadher, as chairman of their newly constituted selection panel

India swooped into a strong position after yet another West Indian batting failure, to finish 164 ahead by stumps on the second day

The Pakistan Board has issued showcause notices to Mohammad Hafeez and Umar Akmal for giving unauthorised interviews to the media

Ottis Gibson, the West Indies coach, has said the failure to bat for long periods has been West Indies’ real problem in the recent past

David Warner will be out to prove he can become a Test opener when he faces the new ball during Australia A’s upcoming four-day series in Zimbabwe

Mishra was found to have breached Article 2.1.3 of the code which relates to “showing dissent at an umpire’s decision by action or verbal abuse”

Dilhara Fernando, the Sri Lanka fast bowler, has been ruled out of the limited-overs series against England due to an injury he sustained during the third Test at the Rose Bowl